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Miniature golden masks, Lebanon, Late Bronze Age? Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Hippo figurine (affectionately named 'William' by modern audiences), Egypt, 1961-1878 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Frog pendant, made of lapis lazuli, Iraq, 2900 - 2340 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Bull-man pendant, Iraq, 2600-2340 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Bronze image standard, Iran, ~8th century BCE Classical Antiquity (~800 BCE - 500 AD) Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Gold headband, Cyprus, 1230 - 1050 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Gold ring with a Sphinx engraved, Cyprus, 1230-1050 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Brass bracelet, Iran, 800-600 BCE Classical Antiquity (~800 BCE - 500 AD) Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Lotus flower pendant, gold, enamel, and gems, Egypt, ~12th century BCE? Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Earthenware amulet, Egypt, 943 - 716 BCE Classical Antiquity (~800 BCE - 500 AD) Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Wooden firestarter, Egypt, 16th-11th century BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Carnelian necklace, Nubia (Egypt or Sudan), ~3000 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Bronze chariot figurine, Syria, 2500-2250 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Gold beaker, possibly of Mycenean Greek origin, found in Germany, dated 1800-1600 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Two copper alloy swords, Iraq, 1500-900 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Decorated Hittite four-handled vase, Turkiye, mid-17th century BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Native American copper artifacts, North America, 3000-1000 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Sleeping Hermaphroditus, 100–500 CE (Mattress added 1620), Rome Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Context: Sleeping Hermaphroditus or Sleeping Hermaphrodite (also, “The Borghese Hermaphrodite") is an ancient Roman marble sculpture depicting Hermaphroditus life size; it rests on a marble mattress completed by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1620. The form is derived from ancient portrayals of Venus and other female nudes, and from feminized Hellenistic portrayals of Dionysus. This subject was widely repeated during the Hellenistic period and in ancient Rome, given the number of versions that have survived.

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Small offering stand, stone, Egypt, 2686 - 2184 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Ointment jar, limestone, Egypt, 1550-1295 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Necklace of carnelian and gold, Egypt, 1550-1069 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Model ship, Egypt, 2000 BCE - 1800 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Copper head of a dignitary, Iran, ~2000 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Reconstructions of Bronze Age knives and their alloys Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Male figure, the Levant, 4500 BCE - 3500 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Wild boar statuette, bronze, Iran, early 1st millennium BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Ancient Egyptian dish and stand, metal-glazed pottery, 15th century BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Bronze spearhead, China, 1046-256 BCE Classical Antiquity (~800 BCE - 500 AD) Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Clay jug with a spout shaped like an animal head, Mesopotamia, ~1st millennium BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Scarab ring, Egypt, 1295 BCE - 1070 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Lower half of a Sumerian statuette, 2600 BCE - 2350 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Celtic blade, bronze, France, ~800 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Mycenean goblet, Greece, late 2nd millennium BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Copper alloy spearheads, the Middle East, 3rd-2nd millennium BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Bronze idol, Iran, 1st millennium BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Semiprecious stone bead necklace, Egypt, 2000 BCE - 1800 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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'Knife Money', China, 1st millennium BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Throwing clubs for war or hunting, Egypt, 14th century BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Shield from the tomb of Tutankhamun, gilding and wood, Egypt, ~1325 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Alabaster boat statuette, Egypt, ~2nd Millennium BCE? Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Basalt Pyramidion (Pyramid capstone) of Amenemhat III, Egypt, ~1850 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Babylonian hematite cylinder seals, Iraq, 2100 BCE-1600 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Limestone sculpture of a man, Iraq, 2400 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Alabaster sculpture of a man, Syria, 2400 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Sumerian necklace beads, Iraq, 2900-2340 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Diorite statue of an official in Umma, what-is-now Iraq, 2400 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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'War Panel' of the Standard of Ur, Iraq, ~2550 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Golden helmet of Meskalamdug, a ruler of Ur, Iraq, ~2550 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Mask of Tutankhamun, 1323BCE, Egypt Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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A shiney golden mask, with blue stripes. Adorned with 2 golden snakes on a headband. Also has a sick goatee.

Context: The mask was crafted around 1323 BC for the young pharaoh Tutankhamun, fashioned from gold inlaid with glass and semiprecious stones to serve as his immortal likeness in the afterlife. It was placed directly over his mummified face inside nested coffins in his burial chamber, where it remained untouched until the tomb’s modern discovery in 1925 by Howard Carter at the Valley of the Kings.

