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The Gold Cone of Ezelsdorf-Buch is a tall (88 cm), cone-shaped object made of thin sheet gold, it is seen as belonging to a group of artifacts referred to as Bronze Age Golden hats. It was presumably worn by special functionaries on ceremonial...

A view from Phaistos over the Mesara plain in Crete.

Urartian cuneiform inscription on the left of the temple door at Erebuni Fortress.

Modern reproductions of the ancient wall-paintings at Erebuni Fortress.

Plastered and painted wood lid interior of the anthropoid coffin of Pa-di-Khonsu XXII-XXIV dynasty, Thebes. (Egyptian Museum, Castello Sforzesco, Milan)

Limestone sphinx head from the Ptolemaic period, Medinet Madi, Temple of Isis-Thermutis. (Egyptian Museum, Castello Sforzesco, Milan)

Limestone statue (seated) of Amenemhat III, XII Dynasty, Medinet Madi, Temple of Isis-Thermutis. (Egyptian Museum, Castello Sforzesco, Milan)

Limestone head of Ptolemaic King, 2nd to 1st century BCE, Medinet Madi. (Egyptian Museum, Castello Sforzesco, Milan)

A wooden scribe's palette from the New Kingdom, Egpyt. (Egyptian Museum, Castello Sforzesco, Milan)

Plastered and painted wood sarcophagus from the Greco-Roman period. (Egyptian Museum, Castello Sforzesco, Milan)