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A dinner serving set in bucchero ware. Etruscan from Chiusi, Italy. 550-500 BCE (Art Institute of Chicago)

A gold fibula decorated with five lions (upper portion) and 50 ducks (lower portion) from the Etruscan Regoliini-Galassi Tomb at Cerveteri. 7th century BCE. (Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, Vatican Museums, Rome)

An example of the square stone tombs at the cemetery of Banditaccia at the Etruscan site of Cerveteri. The tombs were laid out in rows with streets between them. Mid-6th century BCE.

The Tomb of the Reliefs at the Etruscan site of Cerveteri. Last quarter, 4th century BCE.

Impression of a Babylonian blue chalcedony conical stamp seal from c. 700-550 BCE. On the base, beneath a crescent, a worshipper in a fringed robe stands facing the goddess of healing, Gula, who sits on her star-studded throne which...

The painted terracotta Sarcophagus of the Married Couple from the Etruscan site of Cerveteri. c. 530-520 BCE. Length: 1,9 m. (Louvre Museum, Paris)

Chris Stringer's hypothesis, depicted in a graph-model, of the evolution of several species of genus Homo over the last 2 million years (vertical axis), as published in Stringer, C. (2012). "What makes a modern human". Nature 485 (7396...

Palaeoanthropological site of Trinil, Java, Indonesia, where Eugène Dubois first discovered Pithecanthropus (now Homo) erectus in the 1890s.

Turkana Boy, also called Nariokotome Boy, is a rare nearly complete skeleton of a youth who lived near Lake Turkana, Kenya, around 1,6-1,5 million years ago. He belongs to the species Homo erectus (or Homo ergaster, depending on which theories...

Cast of Homo erectus skull Sangiran 17 found at Sangiran, Java, Indonesia. It is around 1 million years old and is on display at the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum.