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An antique black and white map of Europe from the Encyclopaedia Britannica First Edition, showing detailed outlines and place names for countries including Great Britain, France, Spain, Germany, Hungary, Turkey, Anatolia, Poland, Russia, Italy, Greece, Ireland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Lapland, and Denmark. The map features ornate script for the word Europe and dense labeling of regions and bodies of water.

The Venus of Willendorf, a small Upper Paleolithic limestone figurine with exaggerated female features and textured head, displayed against a black background.

Cave painting depicting a bull and a horse in brown and black pigments on a textured stone wall in Lascaux Grotto, France.

Aurignacian-Gravettian sculpture

clay model of a wheeled cart

Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry

Christian bishop and theologian St. Augustine

Engraving of Petrarch wearing a laurel wreath and a robe, holding a closed book in his left hand.

Life-sized plaster sculpture Seated Voltaire by Jean-Antoine Houdon shows Voltaire draped in a robe, seated with a thoughtful expression and a ribbon crown, against a dark background.

Behold the Athenian Acropolis and Roman Colosseum and drive down Appian Way on the Roman road system

Christianity and superstition in the Middle Ages

A vintage encyclopedia page shows small type and scientific illustrations. The question What was Enlightenment? is written in old-fashioned blue lettering.

Timeline: Women's suffrage around the world

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