
Antikythera Mechanism
c. 205 BC · Cast and hand-cut bronze
National Archaeological Museum, Athens

c. 205 BC · Cast and hand-cut bronze
National Archaeological Museum, Athens

9th century · Gold and silver on indigo-dyed parchment
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

16th century · Steel and gold
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1st century BC · Bronze
Musei Capitolini

c. 1085-1110 · Cast bronze
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Pisa

1350 · Beaker
Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1594 · Letterpress printing on laid paper
Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C

c. 1750 · White oak carcase veneered with bloodwood
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

9th - 11th century AD · Cameo-cut glass
Corning Museum of Glass

1888 · Gelatin silver print from a dry-plate glass...
Museum of the City of New York, New York

4th century · Ink on vellum
The British Library, London

1250-1300 · Brass
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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