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The oldest of the figures is the Mesolithic find from Willemstad, North Brabant in the Netherlands and the latest is 13th-century, but most date from between c. 500 BCE and 500 CE. They are found as far west as Ireland (although at least one found in Britain, the Strata Florida figure from Wales, was imported [ citation needed ] ) and as far ...
The earliest gold artifacts were discovered at the site of Wadi Qana in the Levant. [13] Silver is estimated to have been discovered in Asia Minor shortly after copper and gold. [14] There is evidence that iron was known from before 5000 BC. [15] The oldest known iron objects used by humans are some beads of meteoric iron, made in Egypt in ...
Ancient Greek furniture was typically constructed out of wood, though it might also be made of stone or metal, such as bronze, iron, gold, and silver. Little wood survives from ancient Greece, though varieties mentioned in texts concerning Greece and Rome include maple , oak , beech , yew , and willow . [ 56 ]
Unique is the round bronze sculpture belonging to the middle of the II millennium BC. The realism, that was characteristic of the ancient art of Armenia of this era reached to an admirable expressiveness. Metal-plastic samples were made of melted bronze with high fluidity, in wax molds, which implied that each of them was unique and unrepeatable.
A spectacular collection of furniture and wooden artifacts was excavated by the University of Pennsylvania at the site of Gordion (Latin: Gordium), the capital of the ancient kingdom of Phrygia in the early first millennium BC. The best preserved of these works came from three royal burials, surviving nearly intact due to the relatively stable ...
Indigenous Americans had been using native metals from ancient times, with recent finds of gold artifacts in the Andean region dated to 2155–1936 BC, [1] and North American copper finds being dated to approximately 5000 BC. [2] The metal would have been found in nature without the need for smelting, and shaped into the desired form using hot ...
The most “unique” artifacts included an animal hide shoe, bark baskets and an antler shaped like an ice pick, researchers said. Melting ice reveals dozens of 7,000-year-old artifacts in Canada ...
3300–2800 BC: National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology: Set 1, 2017 (SOAR) 5: Neolithic bag: 3800–2500 BC: National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology: 6: Basket earrings: c. 2300 BC: National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology: 7: Pair of gold discs: 2200–2000 BC: National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology: Set 1, 2017 ('N' rate) 8 ...