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Gold griffin-headed Armlet

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Purchase beautiful replicas of ancient and recent past artefacts found during archaeological excavations from around the globe. Experience our global heritage in your own home by ordering from our extensive Collections.

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The replicas are made from a wide range of materials that are selected by the client. Look at our range of eye popping materials in the catalogue. Each replica can be made from most of the materials available in the catalogue. Latest additions include Titanium, Pink Granite and Meteorite.

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Inanna

Ancient-astronaut-Inanna- This object was found in the Iran museum and was made famous by Zechariah Sitchen. It presents Inanna with strange goggles and helmet which some believe, and most prominently Sitchen, that this depicts some kind of ancient astronaut.

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Curious Artifacts

In 1739. archaeologists found a most curious thing: a bronze dodecahedron, empty on the inside, and quite intricate in design. It has since been dated to the 2nd and 3rd century, to Roman times (and was likely created by the Romans). Why? We don’t really know. The objects range from 4 to 11 cm, so they’re quite small (1.5 to 4.3 inch) and they were found in several places across the Roman Empire, like Great Britain, Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium, and Hungary – mostly in central and Western Europe. No historical or literary mention of these objects was recorded, so when the first ones were discovered they were quite puzzling.

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Astrolabe

Maritime Astrolabe

AncientPages.com - An astrolabe was not only a very a beautiful ancient object. It was also a sophisticated very old astronomical computer especially created for solving problems relating to time and the position of the Sun and stars in the sky. It could be used as a navigation tool or to find out how the sky looked at a specific place at a given time. Using scanning technology, researchers from the University of Warwick have now revealed details of the world’s oldest marine navigation tool, discovered in a shipwreck. The astrolabe is a bronze disc, which measures 17.5cm in diameter, and is engraved with the Portuguese coat of arms and the personal emblem of Don Manuel I, the King of Portugal from 1495-1521. It is believed to date from between 1495 and 1500, and was recovered from the wreck of a Portuguese explorer ship which sank during a storm in the Indian Ocean in 1503. The boat was called the Esmeralda and was part of a fleet led by Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, the first person to sail directly from Europe to India.

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Clay Rusty Iron Granite Ruby

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Dogu

Dogu Figurines

Dogu (meaning clay figures) are small humanoid and animal figurines made during the late Jōmon period (14,000–400 BC) of prehistoric Japan. Dogu come exclusively from the Jōmon period. By the Yayoi period, which followed the Jōmon period, Dogu were no longer made. There are various styles of Dogu, depending on exhumation area and time period. According to the National Museum of Japanese History, the total number found throughout Japan is approximately 15,000. Dogu were made across all of Japan, except Okinawa. Most of the Dogu have been found in eastern Japan and it is rare to find one in western Japan. The purpose of the Dogu remains unknown and should not be confused with the clay haniwa funerary objects of the Kofun period (250 – 538).

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Gold Baked Mud Onyx Sandstone

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Griffin

Gold griffin-headed Armlet

This gold bracelet is part of the Oxus treasure, the most important collection of gold and silver to have survived from the Achaemenid period. There is a companion piece in the Victoria and Albert Museum. The bracelets are similar to objects being brought as tribute on reliefs at the Persian centre of Persepolis. The Greek writer Xenophon (born around 430 BC) tells us that armlets were among the items considered as gifts of honour at the Persian court. The hollow spaces would have contained inlays of glass or semi-precious stones. The bracelets are typical of the Achaemenid Persian court style of the fifth to fourth century BC. The companion piece, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, was bought by Captain F.C. Burton when he rescued a group of merchants who had been captured by bandits on the road from Kabul to Peshawar. They were carrying with them the Oxus treasure, which Burton helped them to recover, and so they allowed him to buy this bracelet before going on to sell the remainder of the pieces in Rawalpindi. It was from the bazaars of India that other pieces of the Treasure emerged, reaching the British Museum by a circuitous route.

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Oolitic limestone Peach Marble Puter Turquoise

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Venus of Willendorf

The Venus of Willendorf

An 11.1-centimetre-tall (4.4 in) Venus figurine estimated to have been made between about 28,000 and 25,000 BCE. It was found on August 7, 1908 by a workman named Johann Veran or Josef Veram during excavations conducted by archaeologists Josef Szombathy, Hugo Obermaier and Josef Bayer at a paleolithic site near Willendorf, a village in Lower Austria near the town of Krems. It is carved from an oolitic limestone that is not local to the area, and tinted with red ochre. The figurine is now in the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria. The figure is believed to have been carved during the European Upper Paleolithic, or Old Stone Age, a period of prehistory starting around 30,000 BCE. A wide variety of dates have been proposed. Following a revised analysis of the stratigraphy of the site where the statuette was discovered, carried out in 1990, the figure was estimated to have been carved between 24,000 and 22,000 BCE. More recent estimates push the date back slightly to between about 28,000 and 25,000 BCE.

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