A Pahari depiction of Kali fighting Chanda and Munda: Kali Fights Demons Chanda and Munda; c. 1825–35, gouache on paper, Rijksmuseum(1280x906)

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Medieval shield made of wood and iron, found in Sætesdalen, Norway [1200 CE ca ?]. It bears a runic inscription around the bulge. Oslo Kulturhistorisk museum, nr. C954 [1775 x 1872]

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Amarna Period model grapes made of glass, copper, and wood (1350 to 1300 BCE) [654×365]

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Doll in a box. British (Doll) and American (Box), ca. 1748 [4000 x 3066][OS]

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Floor mosaic fragment with beribboned parrots. Stone with lime mortar. From Daphne near ancient Antioch, late Roman/early Byzantine Syria, 5th c AD. The parrot wearing the pativ or "Persian ribbon" symbolized Zoroastrianism and Persia's Sasanian dynasty. Baltimore Museum of Art [1080x364]

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Archaeologists Hagay Hamer and Oriya Amichay with one of the swords found in a cave on a cliff above the Dead Sea in Israel (Source in comment) [480x590]

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A late 5th century funerary monument of a Greek warrior [4680x3456]

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The Dunnechin Pictish Stone is 1.5m (4'8") tall × .7m (2'3") wide × .3m (1') thick. On one side the rough sandstone is incised with a Pictish flower a double disc and Z-rod atop a mirror and comb . It was probably made in the 7th C. AD and re-found at Dunnichen, Angus, Scotland. [1549×2346]

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4000 year old wood-carved figures in the lost Desert Cemetery of Xiaohe China (Source in comment) [1500x1161]

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World Press Photo of the Year Winners, 1955-2015

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You couldn't make Kung Pow:Enter the Fist(2002) today. You will never make it never make it ever make it never make it never make it you'll never make it ever. Don't you see you can't make it?

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