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Amethyst, a purple coloured quartz crystal
Front panel of a Pictish sarcophagus from St Andrews in Scotland. Now the collection of St Andrews Cathedral Museum
A paleolithic cave painting of Aurochs from Altamira, Spain
The Comtesse de Selve Making Music, detail, 1787. Artist: Adelaide Labille-GuiardThe Comtesse de Selve Making Music, detail, 1787. At the Salon of 1787, Labille-Guiard exhibited a work which was identified only as Madame de *** faisant de la musique
Chiefs Blanket with Bear Design, Totemism, Tungit Tribe, Pacific Northwest Coast IndiansChiefs Blanket with Bear Design, Totemism, Tlingit Tribe, Pacific Northwest Coast Indians. Totemism is a system of belief in which humans are said to have kinship or a mystical relationship with a
Codex Zouche-Nuttall is a pre-Columbian document of Mixtec pictography, 1200-1521. Codex (screenfold manuscript book) comprising 47 leaves, made of painted deer skin, painted
Baptistry doors in Florence, 14th century. Artist: Andrea PisanoSouth Baptistry doors in Florence, showing scenes of the life of John the Baptist, 14th century
The Gortyn Law Code, 5th century BCThe Gortyn Doric Law Code on Crete, in Boustrophelon script. The Gortyn Doric Law code was an inscription on a wall in Crete which laid out the laws of that area
Linear B tablet from Knossos, Crete, 15th century BCMinoan Linear B tablet from Knossos, Crete, in the Archaeological Museum of Heracleion, Crete. Linear B is a syllabic script used for writing Mycenaean Greek
Roman mosaic of a peacock in foliage, 3rd centuryRoman mosaic of a peacock in foliage, from Thuburbo Majus, Tunisia. Now in the Bardo Museum in Tunis, 3rd century
Persian tiles with animals and lines from Persian poetry, 13th centuryPersian tiles with hares and predators and lines from Persian poetry, 13th century
Page of the Koran in a Maghrebi script, 12th century
Page of the Koran from Egypt, 9th centuryPage of the Koran, in squared kufic script, from Egypt, 9th century
Rose window in the south transeit of St Denis, 12th centuryRose window in the south transeit of St Denis in France, showing the signs of the Zodiac, 12th century
Detail of a stained glass window showing the story of Moses, 12th centuryDetail of a stained glass window showing the story of Moses in St Denis, France, 12th century
Mosaics of the Dome in the Bapistry of the Arians, 5th centuryMosaics of the Dome in the Bapistry of the Arians. In the centre are Christ, John the Baptist, and the personified River Jordan. On the exterior is a procession of saints, 5th century
Detail of the Last Supper of Salonika embroidered on vestments, 14th centuryDetail of the Last Supper ( Epitaphios ) of Salonika, embroidered on vestments, probably made in Constantinople. from the Byzantine Museums collection in Athens, 14th century