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A gold hairnet, Greece, 3rd century BCE. In the centre is a relief of Artemis. (National Archaeological Museum, Athens)

The monumental entrance gate (propylaea) to the Roman agora of Athens. Pentellic marble, 19-11 BCE. Donated by Julius Caesar and Augustus, it is known as the Gate of Athena Archegetis.

A silver coin depicting a man-headed bull from Gela, Sicily. 5th century BCE (Numismatics Museum, Athens)

A silver coin from Abdera, Greece depicting a griffin. This creature from Greek mythology was a mix of a lion and eagle. (Numismatics Museum, Athens)

A silver tetradrachm depicting Antiochus VII Grypos, ruler of the Greek Seleucid Kingdom in 125 BCE. (Numismatics Museum, Athens)

The surfaces of the coffin of Diefiawet were covered with painted scenes and hieroglyphic texts to assist and protect her passage into the afterlife. Isis and Nephthys, the sisters of Osiris, protect the head and the foot of the mummy, and...

Two small gold foil-covered lead bullae (amulet or pendant), found inside a ceramic vessel, from Annaghbeg or Monasterredan, Co. Sligo, Ireland, c. 800-700 BCE. National Museum of Ireland-Archaeology, Dublin.

The surfaces of the coffin of Diefiawet were covered with painted scenes and hieroglyphic texts to assist and protect her passage into the afterlife. Isis and Nephthys, the sisters of Osiris, protect the head and the foot of the mummy, and...

Gold disc, most likely a terminal of a collar or part of an earspool, from Co. Armagh, Ireland, 800-700 BCE. National Museum of Ireland-Archaeology, Dublin.

This stela shows that the deceased mummy is being conducted to Osiris by Anubis and Hathor. The inscription below the scene is in Demotic script. From Egypt, precise provenance of excavation is unknown. Ptolemaic period, 305-30 BCE. (National...