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Egypt | Greece | Rome | Pre-history | Middle East
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akg4IK-U1-P20 Sumerian sculptures of a man and woman praying, circa 2750-2650BC. Photo: akg-images / Erich Lessing |
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akg2-G65-J1-7 A relief of a dying lioness, found in Nineveh and now in the British Museum, London. Photo: akg-images / Joseph Martin |
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akg4IK-U1-R16 A Parthian statuette of a woman, possibly Hebe or Alluzza, in the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. Photo: akg-images |
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akg4IK-U1-R7-B Bronze head of an Akkadian king, possibly Naramsin or Sargon, found near the Ishtar temple in Nineveh and now in the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. Photo: akg-images / Erich Lessing |
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akg5IK-H1-E2-2002-5 Detail of a sculpture of an eagle on the temple of the sun god Shamash. Photo: akg-images / Gérard Degeorge |