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A 2,400-year-old dried salted bream unearthed in 2014 from a tomb at Xiajiatai cemetery in Jingzhou. Warring States Period (c. 475–221 BCE), now housed at the Hubei Provincial Museum in China [1079x1547]

The Maya Codex of Mexico is one of only 4 known extant Maya codices, and the only one that still resides in the Americas. Made between 1021 and 1154 CE, the manuscript charts the movements of the planet Venus and is the oldest known surviving book of the Americas [1279x1953]

Pillar 43 at the 12,000-year-old Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, decorated with the carvings of 3 handbag-shaped objects (architectural structures?), a vulture with a sphere balanced on its wing, other birds, a snake, a scorpion and a headless man with an erect penis on the bottom right corner [2477x2060]

The Disc of Sabu, discovered in the tomb of Sabu, the Pharaoh's son in Ancient Egypt [3000-3100BCE]. Carved entirely from one piece of very fragile schist stone, measuring more than 2 feet in diameter. It's purpose is unknown [1336x979]

The Stag Hunt Mosaic signed by Gnosis, from the House of the Abduction of Helen in Pella, Greece, late 4th century BCE. The figures on the mosaic are possibly Alexander the Great on the right, Hephaistos on the left and the dog depicted is possibly Peritas, Alexander's favorite dog [960x600]

One of the robes said to have belonged to St Francis of Assisi (1181-1226 CE), an Italian Catholic friar and mystic who founded the Franciscans and one of the most venerated figures in Christianity. He was inspired to lead a life of poverty as an itinerant preacher [1362x2048]

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This German-made 12th century blade, adorned in Sweden, was discovered in 1975 buried under a tree in Siberia, Russia. It's theorized that it could have belonged to Ivan the Terrible, and came from the royal armoury as a gift at the time of the conquest of Siberia [719x1581]

A 3,800-year-old relief of a skeletal anthropomorphic being at the archaeological site of Vichama (1800-1200 BCE) in Peru [800x1200]

The Holmegaard bow is one of several found in the early 20th century in the peat bogs on the island of Zealand in Denmark. Made from a single piece of wood and measuring 1.62 m long, the bow is 9000 year-old making it the oldest bow discovered anywhere in the world [800x1203]

Bronze Age lurs from Denmark. These horns are wind instruments cast in bronze 3,000 years ago. Usually found in pairs, 39 have been recovered from peat bogs, where it’s thought they were placed as votive offerings. Now housed at the National Museum of Denmark [1340x962]

First discovered 40 years ago, this 2000-year-old Roman mosaic at the Portus Julius in Baia, Italy, has been missing for decades because of the changes in the seabed until it was recently rediscovered [1152x1147]

In 1938, 17 brass and copper heads and the upper half of a brass figure (dated to the 14th-15th century CE) were found by accident during house building works at Ife in Nigeria. The realism and sophisticated craftsmanship of the objects challenged Western conceptions of African art [1061x1222]

In 1938, 17 brass and copper heads and the upper half of a brass figure (dated to the 14th-15th century CE) were found by accident during house building works at Ife in Nigeria. The realism and sophisticated craftsmanship of the objects challenged Western conceptions of African art

Two burials with carved jades, found in 1984 at the archaeological site of Niuheliang in China. Niuheliang dates to 3,500–3,000 BCE, and was a burial and sacrificial center in the late Hongshan period [798x1475]

A gold snake bracelet from Egypt. Ptolemaic Period, ca. 305-30 BCE, now housed at the Royal Museum of Mariemont in Belgium [870x870]

A Maya mask pendant, made of wood, jade, resin, shell, mother-of-pearl, spondylus shell, obsidian and red pigment. From Mexico, 200–600 CE, now part of the Al Thani Collection, which was assembled by Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani, first cousin of the Emir of Qatar [936x1248]

A glass wine bottle. Yuan dynasty (1271–1368 CE), now housed at the Xi'an Museum in China [789x1514]

An Ancient Egyptian erotic statuette. Late Period, 664-332 BCE, now housed at the Mediterranean Archaeology Museum in Marseille, France [800x550]

A carnelian frog amulet. From Egypt, ca. 1540-1296 BCE, now housed at the Cleveland Museum of Art [1130x893]

A wall painting from the Tomb of the Dancers in Thebes, Egypt. Ca. 1630-1540 BCE, now housed at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford [2048x1365]

A gold and silver inlaid bronze cylindrical chariot canopy pole fitting, excavated from tomb M122 at Dingxian, China. 2nd century BCE, Western Han dynasty, now part of the collection of Hebei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics. The right picture is an illustration of the decoration [1430x2572]

A jin silk hat with flowering trees and confronted deer in beaded floral fan. Tang dynasty (618-907 CE), now housed at the China National Silk Museum [1000x1415]

An Aztec skull from Tonalá covered with turqoise mosaic, gold eyes and a jade ornament in the forehead. 1300-1521 CE, now housed at the Archeological museum of Soconusco in Mexico [1280x1707]

The earliest known manufactured mirrors (approximately 8000 years old), found at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey. These mirrors were made from obsidian (volcanic glass), and had a convex surface and remarkably good optical quality [1599x2323]

When the Grande River in Coclé, Panama, changed course at the end of 19th century and again in 1927, it washed a number of artifacts downstream. That prompted a number of excavations between 1928 and 1940 that revealed a large number of gold artifacts dated from 450–900 CE [1371x2095]

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