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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

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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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Magna Carta

Magna Carta is a 1215 English royal charter limiting King John's power, notable as a foundational text for later constit...

Manuscript Charter Law Medieval

9.7 Brilliant

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Riace Bronzes

The Riace Bronzes are two life-size Greek bronze warriors found off Calabria, Italy, in 1972 and dated to the 5th centur...

Classical Warrior Greek Bronze

9.7 Brilliant

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Winged Victory of Samothrace

Winged Victory of Samothrace is a Hellenistic Greek marble statue from around 190 BC, notable for its dynamic depiction...

Greek Marble Sculpture Victory

9.6 Brilliant

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Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia

Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia is the NASA capsule that carried Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins to the Moon and back i...

Space Nasa Apollo Capsule

9.6 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

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Bayeux Tapestry

The Bayeux Tapestry is an 11th-century embroidered cloth from Normandy, notable for depicting William's 1066 conquest of...

Medieval Tapestry Norman Embroidery

9.5 Brilliant

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Black Stone

The Black Stone is a sacred stone set in the eastern corner of the Kaaba in Mecca, touched or saluted by pilgrims during...

Islamic Pilgrimage Stone Kaaba

9.5 Brilliant

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Wright Flyer

The Wright Flyer was the powered aircraft flown by Wilbur and Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk in 1903, making the first con...

Aircraft Pioneer Aviation Transport

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Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle

Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle was the NASA craft that landed Armstrong and Aldrin at Tranquility Base on July 20, 1969.

Space Nasa Apollo Moon

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Venus de Milo

The Venus de Milo is a Greek marble statue of Aphrodite found on Melos in 1820, celebrated as a major Hellenistic sculpt...

Statue Greek Marble Sculpture

9.4 Excellent

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Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius

The Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius is a Roman bronze emperor on horseback, rare because it survived medieval melti...

Statue Bronze Roman Imperial

9.4 Excellent

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Shigir Idol

The Shigir Idol is a carved wooden figure from the Ural region of Russia, dated to over 10,000 years old and often cited...

Wood Prehistoric Idol Sculpture

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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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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Gebelein Man

Gebelein Man is a naturally mummified Predynastic Egyptian man from about 3400 BC, with CT evidence suggesting he died f...

Mummy Egyptian Funerary Predynastic

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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