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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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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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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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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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Laocoon and His Sons

Laocoon and His Sons is an ancient marble group found in Rome in 1506, notable for its dramatic scene from Trojan War le...

Mythology Greek Marble Sculpture

9.3 Excellent

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Discobolus

Discobolus is a Greek discus-thrower statue by Myron, known through Roman copies and celebrated for its Classical study...

Classical Athlete Greek Marble

9.1 Excellent

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Olmec Colossal Head 1

Olmec Colossal Head 1 is a basalt head from San Lorenzo, Mexico, notable as one of the earliest known Olmec ruler monume...

Sculpture Head Basalt Olmec

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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Apollo Belvedere

The Apollo Belvedere is a Roman marble statue after a Greek original, famed since the Renaissance as an ideal of Classic...

Marble Roman Apollo Sculpture

8.8 Great

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Farnese Hercules

The Farnese Hercules is a colossal Roman marble copy of a Greek statue by Lysippos, excavated in Rome in 1546 and now in...

Marble Roman Sculpture Hercules

8.7 Great

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Pensive Bodhisattva

The Pensive Bodhisattva is a Korean gilt-bronze Buddhist figure, notable for its contemplative pose and influence from E...

Korean Bronze Sculpture Buddhist

8.7 Great

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Jadeite Cabbage

The Jadeite Cabbage is a carved jadeite sculpture in Taiwan's National Palace Museum, famous for turning natural stone c...

Chinese Jade Sculpture Court

8.6 Great

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Dancing Girl of Mohenjo-daro

The Dancing Girl of Mohenjo-daro is a small bronze Indus figurine from Pakistan, notable for its confident pose and earl...

Ancient Bronze Sculpture Figurine

8.6 Great

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Tara Statue

The Tara Statue is a 7th-8th century Sri Lankan gilt-bronze figure of the Buddhist deity Tara, notable as a rare large A...

Bronze Sculpture Sri Lanka Goddess

8.6 Great

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Priest-King of Mohenjo-daro

The Priest-King of Mohenjo-daro is a steatite Indus bust from Pakistan, notable for its trefoil cloak and rare elite por...

Ancient Sculpture Figurine Indus

8.4 Great

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Urfa Man

Urfa Man is a life-size Neolithic human statue from Sanliurfa, Turkey, dated near 8600 BC and often described as the old...

Statue Neolithic Stone Sculpture

8.4 Great

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Meat-shaped Stone

The Meat-shaped Stone is a Qing-era jasper carving in Taiwan's National Palace Museum, celebrated for resembling a piece...

Jasper Chinese Sculpture Court

8.2 Great

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Seated Buddha from Gandhara

The Seated Buddha from Gandhara is a schist Buddhist image from ancient Gandhara, notable for its Greco-Roman drapery an...

Sculpture Buddha Kushan Gandharan

8.1 Great

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Mausoleum at Halicarnassus Horse Fragment

The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus horse fragment is a surviving sculpture from the 4th-century BC tomb of Mausolus in Caria...

Classical Greek Marble Sculpture

7.5 Good