Joined twin pots. China, Yangshao culture, 3500-3000 BCE.

Excavated at Dahecun, a site of late Yangshao culture.

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Artist turns famous paintings and sculptures Into hyper-realistic artwork.

Tracery in stone.

The intricate, deceptively delicate stone vaults of Parish Church of Our Lady, Ingolstadt, Germany, were sculpted by the Rottaler family in the 15th and 16th Century.

Britain's Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) was an eccentric photographer, film-maker and inventor, who was on the verge of a truly revolutionary discovery when his young wife had an affair. Muybridge killed the suitor in cold blood and was later acquitted on a verdict of "justifiable homicide." He resumed his work and developed a miraculous process for capturing movement on film, thus laying the groundwork for the motion picture industry.

Biography here:

Forty-two thousand years ago, one of your ancestors made this.

The Löwenmensch (literally, The Lion Man), was found in the Hohlenstein-Stadel cave in Germany, 1939. It was carved with a flint knife from mammoth ivory some time between 35.000-40.000 BCE. 

The Lion Man is the oldest-known zoomorphic figurine and oldest uncontested example of figurative art in the world [1688 x 3000].

Kawagui series, Nagato Iwasaki, '98-'99, driftwood.