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Terracotta goblet with gazelles and ibexes, found in grave no. 725 in Shahr-e Sukhteh, southern Iran, Early Bronze Age, c. 2800-2400 BCE. National Museum of Iran, Tehran, acc. no. 12947. Photo by Nima Fakoorzadeh (Baloot Noghrei) Shahr-e...

This bowl was part of a hoard found by Sir Henry Layard in 1850-1851 CE in the North-West Palace at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu). They were probably deposited there in the 8th century BCE. The decoration on the bowls is Phoenician, very similar...

The Snettisham Great Torc. Part of the Snettisham burial hoard found in Norfolk, England. Celtic, gold alloy, 150-50 BCE. Diameter 56 cm. (British Museum, London)

Bronze figurine of a female athlete, found in the archaeological site of Samoil's Fortress in Ohrid, North Macedonia, 2nd to 1st centuries BCE. NI Institute for Protection of Monuments of Culture and Museum of Ohrid. Tsar Samoil's Fortress...

A gold alloy torc from the Belstead Brook hoard, Ipswich, England. Celtic, 150-50 BCE. Diameter 18.6 cm. (British Museum, London)

Painted brick from Baba Jan, Luristan, Iron Age III, c. 850 to 550 BCE. National Museum of Iran, inv. no. 6735 This terracotta tile with a painted wheel is one of the c. 200 mural bricks that once decorated the “ceremonial rooms” of the...

An 8th Century CE silver liturgical chalice found in near Ardagh in County Limerick, Ireland. The bowl and foot of the chalice is made of silver, and it is decorated with gold, amber, glass and enamel. Part of the Ardagh Hoard. Image republished...

A detail of the Snettisham Great Torc. Part of the Snettisham burial hoard found in Norfolk, England. Celtic, gold alloy, 150-50 BCE. Diameter 56 cm. (British Museum, London)

The Rheinisches Landesmuseum is Trier's largest and best-known museum. It offers a comprehensive collection documenting the civilisation, economy, settlements, religion and art of the first four centuries CE, emphasising the Roman past of...

Statue of a Sumerian male worshiper from the hoard in Nintu Temple V at Khafajah (ancient Tutub), Mesopotamia, Iraq. Early Dynastic period, 2600-2400 BCE. Excavated by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago in the 1930s, 8th...