Roman Helmet

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Hippos succeed in all the wrong ways Part 2

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Hippos succeed in all the wrong ways Part 3

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Hippos succeed in all the wrong ways Part 1

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The Marlik Cup, dating back to around 1400 BC, features four mythical winged bulls in lifelike and dynamic poses, with their wings extended outward as if they are about to take flight. Discovered at Marlik village in northern Iran, it is housed at the National Museum of Iran.

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Every crack and hinge of this 900-year-old door of St Helen's Church, Yorkshire, England, whispers history.

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A Roman Tintinnabulum; A Windchime shaped like a Phallus that would be hung outside homes to ward off evil

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A prayer nut from the early 1500s carved from boxwood, no bigger than a walnut, yet filled with entire worlds of sacred scenes. Gothic devotion in miniature form.

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Intricately carved violin of Domenico Galli, 1687, on display at the Galleria Estense in Modena, Italy

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Minusinsk, Siberia: a Tatar “medicine man” (shaman) in full ceremonial dress, face veiled, with frame drum and be**er. Photographic print, c. 1920 (after an original made c. 1900–1915). Collection: Wellcome Collection, London.

Seen at the woodland’s edge, the shaman stands inside a garment ecology of sound and motion: tiered strips mask the face, shoulder fittings and metal pendants jingle with each step, and a broad one‑headed drum—its surface marked by geometric fields—anchors the rite. A pencil note on the verso of the original print explains the practice succinctly: the “Minusinsk Tartar…has face covered when shamanising

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Bronze Sword (475-221 BC) - Baoji Municipal Institute of Archaeology, Shaanxi 🇨🇳

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Portrait of an unidentified man that was placed over the face and upper torso of his mummy. Dated to 150-170 AD, it is painted in encaustic on a panel of linden wood, and it was originated in Roman Egypt.