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Every image and sound in the archive, who made it, under which licence, and where the original lives.

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This list is generated from the archive's rights register at every publication: every image and sound on the site appears here with its author or institution, its licence and a link to the original record. Only public domain works, open licences and licences we have been granted are used.

2Images

163 media · sorted by fragment

Images used in the archive, with author, licence and original record
MediaFragmentAuthor or institutionLicenceLink
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The threshold

ARPANET logical map, March 1977

Decorative image, never presented as a document

ARPANET

Held by Wikimedia Commons

Public domainOriginal record for ARPANET logical map, March 1977
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The threshold

Cueva de las Manos, Santa Cruz

Decorative image, never presented as a document

Mariano

Held by Wikimedia Commons

Public domainOriginal record for Cueva de las Manos, Santa Cruz
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The threshold

The Sounds of Earth record cover

Decorative image, never presented as a document

NASA/JPL

Held by Wikimedia Commons

Public domainOriginal record for The Sounds of Earth record cover
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The threshold

Great Zimbabwe, outer walls

Decorative image, never presented as a document

Edwin Smith and Andrew Dale

Held by Wikimedia Commons

CC BY-SA 4.0Original record for Great Zimbabwe, outer walls
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The threshold

The Ishango bone (cropped)

Decorative image, never presented as a document

Joeykentin

Held by Wikimedia Commons

CC BY-SA 4.0Original record for The Ishango bone (cropped)
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The threshold

Nan Madol

Decorative image, never presented as a document

NOAA

Held by Wikimedia Commons

Public domainOriginal record for Nan Madol
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The threshold

Image d'ambiance du seuil (statue dans un rai de lumière)

Decorative image, never presented as a document

Porteur du projet

Held by Porteur du projet

Used with permissionProvided by the project
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0001The Ishango bone

Ishango bone

JhowieNitnek (photographie, 2022, Wikimedia Commons)

Held by Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels (objet)

CC BY-SA 4.0Original record for The Ishango bone
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0002A handaxe from Olduvai Gorge

British Museum Olduvai handaxe

BabelStone (Andrew West), photographie, 2010

Held by British Museum, London (objet 1934,1214.49)

CC0 1.0Original record for A handaxe from Olduvai Gorge
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Great inclosure - Great Zimbabwe (15)

Fanny Schertzer (photographie, 2015, avec le soutien de Wikimedia CH)

Held by Fanny Schertzer

CC BY 3.0Original record for Great Zimbabwe
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Timbuktu Manuscript (48522180467)

Mark Fischer (photographie, 2019, SAVAMA-DCI, Bamako)

Held by Mark Fischer

CC BY-SA 2.0Original record for The Timbuktu manuscripts
Shown at its source: its licence does not yet allow the archive to host it.View the image on Wikimedia Commons
RH-0005The painted pig of Leang Tedongnge

Leang Tedongnge rock art panel

Basran Burhan (photographie, 8 novembre 2017)

Held by Basran Burhan

CC BY-SA 4.0Original record for The painted pig of Leang Tedongnge
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0006The Cave of the Hands

Hands at the Cueva de las Manos upon Río Pinturas

Mariano (Marianocecowski), photographie de 2005 ; peintures d'auteurs inconnus, domaine public

Held by Mariano (Marianocecowski)

CC BY-SA 3.0Original record for The Cave of the Hands
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0007The Diamond Sutra of 868

Diamond Sutra of 868 AD, frontispiece and text (BL Or. 8210/P.2)

Graveur anonyme, commande de Wang Jie (Chine, 868) ; numérisation British Library

Held by British Library, London (Or.8210/P.2)

CC0 1.0Original record for The Diamond Sutra of 868
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Antikythera Fragment A (Front)

Logg Tandy (photographie, 25 février 2025)

Held by Logg Tandy

CC BY 4.0Original record for The Antikythera mechanism
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[Marshall Islands stick chart, Rebbelib type]

Auteur marshallais non identifié (îles Marshall, années 1920, datation du catalogueur)

Held by Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division (G9461.P5 1920 .M24)

Public domainOriginal record for A map of the swell: Marshall Islands stick charts
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Nan Madol

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

Held by NOAA Photo Library (mvey0173), domaine public, œuvre du gouvernement fédéral des États-Unis

Public domainOriginal record for Nan Madol
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ARPANET Logical Map, March 1977

ARPANET (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency et Bolt Beranek and Newman)

Held by Computer History Museum (copie numérique) ; domaine public selon la notice Commons

Public domainOriginal record for A map of a new network: ARPANET
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The Sounds of Earth Record Cover (GPN-2000-001978)

NASA/JPL

Held by NASA (Great Images in NASA, GPN-2000-001978), œuvre du gouvernement fédéral des États-Unis

