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The oft forgotten corners of ancient history, from the beginning of time to the 10th century AD.
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Photo: Cuneiform inscription of Rusa I at the base of the hill of Teyseba, near the road leading towards Artsvanist in the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia.

Rusa I (ruled 735-713 BC) was a King of Urartu/Ararat/Armenia. He succeeded his father, king Sarduri II. The inscription says: “With the might of God Haldi, Rusa, son of Sarduri, says: I again reunited Velikuhi with (my) kingdom. I erected here new gats of Haldi and built a strong castle and named it after Haldi in honor of Biainili (Van).”

Source: Monarchy Of Historical Armenia. (2013, July 5). Cuneiform inscription of Rusa I [Facebook post]. Retrieved from http://tinyurl.com/mkku2vd.

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Vessel from Comb Ceramic Culture, approximately 4000 BC. 

Images from this website: http://www.histrodamus.ee/?event=Show_event&event_id=2370&layer=146&lang=eng#2370

To read more about the Comb Ceramic culture, and Finnish history in general, here's a link to The History of Finland, on Google Books: 

https://books.google.com/books?id=fVjC9CdKmXsC&pg=PA20&lpg=PA20&dq=comb+ceramics+culture&source=bl&ots=PxyLecDqIs&sig=Bd6J-u0Z4h5sJ52CXAJtvgbTa8c&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ApvCVIDqJY_8sAT_2IHgBg&ved=0CF0Q6AEwCw#v=onepage&q=comb%20ceramics%20culture&f=false

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I also take requests

The only specifications I have are the time period (beginning of time to 10th century CE) and location (Eurasia, not ancient Greece, Rome, or Egypt. However, Coptic Egypt, Egypt after the rise of Islam are fine. Also, China is off limits, unless you count western China). 

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Urartian relief depicting the god Khaldi, Erebouni, Armenia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B8%AAaldi

Read more about Urartu here:http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/urartu-in-iran

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Hanging with Christian Images

A tapestry fragment densely decorated with pagan, Old Testament, and Christian themes. Two confronted peacocks surround a chi rho symbol, beneath them is an interlaced arch which covers two confronted doves surrounding an ankh. Beneath the ankh are the Three Hebrews, who votively raise their hands towards a chi rho and the Coptic letters alpha and omega. The doves, the peacocks, the ankh, the interlaced arch, the chi rhos, the alpha and omega, and the Three Hebrews all represent deliverance and the eternal afterlife. Numerous four-legged animals are in the margins of the arch.

Weaved out of dyed wool and undyed linen.

Made in the 500s in Egypt during the Coptic/Byzantine period. Currently held at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

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