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2000 BC - 1000 BC

  1. Portion of a limestone Stelae Portion of a limestone Stelae This is the upper left-hand portion of a limestone stelae of Pahemy. A Stelae is a tall slab usually made of stone or ... Contributed by Museum
  2. Fragment of pottery Fragment of pottery This piece of pottery was found at Petra in Jordan as it's colour is the same pinky brown as the wonderful buildings at ... Contributed by Individual
  3. The Pump Room Spa Water - The Pump Room The Pump Room Spa Water - The Pump Room Visitors can try the hot Spa water at the fountain in the Pump Room. It contains 43 minerals and has a rather unusual ... Contributed by Individual
  4. Bronze Bull, Hittite, c. 2000-1700 BCE Bronze Bull, Hittite, c. 2000-1700 BCE My mom gave this to me when I was a teenager. She got it from my grandmother at about the same age. This must have been ... Contributed by Individual
  5. The Hove Amber Cup The Hove Amber Cup The Hove Amber Cup is an important Bronze Age grave good, discovered inside a burial mound in Hove, Sussex in 1856. Contributed by Museum
  6. The Dover Bronze Age Boat The Dover Bronze Age Boat The Bronze Age Boat dates from c. 1550 BC. Made from oak planks, it traded across the channel 3,500 years ago. Contributed by Museum
  7. Pedestal Bowl Pedestal Bowl This bowl has a pedestal foot of pinkish buff pottery ware, it is decorated inside with two bands of incised parallel ... Contributed by Museum
  8. Limestone figurine of girl Limestone figurine of girl This is the upper half of a limestone figurine depicting a recumbent girl playing a lute. The legs are missing and it ... Contributed by Museum
  9. Limestone relief Limestone relief This limestone slab was found at Koptos by the eminent archaeologist Flinders-Petrie. Found on the floor of the temple ... Contributed by Museum
  10. Replica Copper Armlet Replica Copper Armlet A piece of adornment worn for show was a copper armlet, worn for many of the reasons people wear jewelry today. Contributed by Museum
  11. Copper Flat Axe & Bronze Flat Axe Copper Flat Axe & Bronze Flat Axe The first objects to be made of copper and bronze were axes, made in open stone moulds. Flat axes in Kilmartin have not ... Contributed by Museum
  12. Bronze Blade Bronze Blade The blade found at Loch Glasham is unusual as daggers and blades are relitivly comman in graves. It has been ... Contributed by Museum
  13. Replica Wooden Yoke Replica Wooden Yoke Little is known about the earliest farming implements used in Kilmartin, but a wooden yoke dated to 2000 BC survived in ... Contributed by Museum
  14. Bronze age axe head Bronze age axe head Found in pristine condition during a rock climbing trip on obscure cliffs above the A5 on Pen yr ole Wen. A very unusual ... Contributed by Individual
  15. Flint Arrowhead Flint Arrowhead This barbed and tanged flint arrowhead dates from the Bronze Age and illustrates an emerging sophistication in weaponary ... Contributed by Individual
  16. Statue of Ramesses II Statue of Ramesses II Colossal statue of Ramesses II, one of ancient Egypt's most famous and successful pharaohs. Contributed by The British Museum
  17. Canaan bottle from Jericho, Palestine Canaan bottle from Jericho, Palestine This ancient bottle came from Jericho, Palestine, at the time of the Canaanites c. 2000 BC. These kind of bottles were ... Contributed by Museum
  18. Chinese Zhou ritual vessel Chinese Zhou ritual vessel A Chinese bronze vessel used for making ritual offerings of food to ancestors. Contributed by The British Museum
  19. Tiny one-handled pot with thumb marks Tiny one-handled pot with thumb marks This tiny pot comes from the ancient and important biblical site of Jericho. These little jugs were popular as tomb ... Contributed by Museum
  20. Neolithic flints found in Derbyshire Neolithic flints found in Derbyshire These flints were collected by John Leonard Waterhouse between 1920 and 1940. Most of these flints are scraping tools ... Contributed by Museum
  21. Bronze Flat Axe Bronze Flat Axe This flat axe was found at Boreland Farm, Inch, Stranraer, these kind of axes are some of the earliest examples of metal ... Contributed by Museum
  22. Food Vessel Food Vessel This vessel was found in a burial chamber. It was most likely filled with food or drink for the afterlife. There has ... Contributed by Museum
  23. Statue Statue The owner of this bust is a geologist - the statue was dug up in a back garden in Derby. The house dated from the ... Contributed by Individual
  24. Predynastic palette Predynastic palette Women still liked their make up 5500 years ago! Contributed by Individual
