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Linear B
ancient syllabary for Mycenaean Greek used ca. 1400 BCE – 1200 BCE
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Shuruppak
Shuruppak ( , SU.KUR.RUki, "the healing place"), modern Tell Fara, was an ancient Sumerian city situated about 55 kilometres (35 mi) south of Nippur and 30 kilometers north of ancient Uruk on the banks of the Euphrates in Iraq's Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate. Shuruppak was dedicated to Ninlil, also called Sud, the goddess of grain and the air. The Early Dynastic IIIa period is also sometimes called the Fara period. Not to be confused with the Levantine archaeological site Tell el-Far'ah (South).
Layer Pyramid
Archaeological site in Egypt
Dunhuang manuscripts
a collection of medieval manuscripts found in the caves at Dunhuang
Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa
archaeological site in Egypt
Temple of Eshmun
temple in Lebanon
Antikythera Ephebe
Greek bronze statue
Antikythera wreck
Roman shipwreck dating from the 2nd quarter of the 1st century BC
pyramidion of Amenemhat III
former capstone of the pyramid of Amenemhat III
Saint-Bélec slab
stone artefact from Western Brittany
Gaming board from Knossos
board game
Arcisate Treasure
Roman silver hoard

Damendorf Man
Iron Age bog body from Germany
Throne Room, Knossos
chamber inside the palatial complex of Knossos, Crete, Greece