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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 rests...

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.

Upper Cave is one of the caves at the cave system at Zhoukoudian, China. The site as a whole has yielded an impressive range of archaeological discoveries, among which is one of the first specimens of Homo erectus.

A reconstruction of the face of an adult female Homo erectus, as seen on display in the Hall of Human Origins in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. It was based on fossils KNM-ER 3733 and 992. Reconstruction by...

This 7th-century BCE clay tablet gives the Babylonian account known as the Legend of Erra, the plague god, who slew many Babylonians after the withdrawal of the god Marduk from the city of Babylon.