Assorted small objects from the Oxus treasure The Oxus treasure is the most important surviving collection of Achaemenid Persian metal...

This elaborately decorated headdress (aka the Loeb Diadem) from the Crimean Peninsula is one of the most magnificent works of gold that ...

Depiction of ancient Chinese concubines A tomb that tells the remarkable story of a Ming Dynasty 'superwoman' has been uncovered...

A gold fibula, decorated with the figure of a naked warrior, wearing a Celtic helmet, with a scabbard suspended from his waist and carryi...

The kylix was used by ancient Greeks in  the symposium (drinking party) is one of the Treasures of Vix. The painting is of Amazon...

Varna Man and the Wealthiest Grave of the 5th Millennium BC In the 1970s, archaeologists in Bulgaria stumbled upon a vast Copper Age ...

In 1917 Carl Faberge had already fashioned the Birch Egg for the Dowager queen, Tsarina maria and was fashioning a beautiful Tsarevich Alex...