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Antefix Fragment showing a Gorgon 🌍 Greek (Southern Italy) ⌛ c. 500 BCE 🏺 Getty Museum buff.ly/WwKaVF8

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Inkstone in the form of a crab 🌏 Vietnam ⌛ 1400-1525 🏺 Art Gallery of South Australia buff.ly/DKVJTfN

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Venus of Laussel 🌍 Gravettian Culture (France) ⌛ c. 23,000 BCE 🏺 British Museum https://buff.ly/3Ql3kFv

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Vessel with Young Lord and Monkey 🌎 Maya (Guatemala) ⌛ 600–800 🏺 Los Angeles County Museum of Art https://buff.ly/4hEBKiF

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Rhyton in the form of a Zebu bull 🌍 Amlash (Northern Iran) ⌛ c. 1000-800 B.C.E. 🏺 Indianapolis Museum of Art https://buff.ly/3CR9NoG

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Print showing the dream of O-matsu 🌏 Edo Period (Japan) ⌛c. 1845-1846 🏺 The Walters Art Museum https://buff.ly/4b6alDW

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Dog with a Candle and Lilies 🌍 by Juan de Pareja (Spain) ⌛ 1660s 🏺 Newfields https://buff.ly/3ErhwKl

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Sarcophagus of the spouses 🌍 Etruscan (Italy) ⌛ c. 510 BCE 🏺 The Louvre https://buff.ly/3Q9NJsc

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Nippur Map Tablet showing canals (lines) and settlements (circles) 🌍 Kassite Dynasty (Iraq) ⌛ c. 1500 BCE 🏺 Penn Museum https://buff.ly/3XeVFg3

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Standing Female Figure with Pendulous Breasts, Headband and Earspools 🌎 Michoacan (Mexico) ⌛ 300 BCE–300 CE 🏺 Los Angeles County Museum of Art https://buff.ly/3Eu9YXu

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Spouted ritual vessel with dragons 🌏 China ⌛ c. 1200-1150 BCE 🏺 Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art https://buff.ly/3Q9NayA

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Headdress for Efe Gelede 🌍 Yoruba (Nigeria or Republic of Benin) ⌛ Late 19th/early 20th century 🏺 Art Institute of Chicago https://buff.ly/3PTrs1T

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Ear ornament with winged runner 🌎 Moche (Peru) ⌛ 400–700 🏺 The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://buff.ly/4h9omTr

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Bison Licking Insect Bite 🌍 Magdalenian (France) ⌛ c. 13,000 BCE 🏺 National Museum of Prehistory, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil https://buff.ly/42xAqcz

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Lime pot in the form of a frowning cat 🌏 Cambodia ⌛ 1100-1300 🏺 Art Gallery of South Australia https://buff.ly/40LhGoC

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Beaded leather moccasins with fringe and German silver cones 🌎 Comanche (Oklahoma, USA) ⌛ c. 1900 🏺 Gilcrease Museum https://buff.ly/40NAnYP

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Model of a River Boat 🌍 Middle Kingdom (Egypt) ⌛ c. 2050 BCE 🏺 The Walters Art Museum https://buff.ly/4gd7ppY

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Lyre-shaped belt buckle 🌍 Hispano-Visigothic or early Umayyad period (Spain) ⌛ 8th century 🏺 The Morgan Museum & Library https://buff.ly/4ah3oiA

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Bottle in the form of an animal 🌎 Nazca (Peru) ⌛ 50 BCE-300 CE 🏺 Dallas Museum of Art https://buff.ly/40gLYy2

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Jousting armor for Gustav II Adolf's coronation 🌍 Swedish ⌛ 1617 🏺 Statens Historiska Museer https://buff.ly/4h31uEG

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Terracotta wall tile showing the ox-headed retinue of Mara 🌏 Myanmar ⌛ 1475-1500 🏺 Art Gallery of South Australia https://buff.ly/3PzCaue

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Figurative charm made of coral, placed by the fire to keep it alight when people were abscent 🌏 Torres Strait Islander (Queensland, Australia) ⌛ 19th Century 🏺 The British Museum https://buff.ly/42aL74F

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Hand Mirror Decorated with the Head of Medusa 🌍 Greek (Southern Italy) ⌛ 500–480 BCE 🏺 The Getty https://buff.ly/3WfU0WU

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Head of a woman 🌍 Yoruba (Nigeria) ⌛ 12th–15th century 🏺 Metropolitan Museum of Art https://buff.ly/4072AZ4?

