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Глиняная свистулька (Узбекистан и Таджикистан)
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‘Christian Monuments, Tassorić’ / ‘Graveyard at Tassorić’
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Qingbai Bowl, Southern Song dynasty, porcelain (12th Century)
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A cartographical renaissance: the Western recovery of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1397-c.1460
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Saami boy
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 28 August 1902
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Urban VIII by Pietro da Cortona (c. 1624-1627)
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 17403, folios 4r-4v
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BSH3: Silver tetradrachm of Akanthos (Chalcidice), fragment, c. 470 BC.
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Javelin head/arrowhead from Deve Hüyük
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 184)
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Kano Naizen, Portuguese Carrack in Nagasaki (late 16th-early 17th century)
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Произведения искусства в семейных интерьерах Ташкента (Узбекистан)
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Origins of paper
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Botanical Gardens
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Al-Idrīsī's world map, 1152
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‘Samovar’ earrings
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Reimagination
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Arcimboldo, Rudolf II as Vertumnus (1590-1591)
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BSH8: Silver stater of Soloi (Cilicia), c. 440–420 BC.
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BSH12: Silver bar-ingot (cut down).
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Planning the New Basilica
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Town and gown: Authentica habita and the Privilegium scholasticum
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Clone of Icon of Mahatma Gandhi
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