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Minerva
A 2nd century CE marble statue of Minerva, the Roman goddess of the arts and warfare. (Capitoline Museums, Rome)
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Colossi of Memnon Painting
Statue of Amenhotep III. Painting by Vasily Polenov (date unknown).
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Sea of Galilee
Painting by Vasily Polenov, 1899.
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Parthenon, Painting by Polenov
Temple of Athena Parthénos. Painting by Vasily Polenov, c. 1882.
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Baalbek
Ruins of Jupiter Cathedral and Cathedral of Sun. Painting by Vasily Polenov (1882).
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The Temple of Isis on Philae Island
Painting by Vasily Polenov (1882). Oil on canvas. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
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Aztec Double-Headed Serpent (Detail)
A detail of the celebrated Aztec double-headed serpent. It is made from wood covered in turquoise mosaic, spondylus (red) and conch (white) shell. The eyes would have been rendered with inlay, probably of iron pyrite. The piece is believed...
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Map of Western Zhou
The states during the Western Zhou period (1046-771 BCE) in China.
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Persephone Sarcophagus (Detail)
The Persephone Sarcophagus is on display in the Aachen, Germany Cathedral Treasury, and may have once held the bones of Charlemagne (d. 814 CE). The sarcophagus depicts "The Rape of Persephone," and was constructed in Rome sometime in the...
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Rosetta Stone
The Rosetta Stone is an incomplete grey and pink granodiorite stela dating from 196 BCE which presents a priestly decree concerning King Ptolemy V of Egypt. The text is in three different versions: Hieroglyphic, Demotic and Greek. The stone...
