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Vessel in Form of a Crocodile. Place of origin: Guatemala Culture: Maya Date: CE 300-600 Medium: Slip-painted ceramic with post-fire pigment. Source: Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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Published: January 17, 2025 11:17

Hands only.

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Published: January 17, 2025 09:36

Crayola colors that they don't make anymore.

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Published: January 17, 2025 07:51

Whitby Museum - Hand Of Glory. The Hand of Glory is a mythical artefact that was said to heal ailments, protect thieves from discovery and to act as a warning to others of the consequences of crime.

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Published: January 16, 2025 22:51

By Alfred Jacobsen.

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Published: January 16, 2025 18:51

Badger-shaped incense burner. Japan, Edo Period, c.1780.

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Published: January 16, 2025 15:17

Anonymus, The Temptation of St. Anthony, detail, Rhenish School, 1520, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne.

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Published: January 16, 2025 14:32

Ivory carving of an octopus in human clothes holding a bowl. Japan, around 1850.

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Published: January 16, 2025 12:51

Hedgehog on Wheels, from Iran, c.1500-1100 BCE: it's believed that this 3,500-year-old figurine of a hedgehog on a wheeled platform was created either as a toy or as a votive offering.

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Published: January 16, 2025 11:17

By Landis Blair.

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Published: January 16, 2025 09:36

Pac-Man puppets from 1982.

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Published: January 16, 2025 07:51

By Alfred Kubin.

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Published: January 15, 2025 22:51

The Magdeburg Unicorn.

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Published: January 15, 2025 18:51

Mr Potato Heads Picnic Pals.

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Published: January 15, 2025 15:17

This drawing of the Lake Tanganyika Monster was created by Philippe Coudray for his book, Guide des Animaux Cachés. This creature is said to reside in Lake Tanganyika in Burundi, a country in East Africa.

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Published: January 15, 2025 14:32

Roman Boltunov's 1805 reconstruction of a mammoth, based on frozen carcass he observed in Siberia.

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Published: January 15, 2025 12:51

Daguerreotype of a man wearing tinted glasses and holding a cat, c. 1850.

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Published: January 15, 2025 11:17

Grummmfff.

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Published: January 15, 2025 09:36

The Parchment manuscript dates back to the sixteenth century. It is one of the rarest literary curiosities. In the smallest format (11 lines high, 71/2 lines wide), it contains Dante's divine comedy in Italian in an astonishingly small font, barely legible…

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Published: January 15, 2025 07:51

Ejagham Crest Mask with a Human Head (19th Century AD), Cross River region, Nigeria.

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Published: January 14, 2025 22:51

A scene from the 1921 Swedish horror film THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE ("Körkarlen").

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Published: January 14, 2025 18:51

Aquamanile depicting Airstotle's girlfriend,Phyllis,riding him around the garden after Aristotle warned Alexander the Great about women.Copper Alloy,South Lowlands,14th-15th century CE.

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Published: January 14, 2025 15:17

Plastered Human Skulls (8000-6000 BC); are human skulls covered in layers of plaster, typically found in the ancient Levant, most notably around the modern city of Jericho, Palestine.

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Published: January 14, 2025 14:32

'Red Riding Hood' by Anna Mond.

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Published: January 14, 2025 12:51

Fair.

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Published: January 14, 2025 11:17

Roman anti-cheating device to ensure a fair roll of the dice when gaming

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Published: January 14, 2025 09:36

Clay hedgehog-shaped vessel, attributed to the Neolithic Xiaoheyan culture, Nambaoligatu type, dated between 3000-2000 BC. Unearthed at the Nambaoligatu site in Zhalute Banner, Tongliao, Inner Mongolia.

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Published: January 14, 2025 07:51

Pubs Of England - The Society Lounge.

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Published: January 13, 2025 22:51

“Matinée de Printemps”, Georges Léonnec, 1924. Obálka časopisu La Vie Parisienne.

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Published: January 13, 2025 18:51

By Redmer Hoekstra.

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Published: January 13, 2025 15:17

The sound of cylinders.

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Published: January 13, 2025 14:32

Vladislav Yerko, Ukrainian illustrator, born 1962.

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Published: January 13, 2025 12:51

Yeah.

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Published: January 13, 2025 11:17

Woodcut illustration of a fantastical cat with spiraled limbs and tail. Johann-Georg Schenck, Monstrorum Historia Memorabilis, 1609

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Published: January 13, 2025 09:36

The Sea Monk, a half-fish, half-man creature resembling a monk, appeared in 16th-century European texts. Depicted in Guillaume Rondelet's Libri de piscibus marinis (1554) and Conrad Gesner's Historiae Animalium (1558).

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Published: January 13, 2025 07:51

Mexico, Guerrero - Unidentified character, early to mid 20th century.

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Published: January 12, 2025 22:51

A 19th-century memorial sculpture of a child's hand holding a clipped rosebud, symbolizing a life cut short. Common on Victorian children's gravestones.

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Published: January 12, 2025 18:51

By Bender Bones.

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Published: January 12, 2025 15:17

The Red Weaver by Remedios Varo.

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Published: January 12, 2025 14:32

The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents by Edward Topsell is a fascinating natural history book first published in 1607.

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Published: January 12, 2025 12:51

A 33,000 years old small carving of a bird found in the Hohle Fels cave in Germany in 2002. Sculpted in mammoth ivory, it's the earliest known representation of a bird.

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Published: January 12, 2025 11:17

Here is Daniel Lambert (1770 - 1809) and his walking stick, in the George Hotel in Stamford. He was a very interesting character and famous for his unusually (at the time) large size. By 1805, he hit 50 stone and was at that point the heaviest…

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Published: January 12, 2025 09:36

'Metamorphosis' - black cats transforming themselves into Witches by Theophile Alexandre Steinlen, (1859 - 1923).

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Published: January 12, 2025 07:51

Death on a lion. This sculpture was once a device on a bell in the choir of Heilsbronn Abbey. At the stroke of the hour, the "Grim Reaper" would strike the bell around the lion's neck with a bone to remind people of the brevity of the human condition.

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Published: January 11, 2025 22:51

The world's only intact Roman legionary shield was discovered in the 1930s at the site of the ancient Roman city of Dura-Europos in modern-day Syria.

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Published: January 11, 2025 18:51

The fake nose of astronomer Tycho Brahe that he wore after losing his real one in a duel about math with his cousin.

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Published: January 11, 2025 15:17

A couple from 1850.

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Published: January 11, 2025 14:32

Renaissance set of knives made of bone and iron in a Trout-shaped case. Place of origin: Italian work, 17th century.

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