Public domainOriginal record for The Golden Record
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Fig 6. Burnt and non-burnt bones under natural and ultraviolet (BL-B) light, Wonderwerk Cave

Marin-Monfort, M. D., Shaw, C. L., Natalio, F., et al. (PLOS ONE 21 (6), 2026, e0347480, figure 6)

Held by The authors (article published under CC BY 4.0 by PLOS)

CC BY 4.0Original record for Early fire at Wonderwerk Cave
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0014The engraved ochre of Blombos Cave

Blombos

Vincent Mourre / Inrap (photographie, 2010)

Held by Vincent Mourre

CC BY-SA 3.0Original record for The engraved ochre of Blombos Cave
Shown at its source: its licence does not yet allow the archive to host it.View the image on Wikimedia Commons
RH-0014The engraved ochre of Blombos Cave

Blombo (engraved ochre from Blombos Cave)

Chris S. Henshilwood

Held by Chris S. Henshilwood

CC BY-SA 4.0Original record for The engraved ochre of Blombos Cave
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0015The Great Pyramid of Giza

Giza: Great Pyramid of Khufu (9793898043)

Gary Todd (photographie, juin 2002, WorldHistoryPics.com)

Held by Gary Todd

CC0 1.0Original record for The Great Pyramid of Giza
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Meroe N6 (pylône de la chapelle funéraire de la pyramide de la candace Amanishakheto)

TrackHD (photographie, 2010)

Held by TrackHD

CC BY-SA 3.0Original record for The pyramids of Meroë
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0017The Edwin Smith Papyrus

Edwin Smith Papyrus v2 (recto, colonnes 6 et 7, cas 12 à 20)

Scribe égyptien anonyme (vers 1600 av. è. c.) ; version retouchée par Jeff Dahl d'une reproduction ancienne

Held by New York Academy of Medicine (original) ; reproduction dans le domaine public

Public domainOriginal record for The Edwin Smith Papyrus
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Rosetta Stone

Hans Hillewaert (photographie, 21 novembre 2007, British Museum)

Held by Hans Hillewaert

CC BY-SA 4.0Original record for The Rosetta Stone
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0019The Obelisk of Aksum

AxumObelisk1 (l'obélisque d'Aksoum rendu par Rome, stèle n° 2)

O.Mustafin (photographie, 27 septembre 2016)

Held by O.Mustafin

CC0 1.0Original record for The Obelisk of Aksum
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0020The heads of Ifẹ

British Museum Room 25 Head of a king Ife 17022019 5147

Vassil (photographie, 2019, salle 25 du British Museum)

Held by Vassil

CC0 1.0Original record for The heads of Ifẹ
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Plaque: Warrior Chief (MET 1979.206.98)

Artistes de la guilde des fondeurs Igun Eronmwon, peuple edo (vers 1540 à 1570) ; photographie The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access)

CC0 1.0Original record for The Benin Bronzes
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The Serapeum of Alexandria (I)

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University (photographie, 2009)

Held by Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), New York University

CC BY 2.0Original record for The Library of Alexandria
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Ancientlibraryalex (The Great Library of Alexandria, gravure du XIXe siècle)

O. Von Corven (XIXe siècle)

Held by Domaine public

Public domainOriginal record for The Library of Alexandria
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Great Mosque of Kilwa Kisiwani, 11th - 18th cents (10)

Richard Mortel (photographie, 26 juin 2016)

Held by Richard Mortel

CC BY 2.0Original record for The Great Mosque of Kilwa
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0024The rock-hewn churches of Lalibela

Bete Giyorgis 01

Bernard Gagnon (photographie, 8 novembre 2012)

Held by Bernard Gagnon

CC BY-SA 3.0Original record for The rock-hewn churches of Lalibela
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Göbekli Tepe Enclosure C Pillar 27 relief

Kerimove (photographie, 2026)

Held by Kerimove

CC0 1.0Original record for Göbekli Tepe
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0026The hearths of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov

Gesher Benot Ya'aqov (997009157703805171)

Benno Rothenberg (photographie, février 1959)

Held by National Library of Israel, Meitar Collection, The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection

CC BY 4.0Original record for The hearths of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov
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P1050763 Louvre code Hammurabi face rwk

Mbzt (photographie, 2011)

Held by Mbzt

CC BY 3.0Original record for The Code of Hammurabi
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Qin Terracotta Army, Pit 1 04

Gary Lee Todd (photographie, 2011)

Held by Gary Lee Todd

CC0 1.0Original record for The Terracotta Army
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0029The Analects of Confucius

Manuscript of Lunyu, text by Kong Anguo with commentary by Zheng Xuan (BnF, Pelliot chinois 2510)

