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In 1938, 17 brass and copper heads and the upper half of a brass figure (dated to the 14th-15th century CE) were found by accident during house building works at Ife in Nigeria. The realism and sophisticated craftsmanship of the objects challenged Western conceptions of African art [1061x1222]
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A gold and silver inlaid bronze cylindrical chariot canopy pole fitting, excavated from tomb M122 at Dingxian, China. 2nd century BCE, Western Han dynasty, now part of the collection of Hebei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics. The right picture is an illustration of the decoration [1430x2572]
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When the Grande River in Coclé, Panama, changed course at the end of 19th century and again in 1927, it washed a number of artifacts downstream. That prompted a number of excavations between 1928 and 1940 that revealed a large number of gold artifacts dated from 450–900 CE [1371x2095]
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A Paracas mummy bundle, now housed at the Museo de América in Madrid. The dead of the Paracas culture (800-100 BC) were wrapped in layers of cloth called "mummy bundles", and the dry environment of southern Peru's Pacific coast allowed the perfect preservation of hundreds of textiles [2047x3299]
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In 2003, 2 large gilt bronze vessels, dating back to the Western Han dynasty (206 BCE-9 CE) were unearthed in Xi'an, China. One of them contained 26 liters of a green liquid. The liquid included 0.1% alcohol along with minor amounts of other materials commonly found in Chinese wine [603x448]
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It’s a shame that most of them have been stolen from the museum over the years
Source? Cause many of them has gone into multiple traveling exhibitions in the biggest Western museums in the past decades.
I heard it from Waldemar Januszczak in
Then either they were stolen long ago and then found again or Waldemar Januszczak is just wrong. The British museum for example and the Boston museum of fine arts had temporary exhibitions about the ife heads where almost all of them were on display, and in their websites the objects are cited as original.
Oh wow! I never knew this!! Thank you so much for posting!
You're welcome :)
Here's a
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https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/jin-silk-hat-with-flowering-trees-and-confronted-deer-in-beaded-floral-fan/DAEP4l0OF18LEQ?hl=en
Thanks for posting all these cool things!
You're welcome :)
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jan/31/metal-detectorist-tudor-gold-pendant-henry-viii-katherine-of-aragon-warwickshire
The vessels were found in a tomb. This is a short description from the Metropolitan Museum website about one of the vessels that was loaned from the Xi'an Museum:
The hotel was also built around a 5th century CE Roman baths (visible in the left picture), a 2nd century CE Pegasus mosaic and a 5th century CE Roman mosaic.
More info here: