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The Book of Ukrainian Embroideries by Oksana Moshinsky

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Ancient Greek fashions

1-3. chiton 4. feast guest and dancer 5-6. himatius 7. mantle 8. peplos 9. warriors 11. woman in Phrygian cap, traveler

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RIP Syd Mead 1933-2019

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Ancient Roman aqueduct in Caesarea Maritima, Israel

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Steve Reich - The Desert Music, for 10 voices and reduced orchestra (1984) I. Fast

Members of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Chorus Steve Reich et al.

Begin, my friend

     for you cannot,

        you may be sure,

take your song,

    which drives all things out of mind,

       with you to the other world.

- William Carlos Williams Theocritus: Idyl I 

(Jean-Léon Gérome [1824-1904] | Prayer in the Desert)

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Babylon gardens, from Alexander Movie set.

#garden

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The ruins of Sar o Tar, Afghanistan, circa 1943. 

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Deleted Scene: Escape From Jabba’s Palace Star Wars Costumes: The Original Trilogy, Brandon Alinger

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Studio portrait of a woman in traditional Orthodox clothes with a headdress from Bileća, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1903

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Ceremonial Zoomorphic Dagger

Dated: mid-16th century

Culture: Indian, Vijayanagar or Deccan

Medium: steel, bronze, rubies

Measurements: overall length 42 cm

In an elegant, flowing style the hilt consists on one side of a rather large lion holding a small elephant between his front paws and a phoenix bird and a dragon with a long tail on the other side. The base of the hilt consists of two phoenixes with their heads facing the steel blade.

Source: Copyright © 2016 The David Collection

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Oasis de Haucachina, Ica

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Castle Garibaldi. Russia

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FAvourite pastime: trying to figure out what Carthaginian architecture most accurately/commonly looked like

Bonus art of Roman Empire Carthage too