Copiste anonyme, Dunhuang (manuscrit daté de 890, peut-être du milieu du VIIIe siècle)

Held by Bibliothèque nationale de France, département des Manuscrits, Pelliot chinois 2510

Public domainOriginal record for The Analects of Confucius
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0030The Sushruta Samhita

The Susruta-Samhita or Sahottara-Tantra (A Treatise on Ayurvedic Medicine), LACMA M.87.271a-g (1 of 8)

Copiste népalais anonyme (texte XIIe-XIIIe siècle, peintures XVIIIe-XIXe siècle)

Held by Los Angeles County Museum of Art (M.87.271a-g), don du professeur émérite et de Mrs. Thomas O. Ballinger

Public domainOriginal record for The Sushruta Samhita
Shown at its source: its licence does not yet allow the archive to host it.View the image on Wikimedia Commons
RH-0031The Bakhshali manuscript

Bakhshali manuscript

Auteur anonyme du manuscrit ; reproduction diffusée par National Geographic (2017)

Held by Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (MS. Sansk. d. 14)

Public domainOriginal record for The Bakhshali manuscript
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0032The Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome)

Atomic Bomb Dome, Hiroshima, South view 20190417 1

DXR (photographie, 17 avril 2019)

Held by DXR

CC BY-SA 4.0Original record for The Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome)
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20191210 Angkor Wat from west-2

Balon Greyjoy (photographie, 10 décembre 2019)

Held by Balon Greyjoy (placé par l'auteur dans le domaine public)

Public domainOriginal record for Angkor Wat
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Jikji

Zythème (photographie, 16 juillet 2023, exposition « Imprimer ! L'Europe de Gutenberg », BnF)

Held by Zythème

CC0 1.0Original record for The Jikji
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Lee Sedol (W) vs AlphaGo (B) - Game 2

Wesalius (diagramme, 2018)

Held by Wesalius

CC BY-SA 4.0Original record for AlphaGo and Lee Sedol
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0036The Epic of Gilgamesh (Flood Tablet)

Tablet XI or the Flood Tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, currently housed in the British Museum in London

Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) (photographie, 16 mars 2016)

Held by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

CC BY-SA 4.0Original record for The Epic of Gilgamesh (Flood Tablet)
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0037The paintings of Chauvet Cave

Lions painting, Chauvet Cave (museum replica)

HTO (photographie, 2009, réplique exposée au musée Anthropos de Brno)

Held by HTO (versé dans le domaine public par l'auteur)

Public domainOriginal record for The paintings of Chauvet Cave
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0038The Schöningen spears

Schöningen Speer VII im Sediment 1997

P. Pfarr, Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege (photographie de fouille, 1997)

Held by Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege (NLD)

CC BY-SA 3.0Original record for The Schöningen spears
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0039The fired figure of Dolní Věstonice

Venus of Dolni Vestonice 2014-09-30

Miroslav Zachoval (photographie, 2014)

Held by Miroslav Zachoval

CC BY 2.0Original record for The fired figure of Dolní Věstonice
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0040The Clarke Plato

Clarke Plato page 1 recto (MS. E. D. Clarke 39, first page of the Euthyphro)

Jean le Calligraphe (copiste, 895) ; reproduction de la Bibliothèque bodléienne

Held by Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

Public domainOriginal record for The Clarke Plato
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0041The Gutenberg Bible

Gutenberg Bible, Lenox Copy, New York Public Library, 2009

NYC Wanderer (Kevin Eng) (photographie, 2009)

Held by Kevin Eng

CC BY-SA 2.0Original record for The Gutenberg Bible
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0042Sidereus Nuncius (Galileo, 1610)

Sidereus Nuncius half moon

Galileo Galilei (dessin), gravure de l'édition de Venise, 1610

Held by Domaine public (exemplaire numérisé sur Internet Archive, Sidereusnuncius00Gali)

Public domainOriginal record for Sidereus Nuncius (Galileo, 1610)
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0043The end of smallpox

Edward Jenner vaccinating a young child, held by its mother (chromolithographie, Wellcome L0027357)

Anonyme (chromolithographie) ; photographie Wellcome Images

Held by Wellcome Collection, Londres

CC BY 4.0Original record for The end of smallpox
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Fighting smallpox in Niger, 1969

CDC, Dr. J. D. Millar

Held by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Public Health Image Library), œuvre du gouvernement fédéral des États-Unis

Public domainOriginal record for The end of smallpox
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0044The bone flute of Geißenklösterle

Floete Schwanenknochen Geissenkloesterle Blaubeuren

Thilo Parg (photographie, 2013)

Held by Thilo Parg

CC BY-SA 3.0Original record for The bone flute of Geißenklösterle
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0045"Computing Machinery and Intelligence" (Turing, 1950)

