A pair of plaques of galloping horses with wings, bronze, 10 × 6.5 cm, excavated from Jalainur Cemetery, Inner Mongolia. From first to third century CE.
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DEPICTIONS OF PEGASUS ~ GREEK INFLUENCE IN INNER MONGOLIA
A pair of plaques of galloping horses with wings, bronze, 10 × 6.5 cm, excavated from Jalainur Cemetery, Inner Mongolia. From first to thir...
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Bronze Corinthian helmet found in 5th century BCE burial mound in Taman Peninsula, Russia. Source: Institute of Archaeology of Russi... -
This very interesting Google map includes a lot of major Ancient Greek archaeological sites in various countries and it is regularly updated... -
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