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A pottery jar with stylized landscape from Gansu or Qinhai Province, China. Produced by the Majiayao Culture, late 4th / early 3rd millennium BCE. Exhibited at Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland.

Portrait head of a Moche man. Peru, Moche Culture, 1st to 7th century CE. Fired clay. Exhibited at Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland.

Pottery vessel with linear whirl design from China, Gansu or Qinghai Province, Majiayao culture, late 4th / early 3rd millennium BCE. Exhibited at the Rietberg Museum, Zurich, Switzerland.

Wall painting in Herculaneum (Italy) depicting a wine selling advertisement and prices for the "Ad Cucumas" wine shop. The wall outside this ancient wine shop shows four jars (cucumae) of different colors and prices.

These two handaxes were made from flint by Homo erectus around 130,000 BCE. They were both found in Switzerland: The ochre one was found in Pratteln, Canton Basel-Land, while the white one was found in Schlieren, Canton Zurich. On display...

Pottery vessels from the Wari Civilization. Peru, 7th to 10th century CE. Fired clay. Exhibited at Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland.

Detail of the Nun of Monza by Giuseppe Molteni (1800-1887 CE). (Civic Museum of Pavia, Italy)

An engraving by W. Marshall of the Benedictine abbess Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179 CE)

The cloister of Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire, England, an Augustinian nunnery founded in 1232 CE by Ela, Countess of Salisbury.

"The palaces of Nimrud Restored", as imagined by the city's first excavator, A.H. Layard. A Second Series of the Monuments of Nineveh, London 1853, pl. 1 detail, after a sketch by James Fergusson.