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Bronze figurine of infant Hercules killing serpents, from Herakleia Lynkestis, near modern Bitola, Macedonia. Archaeological Museum of Heraclea, Bitola. The city was founded by Philip II of Macedon...

The background metal is bronze containing traces of a gold and silver, and its surface has been deliberately darkened, perhaps by organic acids. It may be an example of what Pliny calls "Corinthian bronze"...

A bronze pitcher with Nereid (sea nymph). 1st century CE. Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, (photo taken at the National Maritime Museum, Sydney Australia) Utensils for serving food were another way of showing...

A bronze Mycenaean sword with a gold handle inlaid with lapis lazuli, from Mycenae, Grave IV, Grave Circle A, 16th century BCE. National Archaeological Museum, Athens.

The bronze head of Medusa is a decorative element from one of the Nemi Ships built by Caligula around 37-41 CE. It is now in the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme in Rome.

Hollow-cast bronze cat, probably a votive offering to the goddess Bastet, from Tell Basta, Egypt, c. 664-30 BCE. National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.

These two bronze shaft-hole axes date back to the late 3rd millennium BCE, Mesopotamia, Iraq. (The Sulaimaniya Museum, Iraq).

Bronze Age village reconstruction. Pfahlbaumuseum Unteruhldingen, Uhldingen-Mühlhofen, Germany.

This bronze caliga was part of an over life-size statue of a Roman cavalryman from the 1st or the 2nd century CE. Caligae were heavy hob-nailed military boots worn by Roman legionary soldiers...

A bronze illyrian type helmet and gold funerary mask. Chalcidice, 530-510 BCE. (National Archaeological Museum, Athens)