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Miriam Leonard's lecture at CSMVS explored Freud's fascination with antiquities, particularly Egyptian artifacts, and their ...

In the jungles of northern Guatemala, archaeologists brushed away centuries of soil to uncover a small altar that shouldn’t ...

Experts believe the couple depicted were of high status, and the there are symbols included on the woman’s statue that lead researchers to ... suggest she may have been a priestess of Ceres, goddess ...

Other notable exhibits include Persian antiquities, manuscripts, pre-Zoroastrian mythological paintings, mother goddess figurines associated with fertility, imperial coins and seals, and a reference ...

Several of these artefacts were gifted to the museum, as also terracotta pottery, mother goddess figurines, clay toys and glazed bricks. “The museum remained somewhat like a collector’s ...

axolotl may not have had archeological representations as did Tláloc — god of rain in the Aztec worldview — or Coyolxauhqui — its lunar goddess — but it did appear in ancient Mesoamerican ...