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Persian pottery measure

circa 3000 BCE
Excavated bronze age skull showing 4 healed trephinings, from Jericho, 2200-2000BC

Bronze Age skull from Jericho, Palestine

2200-2000 BCE
Bronze adze blade probably early dynastic, c.3000 B.C.

Bronze adze blad

circa 3000 BCE
Two flint drill Heads and Sandstone Block used for testing similar drills, found on the site of the Temple of Zoser Saqqara, c.3000 BCE

Sandstone blockhead

3000 BCE
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
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
Carnelian amulet, djed pillar, Egyptian, 4000-30BC

Carnelian amulet, djed, Egyptian, 4000-30BC

4000-30 BCE
Faience amulet, Anubis, Egyptian, 4000-30BC

Faience amulet, Anubis, Egyptian, 4000-30BC

4000-30 BCE
Faience amulet, Bes, Egyptian, 4000 to 30 BC

Faience amulet, Bes, Egyptian, 4000 to 30 BC

4000-30 BCE
Bones of human left foot, showing effects of osteoarthritis, said to be predynastic Egyptian, 4000-2001 BC

Human bones with osteoarthritis

4000-2001 BCE
Excavated neolithic skull, showing healed trephining and recovery from bad fracture, perhaps British, 3500-2001BC

Excavated neolithic skull

3500-2001 BCE
Iron age axehead, bronze Eastern Europe, Bronze Age.

Iron age axehead

3300-1200 BCE
Green slate cosmetic grinding slab in form of two pigeons, Egyptian, 4000-3000 BCE

Green slate cosmetic grinding slab in form of two pigeons

4000-3000 BCE
Part of cake made of compacted figs, probably grave goods, Egyptian, 3500BC to 1500BC

Part of cake made of compacted figs

3500-1500
4 human urinary calculi from prehistoric cemetery of Gebel-Moya, Sudan, from a late Neolithic combined cemetery and settlement locality in south-central Sudan. It was excavated from 1911-14 over four seasons by Sir Henry Wellcome

Human Stones from excavation at Jebel Moya, 1911-1914

5000-1 BCE
2 pieces of incomplete metatarsal bone, sharing exostosis, from prehistoric cemetery at Gebel-Moya, Sudan

2 pieces of incomplete metatarsal bone

5000-1 BCE
Jasper amulet, thet, Egyptian, 4000-30BC

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

4000-30 BCE
Mummy, infant female, said to be Egyptian, 3000-1000 BCE (see note).

Mummified remains, ancient Egyptian or Peruvian

3000-1000 BCE
Bronze chisel and sharpening stone, found on the site of the Temple of Zoser, Saqqara, Egypt, c. 3000 BCE

Bronze chisel and sharpening stone

3000 BCE
Framed plaster copy of Egyptian bas relief showing surgical instruments, European, 1801-1930

Framed plaster copy of Egyptian bas relief showing surgical instruments

2500-1000
Metatarsus, human, with tumour, late stone age, from underground chamber, Hal-Saflieui, Malta, excavated circa 1920

Metatarsus, human, with tumour

3600-2500 BCE
Faience amulet, eye, Egyptian, 4000-30BC

Eye amulet

4000-30 BCE
Faience amulet, plaque of Anubis, Egyptian, 4000-30BC

Faience amulet

4000-30 BCE
Plaster copy of statue of the 5th dynasty Egyptian priest Anisakha, original in Egyptian Museum Cairo 2600-2300 BCE

Plaster copy of statue of the 5th dynasty Egyptian priest Anisakha

2600-2300 BCE
Faience amulet, Isis nursing infant Horus, Egyptian, 4000 to 30 BC

Faience amulet

4000-30 BCE
Bas relief (copy) showing surgical operations, from tomb of Ankhmahor, Saqqara, Egypt, 6th Dynasy, 2600-2400BC

Bas relief (copy) showing surgical operations

2600-2400 BCE
Plaster cast of Egyptian statue of seated robed man

Plaster cast of Egyptian statue

3000-500 BCE
Seated statue (copy) of chief Egyptian physician Nin-ankh-re, 6th Dynasty, Egypt, 2600-2400BC

Seated statue (copy) of chief Egyptian physician Nin-ankh-re

2600-2400 BCE
Stone herm or pillar, in form of a satyr, with a serpent entwined around lower half, was set up on Nadside to protect bracelet from evil, found on site of Forum of Augustus, Rome, 23BC-14

Stone herm or pillar

23-14
Faience amulet, djed, Egyptian, 4000-30BC

Faience amulet, djed, Egyptian, 4000-30BC

4000-30 BCE
Deer-antler pick, used in flint mining from Grimes Graves

Deer-antler pick, used in flint mining from Grimes Graves

3000-1900 BCE
Excavated portion of neolithic cranium, showing shanks of bone disease, French, 3500-2001BC

Excavated portion of neolithic cranium

3500-2001 BCE
Egyptian funerary statue of man and wife, granite, Old Kingdom, from plain of Memphis

Egyptian funerary statue of man and wife

4000-1000 BCE
Possibly neolithic skull showing large trephined hole, 3500-2001BC

Possibly neolithic skull showing large trephined hole

3500-2001 BCE
Coin. Gold, of Britain. Obv. (concave), a horse galloping, palm branch and pellet above, inscribed CVNO. (Cunobelinus, king of the Trinobantes); rev., (convex), an ear of bearded wheat, CAMV. (Camulodunum, or Colchester). Struck about A.D. 30 (?). Diam. 5/8 in. 4.1 grams. 71. 7s. V&A no. 6712-1857.

Ancient British Gold Coin of Cunobelinus

30 CE
5 dried dates on tissue paper in glass container with lid, probably grave goods, Egyptian, 3500BC to 1500BC

5 dried dates on tissue paper in glass container with lid

3500-1500
Part of skull showing depressed fracture, prehistoric cemetery, Gebel Moya. From a late Neolithic combined cemetery and settlement locality in south-central Sudan. It was excavated from 1911-14 over four seasons by Sir Henry Wellcome

Skull from excavation at Jebel Moya, 1911-1914

5000-1 BCE
2 pieces of metatarsal bone, showing extosis, from prehistoric cemetery at Gebel-Moya, Sudan

2 pieces of metatarsal bone

5000-1 BCE