A Fisk iron coffin containing the body of a woman, named Sophia Catherine Nance, with a glass oval revealing her face. The woman died on January 1853 aged 28, and the coffin was found lying underneath the floorboards of Washington Street United Methodist Church in South Carolina [901x800]

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Roman Statue Showing A Baby And Lap Dog Raising The Paw To Get Food From The Slave Copying The Owner Doing it. [1060x1500]

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Geometric compass designed by Galileo Galilei in 1597. It allowed to quickly perform more than forty different types of complex geometric and arithmetic operations: e.g. to calculate the ballistics of artillery fire, redraw a map on a different scale or carry out exchange operations [4000x3000]

Photo of the compass exhibited at the Castello Sforzesco Museum in Milan.

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Terracotta model of a house. 1st century BCE. Found at Sonkh. Now on display at Government Museum, Mathura, India.[960×1280]

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Side chair. American, 1660–1690 [2978 x 3722][OS]

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Tlingit warrior armor: battle helmet with crest and wooden visor, thick leather walrus hide body armor covered with chinese coins (c. 1800-183 [411 x 655]

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The Clay Cup Of Burnt City From 5000 Years Ago Is The First Ever Animation Known In The World. The Cup Shows A Jumping Goat That Has A Purposeful Repetition. When Archaeologists Put The Motifs Together, They Made A 20-Second Movie. (1200×120

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Marble head sculpture of a Praetorian. A scorpion is visible on the cheek, probably the emblem of the Praetorian Guard in 1st – 2nd century CE. The object is in the Antikensammlung collection in Berlin. [467x600]

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Four gold rings. Egypt, Fatimid period, 11th century AD [2737x2396]

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"Heracles drives Amazon Queen Hyppolyte to the ground", a scene from the ninth labour of Heracles as the main theme of an Attic black-figure amphora dated ca. 530 B.C. [583x917]

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Stone mace head. Peru, Salinar culture, 200 BC-100 AD [2880x2600]

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