Alan Turing (1951)

Elliott & Fry (portrait photographique, 29 mars 1951)

Held by Domaine public (auteur non identifié au Royaume-Uni, publication 1951)

Public domainOriginal record for "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" (Turing, 1950)
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First Web Server

Coolcaesar (photographie, 2005)

Held by Coolcaesar (English Wikipedia)

CC BY-SA 3.0Original record for The first web server
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0047The Arctic Code Vault

Longyearbyen Gruve 3 IMG 2587

Bjoertvedt (photographie, 2011)

Held by Bjoertvedt

CC BY-SA 3.0Original record for The Arctic Code Vault
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0047The Arctic Code Vault

Piql detail digital and visual (piqlFilm with digital and visual content)

PiqlAS (photographie, 2018)

Held by Piql AS

CC BY-SA 4.0Original record for The Arctic Code Vault
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0048The Buddhas of Bamiyan

Taller Buddha of Bamiyan before and after destruction

UNESCO / A. Lezine (photographie, 1963) ; Carl Montgomery (photographie après destruction) ; montage Zaccarias (2009)

Held by UNESCO (photographie de 1963, « for unrestricted use ») ; Carl Montgomery ; Zaccarias

CC BY-SA 3.0Original record for The Buddhas of Bamiyan
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Clovis point, 11500-9000 BC, Sevier County, Utah, chert - Natural History Museum of Utah - DSC07376

Daderot (photographie, 2013)

Held by Daderot

CC0 1.0Original record for A Clovis point
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0050The Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan

Teotihuacan Sun Front

Malkowo (photographie, 2023)

Held by Malkowo

CC BY 4.0Original record for The Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacan
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0051The engravings of Murujuga

Ancient and Modern 4,000 years

Marius Fenger (photographie, 2017, Wiki Loves Earth)

Held by Marius Fenger

CC BY-SA 4.0Original record for The engravings of Murujuga
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0052The khipu

Fragmentary quipu (khipu) composed of two main cords with subsidiary and tertiary cords, Inca, Peru, Late Horizon, 1476-1534 AD - Dallas Museum of Art - DSC04703

Daderot (photographie, 2017)

Held by Daderot (photographie) ; objet du domaine public, Dallas Museum of Art

CC0 1.0Original record for The khipu
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Kuk New Guinea 2002 (PIA13090)

NASA/JPL (instrument ASTER, image acquise le 7 mai 2002)

Held by NASA/JPL, œuvre du gouvernement fédéral des États-Unis

Public domainOriginal record for Kuk Swamp
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0054The first footprints on the Moon

Buzz Aldrin's bootprint on the Moon, AS11-40-5878

Buzz Aldrin, NASA (Apollo 11, magasin 40, 20 juillet 1969)

Held by NASA, œuvre du gouvernement fédéral des États-Unis

Public domainOriginal record for The first footprints on the Moon
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0055Deep Blue and Kasparov

IBM Deep Blue at Computer History Museum (9361685537)

Anton Chiang (photographie, 2011)

Held by Anton Chiang

CC BY 2.0Original record for Deep Blue and Kasparov
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0056Lapita pottery

PortVilaLapita

Torbenbrinker (photographie, 2013)

Held by Torbenbrinker

CC BY-SA 3.0Original record for Lapita pottery
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0057The eel traps of Budj Bim

Budj Bim - Mt Eccles National Park, Victoria, Australia 28 (Lake Surprise)

Dhx1 (photographie)

Held by Dhx1

CC0 1.0Original record for The eel traps of Budj Bim
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0058Hōkūleʻa

Hokule'a (arrival in Honolulu from Tahiti in 1976)

Phil Uhl (photographie, 1976)

Held by Phil Uhl

CC BY-SA 3.0Original record for Hōkūleʻa
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0059The moai of Rapa Nui

Ahu Tongariki

Rivi (photographie, 2006)

Held by Rivi

CC BY-SA 3.0Original record for The moai of Rapa Nui
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Hoa Hakananai'a - British Museum

APK (photographie, 2026)

Held by APK

CC BY 4.0Original record for The moai of Rapa Nui
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0060The Hurrian Hymn no. 6

Ugarit Corbel (postern gate in the ramparts of Ugarit)

Disdero (photographie, 2005)

Held by Disdero

CC BY 3.0Original record for The Hurrian Hymn no. 6
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0061The Pioneer plaque

Pioneer 10 plaque (NASA Ames Research Center photograph)

NASA Ames Research Center (photographie, 1972) ; dessin de Carl Sagan et Frank Drake, réalisé par Linda Salzman Sagan

