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The Ming Empire (1368-1644)
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Bodleian, MS Ashmole 5, fol. 34v
Cotton scale (Tajikistan)
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Vannuccio Biringuccio, Pirotechnia (1540)
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Studiolo of Francesco I: Structure
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Andrea Pozzo, Ceiling of Sant'Ignazio Church, Rome (1685)
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Armillary Sphere, Rome, 1588
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Diana on a centaur, 1602-6
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Birth Certificate: Abrasha Levaevich Il’yasov (Uzbekistan)
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Carried into exile
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Printing in Venice
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The Slave Trade
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The New St Peter's Basilica
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Japanese pillar clock
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Attic Lekythos from Deve Hüyük
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Свидетельство о рождении (Казахстан)
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Lunar cycle
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Ukrainian vyshyvanka shirts in Soviet Pamir (Tajikistan)
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The three perfections: poetry and painting
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Chinese Trench Art (3D)
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Balagan (Central Asia)
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A cook in the trenches
Prague, 1599-1612: The Rudolphine Tables (1627)
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Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘On Two British Columbian House-Posts...’ (1899)
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