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A painting by Carroll Jones in "The Epic of Man" (Time Life, 1961 edition, p.135) showing Phoenician merchants hawking their wares on the shores of Greece: Tyrian wool, copper plates, perfumes, spices and jewelry.

I'd punish Richards just for the heck of it.

Finally got the gun. It means a lot to him.

Bronze statue of Tekoshet the Ethiopian. 25th Dynasty. Height: 0.69 m. National Museum, Athens. Tekoshet (also Takushit) was a priestess/princess of Libyan descent. Inscriptions identify her as the daughter of Akanosh II, a regional leader in the Nile Delta during the reign of the Kushite kings.

Not to be confused with "The Shipwreck" (1772) or "A Shipwreck in Stormy Seas" - this one is kept at the Groeningemuseum, Bruges, Belgium.

Map of the Achaemenid Empire (Persia) under the reigns off Cyrus the Great, Darius and Xerxes. Satrapy names in old Persian appear in parentheses.

Amenophis - brother of the vizier Ramose - with his wife May. Bas relief from the tomb of Ramose near Thebes, 18th Dynasty. Caliche.

Seated statue of the goddess Sekhmet, from the temple of the goddess Mut in Karnak. 18th Dynasty, granite, Height: 2 meters.

Sculpted head of a lion, probably from Tell-el Daba, Eastern Nile Delta. 18th dynasty, made of caliche (Munich, Aegyptische Stassammlung).

Very fond of this one in my younger years, reminded me of Snagglepuss.

SW Vintage Luke (ROTJ) with POTF 2 saber and Palps (this Palpatine was the one with the blue diodes and plastic bolts)

World Book Encyclopedia Atlas, 1965

World Book Encyclopedia Atlas, 1965

A sculpted head of Amenophis III from his mortuary temple near Thebes. 18th Dynasty, made of quartzite. Height: 1.17m (London, British Museum)

Artist's concept of a festivity in ancient Sumer, showing instruments and finery actually found in the royal graves of Ur. Note the lady's headdress on the upper left. Painting by Lloyd K. Townsend for "Splendors of the Past", National Geographic Society ©1981.

Vintage ROTJ Luke and ANH Vader with POTF2 accessories.