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The Tierradentro Hypogea are underground burial chambers carved into volcanic rock in the Cauca department of southern Colombia, created by pre-Columbian peoples roughly between the 6th and 9th centuries CE. The hypogea vary in size and depth, with some extending several meters across, and many feat...

Hopi pottery is the ceramic tradition of the Hopi people of northeastern Arizona, produced primarily from locally gathered clay and traditionally formed by hand rather than on a potter's wheel. Many vessels have yellow, orange, or buff surfaces decorated with painted geometric, animal, bird, and pla...

The Complex of Koguryo Tombs is a North Korean UNESCO site inscribed in 2004, preserving 30 mural tombs around Pyongyang and Nampo.

Castelli pottery is a tradition of tin-glazed earthenware, or maiolica, centered in Castelli in Italy's Abruzzo region. Workshops there became especially noted from the Renaissance onward for painted vessels, plaques, and tiles decorated with religious, mythological, landscape, and narrative scenes....

Kitora Tomb is a small Asuka-period burial mound in Japan, noted for murals of the four guardian animals and an astronomical ceiling chart.

Zuni Pueblo pottery is a ceramic tradition of the Zuni people of western New Mexico. Vessels are traditionally hand-coiled from local clay, smoothed, slipped, and painted with mineral or vegetal pigments before firing, rather than formed on a potter's wheel. Recognizable designs include geometric ba...

The Necropolis of Sant'Andrea Priu at Bonorva, Sardinia, is a pre-Nuragic domus de janas complex of 20 tombs, including an 18-room Tomb of the Chief.

Lytechinus pictus, commonly called the painted sea urchin, is a regular sea urchin found along the Pacific coast of North America. Like other regular urchins, it has a roughly spherical test covered with movable spines and feeds using a five-part jaw apparatus. Its accessible gametes and externally...

The Necropolis of Pianacce at Sarteano, Italy, is an Etruscan cemetery best known for the Tomb of the Infernal Quadriga, a 4th century BC painted chamber found in 2003.

Swansea pottery commonly refers to ceramics made at the Cambrian Pottery and related works in Swansea, Wales. The Cambrian Pottery operated from 1764 to 1870, producing earthenware such as creamware, transfer printed wares, and decorated domestic pieces; porcelain was also made in Swansea during the...

Albissola pottery refers to the ceramic tradition of Albisola Superiore and Albissola Marina on the Ligurian coast of Italy, where workshops have produced maiolica and other wares since the early modern period. The area became closely associated with modern art during the 20th century, when artists...

Anfushi Tombs are painted Hellenistic tombs in Alexandria, Egypt, notable for Ptolemaic-era decoration near the city's western harbor.

Amstelhoek was a Dutch decorative-arts enterprise founded in Amsterdam in 1897 and associated with the Nieuwe Kunst movement, the Dutch counterpart to Art Nouveau. Its pottery included hand-decorated earthenware with controlled geometric and organic ornament, often using restrained colors and matte...

Arnhem pottery commonly refers to the work of the Arnhemsche Fayencefabriek, a Dutch ceramics factory active in Arnhem from 1907 until 1934. It produced ornamental and domestic faience, including vases, bowls, and other glazed earthenware decorated with painted patterns. Its changing forms and motif...

De Distel was a Dutch decorative arts workshop and retailer in Amsterdam active around the turn of the 20th century, promoting Arts and Crafts and Nieuwe Kunst ceramics and tiles.

Compiled in the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, these political slogans from Pompeii document Roman election campaigns before the 79 AD eruption.