Images Dated 6th March 2012

A turkish galley in an encounter with two british warships

Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633-1707). Dutch painter. A turkish galley in an encounter with two british warships, 1672. National Museum of Art. Copenhagen. Denmark

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Phoenician Kingdom. Northern Lebanon. Sarcophagus. It was ma

Phoenician Kingdom. Northern Lebanon. First millenium BC. Sarcophagus, which is made of marble from the Greek island of Paros, come from such a tomb. It was made by a Greek sculptor or a local craftsman trained in Greek style. Similar sarcophagi have mainly been found in the Royal city of Sidon to the south of Arados an in Phoenician colonies in the Western Mediterranean. 480-450 BC. National Museum of Denmark

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The Golden Horns of Gallehus. North of Mogeltonder, Southern

The Golden Horns of Gallehus, discovered in Gallehus, north of Mogeltonder, Southern Jutland, Denmark. The horns date to the early 5th century, the beginning of the Germanic Iron Age. The original horns were stolen and melted down in 1802. Replicas of the horns must thus rely on 17th and 18th-century drawings that also having been stolen and retrieved twice, in 1993 and in 2007. Museum of Denmark

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