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3.
Olduvai Handaxe

Gamble, C.,
Timewalkers: The Prehistory of Global Colonization
(London, 1995)

Stringer, Chris,
Homo Britannicus: The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain
(London, 2006)

4.
Swimming Reindeer

Bahn, Paul, and Jean Vertut,
Journey Through the Ice Age
(London, 1997)

Cook, Jill,
The Swimming Reindeer
(London, 2010)

5.
Clovis Spear Point

Haynes, Gary,
The Early Settlement of North America
:
The Clovis Era
(Cambridge, 2002)

Meltzer, David,
First Peoples in a New World. Colonizing Ice Age America
(Berkeley, 2009)

6.
Bird-shaped Pestle

Barker, Graeme,
The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why Did Foragers Become Farmers?
(Oxford, 2007)

Bellwood, Paul,
The First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies
(Oxford, 2005)

7.
Ain Sakhri Lovers Figurine

Hodder, Ian,
The Domestication of Europe
(London, 1991)

Watkins, Trevor, ‘From Foragers to Complex Societies in Southwest Asia’, in C. Scarre (ed.),
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8.
Egyptian Clay Model of Cattle

Check, Erika, ‘Human Evolution: How Africa Learned to Love the Cow’,
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Wengrow, David,
The Archaeology of Early Egypt: Social Transformations in North-East Africa, 10,000–2,650
BC
(Cambridge, 2006)

9.
Maya Maize God Statue

Barker, Graeme,
The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why Did Foragers Become Farmers?
(Oxford, 2007)

Tetlock, Dennis,
Popol Vuh
(New York, 1996)

10.
Jomon Pot

Habu, Junko,
Ancient Jomon of Japan
(Cambridge, 2004)

Kobayashi, Tatsuo,
Jomon Reflections: Forager Life and Culture in the Prehistoric Japanese Archipelago
(Oxford, 2004)

11.
King Den’s Sandal Label

Kemp, Barry,
Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization
(London, 2005)

Wilkinson, T.,
Early Dynastic Egypt
(London, 2001)

12.
Standard of Ur

Crawford, Harriet,
Sumer and Sumerians
(Cambridge, 2004)

Zettler, Richard, and Lee Horne (eds.),
Treasures from the Royal Tomb at Ur
(Philadelphia, 1998)

13.
Indus Seal

Possehl, Gregory,
The Indus Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective
(Walnut Creek, 2002)

Wright, Rita,
The Ancient Indus: Urbanism Economy and Society
(Cambridge, 2010)

14.
Jade Axe

Edmonds, Mark,
Stone Tools and Society: Working Stone in Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain
(London, 1995)

Sheridan, Alison, ‘Green Treasures from Magic Mountains’,
British Archaeology
, 96 (2007), 22–7

15.
Early Writing Tablet

Schmandt-Besserat, Denise,
When Writing Met Art: From Symbol to Story
(Austin, 2007)

Robinson, Andrew,
The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs and Pictograms
(London, 2007)

16.
Flood Tablet

George, Andrew,
The Epic of Gilgamesh
(London, 2003)

Mitchell, T. C.,
The Bible in the British Museum: Interpreting the Evidence
(London, 2004)

17.
Rhind Mathematical Papyrus

Imhausen, Annette,
Mathematics in Ancient Egypt
(Princeton, 2010)

Robins, Gay, and Charles Shute,
The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus
(London, 1987)

18.
Minoan Bull-leaper

Fitton, J. Lesley,
Minoans
(London, 2002)

Rice, Michael,
The Power of the Bull
(Oxford, 1998)

19.
Mold Gold Cape

Bradley, Richard,
The Prehistory of Britain and Ireland
(Cambridge, 2007)

Needham, Stuart, ‘The Development of Embossed Goldwork in Bronze Age Europe’,
Antiquaries Journal,
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20.
Statue of Ramesses II

Tyldesley, Joyce,
Ramesses: Egypt’s Greatest Pharaoh
(London, 2000)

Van der Mieroop, Marc,
The Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of Ramesses II
(London, 2009)

21.
Lachish Reliefs

Collins, Paul,
Assyrian Palace Sculptures
(London, 2009)

Collins, Paul,
From Egypt to Babylon: The International Age 1550–500
BC
(London, 2008)

22.
Sphinx of Taharqo

Bonnet, Charles, and Dominique Valbelle,
The Nubian Pharaohs: Black Kings on the Nile
(Cairo, 2006)

Welsby, Derek,
The Kingdom of Kush: The Napatan and Meroitic Empires
(London, 2002)

