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Shashka saber, Russian Empire, late 19th century.from Czerny’s International Auction House

My Latest Roman Coin CleansMany of you have messaged me to show some pics of the Roman coins I have

Where in the World is Prester John?In the late Roman Empire and early Middle Ages there was a legend

Brass EwerIran, 7th-8th century (late Sassanian-early Islamic) (37.2 x 20 x 17.8 cm) This ewer with

Mosaic (made of polychrome marble tesserae) depicting an amphora with doves perched on the rim, flan

Ivory panel from a Byzantine diptych, depicting the Archangel Michael holding an orb.  It is thought

Silver bowl with lion, foliage, and a ring of raised dots. Central Asia, late 6th-early 7th c. A.D.

African Atlantis and the Wonders of the Ife SculpturesAround the late 19th and early 20th centuries,

Ucetek entari and salvar, late 19th century to early 20th century, Turkish

Gilded silver plate from the Sasanian Empire, depicting youths with winged horses.  The iconography

Ottoman Turkish irregulars pose for photographs, late 19th or early 20th century.

Wilhelm II’s plan to invade America,By the late 19th century it was becoming apparent that a n

The Evolution of the Roman Army Part I — The Roman Phalanx of the Late Kingdom and Early Repub

Colonne de Pompée by Henry CammasFrench, 1850-1860 (negative) and c. 1862 (print)albumenized salted

A bust of the Emperor Augustus.  Unknown Roman artist, late 1st cent. BCE- early 1st cent. CE.  Foun

Golden pendant with repoussédecoration, bearing a portrait of Alexander the Great.  Artist unknown;

Fragment of an ancient Roman wall fresco depicting a winged Victory.  Artist unknown; late 2nd or ea

Wooden cupboard (?) door, carved by a Coptic artist in Byzantine Egypt (5th cent. CE).  Now in the W

Marble portrait head of the Roman emperor Constantine I (r. 306-312 CE [as Western Caesar]; 312-324

Ancient Roman sardonyx cameo showing Emperor Constantine I being crowned by the Tyche (Fortune) of C

Bronze face-mask helmet of a Roman cavalryman, worn on special occasions.  Artist unknown; late 1st

carolathhabsburg:Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, later Duchess of Edinburgh. Mids 1870s

A gold and silver decorated flintlock pistol originating from the Ottoman Empire, late 18th or early

Portrait of Emperor Rudolf IIMartino Rota (Italian; ca. 1520–1583)ca. late 1570s–before 1585Oil on c

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