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New World Native Plants
New World native plants. Clockwise, from top left: 1. Maize (Zea mays); 2. Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum); 3. Potato (Solanum tuberosum); 4. Vanilla (Vanilla); 5. Pará rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis); 6. Cacao (Theobroma cacao); 7...
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Old World Native Plants
Old World native plants. Clockwise, from top left:
1. Citrus (Rutaceae);
2. Apple (Malus domestica);
3. Banana (Musa);
4. Mango (Mangifera);
5. Onion (Allium);
6. Coffee (Coffea);
7. Wheat (Triticum spp.);
8. Rice (Oryza sativa)
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Aztec victims of smallpox
Sixteenth-century Aztec drawings of victims of smallpox. Scanned from (2009) Viruses, Plagues, and History: Past, Present and Future, Oxford University Press, USA, p. 60.
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The Silesian Museum in Görlitz
With 2,000 square meters of exhibition space, the permanent exhibition offers numerous insights into the diverse and eventful cultural history of Silesia and explores the multicultural character of the region's history with influences from...
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Portrait of a Man Said to Be Christopher Columbus
Portrait of a man said to be Christopher Columbus (1446 - 1506). Oil on Canvas. Created in 1519. Christopher Columbus was a Genoese explorer (identified as Italian) who became famous in his own time as the man who discovered the...
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Head of a Statue of the Cypriot Herakles
Herakles is wearing a lion's head with a wide-open muzzle as headgear. It belongs to a large series of Cypriot sculptures in which Herakles is represented holding a club in his right hand. There are traits in the typology of the work...
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Cypriot Figurine of a Standing Male Wearing a High Tiara
From Cyprus (Cypriot workshop). Cypro-Archaic I Period, 7th-century BCE. Made from clay. (Hellenic Museum, Melbourne, Victoria).
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Spectacle Fibula with Spiral Discs
This fibula (spiral brooch) is made from a single piece of coiled bronze and would have been used to fasten two halves of a garment at the shoulder. Perhaps from Macedonia. 10th-8th century BCE. (Hellenic Museum, Melbourne, Victoria).
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Attic Large Geometric Pitcher with Lid
This pitcher is decorated with linear motifs and horses in successive zones. Vases of this class were used as cinerary urns in Attic burials during the Late Geometric Period. Found in an Attic workshop. Late Geometric II Period (735-720 BCE...
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Trefoil-Mouth Oinochoe
This vase is decorated with horses and a host of filling motifs. Most of the subjects derive from the Geometric tradition that continued to influence early Orientalising workshops in the 7th Century BCE. From Skyros, Sporades, 675-650 BCE...
