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Poporo is a device used by indigenous cultures in present and pre-Columbian South America for storage of small amounts of lime. It is constituted by two pieces: the receptacle, and the lid which includes a pin that is used to carry the lime...

An 11th century CE bronze sculpture of Shiva Nataraja - Lord of the Dance. The Hindu god is represented in his triple role as Creator, Preserver and Destroyer. He stands within a flaming halo representing Time, which is cyclical and has no...

Cuneiform tablet inscribed with a letter from Tushratta, king of Mitanni, to Amenhotep III of Egypt. It was found in Tell el-Amarna and dates from c. 1350 BC, when the city was known as Akhetaten. In this letter, the kings were negotiating...

Floor mosaic with allegorical representation of Life and Easy Living. Crafted from limestone and glass tesserae, this mosaic was excavated in Syria and dates to approximately 350-400 CE. In the mosaic, an affluent couple is shown engaged...

Banpo Village is a Neolithic site in the Yellow River Valley, east of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, in the People's Republic of China. There have been 250 discovered and excavated with male and female buried in separate graveyards. The site was...

Mesolithic Hut used by hunter-gatherers travelling from region to region, building villages of wooden huts with domed roofing of bark and animal skin. These huts were communal lodges for extended families with a single basin-shaped fire pit...

Poulnabrone is a dolmen in The Burren, County Clare, Ireland dating to 4200 BCE.

Poulnabrone is a dolmen in The Burren, County Clare, Ireland dating to 4200 BCE.

An unglazed model of a farmyard, Han Dyansty, Eastern Han, 25-220 CE. (Museum of Asian Art, Corfu)

A grey schist relief panel from Gandhara depicting Buddha eating with monks, 1st-4th century CE. (Museum of Asian Art, Corfu)