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A Nazca mummy bundle from Chauchilla, Peru. Then Nazca civilization flourished between 200 BCE and 600 CE. Mummification was a common practice in many ancient Andean cultures.

Black-figured amphora showing a boxing contest, made in Athens about 550-500 BCE, signed by the potter Nikosthenes, from Agrigento (Sicily). The boxers wearing himantes (leather thongs bound on the fist) are about...

Attic red-figure cup (kylix) depicting an athlete ready to throw the javelin, from Vulci (Italy), around 440/430 BCE. (Altes Museum, Berlin).

Pliny the Elder from a 1635 CE printing of Historia Naturalis.

Gold hair ornament from Agrigento, Sicily, 3rd century BCE. The central medallion depicts Medusa. Archaeological Museum of Agrigento.

The initial troop positions of the battle of Pharsalus in 48 BCE between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great. In red are the 11 legions of Pompey with cavalry on the left flank against Caesar's 9 legions in blue.

Egyptian beadnet dress from the reign of Khufu, 4th Dynasty, Old Kingdom of Egypt, 2551-2528 BCE. This beadnet dress is the earliest surviving example of a garment with the lozenge pattern. This pattern is frequently...

Head of Penelope, the faithful wife of Odysseus, Hadrianic copy of a Greek original from Rome, 5th century BCE. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen.

Marble head from a portrait statue of a veiled priestess of the goddess Vesta. The headdress identifies the subject as a Vestal Virgin. Above her hair are six folds of the infula, a long woolen band wrapped around the...

A sketch of a Chickasaw, found in Southeastern Indians: Life Portraits (1775).