Fanciful earrings depicting small-scale draped bows

former director of the British Museum in London

Gold swivel rings were designed to flip between a delicately incised scarab or a stamp seal on the opposing side

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The Book of Marvels: A Medieval Guide to the Globe MD2021 Fanciful earrings depicting small-scale drapedLarisa Grollemond, Kelin Michael, Elizabeth Morrison, and Joshua ODriscoll This fascinating volume explores an important fifteenth century illustrated manuscript tradition that provides a revealing glimpse of how western Europeans conceptualized the world. From the classical encyclopedias of Pliny to famous tales such as The Travels of Marco Polo, historical travel writing has had a lasting impact, despite the fact that it was based on a curious