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NEW YORK.- Originating half a millennium and hemispheres apart, these ancient artifacts of diverse artistic style reflect humanity at its creative best. The earlier of the two is a Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Chupicuaro figure, circa 3rd to 2nd century BC, and depicts a pregnant woman. The Palmyran limestone bust of a prince, Near East, Syria, was made around the 2nd to 3rd century AD. Its subject might well be mistaken for a film star in a modern-day Hollywood epic. Both artifacts are offered in the LiveAuctioneers.com online catalog for an Oct. 23-24 auction to be conducted by Artemis Gallery. LIVEAUCTIONEERS / ARTEMIS GALLERY LIVE PHOTO.

RAMALLAH.- Young girls watch on as Palestinian ballet teacher Shireen Ziad demonstrates during a class at the first ballet school in the West Bank City of Ramallah on October 8, 2014. Shireen, who has around 60 students at her dance school, believes that the art of ballet can contribute to the development of Palestinian society. AFP PHOTO/ABBAS MOMANI.

LONDON.- US actress Angelina Jolie (R) is presented with the Insignia of an Honorary Dame Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in the 1844 Room at Buckingham Palace in central London, on October 10, 2014. Angelina Jolie was awarded an honorary damehood (DCMG) for services to UK foreign policy and the campaign to end war zone sexual violence. AFP PHOTO/Anthony Devlin/POOL.

PARIS.- Picture taken on October 7, 2014 in Paris, shows the Eiffel Tower illuminated in pink, in honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, part of the Octobre Rose (Pink October). AFP PHOTO / LIONEL BONAVENTURE.

BANGKOK.- A participant practices ahead of the annual buffalo races in Chonburi southeast of Bangkok on October 7, 2014. Scores of Thai farmers ditched their paddy fields for the race course to sprint across a dusty track on prized water buffalo, vying for glory in a decades-old racing contest. AFP PHOTO/Christophe ARCHAMBAULT.

BARCELONA.- Members of the "Colla Vella Xiquets de Valls" Human Tower team fall during the XXV human towers, or castells, competetion in Tarragona. These human towers, built traditionally in festivals within Catalonia, gather several teams tha attempt to build and dismantle a tower structure. AFP PHOTO / JOSEP LAGO.

LOS ANGELES.- A woman views a painting at a press event ahead of the opening of the first ever Hello Kitty exhibition in North America, at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on October 10, 2014. The exhibition "Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty," which celebrates the 40th anniversary of the beloved icon from its early beginnings in Japan to eventual worldwide popularity, runs from October 11 to April 26, 2015 at the Japanese American National Museum. AFP PHOTO / Frederic J. BROWN.

WASHINGTON.- "Miriam," a head of a woman carved in alabaster from the 1st century BCE, appears in a gallery of artifacts discovered by American adventurer Wendell Phillips in southern Arabia, now Yemen, during an exhibition of his discoveries at the Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries of Art in Washington, DC, October 2, 2014. Wendell Phillips was still in his mid-20s when he spearheaded his own expedition into the desert of what is today Yemen, searching its sifting sands for relics of a civilization that thrived 2,500 years before. Several of his discoveries have just gone on display at the Smithsonian's Freer-Sackler museum of Asian art in Washington, in a show that honors his groundbreaking archeological work in southern Arabia. AFP PHOTO / Saul LOEB.

PARIS.- French singer Line Renaud (L) and Belgian singer Stromae (C) pose with their wax likeness, wax sculptors and Grevin Museum jury members, on October 12, 2014 at the Grevin museum in Paris. AFP PHOTO LIONEL BONAVENTURE.

ABU DHABI.- A file picture taken on April 21, 2013 shows Emirati visitors walking past paintings that are part of 130 artworks featured at the first large-scale presentation of the permanent collection of Abu Dhabi's planned Louvre Museum, at a venue on the Saddiyat Island where the museum will be built off the Emirati capital. Masterpieces by Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, Henri Matisse and Andy Warhol are among 300 works which will be on loan from 13 French museums for the opening of the The Louvre Abu Dhabi museum, the Emirates announced on October 11, 2014. AFP PHOTO/KARIM SAHIB.