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Four handled large bowl from Sicily (late Bronze Age, second half 8th century BCE - second half 7th century BCE) embellished with geometric patterns. The engravings consist of groups of lines, triangles...

Large wash basin on a high foot with bifid handle (c. 1500-c. 1200 BCE), richly decorated with geometric engravings. Thapsos Culture, Sicily. (Pencil drawing by Gina Pardo).

One of the most evocative settlements of Sicilian prehistory (c.1250 - c. 700 BCE) with thousands of excavated tombs in the steep walls of mountain chasms that overlook the valleys of the rivers Anapo and Calcinara...

A map of Sicily in the early Bronze Age (2169 ±120 BCE - c.1500 BCE) divided into 4 cultural macro-regions: northern Sicily with the Rodì-Tindari-Vallelunga culture, western with the Naro/Partanna culture, the south-east...

A bronze standing figurine depicting a bearded god, Urartu civilization, 8th-7th century BCE. Height: 21 cm. (British Museum, London)

A map indicating the extent of the Urartu civilization (9th-6th century BCE) which covered parts of modern Armenia, Turkey and Iran.

Early Scandinavian burial mound marked by stones laid out in a ship-pattern - a practice that was common in Scandinavia from the Bronze Age through the Viking Age. This particular one is situated in Anundshög, Västerås...

The 'Sea Stallion', a replica based on the remains of the Viking longship known as Skuldelev 2 built in the 11th century CE in Dublin, but found sunk in Roskilde harbour in Denmark. It was around 30 meters long and 3,8 meters...

The exquisitely carved animal head number two (there are five in total) found with the Oseberg Viking ship, dated to c. 820 CE, in a ship burial setting in Oslo fjord, Norway. The heads are housed in the Viking Ship Museum...

Full view of the Oseberg Viking ship dating from c. 820 CE discovered in a lavish ship burial setting in Oslo fjord, Norway. The ship is housed in the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo, Norway.