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The engraving of gemstones was a major luxury art form in the ancient world, and an important one in some later periods. [ 2 ] Strictly speaking, engraving means carving in intaglio (with the design cut into the flat background of the stone), but relief carvings (with the design projecting out of the background as in nearly all cameos ) are ...
A pet-raising simulation (sometimes called virtual pets or digital pets [1]) is a video game that focuses on the care, raising, breeding or exhibition of simulated animals. These games are software implementations of digital pets .
Estimated worth in US$ millions (estimated) Description Tardar Sauce 99 (2018) Better known as Grumpy Cat, Tardar Sauce had an estimated worth of at least $99 million. [2] Olivia Benson: 97 (2018) [3] A Scottish Fold cat owned by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. Gigoo 15 (2016) A Scots Dumpy hen willed $15 million.
Glyptic art: Rakic, Yelena 2003. The Contest Scene in Akkadian Glyptic: A Study of its imagery and function within the Akkadian empire. PhD thesis, University of Pennsylvania. Collon, D. Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum: Cylinder Seals, vol 2 Akkadian and Ur III. Boehmer, Rainer Michael 1965.
According to Bob Barker (in the episode), the atom is worth $200,000 or, at least, somewhere between $200,000 and $200,001. Professor Farnsworth says the nucleus alone is worth $150,000. [44] [better source needed] Katchin Dragon Ball Z: Said to be the hardest material in the Dragon Ball universe. [45]
The following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents. Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette but still more ancient than the Missal of Silos.
The ancient Mesopotamians believed that their deities lived in Heaven, [9] but that a god's statue was a physical embodiment of the god himself. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] As such, cult statues were given constant care and attention [ 11 ] [ 9 ] and a set of priests were assigned to tend to them. [ 12 ]
Tepe Gawra is an ancient Mesopotamian settlement 24 km (15 mi) NNE of Mosul in northwest Iraq that was occupied between 5000 and 1500 BC. It is roughly a mile from the site of Nineveh and 2 miles E of the site of Khorsabad.