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Jade Horse Head
Sculpture
Chinese, 206 BCE-220 CE

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2019-11-17

Antenna swords of the Hallstatt B period (10th c. BCE), found near Lake Neuchâtel

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2019-11-10

Decisive wars in History

The First Punic War was fought between Carthage and Rome between 264 and 241 BCE, largely over control of Sicily. The longest continuous war in history up to that time was fought on the island, at sea, and in north Africa. 

https://t.co/9pWYWNpmla

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2019-11-06

Ancient Egypt - The Tale of Sinuhe 

The Middle Kingdom of ancient Egypt (2000 BCE – 1700 BCE) saw the start of more formal writing which included religious scripts, administrative notes, and more in-depth fictional writing
https://t.co/AFSOwucD1g

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2019-11-05

Mother Goddess: evidence of stitching, Mathura, 3rd century BCE

Icon of or decoration for ritual?

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2019-11-03

I never quite worked out how I felt about the original design. On the one hand it makes more sense than the later classical version. And yet ...

(8th century BCE, in the collection of the Met, NYC)

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2019-10-31

I ❤️this book, forgive me if I want an extra copy to hang on the wall. What a great way to see a timeline of North American history 11,000 BCE to 2017. Easy to see many events. Perfect for ☕️ table or a classroom. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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2019-10-31

interesting find
Woman riding 2 bulls
Bronze sculpture
from Kausambi, c. 2000-1750 BCE
at
cultivator, Agri labourer, festival?
women's participation in economy is important. their contribution is immense. TUS-time use survey is being contemplated to know?
wiki

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2019-10-07

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

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

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2019-10-01

Ancient Egypt - The Tale of Sinuhe 

The Middle Kingdom of ancient Egypt (2000 BCE – 1700 BCE) saw the start of more formal writing which included religious scripts, administrative notes, and more in-depth fictional writing

https://t.co/AFSOwucD1g

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2019-09-29

Commission I recently finished, Egtved Woman - Early Nordic Bronze Age C. 1370 BCE

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2019-09-24

A small Old Babylonian (~2000-1600 BCE) plaque from Ur shows a woman breastfeeding a child.

Plaques like this were mass produced from moulds in the Old Babylonian (and other) periods. They represented scenes from people’s everyday lives, mythical creatures, deities, and more.

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2019-09-19

The sculpture (c. 2nd cent BCE/1st cent CE) may be Hellenistic or a later copy. It highlights the grief of Trojan priest, Laocoön, as two killer serpents rise from the sea after he rejects the notion of the Trojan horse as a gift

1.Vatican Museum2.Alessandro Allori 3.Marco Dente

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2019-09-17

The Battle of Salamis (480BCE, colorized)

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2019-09-15

Mitannian (c. 1500 BCE-1300 BCE) black hematite cylinder seal with a man seated on a chair holding a scepter, before him the sun, stars and altar, and beyond another man holding two goats or lions https://t.co/yi84KSTHob

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2019-09-13

Tassi d’interesse negativi sui conti correnti: pro e contro dopo la mossa della https://t.co/Lg7vTNWEnh

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2019-09-07

An artist's depiction of Paris in 50BCE, when it was the Roman Lutetia, and entirely contained on the Île de la Cité. The Temple to Jupiter is where Notre Dame de Paris is currently located. Credit to Albert Uderzo.

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2019-09-04

Today we celebrate Gargi Vachaknavi (born c. 700 BCE), a Vedic philosopher from ancient India. Her name is prominent in the the Upanishads: she is renowned for arguing with the sage Yajnavalkya on existential questions on the atman, the inner self or soul. https://t.co/runlPuWJUo

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2019-08-09