swap_horiz Rhind Mathematical Papyrus Alternatives

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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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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

9.6 Brilliant

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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

9.5 Brilliant

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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

9.5 Brilliant

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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