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Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE

Babylonian "duck" weight

circa 2000 BCE

Babylonian "duck" weight

circa 2000 BCE

Babylonian "duck" weight

circa 2000 BCE

Babylonian "duck" weight

circa 2000 BCE

Small Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Small Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, core-type, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, core-type, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, core-type, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, flake type, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Persian pottery measure

circa 3000 BCE

Ancient Sumerian weight (Attic Standard)

circa 2000 BCE

Deer Antler Piercer from Kent, England, Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool from Al-Fayyum in Egypt, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool from Al-Fayyum in Egypt, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool from Al-Fayyum in Egypt, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool from Al-Fayyum in Egypt, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool from Al-Fayyum in Egypt, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool from Al-Fayyum in Egypt, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint blade hand tool, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint blade hand tool, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint blade hand tool, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Replica of Photographer's Headrest by George Knight & Sons

1853 (original); 1978 (copy)

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Six film strips in metal containers

1945-51

Seventeen film strips

1945-55

Pyramidal Loom Weight, Stone Age

5000-500 BCE

Flat-topped Loom Weight, Stone Age

5000-500 BCE

Scottish Bone Comb for Heckling Flax, Neolithic

9000-2700 BCE

Bronze knife, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Swedish subfossil pine sample, 1998; 1600 BCE

1684-1569 BCE; 1998

Model (scale 1:24) of the 12 Zodiacal Dials (Rashivalaya Yantra), with fragments from a figurine belonging to the model

1998-1886

Rigged model of 'Santa Maria'

1920-1923; 1963

Excavated bronze age skull showing 4 healed trephinings, from Jericho, 2200-2000BC

Bronze Age skull from Jericho, Palestine

2200-2000 BCE

Model of Douglas D.C,-3 aircraft, scale 1:24.

Douglas DC-3 'Dakota', late 1930s.

1939-45

Model of English Electric "Lightning" aircraft, scale 1:24.

English Electric Lightning, 1949-1960.

1949-60

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

1979-80

Copy of 1866 Dallmeyer collodion carte-de-visite camera. Stand also replica. Made by Science Museum workshops. NOTE ScM Inv.No.1920-613 used with Shepherd lens, PHL1456.

Replica of 1866 Dallmeyer carte-de-visite camera

1983 (replica); 1866 (original)

Model of English Electric "Canberra" Jet bomber, scale 1:24.

The English Electric Canberra jet bomber, 1950.

1950-59

Faience Eye of Horus amulet, right eye, Egyptian, 4000 BCE-30 BCE

Eye of Horus amulet

4000-30 BCE

Stone amulet, heart, Egyptian, 4000-30BC

Heart-shaped stone amulet, Egyptian

4000-30 BCE

Rigged model, Scale 1:36, of an English Well Smack (after Chapman's Architecture Novalis Mercatoria, 1768), by Major Raban Williams, Ringmore, Devon, England, March 1937. These vessels were used by the fishing fleet of Shetland to bring fish to market as fresh as possible. Therefore they needed to be fast and were built for speed.

Rigged model of an English Well Smack

1936-37

Jasper amulet, thet, Egyptian, 4000-30BC

Thet (or tyet) amulet, Ancient Egyptian, 4000-30 BC.

4000-30 BCE

English delftware syrup jar, decorated in blue and white with the winged angel pattern, labelled V: AEGYPTIA: (Egyptian ointment), used for ulcers especially in the mouth, 1675-1685

English delftware syrup jar

1975-1685

Faience amulet, Anubis, Egyptian, 4000-30BC

Faience amulet, Anubis, Egyptian, 4000-30BC

4000-30 BCE

Lapis lazuli amulet of Thoth, Egyptian, 4000-30BC

Amulet representing the god Thoth

4000-30 BCE

Model of lead-rolling mill worked by four horses, based on descriptions des Arts et Metiers and Encylopedie Methodique, scale 1:16

Model of lead-rolling mill worked by four horses

1988, model; 1701-1800, original

Working model of Watt's parallel motion

Watt's Parallel Motion, 1784

1784 (original); 1986 (model)