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Ancient Egyptian travertine objects

A Nubian woman cleaning her carpet in the Nile while her child is having a swim.

Amulet of Horus as a falcon Nubian Napatan Period, reign of Harsiyotef or his successor 404–353 B.C.

Shell paint palette

Maya

Late Classic Period, 550–850 AD

Object Place: Guatemala, Mexico, or Belize

Palette for holding water-based paints carved from a large conch shell. The palette is carved asf the formal pose of Maya court painters portrayed on the pictorial ceramics, with fingers curled towards the palm and the thumb or forefinger pointing forwards.

Feline Bottle, Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Purchase, Nelson A. Rockefeller Gift, 1968 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Ceramic

Terracotta group of two seated women, perhaps Demeter and her daughter Persephone. Made at Myrina, north-west Asia-Minor, circa 180 BCE. Said to be from Asia-Minor. (The British Museum, London)

What constellations looked like in 818 AD; from a manuscript that is almost 1200 years ago.

This manuscript is so old, algebra wasn’t discovered yet. (Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Ḵwārizmī will discover it in 820 AD)

From Sammlung astronomisch-komputistischer und naturwissenschaftlicher Texte - BSB Clm 210

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