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Do Empires Need Wars?
Oil container (Aryballos)
Trade, Movement and Exchange
Dish showing Dionysos
Trade, Movement and Exchange
Dish showing Ariadne
Byzantium: The New Rome and Its Trade Links
Heraclius
Byzantium: The New Rome and Its Trade Links
Pegasus
Byzantium: The New Rome and Its Trade Links
Dionysos (Bacchus)
Byzantium: The New Rome and Its Trade Links
Herakles
Trade Within India
Justinian I
Trade Within India
Tiberius
Indo-Roman Trade
Roman mosaic with Bacchus, Roman God of Wine
Do Empires Need Wars?
A wig in stone
Do Empires Need Wars?
Sword
Do Empires Need Wars?
Horse
Empire: Projecting Power
Cyrus Cylinder (replica)
Do Empires Need Wars?
Chariot Fitting
Do Empires Need Wars?
A guard of honour for Pharaoh Queen Hatshepsut
Do Empires Need Wars?
Assyrians attacking a Babylonian city
Empire: Projecting Power
Letter from king Aziru to the pharaoh of Egypt
Empire: Projecting Power
Inscription of Ashurnasirpal II from Nimrud
Empire: Projecting Power
Ashokan Edict No. IX
Empire: Projecting Power
Vima Kadphises
Empire: Projecting Power
Samudraguta playing the lyre
Empire: Projecting Power
Samudraguta with his queen
Empire: Projecting Power
Portrait Bust of Emperor Augustus (63 BCE – 14 CE)
Empire: Projecting Power
Fragmentary portrait of Gudea
Empire: Projecting Power
Bust of an Egyptian Pharoah (king)
Empire: Projecting Power
Bust of Julius Caesar (replica)
Empire: Projecting Power
Alexander
Empire: Projecting Power
Lamp showing a man with a horse
Empire: Projecting Power
Lamp showing a lion attacking a crocodile
Empire: Projecting Power
Lamp showing two gladiators
Later Civilisations of Land and Sea
Rhyton with caracal cat
Later Civilisations of Land and Sea
Rhyton with ibex
Later Civilisations of Land and Sea
Unknown Sasanian king
Later Civilisations of Land and Sea
Engraved seal
Later Civilisations of Land and Sea
Two servants
Mesopotamia – The Land of the Two Rivers
Two-axle war chariot
Mesopotamia – The Land of the Two Rivers
Temple Mooring Peg
Later Civilisations of Land and Sea
Bowl