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2. Ancient furniture - Wikipedia

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   Ancient Egyptian tables. Based on sculptures from Thebes. Tables were rare in ancient Egypt. The earliest Egyptian tables were carved from stone and made with very low projections to keep the table surface off the ground. Later, in the Old Kingdom, tables would develop longer legs and be braced with a stretcher between them.

3. Oil lamp - Wikipedia

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   The ancient Chinese created oil lamps with a refillable reservoir and a fibrous wick, giving the lamp a controlled flame. Lamps were constructed from jade, bronze, ceramic, wood, stone, and other materials. The largest oil lamp excavated so far is one discovered in a 4th-century tomb located in modern Pingshan, Hebei.

4. List of museums of Egyptian antiquities - Wikipedia

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   Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, Egypt: Over 100,000 artifacts [1] (due to being partly opened in 2018, currently housed in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo); British Museum, London, England: Over 100,000 artifacts [2] (not including the 2001 donation of the six million artifact Wendorf Collection of Egyptian and Sudanese Prehistory) [3] [4]

5. List of Egyptian inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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   Furniture became common first in Ancient Egypt during the Naqada culture. [182] During that period a wide variety of furniture pieces were invented and used. Tables — Some very early tables were made and used by the ancient Egyptians [183] around 2500 BC, using wood and alabaster. [184]

6. Table (furniture) - Wikipedia

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   Roman dining table: mensa lunata Large 17th-century English folding tables. Some very early tables were made and used by the Ancient Egyptians [4] around 2500 BC, using wood and alabaster. [5] They were often little more than stone platforms used to keep objects off the floor, though a few examples of wooden tables have been found in tombs.

7. Furniture - Wikipedia

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   The variety of Byzantine furniture is pretty big: tables with square, rectangle or round top, sumptuous decorated, made of wood sometimes inlaid, with bronze, ivory or silver ornaments; chairs with high backs and with wool blankets or animal furs, with coloured pillows, and then banks and stools; wardrobes were used only for storing books ...