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Jarlshof: The Most Amazing Historical Site I've Ever Seen - Migrating Miss
Jarlshof, Scotland - The Most Amazing Historical Site I've Ever Seen. Are you going to add this to your bucket list?
The Cave Paintings of Tassili n'Ajjer: Proof of Ancient Astronauts? - The Ancient Code
The Cave Paintings of Tassili n'Ajjer: Proof of Ancient Astronauts?
Ancient to Medieval (And Slightly Later) History — Egyptian Steatite Figure of the Lady Iset,...
Ancient to Post-Medieval History — Egyptian Steatite Figure of the Lady Iset,...
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The so-called Chalcolithic “Eye Idols” of Tell Brak, a site in northeastern Syria. The site was occupied between the Neolithic Period and the Late Bronze Age (6000-1360 BCE). The idols have been dated to the 4th millennium BCE, which falls within the Ubaid Period of Mesopotamian history. Hundreds of these alabaster figurines were incorporated into the mortar of a public structure which came to be known as the Eye Temple
Portrait mask
Mask, Olmec, Middle Formative period, 900–600 B.C., Río Pesquero area, Veracruz, Mexico. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
If You Dig Up the Easter Island Head Statues, These Are the Bodies You'll Find Below
"The reason people think they are [only] heads is there are about 150 statues buried up to the shoulders on the slope of a volcano, and these are the most famous, most beautiful and most photographed of all the Easter Island statues," Van Tilburg, who is also a fellow at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles, told Life's Little Mysteries. "This suggested to people who had not seen photos of [other unearthed statues on the island] ...
Roman glass Ennion jug, 1-50 A.D. Translucent deep honey brow, handle in opaque white, a tabula ansata containing nscribed in Greek "Ennion made me/it", 19.1 cm high. Metropolitan museum of art
Roman glass painted beaker, 1st century A.D. Afghanistan, Begram, Europe and Ganymede. Musée Guimet, Paris
Pin on Roman Artifacts
Roman Glass Aryballos with a Cylindrical Neck Culture : Roman, Roman Imperial Period : 1st century A.D. Material : Aubergine glass:
Cirkusbæger fra Nordrup - Nationalmuseets Samlinger Online
Кубок. Стекло. Римский железный век. Найден в Дании. Cup. Glass. Roman Iron age. Found in Denmark.