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The beautiful Genet by Felipe Arauzo Burillo, c. 2015-2019

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Armenia, 2023. Photo by Anush Babajanyan.

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Lithuanian doll makers with some of their work, 1931

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Piret’s Sacral Place, Estonia

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Sumerian Veteran: *has severe PTSD but doesn't know it because the term won't be invented for another 5000 years* I fight the same battle in my dreams every night and my relationship with my family has fallen apart.

Sumerian Healer: *saw hundreds of veterans with the exact same affliction before* You're cursed by desert demons.

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Ancient street slab with menorah carving in Tzippori

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Sewing sampler from Scotland, c. 1710-20

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Falkirk, Scotland

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“Illustration of the Turkish Muffty: Because of the great loss of their army, not far from Szeged, on the Tisza, they lost their beards in misery... ; Happened September 11 st. n. of this 1697 year”

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Published in Augsburg, 1757

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Page from the account of Daniel Ecklins of his journey to The Holy Land, published 1581

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Illustration from a German Children’s Book, published 1897

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Father and child in Lamu, Kenya © Eric Lafforgue

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Detail of a German Book on Childbirth, c. 17th Century

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Louise van Panhuys, 1812

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Louise von Panhuys, 1911