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Ceide Fields Bog Tree
This 4,000-year-old pine tree unearthed from the nearby bogland makes a stunning centrepiece for the Ceide Fields Interpretative Centre, near Ballycastle, Co. Mayo, Ireland.
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Ceide Fields Walls
The Ceide Fields, near Ballycastle, Co. Mayo, on the western coast of Ireland, are recognised as one of the oldest and largest Stone Age farming sites in the world, dating back to c. 3700 BCE. The walls that have been discovered...
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Ceide Fields Visitor's Centre
The Ceide Fields Interpretative Centre was opened in 1993 CE and received the Europa Nostra Diploma of Merit in 1997 CE. This impressive pyramid-shaped building is a 60 ft high, multi-award-winning centre, which explains...
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Acropolis in Athens (Artist's Impression)
An artist's impression of what the Athenian Acropolis may have looked like at the time of classical Greece. From the game Old World.
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Red-figured Hydria - Dance Training Session
Red-figured hydria (water-jar) displaying a dance-training (gymnopaida) session. Two young girls practice dancing under the supervision of a female and a male tutor. The girls wear short tunics (chiton) and...
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Battista Sforza by Piero della Francesca
A portrait of Battista Sforza (l. 1446-1472 CE), Duchess of Urbino, by the Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca (d. 1492 CE). c. 1470 CE. (Uffizi, Florence)
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Drawing Showing Mathematical Perspective Applied to the Human Head by Piero della Francesca
A drawing by the Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca (c. 1420-1492 CE) showing his theories of mathematical perspective applied to representing the human...
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An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races
Original edition of Arthur de Gobineau's (1816-1882 CE) An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races. 1853 CE. Library of the National Museum of Natural History, Paris.
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The Flagellation of Christ by Piero della Francesca
The painted panel the Flagellation of Christ by the Italian Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca (c. 1420-1492 CE). c. 1455 CE. (National Gallery of Marche, Urbino)
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Jacopo Galli's Garden in Rome
The pen and ink on paper drawing of Jacopo Galli's Garden in Rome by Martin van Heemskerck. Galli was a famous collector of antiquities during the Renaissance. c. 1532-5 CE. (Staatliche Museen, Berlin)
