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Cy Twombly - Untitled, 1968, oil-based house paint and wax crayon on canvas, 172.4 x 218.4 cm

photocredit: 17th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Greece

Altes Museum, Berlin

A bronze wolf which would have decorated the lengthwise beams on a Roman ship. The wolf was made using the lost-wax technique and dates to between 37 and 41 CE. The ring had no function other than decorative, used on occasions to hang garlands. (Palazzo Massimo, Rome)

Drakensberg Cave, San Rock Art, South Africa, ca. 500 BCE

from The Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete

British Museum

Photo by Babylon Chronicle

Full-sized replica of the Rosalila temple from the Mayan site of Copan. Built by King Moon Jaguar in 571 CE, it was discovered almost intact buried underneath a larger, later phase of the temple. Vents in the exterior were designed so smoke from incense being burned inside the shrine would interact with the stucco sculpture of the exterior.

The Dabous Giraffes - neolithic petroglyphs found in Saharan Niger estimated to be 6,000 to 8,000 years old. The bigger of the two giraffes is 5.4 meters long and is the largest known petroglyph in the world.

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from The Walters Art Museum

Male Barred Owl looks up from tracking a squirrel from a low rhododendron branch. (The squirrel lived to tell the tale.)

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