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- Isis-Aphrodite (Greek, Etruscan & Roman)
- Clay icon Goddess figure from Hacilar VI, circa 5400 BCE, Western Turkey
- Green Tara, 13th century, Tibet
- Goddess Idol Yalangash, South Turkmenia, 4000 BCE

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2020-12-24

Today in Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia: Hannibal's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Roman Republic. (218 BCE)

Read more: https://t.co/VQ4o04VFN8

Image: © by The Creative Assembly

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2020-12-18

I have so many, but this lady here is the one I've put the most work into with developing a story. I'm slowly writing a book about her!

Based around 30 BCE, from Egypt. Raised in unfortunate circumstances, she's a little spitfire that fights for her freedom. Small, but mighty!

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2020-12-18

올멕 남성, 기원전 1200~900년
Olmec man, 1200~900 BCE

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2020-11-28

Dancing Peucetian women. Tomb of the dancers, Ruvo di Puglia, Italy. C5th/C4th BCE. Now

Peucetians - people in ancient Apulia (between Bari & Tarentum).


The colours & movement of this painting are so spectacular!

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2020-11-27

Aesop (620–564 BCE) was a Greek fabulist who “made use of humble incidents to teach great truths” according to philosopher Apollonius of Tyana. Animals feature prominently in Aesop’s fables. These illustrations: Alice and Martin Provensen, published in 1965.

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2020-11-24

apollo playing the lyre c. 510 bce and apollo and the muses (details) by michel dorigny c. 1640

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2020-11-07

카르타고 귀족과 무용수들, 기원전 5세기
Carthaginian nobleman and dancers, 5th century BCE

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2020-10-30

Last but not least: Shadow from Illusion of Gaia/Time. I love the burning effect on him.
Colors: 809BCE 95B8D1 B8E0D2 D6EADF EAC4D5

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2020-10-23

GARGI VACHAKNAVI -Celebrating Women Of India (every Thursday)

Gargi Vachaknavi (born about 9th to 7th century BCE) was an ancient Indian philosopher. In Vedic literature, she is honored as a great natural philosopher, renowned expounder of the Vedas, ..

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2020-10-22

thinking about Jar with anthropomorphic feet - earthenware - 6 ¼ ″ x 4 9⁄16 ″ - Qijia culture, China - c. 2300-1500 BCE

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2020-10-12

Melissa, VII century BCE Greece

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2020-10-09

✨ A few examples from
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Viduca, I century BCE Gaul

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2020-10-09

Today in Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. (331 BCE)

Read more: https://t.co/RTtRXCZuq1

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2020-10-01

Wonderful interior of a Greek vase showing Odysseus giving Neoptolemos the arms of his father Achilles, painted by Douris & attributed to Python as potter, Athens 500-450BCE, found in Cerveteri, now in Vienna. The exterior shows the contest for the arms between Odysseus & Ajax

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2020-09-26

A scene depicted on a wall painting from the Theban tomb of the 18th Dynasty high official Nebamun, who lived around 1350 BCE. Nebamun is shown hunting birds, in a small boat with his wife Hatshepsut & their young daughter, in the marshes of the Nile. 1/3

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2020-09-13

Remains of a painted plaster pavement from a palace of Akhenaten. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, Amarna Period, reign of Akhenaten, ca. 1353-1336 BCE. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 33030/1

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2020-09-09

What an excellent amber carving! Look at the details, a small bottle held by a woman!

This is an Etruscan sculpture made ~5th C BCE, depicting a couple on the sofa. Woman is dressed in a pointed hat, a tunic & pointed shoes.
Ones a fibula - amber has 2 holes on the back side
1/ https://t.co/TYKHLzee8I

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2020-09-08

The Minoan Civilization existed from roughly 3000 BCE (Before the Common Era) through 1450 BCE. That’s about 5000 years ago!

Saffron Wave takes place in 1625 BCE, a few hundred years before the general time frame for the collapse of the civilization, before the Mycenaean Greeks.

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2020-09-07