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A Free Online Archive Lets You Explore 5.8 Million Works of Art Spanning 5,000 Years of History | Open Culture

Though it's traditionally meant 'last in a progression or series,' as Merriam-Webster puts it, the word ultimate has been more often used in recent decades to mean 'the best or most extreme of its kind.' The name of a recently launched digital archive performs a rare inversion, labeling as last a creation marked not by finality but extremity.