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During the Late Bronze Age, the trade contacts established with Cyprus in the preceding period were intensified. This type of bull was very popular in the Levant, either as ornaments or perhaps as feeding bottles. Base ring ware. LBI-II...

This is the upper half of a female figurine. Her facial features, hair, and necklace were carefully made in spite of being small in size. The breasts are prominent. Late Bronze Age, 1550-1200 BCE. From Tell al-Sa'idiyya, Jordan Valley, Jordan...

This type is similar to the ones used for infant burials, but this one is painted with red strips using iron oxide (hematite), material already known during the Neolithic period for coloring plaster. The Jar was carefully made on a straw...

Chests of this sort were used to contain the bones of individuals in secondary burials. These were burials in which the body had been exposed and allowed to decay before the bones were gathered. At Azor, on the coast of Israel, a rock-cut...

This is a red burnished globular flask with a wide mouth. The flask has been incised with decoration of horizontal bands at the neck and shoulder above an impressed design of triangles. From cemetery 300 at Meroe, Sudan. Meroitic period...

Lare jar painted in red and black on beige. The paintings show animal scenes in two registers. In the lower register, two large snakes lie opposite each other. In the upper one, framed by horizontal lines and a zigzag motif on the jar's shoulder...

Many potsherds have been discovered at the Shengavit settlement and archaeological site in Armenia (c. 3500-2200 BCE). (Shengavit Museum, Yerevan).

During the late 3rd millennium BCE, the area of the middle Euphrates developed a distinctive regional culture. Between 1963-1973 CE, an international rescue mission excavated a large number of sites in this region which were threatened by...

From Abydos, Egypt. 19th to 20th Dynasties, circa 1295-1070 BCE. (The British Museum, London)

An oval seal impression repeated on the rim and handles of a large jar. Seal impressions are official guarantees of the jars and their contents; therefore, stamped jars indicated the presence of a local administrative center and trade relations...