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The standard military tunic of the Inca civilization, c. 1400 and 1533 CE. In Inca art black represented death and red represented blood and conquest. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, L.A.)

A silver alpaca from the Inca civilization of Peru, c. 1400 and 1533 CE. (American Museum of Natural history, New York)

A 1st century CE Roman tomb. Within were stored the cremated remains of the deceased. Inscriptions name the occupants as Laria Amabilis, her husband M.Petronius, and their daughter Petronia Secunda. From the Piacenza region. (Archaeological...

Unglazed, hand-made red pottery vases from the Late Yayoi Period, 1st-2nd century CE Japan.

Bronze bells (dotaku), probably used for ceremonial purposes in the Yayoi Period, discovered in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.

Ritual bronze spear-blade (dohoko) from the Yayoi Period. The blade is said to have been excavated at Okamoto-cho, Kasuga City, modern Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.

This coffin was part of a larger necropolis in "Old Smyrna" (established in the 11th century BCE) and is believed to be from the 7th or 6th century BCE. The necropolis contained the remains of nobles who died after the attack of Alyattes...

The present structures in New Smyrna's agora date from after 178 CE when an earthquake destroyed the earlier agora. This was not mainly a commercial agora, but rather functioned for stately matters. This lower level had many different functions...

A calcite canopic jar from Saqqara, Egypt. XXVI Dynasty. (Archaeological Museum, Pavia, Italy)

A Roman bronze cooking pan. 1st century BCE - 2nd century CE. (Archaeological Museum, Pavia, Italy)