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Dead Sea Scrolls

The Dead Sea Scrolls are Jewish manuscripts found near Qumran from 1947 onward, preserving biblical and sectarian texts...

Biblical Jewish Parchment Scrolls

9.8 Brilliant

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Antikythera Mechanism

The Antikythera Mechanism is an ancient Greek geared device from around 100 BC, used to model astronomical cycles and pr...

Astronomy Mechanism Greek Bronze

9.7 Brilliant

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Alexander Sarcophagus

The Alexander Sarcophagus is a richly carved 4th-century BC tomb from Sidon, named for battle scenes showing Alexander t...

Marble Battle Funerary Hellenistic

9.6 Brilliant

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Otzi the Iceman

Otzi the Iceman is a naturally mummified man found in the Alps in 1991, dating to about 3300 BC and preserving clothing,...

Mummy Prehistoric Alps Human Remains

9.4 Excellent

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Sarcophagus of the Spouses

The Sarcophagus of the Spouses is a 6th-century BC Etruscan terracotta coffin showing a reclining married couple at a ba...

Couple Funerary Terracotta Sarcophagus

9.2 Excellent

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Book of the Dead of Ani

The Book of the Dead of Ani is an illustrated funerary papyrus made for the Theban scribe Ani around 1250 BCE, now in th...

Religious Egyptian New Kingdom Funerary

8.9 Great

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Tomb of Philip II Gold Larnax

The Tomb of Philip II gold larnax is a 4th-century BC Macedonian burial chest from Vergina, often linked to Alexander's...

Royal Gold Macedonian Funerary

8.9 Great

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Tollund Man

Tollund Man is an Iron Age bog body found in Denmark in 1950, preserved with a noose and dated to around the 4th century...

Denmark Ritual Iron Age Bog Body

8.8 Great

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Edwin Smith Papyrus

The Edwin Smith Papyrus is an ancient Egyptian surgical treatise from around 1600 BCE, notable for trauma cases and anat...

Medicine Egyptian Surgical New Kingdom

8.7 Great

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Mask of Agamemnon

The Mask of Agamemnon is a gold funerary mask excavated by Heinrich Schliemann at Mycenae in 1876, though it predates Ag...

Gold Mask Bronze Age Funerary

8.7 Great

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Rhind Mathematical Papyrus

The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus is an Egyptian text copied by Ahmes around 1550 BCE, preserving arithmetic and geometry p...

Mathematics Scribal Egyptian New Kingdom

8.6 Great

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Ebers Papyrus

The Ebers Papyrus is a major Egyptian medical scroll from around 1550 BCE, preserving hundreds of remedies, diagnoses, a...

Medicine Healing Egyptian New Kingdom

8.6 Great

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Dipylon Amphora

The Dipylon Amphora is a monumental Greek Geometric funerary vase from Athens, made around 760 BC for a grave marker.

Greek Ceramic Geometric Funerary

8.6 Great

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Palermo Stone

The Palermo Stone is a fragment of Egypt's Royal Annals, notable for listing early kings, Nile heights, and events throu...

Royal Egyptian Basalt Annal

8.4 Great

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Grauballe Man

Grauballe Man is an Iron Age bog body found in Denmark in 1952, dated to the 3rd century BC and preserved with clear evi...

Denmark Ritual Iron Age Bog Body

8.3 Great

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Dream Stele

The Dream Stele is a granite stela between the paws of the Great Sphinx, recording Thutmose IV's dream and royal claim i...

Granite Royal Egyptian Giza

8.2 Great

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Lindow Man

Lindow Man is an Iron Age bog body found in Cheshire, England, in 1984, notable for preserving evidence of a violent dea...

Britain Ritual Iron Age Bog Body

8.2 Great

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Ginger

Ginger is the informal name once used for the first Gebelein mummy, a red-haired Predynastic Egyptian body displayed at...

Mummy Egyptian Funerary Predynastic

8.0 Great

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Old Croghan Man

Old Croghan Man is an Irish Iron Age bog body found in County Offaly in 2003, radiocarbon dated to 362-175 BC and linked...

Ireland Ritual Iron Age Bog Body

7.7 Good

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Dendera Light Relief

The Dendera Light Relief is an Egyptian temple carving at Dendera, notable for modern fringe claims despite its religiou...

Relief Egyptian Ritual Temple

6.7 Fair