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An early #medival disc brooch decorated with animal interlace and masks forming a cross. From a woman's grave in Krautheim-Klepsau, late 6th century. During this period, the cross was often included in ornamental design. However, it can't always be clearly interpreted...🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

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Small sculpture of a Rakugoka 🌏 Japan ⌛ Mid-19th century 🏺 Los Angeles County Museum of Art https://buff.ly/420gQ8B

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Earthenware pots in the shape of a noble and servant, both on horseback 🌏 Silla (Korea) ⌛ Early 6th century 🏺 National Museum of Korea https://buff.ly/4gWUitA

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Gold and rock crystal vessel 🌍 Viking or Anglo-Saxon (Scotland) ⌛ Circa 900 🏺 National Museum Scotland https://buff.ly/4gYIgjs

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Fancy some fashion advice from the Late Bronze Age? A boar‘s tusk ornament from Karlsruhe-Neureut in Germany. Museum Karlsruhe. #Archaeology

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Gold trophy head mask 🌍 Asante (Ghana) ⌛ Before 1873 🏺 Royal Collection Trust https://buff.ly/3PlGixO

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Vessel in Form of Bird 🌎 Colima (Mexico) ⌛ 200 BCE–500 CE 🏺 Los Angeles County Museum of Art https://buff.ly/4j2uiyH

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Intaglio seal with script and unicorn 🌍 Harappa (Pakistan) ⌛ 2200 BCE https://buff.ly/3DI43xD

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Gwion Gwion rock paintings 🌏 Aboriginal Australian ⌛ circa 10,000 BCE 🏺 Kimberly, Western Australia https://buff.ly/425XL57

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Helmet Mask (Mukenga) 🌍 Kuba (Democratic Republic of the Congo ) ⌛ 1875–1950 🏺 Art Institute Chicago https://buff.ly/409IjCq

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Human Head with Canine Muzzle 🌎 Veracruz (Mexico) ⌛ 600–900 🏺 Los Angeles County Museum of Art https://buff.ly/400WGsE

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Tall Necked Jar 🌎 Nasca or Wari (Peru) ⌛ 100–600 🏺 Los Angeles County Museum of Art https://buff.ly/4h23Q6Q

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Figure for Yam ceremony 🌏 Probably Nukuma (Papua New Guinea) ⌛ 19th–early 20th century 🏺 The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://buff.ly/41Txabc

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Silver bracelets of Hetepheres I, wife of Pharaoh Snefru 🌎 Old Kingdom (Egypt) ⌛ Circa 2550 BCE 🏺 Egyptain Museum Cairo

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Openwork furniture plaque with a striding, ram-headed sphinx 🌍 Neo-Assyrian (Iraq) ⌛ ca. 9th–8th century BCE 🏺 The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://buff.ly/4gyYKPm

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Lady of Baza 🌎 Bastetani (Southern Spain) ⌛ 4th century BCE 🏺 National Archaeological Museum of Spain https://buff.ly/4iKPqtr

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Female Face Mask (Mwana Pwo) 🌍 Chokwe (Angola or Democratic Republic of the Congo) ⌛ 1875–1925 🏺 Art Institute of Chicago https://buff.ly/3DwjRDp

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Vase with Procession of Warriors 🌎 Nasca (Peru) ⌛ c. 350–600 🏺 Cleveland Museum of Art https://buff.ly/3BJCovq

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Statuettes of river goddesses standing on Makaras 🌏 Kushan Empire (Afghanistan) ⌛ 1st century BCE 🏺 National Museum of Kabul https://buff.ly/3DvmEwI

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Icon of Saint Nicholas 🌍 Orthodox Christian (Russia) ⌛ 1294 🏺 Church of St. Nicholas in Novgorod https://buff.ly/3VWB1R8

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Miniature sculpture (Netsuke) of a tanuki as Budhhist priest 🌏 Japan ⌛ late 19th century 🏺 Art Gallery of South Australia https://buff.ly/4iSYFrg

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A charming #Egyptian figurine of a hedgehog, made of faience, dating ca 1900 BC, from Thebes, #Egypt. The Egyptians associated hedgehogs with rebirth. On display at Neues Museum Berlin 📷 taken by me 🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky

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Shallow Basin Supported by a Bird 🌏 Warring States period (China) ⌛ 475–221 BCE 🏺 Cleveland Museum of Art https://buff.ly/3ZBeYR1

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Llama Effigy 🌎 Chancay (Peru) ⌛ 1000-1470 🏺 The Walters Art Museum https://buff.ly/4isPMEK

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Enamel chasse for relics of saint Thomas Becket 🌍 🌏 Romanesque (France) ⌛ 1180-1190 🏺 Victoria & Albert Museum https://buff.ly/4iAiNOU

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Face Jugs 🌎 American (Location) ⌛ c. 1860 🏺 MFA Boston https://buff.ly/3ZR0Rbj

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