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Shabti Dolls
Shabti dolls from ancient Egypt. Shabti dolls were the surrogate workers for the deceased in the afterlife.
Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden.

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Map of Tartessos with Phoenician and Greek colonies
A map of Tartessos, showing its sphere of influence, as well as Greek and Phoenician colonies in southern Spain.

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Hatshepsut
Detail of Hatshepsut, Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt, c. 1473-1458 B.C. Indurated limestone sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Hatshepsut is depicted in the clothing of a male king though with a feminine form. Inscriptions...

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Djeser-Djeseru, Temple of Hatshepsut
Djeser-Djeseru is the main building of Hatshepsut's mortuary temple complex at Deir al-Bahri. Designed by Senemut, her vizier, the building is an example of perfect symmetry that predates the Parthenon, and it was the first complex built...

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Model of the Temple of Artemis
Model of the Temple of Artemis, Miniature Park, Istanbul, Turkey.

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Lighthouse of Alexandria Illustration
A drawing of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, also known as Pharos, by German archaeologist Prof. H. Thiersch (1909).

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Coin of king Menander
Silver coin of Euthydemid king Menander.
On the obverse: Basileus Soteros Menandros (King Savior Menander)
Same thing on the reverse, in kharosti, with the Goddess Athena Alkidemos

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Herodotus of Halicarnassos
The statue honoring the great historian Herodotus (484-425 BCE) in Halicarnassos (modern day Bodrum, Turkey).

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Pythia of the Oracle of Delphi
"Priestess of Delphi" by John Collier, 1891.
A 19th century vision of how the Pythia might have looked like, and how she became intoxicated by hallucinogenic gases emerging from the floor.

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Temple of Hatshepsut, Aerial View
The Temple of Queen Hatshepsut of Egypt at Deir al-Bahri, Thebes, Egypt