Held by NASA, œuvre du gouvernement fédéral des États-Unis

Public domainOriginal record for The Pioneer plaque
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0062The Crypt of Civilization

Crypt of civilization (photographie de presse, 1940)

Photographe non crédité (presse américaine, 1940)

Held by Domaine public aux États-Unis (publication de 1940 dont le droit d'auteur n'a pas été renouvelé)

No known copyright (US)Original record for The Crypt of Civilization
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0063The Expo '70 time capsules

Time Capsule @ Osaka Castle

Guilhem Vellut (photographie, 19 mars 2014)

Held by Guilhem Vellut

CC BY 2.0Original record for The Expo '70 time capsules
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MOM containers

Martin Kunze (photographie, 17 mai 2017)

Held by Martin Kunze, Memory of Mankind

CC BY-SA 4.0Original record for Memory of Mankind
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0065The Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Svalbard seed vault

Einar Jørgen Haraldseid (photographie, 19 mars 2015)

Held by Einar Jørgen Haraldseid

CC BY-SA 2.0Original record for The Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0066“This place is not a place of honor”

Large Surface Markers WIPP

Département de l'Énergie des États-Unis (Permanent Markers Implementation Plan, 2004)

Held by Département de l'Énergie des États-Unis, œuvre du gouvernement fédéral

Public domainOriginal record for “This place is not a place of honor”
Image not loaded · data saverThe image could not be loaded.Image not saved on this deviceRH-0067The Rosetta Disk

Looking at a Rosetta Disk and thinking about how there's one just like it currently orbiting a robot-inhabited comet.

Jeremy Keith (adactio), photographie, 16 novembre 2014

Held by Jeremy Keith

CC BY 2.0Original record for The Rosetta Disk
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The Earth seen from Apollo 17

NASA, équipage d'Apollo 17 (photographie, 7 décembre 1972)

Held by NASA, œuvre du gouvernement fédéral des États-Unis

Public domainOriginal record for KEO, the satellite that never left
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Jebel Irhoud-1 NMNH (moulage du crâne Irhoud 1, National Museum of Natural History)

Jonathan Chen (photographie, 31 juillet 2024)

Held by Jonathan Chen

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Cuneiform tablet: administrative account of barley distribution with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars (MET DT847)

Anonyme (scribe mésopotamien, vers 3100 à 2900 av. è. c.) ; photographie The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1988.433.1)

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Maize-teosinte (téosinte, hybride maïs et téosinte, maïs)

John Doebley (photographie)

Held by John Doebley, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Ljubljana Marshes Wheel with axle (oldest wooden wheel yet discovered)

Petar Milošević (photographie, 8 février 2020)

Held by Petar Milošević

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Untitled (point de vue), Niépce 1827, HRC 2020

Nicéphore Niépce (héliographie, 1826 ou 1827) ; photographie de la plaque par le Harry Ransom Center, 2020

Held by Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin

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First flight, 120 feet in 12 seconds, 10:35 a.m.; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina (Library of Congress ppprs.00626)

John T. Daniels (photographie, 17 décembre 1903), appareil installé par Orville Wright

Held by Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (Wright Brothers Negatives)

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Sample of penicillin mould presented by Alexander Fleming to Douglas Macleod, 1935

Science Museum London / Science and Society Picture Library (photographie)

Held by Science Museum Group, Londres (objet 1997-731)

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Trinity Site explosion, 0.016 second after explosion, July 16, 1945 (LANL PA-98-0520)

Berlyn Brixner, Los Alamos National Laboratory (16 juillet 1945)

Held by Los Alamos National Laboratory, œuvre du gouvernement fédéral des États-Unis

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Eleanor Roosevelt holding poster of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (in English), Lake Success, New York, November 1949

Photographe non nommé ; diffusion FDR Presidential Library & Museum

Held by Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum (National Archives and Records Administration)

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DNA model built by Crick and Watson in 1953, on display in the Science Museum, London (reconstruction of 1977)

Alkivar (photographie, Wikipédia en anglais)

Held by Alkivar, versé au domaine public par son auteur ; objet conservé au Science Museum, Londres (1977-310)

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Sputnik asm (replica of Sputnik 1)

NASA, National Space Science Data Center

Held by NASA, œuvre du gouvernement fédéral des États-Unis

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Groote Schuur Hospital (Old Main Building, Cape Town)

Danie van der Merwe (photographie, 5 janvier 2007)

Held by Danie van der Merwe

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Earthrise, AS08-14-2383 (Apollo 8, 24 December 1968)

William Anders, NASA (Apollo 8, magasin 14, 24 décembre 1968)

Held by NASA, œuvre du gouvernement fédéral des États-Unis

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CSIRO ScienceImage 4350: CSIRO's Parkes Radio Telescope with moon in the background (1969)