  25. Egyptian statue Egyptian statue A naked man god that has been dated from the Egyptian era. The owner bought the item from an antiques market. Contributed by Individual
  26. Minoan Bull Leaper Minoan Bull Leaper A bronze statue of an acrobat leaping over a bull from the island of Crete. Contributed by The British Museum
  27. Rhind Mathematical Papyrus Rhind Mathematical Papyrus An ancient Egyptian papyrus used by scribes – it contains 84 mathematical problems. Contributed by The British Museum
  28. Mold Gold Cape Mold Gold Cape Gold cape made almost 4,000 years ago for a slim woman or child and found in a grave in North Wales. Contributed by The British Museum
  29. Bronze Age ring money Bronze Age ring money Bronze age 'ring money' is a bit of a mystery. Many people believe it is proto currency (hence the name) and that people ... Contributed by Museum
  30. Stone Wrist Guard Stone Wrist Guard This wristguard was found in 1989 by the Clwyd-Powys Archaelogical Trust when excavating a Bronze Cairn, near Carno in ... Contributed by Museum
  31. Egyptian Ibis Egyptian Ibis The Ibis bird was sacred to and associated with Thoth the God of wisdom and writing. Thoth was often represented in the ... Contributed by Museum
  32. Quern Stone - Saddle Quern Quern Stone - Saddle Quern This saddle quern was found in the lake in front of the house. There are crannogs (artificial lake islands built of ... Contributed by Individual
  33. Stone-age multi tool Stone-age multi tool This is well fashioned with indents for thumb and fingers. Depending on how it’s held, it can be used as a hammer or a ... Contributed by Individual
  34. Heart Scarab Heart Scarab Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, was an enthusiastic collector of antiquities from different cultures and ... Contributed by Museum
  35. Flanged Axe Head Flanged Axe Head Found by Brian Pollard near Wells, Somerset. Originally axe heads were completely flat, but this has ridges to assist ... Contributed by Individual
  36. Shabti Shabti Shabtis are mummified statues that are found in Ancient Egyptian tombs. They represented the dead and their servants. In ... Contributed by Museum
  37. Sumerian Cuneiform Tablet Sumerian Cuneiform Tablet This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian ... Contributed by Museum
  38. Stela of Dedu Stela of Dedu A stela is a slab of wood or stone, usually painted, inscribed or engraved and set upright. In Ancient Egypt they were ... Contributed by Museum
  39. Bronze Age Cist Burial Bronze Age Cist Burial In January 1957 a ploughman struck a large stone with his plough. Looking under the stone he saw human bones. He had ... Contributed by Museum
  40. Gold Lunulae Gold Lunulae Moon-shaped gold neck piece 4000 years old, from northern Ireland but buried with 'kings' in Cornwall Contributed by Museum
  41. Column from Ihnsaya el-Medina Column from Ihnsaya el-Medina Red granite column from Ihnsaya el-Medina (ancient Herakleopolis Magna) A column such as this would have originally ... Contributed by Museum
  42. Pithoo Pithoo These pithoi shows that the Minoans were conscious of the effects of storing food for a large community. Products such ... Contributed by Individual
  43. Copper alloy armlet Copper alloy armlet The armlet was found by chance. The solid casting and incised repeat pattern are typical of the ‘Ornamental Horizon’ of ... Contributed by Museum
  44. Mould for a Bronze Axe Head Mould for a Bronze Axe Head A two piece clay mould for producing socketed axes. This mould was found at Little Dunagoil at the south end of Bute ... Contributed by Individual
  45. The Qurneh Burial The Qurneh Burial The Qurneh royal burial is of a Queen and her child from the 17th dynasty, Ancient Egypt. Contributed by Museum
  46. Bush Barrow Bronze Gold Lozenge Bush Barrow Bronze Gold Lozenge Gold lozenge dating to the Bronze Age and described as 'Britain's first Crown Jewels of the king of Stonehenge'. Contributed by Museum
  47. The Crow Down Hoard The Crow Down Hoard Bronze Age gold bracelets and armlets found by metal detectorists in Lambourn. Contributed by Museum
  48. Egyptian funerary boat Egyptian funerary boat The Egyptian funerary boat on display at the Ure Museum is a typical tomb offering from ancient Egypt, and symbolizes ... Contributed by Museum
  49. Gold Bracelets Gold Bracelets These gold bracelets are around 3,500 years old and date from the Bronze Age. They were part of a hoard found at Capel ... Contributed by Museum
  50. The Burton Hoard The Burton Hoard The Burton hoard is a group of important Bronze Age gold objects including rigs, bracelets and belts spectacular in its ... Contributed by Museum

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