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Egyptian figurines, 10th century BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Golden bee ornament, Crete, Greece, ~17th century BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Fragment of a mask, Nigeria, date uncertain between 1000 BCE and 200 AD Classical Antiquity (~800 BCE - 500 AD) Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Golden falcon pendant, Crete, 1700-1550 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Lion figurine, Arabian peninsula, late 1st millennium BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Olmec statuette depicting a figure holding a were-jaguar baby, jade, Mexico, 900 BCE-300 BCE Classical Antiquity (~800 BCE - 500 AD) Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Limestone boar statue, with flecks of pigment residue, Gobeklitepe, Turkiye, ~9000 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Bracelets of Pharaoh Shoshenq II, gold and semiprecious stones, Egypt, ~885 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Figurine of a woman, earthenware, Mexico, 1500 BCE - 500 BCE Classical Antiquity (~800 BCE - 500 AD) Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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The Nefertiti Bust, limestone, Ancient Egypt, 1345 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Oldest known wagon, Lchashen, Armenia, ~2000 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Ceramic Crab Vessel with Double Spout, Colombia, ~1500 BCE-100 AD Classical Antiquity (~800 BCE - 500 AD) Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Ceramic Crab Vessel with Double Spout, Colombia, ~1500 BCE-100 AD
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Stone dagger with an animal head, Finland, 4000 BCE - 2000 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Stone dagger with an animal head, Finland, 4000 BCE - 2000 BCE
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Another find for SPOOKY SEASON appreciators! Some the oldest known masks in the world, stone, found near Jerusalem, ~7000 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Another find for SPOOKY SEASON appreciators! Some the oldest known masks in the world, stone, found near Jerusalem, ~7000 BCE
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Bronze votive figurine of an archer, Sardinia, 10th-9th century BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Bronze votive figurine of an archer, Sardinia, 10th-9th century BCE
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Oldest known footwear, Fort Rock Cave, Oregon, USA, ~8000 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Oldest known footwear, Fort Rock Cave, Oregon, USA, ~8000 BCE
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Olmec figurine, jadeite, 9th-5th century BCE Classical Antiquity (~800 BCE - 500 AD) Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Olmec figurine, jadeite, 9th-5th century BCE
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Ring with a figure of a cat, tin-glazed ceramic, Egypt, 14th century BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Ring with a figure of a cat, tin-glazed ceramic, Egypt, 14th century BCE
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Prehistoric vase, Spain, ~5500 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Prehistoric vase, Spain, ~5500 BCE
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Crystal arrowhead, 4th millennium BCE, what-is-now Switzerland Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Crystal arrowhead, 4th millennium BCE, what-is-now Switzerland
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Pottery inlaid with tin, Switzerland, 10th century BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Pottery inlaid with tin, Switzerland, 10th century BCE
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Gold discs forged in the 3rd millennium BCE, Spain Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Gold discs forged in the 3rd millennium BCE, Spain
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Bronze age Iberian sword, 1600 BCE - 1300 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Bronze age Iberian sword, 1600 BCE - 1300 BCE
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Egyptian cosmetic box, ivory, 1550-1458 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Egyptian cosmetic box, ivory, 1550-1458 BCE
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Axe with well-preserved wooden handle, England, ~850 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Axe with well-preserved wooden handle, England, ~850 BCE
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Toy mouse, Egypt, c. 1550-1069 BC Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Toy mouse, Egypt, c. 1550-1069 BC
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Masterfully made miniature sculptures from Gonur Tepe, Turkmenistan, late 3rd millennium BCE-mid 2nd millennium BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Masterfully made miniature sculptures from Gonur Tepe, Turkmenistan, late 3rd millennium BCE-mid 2nd millennium BCE
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Jade axe heads, material from Italy, found in Ireland, ~4000 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Jade axe heads, material from Italy, found in Ireland, ~4000 BCE
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Glass beads found in Denmark, made in Mesopotamia or Egypt, grave goods buried by ~1200 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Glass beads found in Denmark, made in Mesopotamia or Egypt, grave goods buried by ~1200 BCE
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Hittite vase, terracotta, found in İnandıktepe, Turkiye, 17th century BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Hittite vase, terracotta, found in İnandıktepe, Turkiye, 17th century BCE
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Hittite drinking cup in the shape of a fist, silver, Turkiye, ~1400 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Hittite drinking cup in the shape of a fist, silver, Turkiye, ~1400 BCE
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Golden double-headed axe, Crete, 1550-1500 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Golden double-headed axe, Crete, 1550-1500 BCE
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Phoenician tablet found in Sardinia, Italy, ~800 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Phoenician tablet found in Sardinia, Italy, ~800 BCE
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Anthropomorphic figure of a lion-man, southern Germany, mammoth ivory, ~35,000 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Anthropomorphic figure of a lion-man, southern Germany, mammoth ivory, ~35,000 BCE
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Wood statue of a man with rock crystal for the eyes, Egypt, ~2500 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Wood statue of a man with rock crystal for the eyes, Egypt, ~2500 BCE
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Bronze spearhead, Britain, 12th-8th century BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Bronze spearhead, Britain, 12th-8th century BCE
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Wooden baking peel, Germany, ~3000 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Wooden baking peel, Germany, ~3000 BCE
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Decorative axe-head, Bactria (modern-day Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan), 3rd millennium BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Decorative axe-head, Bactria (modern-day Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan), 3rd millennium BCE
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Aegean or Cypriot gold necklace, 1400-1200 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Aegean or Cypriot gold necklace, 1400-1200 BCE
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Gold votive plaque, Sumer, 2600–2340 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Gold votive plaque, Sumeria, 2600–2340 BCE
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Hedgehog statuette, tin-glazed ceramic, Egypt, 1550 BCE - 1050 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Hedgehog statuette, tin-glazed ceramic, Egypt, 1550 BCE - 1050 BCE
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Sumerian silver vase with engravings, ~2400 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Sumerian silver vase with engravings, ~2400 BCE
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Terracotta die, Indus Valley, modern-day Pakistan, 2600-1800 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Terracotta die, Indus Valley, modern-day Pakistan, 2600-1800 BCE
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Bear carved out of amber (forbidden gummy), prehistoric Poland, 5000 BCE-2000 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Bear carved out of amber (forbidden gummy), prehistoric Poland, 5000 BCE-2000 BCE
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Lomekwi Stone Tools, Pre-Hominin Species, Kenya, Circe 3,300,000 BCE Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Lomekwi Stone Tools, Pre-Hominin Species, Kenya, Circe 3,300,000 BCE
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Olmec Hollow Seated Figure, 1200-900BC Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE)

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Olmec Hollow Seated Figure, 1200-900BC
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