CSIRO (photographie de 1969)

Held by CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)

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Pila di Volta presso il Tempio Voltiano a Como

Dario Crespi

Held by Tempio Voltiano, Côme (objet) ; photographie de Dario Crespi

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The Electric Light in Houses: Laying the Tubes for Wires in the Streets of New York (Harper's Weekly, 1882)

W. P. Snyder (dessin), Harper's Weekly

Held by Domaine public (gravure publiée en 1882 aux États-Unis)

Public domainOriginal record for Pearl Street Station, the first central power network in New York
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Alexander Graham Bell's Telephone Patent Drawing and Oath, NARA 302052 (page 2)

Alexander Graham Bell (inventeur) ; dessin de brevet, U.S. Patent Office

Held by National Archives and Records Administration, Washington (œuvre du gouvernement fédéral des États-Unis)

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Deck of the Great Eastern, the Cable Trough, etc., 1866

Robert Charles Dudley

Held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Open Access)

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Marconi and associates raising the receiving antenna by kite, St. John's, December 1901

James M. Vey (photographie, décembre 1901), publiée dans McClure's Magazine, février 1902

Held by Domaine public selon la notice Commons (publication de 1902)

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A replica of the first working transistor

Mister rf (photographie, 23 février 2019)

Held by Mister rf (Wikimedia Commons)

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Martin Cooper with a DynaTAC prototype, Computex e21 Forum, Taipei, 2007

Rico Shen (photographie, 5 juin 2007)

Held by Rico Shen

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ARPANET as of Aug 25, 1983 (BBN map)

BBN (Bolt Beranek and Newman), Cambridge, Massachusetts

Held by Domaine public selon la notice Commons (publiée aux États-Unis entre 1978 et 1989 sans mention de copyright ni enregistrement)

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ORBCOMM-2 (launch, re-entry and landing burns, Falcon 9 flight 20, 21 December 2015)

SpaceX (SpaceX Photos, Flickr)

Held by SpaceX, dédicace au domaine public CC0

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Webb's First Deep Field (galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, NIRCam)

NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

Held by NASA et Space Telescope Science Institute, domaine public (modèle PD-Webb sur Commons)

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Karlsruhe, Hochdruckreaktor zur Ammoniak-Synthese (2013)

Dietmar Rabich (photographie, 23 novembre 2013)

Held by Institut de technologie de Karlsruhe (objet, monument technique) ; photographie de Dietmar Rabich

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Newcomen engine model (Hunterian museum)

Andy Dingley (photographie, 27 novembre 2021)

Held by The Hunterian, Université de Glasgow (objet) ; photographie d'Andy Dingley

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Bodleian MS. Huntington 214 roll332 frame36

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (texte) ; copiste anonyme, 1342 ; reproduction des Bodleian Libraries

Held by Bodleian Libraries, Université d'Oxford (MS. Huntington 214, fol. 4v à 5r)

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Phonautograph, drawing by Scott de Martinville for the certificate of addition of 29 July 1859 to patent no. 31470

Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (dessin, 1859)

Held by Institut national de la propriété industrielle (INPI) ; numérisation First Sounds

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Mendel, Versuche über Pflanzen-Hybriden, first page (Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn, vol. 4, 1866)

Gregor Mendel (auteur) ; numérisation Deutsches Textarchiv

Held by Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW, Z 981)

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Vostok Petit data (temperature, carbon dioxide and dust from the Vostok ice core over 420,000 years)

Autopilot (vectorisation), d'après un graphique de la NOAA ; données de Petit et al. 1999

Held by Autopilot, contributeur de Wikimedia Commons ; données déposées au NOAA World Data Center for Paleoclimatology

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Plastiglomerate Museon (plastiglomerate from Kamilo Beach, Hawai'i, in the One Planet exhibition, Museon, The Hague, 18 October 2016)

Aaikevanoord

Held by Museon (Museon-Omniversum), La Haye (objet) ; photographie d'Aaikevanoord

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The station pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon (jsc2021e064211_alt, fly-around of 8 November 2021)

NASA (équipage de Crew Dragon Endeavour, mosaïque)

Held by NASA, œuvre du gouvernement fédéral des États-Unis

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Machu Picchu, Perú, 2015-07-30, DD 47

Diego Delso (photographie, 30 juillet 2015)

Held by Diego Delso

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Stonehenge2007 07 30 (Stonehenge from the north-east, 30 July 2007)

garethwiscombe (Flickr)

Held by garethwiscombe

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Western Han Paper (10095191884)

Gary Todd (photographie, 9 mai 2013)

Held by Gansu Provincial Museum, Lanzhou (objet) ; photographie de Gary Todd

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Southworth & Hawes, Use of Ether for Anesthesia (daguerreotype, late spring 1847)

