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This plaque, sculpted in low relief and featuring a hole in its center, is characteristic of the period of the archaic Sumerian dynasties, from the 3rd millennium BC. The hole was probably used to attach the plaque to a wall by means of a...

The lid of an Etruscan funerary urn portraying the occupant. Painted terracotta Chiusi, 150-120 BCE. (Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Germany)

A stone cinerary urn which was hollow to receive the ashes of the deceased. The head acts as a stopper. Etruscan, Chiusi, 500-400 BCE. Height: 1.37 m. (British Museum, London)

A bronze votive statuette of a youth. Etruscan, Chiusi, 530-480 BCE. Height: 27.4 cms. (British Museum, London)

Gold earrings from the Etruscan city of Populonia in north-west Italy. 350-300 BCE. (British Museum, London)

The Tomb of the Chariots at the Etruscan site of Populonia, north-west Italy. The side chambers of the tomb contained a chariot and two-wheeled carriage. Mid-7th to early 6th century BCE.

Old Babylonian clay tablet "Atrahasis III."

Ruins of the Temple of Enlil at Nippur.

Etruscan gold coin from Populonia, 5th century BCE.

A stone Etruscan tomb from Populonia, north-western Italy. It is known as the 'Tomb of the Bronze Statuette of the Offering Bearer' after a figurine bearing an offering was excavated there. 530-500 BCE.