Ancient artefacts

Despite all of the ancient painted objects in our museums, it’s rare to see an actual paint set.

For over three hundred years, people in Europe -- particularly the Netherlands and Great Britain -- have been finding strange 12-sided objects in the

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Read this introduction survey on ancient Egyptian jewelry and amulets by curator Dutch National Archaeological Museum in Leiden.

Pictures and descriptions of fifteen different examples of prehistoric images of owls.

It’s a good bet your first box of crayons or watercolors was a simple affair of six or so colors... just like the palette belonging to Amenemopet, vizier to Pharaoh Amenhotep III (c.1391 - c.1354 BC), a pleasure-loving patron of the arts whose rule coincided with a period of great prosperity.

The ten statues in Founding Figures: Copper Sculpture from Ancient Mesopotamia, ca. 3300–2000 BC at the Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan were never meant for our eyes.

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