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Exterior, Terme di Caracalla, Rome
Image by Chris Ludwig

Exterior, Terme di Caracalla, Rome

Ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, Rome. Completed 235 CE.
Detail of the Arch of Titus
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Detail of the Arch of Titus

Detail shot of the Arch of Titus in the Forum Romanum.
Site of the Cloaca Maxima
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Site of the Cloaca Maxima

The site of the main sewer, called the Cloaca Maxima located in the Forum Romanum. Believed to be drained around 600 BCE by Tarquinius Priscus, the draining of the area between the Palatine, Capitoline, Esquiline & the Viminal Hills led...
Queen of the Night, Old Babylon
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Queen of the Night, Old Babylon

Queen of the Night, a large plaque made of baked straw-tempered clay, modelled in high relief. From southern Iraq, Old Babylonian period, 1800-1750 BCE. The figure of the curvaceous naked woman was originally painted red. She wears...
The Standard of Ur
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The Standard of Ur

From Ur, southern Iraq, about 2600-2400 BC This object was found in one of the largest graves in the Royal Cemetery at Ur, lying in the corner of a chamber above the right shoulder of a man. Its original function is not yet understood...
Ram in a Thicket
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Ram in a Thicket

From Ur, southern Iraq, about 2600-2400 BC This is one of an almost identical pair discovered by Leonard Woolley in the 'Great Death Pit', one of the graves in the Royal Cemetery at Ur. The other is now in the University of Pennsylvania...
Nebamun Hunting in the Marshes
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Nebamun Hunting in the Marshes

Fowling in the marshes, scene from the tomb of Nebamun, Thebes, Egypt, late 18th Dynasty, c. 1350 BCE. The British Museum, London. Nebamun is shown hunting birds, in a small boat with his wife Hatshepsut and their young daughter...
The Judgement of the Dead by Osiris
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The Judgement of the Dead by Osiris

The judgement of the dead in the presence of Osiris, from the Book of the Dead of Hunefer, from Thebes, Egypt, 19th Dynasty, c. 1275 BCE. The scene reads from left to right. To the left, Anubis brings Hunefer into the judgement area. Anubis...
Amenhotep III
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Amenhotep III

From the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III, Thebes, Egypt 18th Dynasty, about 1350 BC Amenhotep III commissioned hundreds of sculptures for his mortuary temple on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes, though the precise original location...
Queen Tiye Amulet
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Queen Tiye Amulet

Tiye (c. 1398 BCE – 1338 BCE, also spelled Taia, Tiy and Tiyi) was the daughter of Yuya and Tjuyu (also spelled Thuyu). She became the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III.
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