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Copper 'Oxhide' Ingot, Uluburun Shipwreck
A copper "oxhide" ingot from the Bronze Age Uluburun shipwreck, 1330-1300 BCE. The ship sank off the coast of Lycia and contained, amongst other cargo, ten tons of copper ingots. (Bodrum Museum of Underwater...
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Clear Glass Dish from Pompeii
A clear glass dish from Pompeii. 1st century CE. (Photo taken at the National Maritime Museum, Sydney Australia) According to Pliny, high value was placed on colourless, transparent glass - basically that which...
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Stone Tools at Shengavit Settlement
Stone tools and other archaeological remains from Shengavit, dating from c. 3500-2200 BCE. This settlement is an archaeological site located in Yerevan and is one of Armenia's most important Bronze Age sites.
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Shengavit Archaeological Site
Shengavit is an archaeological site located in a suburb of present-day Yerevan, near Lake Yerevan, and it is one of Armenia's most important prehistoric and Bronze Age sites. It flourished from c. 3500-2500 BCE.
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Shengavit Settlement
Flourishing between 3500-2200 BCE, the Shengavit settlement in present-day Yerevan, Armenia was an important site of prehistoric and Bronze Age habitation in the Near East. Here one can see that dwellings were constructed...
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Shengavit Ruins
Shengavit was a prehistoric and ancient settlement (c. 3500-2200 BCE) in what is present-day Yerevan, Armenia. It was an enclosed settlement within a cyclopian wall made of stones. Foundations for houses were made from river stones...
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Prehistoric Mortar from Shengavit
Prehistoric mortars and pisteles made from stone which were found at Shengavit Settlement (c. 3500-2200 BCE) in Armenia. (Shengavit Museum, Yerevan).
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Bronze Pitcher From Pompeii
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...
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Pottery from the Amarneh Cemetery at Til Barsip
Much of the known pottery from the Euphrates region comes from tombs, often in large cemeteries attached to settlement sites. The tombs are of a variety of types, but most typically they consist of rock-cut...
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Philistine Coffin Lid from Lachish
Anthropoid pottery lid of a slipper coffin. It was hand-made by coil technique. The facial features were mould-made. There are faint traces of red paint. Philistine. Late Bronze Age. From Tomb 0570 at Lachish, modern-day...
