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This piece shows a feline, owl, serpents, and condor. The owl and condor represented the sky while the feline represented the earth and dominance. The serpent represented the subterranean world. Housed in the Museo Larco, Lima, Peru.

A flat clay stamp with an image of its impression. This stamp dates back to the Halaf period, 5th millennium BCE, Mesopotamia, Iraq. (The Sulaimaniya Museum, Iraq).

Aesychlus Aristophanes Base Capital Chorus Comedy Corinthian column Dionysus Doric column Drama Entablature Entasis Euripides Frieze Ionic column Metope Pediment Philosophy Satyr play Shaft Skene Sophocles Tragedy Triglyph Socrates Plato...

Gandao is the wooden image aimed at immortalizing the important departed souls of the Kalasha family member. Gandao is installed at cemetery. The Kalasha is sole pagan tribe of Pakistan with numerical strength of 4000 approx. The Kalasha...

Henry Cavill in The Witcher (2019) by Netflix. The image portrays a modern reimagination of Slavic Kikimora. © Netflix

Vessel from the Nazca Civilization. Peru, 2nd to 6th century CE. Fired clay. Exhibited at Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland.

A gold staff finial made by the Zenúes, a people who belonged to the Zenú tribe of ancient Colombia. It features an owl on the edge with a majestic crest, polished golden wings and false filigree openwork on its chest. Distinctive features...

Animal bone segments (early bronze age, c. 2169 - c. 1500 BCE), between 13-15 centimeters in length, sometimes decorated with incisions on which, successively, have been carried out globules in relief. Their uses are not yet known, although...

These pottery vessels show prominent Anatolian characteristics. Early Bronze Age in Cyprus, 2300-1900 BCE. (Museum of Archaeology, Istanbul, Turkey).

Pre-Columbian civilizations of the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico include the Hohokam who occupied the US state of Arizona, the Anasazi or Ancestral Pueblo Peoples who resided in the Four Corners Region, and the Mogollon who...