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Venetian territories and trade routes
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T4: Silver tetradrachm struck in western Asia Minor (?), c. 341-334 BC.
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Wooden Shield
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Geoffrey Shepherd's Letters Pt. 1
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Thomas Hariot, A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (Amsterdam, 1590)
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The irony of the Ptolemaic renaissance: geographical knowledge versus cartographical method, 1582
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Lantern clock with pyramid stand (c. 1700)
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Prague, 1599-1612: The Rudolphine Tables (1627)
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Elephant Automaton Clock, Augsburg, 1600-10
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Finnish boy
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Silver and gold phiale from the Lydian Treasure
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Chinese books before paper
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Icon of Mahatma Gandhi
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The fifth element and medieval cosmology
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Spearhead from Deve Hüyük
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Comparing fruits: carrot family
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Seal of Cyrus I
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Letter to John and Christopher Wordsworth from their father
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Bangle
Books on bamboo
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Medieval vs Early Modern Fortifications
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Studiolo of Francesco I de Medici, 1570-75
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JH1: Silver stater of Messana (Sicily), c. 488–481 BC.
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Two kingfishers
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