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Sakura at Arashiyama (Famous Places of Kyôto), by Utagawa Hiroshige, 1834.

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The cheekpiece of a horse's bit from Scythia, 600s BCE. The Scythians, who ranged throughout southeastern Europe and central Asia, were considered to be expert horsemen -- and women (archaeologists have found many women's graves full of objects that indicate that they were horseback warriors).

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Anubis, Egyptian god of embalming and the dead, from a chest in the form of a shrine, from the Tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62). New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Tutankhamun, ca. 1332-1323 BC. Valley of the Kings, West Thebes. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.

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Funerary mask of Merit, wife of Kha.

Mid-18th dynasty

Egyptian museum Turin, Italy.

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Bonaparte Before the Sphinx by Jean-Leon Gerome, 1886.

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~ Pottery bowl containing paint, once belonging to a fresco painter.

Period: Roman

Date: A.D. 1st century

Place oforigin: Egypt

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So There’s This Tomb

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Roman mosaic from House of the Faun, Pompeii.

Naples National Archaeological Museum. Campania, Italy.

Photographs by Gary Todd (CC0)

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Descuberta da estatua de Antinoo en Delfos (1894)

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The Good Kings: Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World

We may not always know why we are drawn to a bygone era or long-dead personality, but once hooked, the well rarely runs dry. Perhaps the reason, for many, is simple escapism. The vanished worlds and characters of the past draw us in precisely because they seem so unlike our own. But, as Kara Cooney’s The Good Kings: Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World points out, far more connects us to these distant times than we dare to imagine – or admit.

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Art Deco Architectural Detail of the Former Court of São Paulo, Brazil.

Art Déco style building. Shown : Doric portico and Marcury head

Opened in 1937 as the Stock Exchange headquarters; later it housed the State Agriculture Bureau - Pátio do Colégio square - .

Architect Felisberto Ranzini, of the Ramos de Azevedo bureau.

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Allegory of Rhetoric, Artemisia Gentileschi, ca. 1650

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Ancient Egyptian faience amulet in the form of a cartouche of Nebmaatre, throne name of Amenhotep III "the Great" (r. ca. 1390-1352 BCE). Found in Amenhotep's tomb (WV 22) in the Valley of the Kings; now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Anish Kapoor, Leviathan, 2011, Grand Palais, Paris, France