#ancient artefact

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Ancient brass comb with the Lion of Judah. Its inscription says, “A day of darkness, a day of mayhem comes upon us.” Photo by the Jewish Museum of Prauge.

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Onyx cameo of Empress Livia Drusilla. She is portrayed as a mature woman covered by a veil, giving her the air of a proper Roman matron.

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2,500-year-old gold armor of Scythian warrior exhibited in Turkey | Daily Sabah

The intricate gold armor belonging to an ancient Scythian warrior referred to as the 'Tutankhamun of Central Asia' has been brought to Turkey and is being...

From Daily Sabah

“The intricate gold armor belonging to an ancient Scythian warrior referred to as the "Tutankhamun of Central Asia" has been brought to Turkey and is being exhibited at the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara.”

“The magnificent armor was discovered inside a cairn-type burial during construction works in Kazakhstan in 1969. It has over 3,000 triangular gold plates and is engraved with leopard, eagle, panther, ram, deer, mountain goat, horse and bird motifs.”

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~ Shears. Period: Roman Period Date: A.D. 2nd century (?) Place of origin: From Turkey, Anatolia; Possibly from Trabzon Medium: Bronze or copper alloy, silver, black copper (?)

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Cameo portraying Augustus as Apollo, his favourite deity. Now in the National Archaeological Museum of Florence.

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The terracotta statue of winged horses discovered in 1938 in Tarquinia, one of the leading cities in ancient Etruria. The horses were in fragments and it took decades to reconstruct the whole statue.

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Turkish archaeologists in northwestern Turkey unearthed a 2,200-year-old lion statue from the Hellenistic period in the ancient city of Assos, the head of...

From Daily Sabah

“Turkish archaeologists in northwestern Turkey unearthed a 2,200-year-old lion statue from the Hellenistic period in the ancient city of Assos, the head of the excavation team said.”

“Nurettin Arslan, a professor who also heads the archaeology department at Onsekiz Mart University in Çanakkale, told Anadolu Agency (AA) that the excavations in Assos, one of the most important port cities of the antique age, started with a team of 25 people in July, adding that the seasonal works will end next month. The sculpture of lion was discovered in excavations of a complex which used to be an inn during that period, he said. Excavations were also carried in the agoras, or ancient city centers, of Byzantine structures, added Arslan.”

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Italy’s Oldest Instrument Hints at Sounds of Prehistoric Rome

The music of the ancient world is largely lost, but recent findings and recreations of antique instruments can give a taste.

ROME — When the archaeologist Giovanni Carboni first came upon the oddly shaped ceramic object during an excavation in a Roman suburb in 2006, he was baffled.

“I said — please don’t write this, though, because I said a swear word — I said: ‘What the heck is this thing,’ ” Dr. Carboni recalled recently.

The object resembled half an oversize walnut shell, the rim perforated evenly with holes. It had been found in a tomb, placed next to the body of an adult man (identified only by his teeth after centuries lying in acidic earth).

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