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This is a pottery jar with black repousse. It has 2 perforated handles on its shoulder. From Badari, Egypt. Pre-Dynastic Period, Naqada III, 3200-3150 BCE. The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London (with thanks to...

These bended pottery cones were probably used for votive purposes. Ubaid period, 4th millennium BCE, Mesopotamia, Iraq. (The Sulaimaniya Museum, Iraq).

This is a fragment of a pottery thurible (censer for burning incense) which was found at Tell Basmosian (modern Lake Dukan, Sulaimaniya Governorate, Iraq). 2nd millennium BCE. (The Sulaimaniya Museum, Iraq).

This pottery bowl comes from Casas Grandes (also known as "Paquimé"), which is located in what's present-day Chihuahua, Mexico. It is made from clay and dates to c. 1250-1400 CE. Casas Grandes was one...

The term "Mycenaean" is derived from the site of Mycenae; it refers to the culture of Greece during the Middle and Late Bronze Ages. Mycenaean imports greatly increased around 1400 BCE and were mostly stirrup...

The Cyclades are a group of islands in the southern Aegean situated between the Greek mainland and Turkey. The name was coined in the Archaic period as the islands form an approximate circle (kyklos) around the central and most sacred...

The Minoan civilization flourished in the Middle Bronze Age (c. 2000 - c. 1450 BCE) on the island of Crete located in the eastern Mediterranean. With their unique art and architecture, and the spread of their ideas through...

Portrait head of a Moche man. Peru, Moche Culture, 1st to 7th century CE. Fired clay. Exhibited at Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland.

Deborah Kass on Athenian vases "I think I'm looking at cartoons of another time that I can't decipher anymore." The Artist Project is a 2015 online series in which we give artists an opportunity...

Grape vines were first cultivated during the Chalcolithic period. It is probable that such goblets, which are similar to modern wine glasses, were used for drinking wine. Late Chalcolithic period, 3800-3600...