Painted figurine of a soldier with shield, weapon missing. China, Han dynasty, 207 BC–9 AD [1200x1640]

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Painting of a palace garden. Faizabad, India, 1765-1770 [1580x1185]

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Roman mosaic showing the mysterious figure of a man with the head of a rooster. The object comes from Brading Villa on the Isle of Wight in England. [800x533]

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Ancestral Puebloan granary (original condition, no reconstruction), ~1450 AD [2048x1536] [OC]

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Porcelain figurines, from China, 20th Century. On display at Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad, India.[3509×3523]

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Female draped figure. Italy, 2nd century AD [2867x3823] [OC]

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Draft of "A Soldier's Declaration" from Siegfried Sassoon's journal for April - June 1917. Loaned to the Jewish Museum from the Cambridge University Library [1024x683]. Text of final version, which put Sassoon at risk of court martial, in comments

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Ain Sakhri Lovers - This is the oldest known object that depicts a couple having sex. It was discovered in a cave near Bethlehem in 1933 and is thought to be a carving used in fertility rituals by the Natufians. They lived in the Middle East around 10,000 BC. Photo: The British Museum [2269x2269]

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Young Husband: First Marketing by Lilly Martin Spencer. American, 1854 [3229 x 3869][OS]

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Urn Lid Fragment of the Jaguar God of the Underworld with Two Cubs. Guatemala City. Museo Popol Vuh [1300 x 1590]

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Sarcophagus of the Spouses, from Villa Giulia in Rome; Etruscan terra-cotta, 530–510 b.C. [3600x2700].

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