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Battle between Horatii & Curiatii
Photograph of a Fresco in the Capitoline Museums, Rome. The fresco by Giuseppe Cesari is dated to 1612-13 CE. It depicts the duel between the Roman Horatii and Alban Curatii triplets during the reign of Tullus Hostilis...
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Volumnia Pleads with Coriolanus
Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image of an 1800 CE painting by Richard Westall: Volumnia pleads with Coriolanus not to destroy Rome.
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Female with Earring, Mummy Portrait, Hawara
Mummy portrait of a young girl with short (or pulled back) hair, from Hawara cemetery, Egypt. 1st-2nd centuries CE. The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London (with thanks to The Petrie Museum of...
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Encaustic Mummy Portrait, Hawara
Mummy portrait of a man known as Petrie's "red youth" from Hawara cemetery, Egypt. 1st-2nd centuries CE. The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London (with thanks to The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology...
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Male with Diadem, Mummy Portrait, Hawara
Mummy portrait of a dark curly-haired young man, from Hawara cemetery, Egypt. 1st-2nd centuries CE. The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London (with thanks to The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology...
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Male Mummy Portrait, Hawara
Mummy portrait of a young man from the Hawara cemetery, Egypt, 1st to 2nd centuries CE. The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London (with thanks to The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL). The Petrie...
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Bust of Ptolemy I
This is a fragment of a basalt statue of Ptolemy I (general of Alexander the Great), who founded the Ptolemaic Dynasty of Egypt. He wears the Egyptian royal headdress and the protective serpent. It is said that it was found in...
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Jewelled Lady Mummy Portrait from Hawara
Mummy portrait of a young woman, from Hawara cemetery, Egypt, 1st-2nd centuries CE. The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London (with thanks to The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL). The...
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Discobolus from Hadrian's Villa
Discovered in 1791 CE in the Villa of the Roman Emperor Hadrian (117-138 CE)at Tivoli outside Roma. The head, although ancient and found with the statue, it is not the original. Formerly in the Collection of Charles...
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Mao's Garden at the Great Wall of China
Mao's Garden at the Great Wall of China. The reflecting pool in the center represents eternity while the flowers in bloom around it symbolize people's lives on earth which appear to make the world beautiful...
