swap_horiz Grauballe Man Alternatives

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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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Aztec Sun Stone

The Aztec Sun Stone is a basalt Mexica monument carved in Mexico around 1500, notable for its calendar imagery and centr...

Calendar Ritual Stone Aztec

9.3 Excellent

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Houmuwu Ding

The Houmuwu Ding is a Shang bronze ritual cauldron from China, notable as one of the largest ancient bronzes known, weig...

Chinese Bronze Ritual Vessel

9.2 Excellent

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Ain Ghazal Statues

The Ain Ghazal Statues are Neolithic plaster figures from Jordan, made about 7200-6250 BC and among the earliest large h...

Ritual Neolithic Jordan Statues

9.2 Excellent

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Sanxingdui Bronze Sacred Tree

The Sanxingdui Bronze Sacred Tree is a large Bronze Age sculpture from Sichuan, China, notable for its branching form an...

Chinese Bronze Ritual Sanxingdui

9.1 Excellent

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Sanxingdui Bronze Mask

The Sanxingdui Bronze Mask is a Bronze Age mask from Sichuan, China, notable for its protruding eyes and distinctive non...

Chinese Mask Bronze Ritual

9.0 Excellent

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Gundestrup Cauldron

The Gundestrup Cauldron is a silver vessel found in Denmark, made in the late Iron Age and notable for its detailed Celt...

Silver Ritual Celtic Iron Age

8.9 Great

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Jelling Stones

The Jelling Stones are 10th-century Danish runestones, one raised by Harald Bluetooth and often called Denmark's baptism...

Medieval Denmark Viking Inscription

8.9 Great

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Ram in a Thicket

Ram in a Thicket is a pair of Sumerian figures from Ur, Iraq, made around 2600 BC and notable for gold, lapis lazuli, an...

Gold Ritual Sculpture Sumerian

8.8 Great

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Warka Vase

The Warka Vase is a carved alabaster vessel from Uruk in Iraq, made around 3200-3000 BC and known for early narrative re...

Ritual Sumerian Vase Alabaster

8.8 Great

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Da Yu Ding

The Da Yu Ding is a Western Zhou bronze ritual vessel in China's National Museum, notable for its long inscription on Ki...

Chinese Bronze Ritual Zhou

8.8 Great

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Baekje Gilt-bronze Incense Burner

The Baekje Gilt-bronze Incense Burner is a 6th-century Korean ritual vessel, notable for its mountain-shaped lid and 64...

Korean Bronze Ritual Incense

8.8 Great

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Coyolxauhqui Stone

The Coyolxauhqui Stone is a circular Mexica relief found at Mexico City's Templo Mayor in 1978, notable for showing the...

Relief Ritual Stone Aztec

8.8 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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Panagyurishte Treasure

The Panagyurishte Treasure is a Thracian gold ceremonial set from Bulgaria, discovered in 1949 and made of nine ornate v...

Gold Ritual Treasure Thracian

8.8 Great

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Trundholm Sun Chariot

The Trundholm Sun Chariot is a Bronze Age bronze and gold object from Denmark, made around 1400 BC and showing a horse d...

Nordic Bronze Ritual Bronze Age

8.7 Great

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Pazyryk Carpet

The Pazyryk Carpet is a knotted wool carpet from a Siberian burial mound, dated to the 5th century BC and among the olde...

Burial Textile Carpet Iron Age

8.7 Great

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Maya Codex of Mexico

The Maya Codex of Mexico is a pre-Columbian Maya bark-paper manuscript, notable as the oldest known book of the Americas...

Manuscript Maya Ritual Codex

8.6 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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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