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This is not some zoological museum where you pose your plain girlfriends against Soviet taxidermy

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The Geese That Saved Rome

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Bear Claws

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Winter Is Coming 💞

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Nefertiti and Akhenaten holding hands, remains of a sculpture

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A Roman emperor of the 1st century

A Roman emperor of the 1st century. Domitian. Hardly a heart-throb to drive everyone out of their wits, but he asked to be addressed as lord and god. What I remember him for is that his niece, pregnant by him, died of a botched abortion

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A nomad's headdress of status, probably 13th century

A nomad's headdress of status, probably 13th century. Well preserved, though the red colour has been lost. From the famous Cueva de la Candelaria in northern Mexico. I hope to visit it next year

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The Pilgrim Fathers slaughtered buffalo by the thousand to deprive the Indians of their traditional means of livelihood

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There Is a Certain Romance in It

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Zmey Gorynych, 1956

Bronze figure of a winged deity with a radiating halo around the head and outstretched arms, against a golden brown background.

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The Etruscan god of the rising sun Cavé on a bronze chariot plaque

The Etruscan god of the rising sun, Cavé, depicted on a bronze plaque from a chariot. One of the most powerful gods of the Etruscan pantheon, he was offered 80 sacrifices a year. Identified with April.

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