Southworth & Hawes (Albert Sands Southworth et Josiah Johnson Hawes)

Held by The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

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Triticum monococcum MHNT.BOT.2015.2.37

Roger Culos (photographie, 21 septembre 2015)

Held by Muséum de Toulouse (spécimen MHNT.BOT.2015.2.37) ; photographie de Roger Culos

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Rome - Pantheon - Dome interior (5185419199)

Dennis G. Jarvis (photographie, 10 octobre 2010)

Held by Dennis G. Jarvis (photographie) ; Panthéon, Rome

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武经总要全前集卷十二 火药制法

Zeng Gongliang, Ding Du et autres compilateurs (texte, 1044) ; page d'une édition postérieure

Held by Domaine public (reproduction publiée sur Wikimedia Commons)

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Salisbury Cathedral, medieval clock

Rwendland (photographie, 22 septembre 2012)

Held by Cathédrale de Salisbury (objet) ; photographie de Rwendland

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The hand of Sarah Nelmes infected with the cowpox (Jenner, An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, 1798; Wellcome L0043484)

Edward Jenner (ouvrage, 1798) ; photographie Wellcome Images

Held by Wellcome Collection, Londres

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View of Left Side of Benz Patent Motorwagen in Deutsches Museum

Deutsches Museum, Munich

Held by Deutsches Museum, Munich (objet, inventaire 4710, et photographie)

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150710-F-0000U-002: a full-scale GPS satellite tested in the Mark I Space Chamber at AEDC, 1977

US Air Force, Arnold Engineering Development Complex (photographie, 1977)

Held by Domaine public (œuvre du gouvernement fédéral des États-Unis)

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Panga ya Saidi archaeological site

Ceri Shipton (photographie, 26 juin 2012)

Held by Ceri Shipton

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Deir al Medineh near Luxor

Gildas Guionnet (photographie, 19 mars 2022, Wiki Loves Earth)

Held by Gildas Guionnet

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RH-0114The absence register of Deir el-Medina

Limestone ostrakon with a register of workmen's absences (EA 5634)

The British Museum (photographie de l'objet)

Held by The Trustees of the British Museum

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Tevfik Esenç Gravestone

Rhona Fenwick (photographie, septembre 2017)

Held by Rhona Fenwick

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Rongorongo C-a Mamari

Photographe inconnu (Papeete, XIXe siècle, « Widow Hoare » selon la notice), reproduit dans Stéphen-Charles Chauvet, L'île de Pâques et ses mystères (1935)

Held by Congregazione dei Sacri Cuori di Gesù e di Maria, Rome (objet)

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British Museum Royal Game of Ur

BabelStone (photographie, 2010, Wikimedia Commons)

Held by British Museum, Londres (objet, 1928,1009.378)

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Wons-mother-letter-lee-eung-tae

La mère de Won-i (autrice de la lettre, 1586) ; reproduction photographique d'un document plan, versée sur Wikimedia Commons

Held by Musée de l'université nationale d'Andong (original) ; reproduction dans le domaine public

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Shanidar I skull and skeleton, c. 60,000 to 45,00o BCE. Iraq Museum

Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) (photographie, 2019, Wikimedia Commons)

Held by Musée d'Irak, Bagdad (restes)

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Human fossil tracks at White Sands New Mexico

National Park Service (photographie, 23 janvier 2020), diffusée par l'U.S. Geological Survey

Held by Domaine public (œuvre du gouvernement fédéral des États-Unis)

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Codex Ixtlilxochitl, folio 106r (Nezahualcóyotl)

Peintre nahua anonyme (Codex Ixtlilxochitl, vers la fin du XVIe siècle) ; numérisation Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)

Held by Bibliothèque nationale de France, département des Manuscrits (Mexicain 65-71)

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Lake Mungo lunette

Rueparadis (photographie, 21 juin 2018, Wikimedia Commons)

Held by Rueparadis

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Bottle with portrait head (Moche, 500-800 CE), 82.1.28

Potier moche anonyme ; photographie The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (82.1.28)

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Vindolanda tablet 291

Fæ (photographie, 3 mars 2011, Wikimedia Commons)

Held by British Museum, London (objet, 1986,1001.64)

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Complaint tablet to Ea-Nasir, 2023

Joel Bellviure (photographie, 2 décembre 2023, Wikimedia Commons)

Held by British Museum, London (objet, BM 131236)

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WadiSuraCaves

Roland Unger (photographie, 12 mars 2011, Wikimedia Commons)

Held by Roland Unger

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WadiSuraSwimmers

Roland Unger (photographie, 12 mars 2011, Wikimedia Commons)

