Historical Artifacts

Greek silver coin, Syracuse, Sicily, ~500 BCE

Ivory carving of a skull and snake, with carnelian eyes, Japan, mid-19th century AD

Khanda sword with sheathe, India, 19th century AD

Phoenician tablet found in Sardinia, Italy, ~800 BCE

Ceremonial sword, Nigerian, 16th century AD - 19th century AD

Thracian helmet, gold, Romania, 4th century BCE

Figurine in riding position, possibly depicting a North African man, copper-alloy with silver eyes, Roman Britain, 150 AD-300 AD

Depiction of a Portuguese soldier with a matchlock gun, brass, Nigerian, ~1600 AD

Bronze armlet of the Dogon people, Mali, date uncertain

Bronze pendant, Nigeria, 10th century AD - 16th century AD

The Advanced Iron Prosthetic Hand used by Götz von Berlichingen, a Medieval German Knight & Mercenary, 16th century AD

Medieval Malian manuscripts, Timbuktu, ~14th century AD?

A re-enactor in reconstructions of the equipment of a Roman legionary specialist with a war-dog

Re-enactor in the panopoly of a Crupellarius, a heavily armored Roman gladiator type of the 1st century AD

Pectorale (small chestplate armor) from Greek colonies in Southern Italy, found in North Africa, 3rd century BCE

Bowl depicting a swarm of mice, ceramic and pigment, Nazca, Peru, 180 BCE-500 AD

Sculpture of a snail rider, shell, silver, and gold coating, Nuremberg, Germany, ~1630 AD

Decorative/ceremonial greatswords, Hungarian, 14th century AD

Greek statuette of a veiled dancer, bronze, 3rd-2nd century BCE

Anthropomorphic figure of a lion-man, southern Germany, mammoth ivory, ~35,000 BCE

Re-enactors with reconstructions of plumbata, lead-weighted darts which replaced javelins in the Late Roman Army

Coral parade sword of Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria, ~1560 AD

Wood statue of a man with rock crystal for the eyes, Egypt, ~2500 BCE

Golden belt piece, Azerbaijan, 7th century BCE

Etruscan plate, central Italy, 6th century BCE

Portable record player, designed by a Hungarian, produced by a Swiss company, 1928

Native American war-club, late 18th century AD

7-Barrel Lepage Volley Rifle, early 19th century AD

Bronze sestertius of the Roman Emperor Vespasian, 71 AD

Mochica decorated copper mace head, modern-day Peru, 8th-3rd century BCE

Bronze statuette of the goddess Isis, Roman, 175-250 AD

Depiction of a boy catching grasshoppers, Meiji-era Japan, ~1890 AD

Roman stone game board from a military bathhouse in Britain, 2nd-4th century AD

Chimu gold earring, modern-day Peru, 14th-16th century AD

Bronze water vessel with a human face, German, 19th century AD

Glass figurine of a squirrel or cat, Roman Empire, ~1st century AD?

Anglo-Saxon claw beaker, glass, 5th-6th century AD

Bronze spearhead, Britain, 12th-8th century BCE

Bronze water vessel in the shape of a knight on horseback, Germany, ~1350 AD

Bronze statuette of a Crupellarius, a heavily-armored Roman gladiator, 1st century AD?