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Oldest known wagon, Lchashen, Armenia, ~2000 BCE

Reconstruction of a riverine Roman merchant ship, Germany

Romano-Egyptian Fayum mummy portrait, 1st century BCE-3rd century AD

4-shot 'Harmonica Gun', ~1850

Three re-enactors, one in Viking-age armor (left), Chinese brigandine armor (middle) and Imperial Roman chain mail (right)

Reconstruction of 3rd century AD Roman scale armor

Sarmatian-Parthian gold necklace and amulet, Caspian Sea region, 1st century BCE - 2nd century AD

Jousting armor, Sweden, ~1776 AD

Hellenic silver coins, 5th-2nd century BCE

Bringing a new meaning to 'pistol-whip', 19th century AD?

Roman gemstone portrait, 1st century AD

Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's bathtub, Stra, Italy, house purchased by him in 1807

Snake bracelet, gold, Roman Egypt, 3rd century AD

Hoard of Roman gold coins, Britain, 2nd century AD

Wooden tablet showing a Persian man working at the Japanese Imperial Academy, 765 AD

Statuette of a pile of puppies, marble, Pompeii, Roman Empire, 1st century AD

Japanese re-enactors in Sengoku Jidai era (16th century AD) armor and matchlocks

Stone of Bybon, ancient weightlifter, 316 pounds, Greece, 6th century BCE

Re-enactor showing off his reconstruction of the kit of a 2nd century AD Roman legionary and a manuballista

Spanish or Italian combination gun-spear with retractable blade, four barreled, 18th century AD

Nasca ceramic bowl with a crab, Peru, 2nd-4th century AD

Bronze Roman military diploma honorably discharging an Anatolian sailor and granting citizenship, 140 AD

Ceremonial golden Scythian helmet, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, 4th century BCE

Mayan figurine with removable helmet, El Peru Waka, Guatemala, ~600 AD

Preserved blacksmith's forge (still usable!), Bukhara, Uzbekistan, 16th century AD

Ming Dynasty gold ingot, China, ~1620 AD

Document from Charlemagne, Westphalia, 813 AD

Roman writing tablet (wax facing missing) and stylus, London, Britain, 57 AD

Illyrian funerary helmets, 6th century BCE

Reenactor in reconstruction of ~3rd century AD Roman military equipment

Reverse (unreflective) side of a Han Chinese mirror, bronze, 174 AD

Roman lockbox, iron, Pompeii, 1st century AD

Stone dagger with a bear's head, Finland, 4000 BCE - 2000 BCE

Roman glass portrait of a man, 2nd century AD

Gold earring with a duck figurine, gold, Roman Syria, 2nd-3rd century AD

Ancient Roman souvenir cup with the names and depictions of popular gladiators at the time, 1st century AD

Roman inscription of Legio XII Fulminata, Gobustan, Azerbaijan, ~1st century AD

Ring engraved with 'for Allah' found in a Viking grave, Sweden, dated mid-800s AD