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ancientpeoples:Terracotta head of a Warrior625-600 BCCypro-Archaic I(Source: The British Museum)

ancientpeoples:Ear Stud530-500 BCEtruscan(Source: The British Museum)

ancientpeoples:Patera1st Century ADRomano British(Source: The British Museum)

Assyrian lamassu from the Throne Room (Room B) of the North-West Palace at Nimrud (present-day Iraq)

Menelaus (left) and Hector fight over the body of the Trojan hero Euphorbus.  Ancient Greek plate in

Large Minoan earring from the British Museum

ancientpeoples:Fragment of a Mosaic Pavement1st Century ADRoman(Source: The British Museum)

ancientpeoples:Silver Horse BrassAD 330-370Roman(Source: The British Museum)

ancientpeoples:Red Figured Lekythos 480-460 BCAttic Greek(Source: The British Museum)

The head of Hypnos (Sleep).  Roman bronze sculpture (1st-2nd cent. CE) after a lost Hellenistic orig

Japanese soldier buggering a Russian soldier, Russo Japanese War, 1904-1905.from The British Museum

ancientpeoples:NecklaceEarly Dynastic IIIFrom the Royal Cemetery at Ur(Source: The British Museum)

Ceramic Kirin figure. Japan, 19thC. British Museum, London. 

ancientpeoples:Coin of Valentinian IAD 364-375Roman Imperial(Source: The British Museum)

waifeyes:Gold locket with the hair of Queen Marie Antoinette: British Museum

William Turner’s works from the Tate Museum in London

historyarchaeologyartefacts:The Shield Of Achilles by Rundell Bridge, 1822, British Museum [1000x750

Bookplate - 1914 - via the British Museum

Hao Siwen in the Snow, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, between 1845 and 1850

curiousmiscellanies:The Trustees of the British Museum

Sunday: The British Museum cont. the beautiful and misplaced Parthenon statues, my favourite was the

antonio-m:Dionysos (detail), British Museum, London

ancientpeoples:Gold DiscLate 4th Century ADFound in Corfu(Source: The British Museum)

The ancient Egyptian sky goddess Nut.  Detail from the greywacke sarcophagus of Sisobek, vizier of L

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