Held by Roland Unger

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Twin Figure (Ère Ìbejì), 2016.9

The Cleveland Museum of Art (photographie, accès ouvert)

Held by The Cleveland Museum of Art (objet, 2016.9, don de Kim Sherwin)

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Annual repair of the world's largest mud brick building the Great Mosque of Djenné in Mali. (32088227574)

Ralf Steinberger (photographie, 16 avril 2009, publiée sur Flickr)

Held by Ralf Steinberger

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Bonwire man weaving

Sadads (photographie, 29 avril 2019, Bonwire près de Kumasi)

Held by Sadads (utilisateur de Wikimedia Commons)

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Man's kente (prestige cloth), 1972.56.1

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (photographie, accès ouvert)

Held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art (objet, 1972.56.1, Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1972)

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Remains of the Benin City Iya

Christian Schepers, Jan Hubert, Uwagbale Edward-Ekpu, Caleb Adebayo Folorunso, Sofia Fonseca, Charles LeQuesne, Oluwadamilare Omogbai et Jörg Linstädter (figure 5 de l'article de 2025, African Archaeological Review)

Held by Les auteurs (article en accès ouvert, Springer, 2025)

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The Bansa, or residence of the King of Kongo, called St. Salvador (M'Banza Kongo), Astley 1745

Gravure publiée par Thomas Astley, A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels, Londres, 1745, d'après Olfert Dapper (1668) ; numérisation de la New York Public Library

Held by Domaine public (gravure de 1745)

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UP rhino

Sian Tiley-Nel, conservatrice en chef des musées de l'université de Pretoria (photographie)

Held by Sian Tiley-Nel ; objet : University of Pretoria Museums, Mapungubwe Collection

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Tutuoli

James Foster (photographie, 1987), versée sur Wikipédia en anglais par l'utilisateur Tauʻolunga puis transférée sur Wikimedia Commons

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Plate XVI - Argonauts of the western Pacific 1922 (page 133 crop)

Bronisław Malinowski (1884-1942), photographie publiée en 1922 ; numérisation Internet Archive

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Fijian Drua Canoe

John Horsburgh (photographie, XIXe siècle) ; Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, PAColl-8257

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Native outriggers ar loaded aboard LST-1108 at Bikini Atoll, in March 1946 (146763094)

U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Atomic Support Agency (photographie 374-ANT-18-CR-402-7, mars 1946)

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Operation Crossroads - Moving of Bikinians to Rongerik, March 7, 1946

Joint Task Force One (photographie, 7 mars 1946), publiée dans Operation Crossroads: The Official Pictorial Record, p. 21

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CSIRO ScienceImage 1325 Grass Fire

Robert Kerton, CSIRO (photographie, novembre 1989)

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Stamp seal and modern impression: unicorn and incense burner (?), MET DP23101

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (photographie de l'objet, accès ouvert), versée sur Wikimedia Commons

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Tosa Mitsuoki, Landscape with Murasaki Shikibu writing at Ishiyamadera (frontispiece to an album of the Tale of Genji), 1985.352.55

Tosa Mitsuoki (1617 à 1691), peinture ; reproduction photographique des Harvard Art Museums versée sur Wikimedia Commons

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IranQanatsystemBeiKerman

Ziegler175 (photographie, septembre 1991, près de Kerman)

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Ghasabe Qanats of Gonabad

Tavasoli mohsen (photographie en pose longue, 6 avril 2015, Wiki Loves Monuments 2020)

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Anfiteatro de Caral

Sheyla F. Crovetto (photographie, 27 novembre 2022)

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Dresden Codex pp.58-61

Scribes mayas anonymes (codex, période postclassique) ; reproduction photographique d'après une affiche de la SLUB Dresden, versée sur Wikimedia Commons

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NAS-145 Pinus strobus (The North American Sylva, plate 145: White Pine)

Pancrace Bessa (dessin) et Gabriel (gravure), pour François André Michaux, The North American Sylva, trad. Augustus Lucas Hillhouse, 1819

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2487 (Admiror paries)

Fer.filol (relevé et légende versés sur Wikimedia Commons le 9 novembre 2006, d'après le graffito CIL IV 2487)

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Riesencodex - fl.0478v (Incipit Ordo virtutum)

Scriptorium du Rupertsberg (manuscrit, fin du XIIe siècle) ; numérisation de la Hochschul- und Landesbibliothek RheinMain, versée sur Wikimedia Commons

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The threshold

Background sound, after “Enter the archive”

Honor Him, Hans Zimmer et Lisa Gerrard ; Epic Version par Mathias Fritsche

Hans Zimmer et Lisa Gerrard (composition, 2000) ; Mathias Fritsche (arrangement et enregistrement)

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