23.
Chinese Zhou Ritual Vessel

Von Falkenhausen, Lothar,
Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000–250
BC
)
(Los Angeles, 2006)

Hsu, Cho-yun, and Katheryn Linduff,
Western Chou Civilization
(New Haven, 1988)

24.
Paracas Textile

Moseley, M. E.,
The Incas and Their Ancestors: The Archaeology of Peru
(London, 2001)

Paul, Anne,
Paracas Ritual Attire: Symbols of Authority in Ancient Peru
(Norman, Oklahoma, 1990)

25.
Gold Coin of Croesus

Seaford, Richard,
Money and the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Tragedy, and Philosophy
(Cambridge, 2004)

Schaps, David,
The Invention of Coinage and the Monetization of Ancient Greece
(Michigan, 2004)

26.
Oxus Chariot Model

Briant, Pierre,
From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire
(Winona Lake, 2002)

Curtis, John,
Ancient Persia
(London, 2000)

27.
Parthenon Sculpture: Centaur and Lapith

Beard, Mary,
The Parthenon
(London, 2004)

Jenkins, Ian,
The Parthenon Sculptures in the British Museum
(London, 2007)

28.
Basse-Yutz Flagons

James, Simon,
The World of the Celts
(London, 2005)

Megaw, Ruth and Vincent,
Celtic Art from Its Beginnings to the Book of Kells
(London, 2001)

29.
Olmec Stone Mask

Diehl, Richard,
The Olmecs: America’s First Civilization
(London, 2004)

Pool, Christopher,
Olmec Archaeology and Early Mesoamerica
(Cambridge, 2007)

30.
Chinese Bronze Bell

von Falkenhausen, Lothar,
Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000–250
BC
)
(Los Angeles, 2006)

So, Jenny F.,
Music in the Age of Confucius
(Washington, 2000)

31.
Coin with Head of Alexander

Bosworth, A. B.,
The Legacy of Alexander: Politics, Warfare, and Propaganda Under the Successors
(Oxford, 2005)

Lane Fox, Robin,
Alexander the Great
(London, 2006)

32.
Pillar of Ashoka

Wood, Michael,
The Story of India
(London, 2007)

Thapar, Romila
, A’soka and the Decline of the Mauryas
(Oxford, 1998)

33.
Rosetta Stone

Parkinson, Richard,
The Rosetta Stone
(London 2005)

Thompson, Dorothy J., ‘Literacy and Power in Ptolemaic Egypt’
,
in Alan K. Bowman and Greg Woolf (eds.),
Literacy and Power in the Ancient World (
Cambridge, 1994) pp. 67–83

34.
Chinese Han Lacquer Cup

Barbieri Low, Anthony,
Artisans in Early Imperial China
(Washington DC, 2007)

Lewis, Mark Edward,
The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han
(Harvard, 2007)

35.
Head of Augustus

Eck, W.,
Age of Augustus
(London, 2007)

Southern, Pat,
Augustus
(New York, 1998)

36.
Warren Cup

Clarke, John R.,
Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art 100
BC
–
AD
250
(Berkeley, 1998)

Williams, Dyfri,
The Warren Cup
(London, 2006)

37.
North American Otter Pipe

Milner, G.,
The Moundbuilders: Ancient Peoples of Eastern North America
(London, 2004)

Rafferty, Sean, and Rob Mann,
Smoking and Culture: The Archaeology of Tobacco Pipes in Eastern North America
(Knoxville, 2004)

38.
Ceremonial Ballgame Belt

Evans, Susan Toby,
Ancient Mexico and Central America: Archaeology and Culture
(London, 2004)

Whittington, E. Michael,
The Sport of Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ballgame
(London, 2001)

39.
Admonitions Scroll

Lewis, M. A.,
China Between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties
(Boston, 2009)

McCausland, Shane,
First Masterpiece of Chinese Painting: The Admonitions Scroll
(London, 2003)

40.
Hoxne Pepper Pot

Johns, Catherine,
The Hoxne Late Roman Treasure: Gold Jewellery and Silver Plate
(London, 2010)

Tomber, Roberta,
Indo-Roman Trade: from Pots to Pepper
(London, 2008)

41.
Seated Buddha from Gandhara

Berendt, Karl A.,
The Art of Gandhara in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
(New York, 2007)

Zwalf, Vladimir,
Buddhism: Art and Faith
(London, 1985)

42.
Gold Coins of Kumaragupta I

Thapar, Romila,
The Penguin History of Early India: From the Origins to
AD
1300
(London, 2002)

Willis, Michael,
The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual
(Cambridge, 2009)

43.
Silver Plate Showing Shapur II

Daryaee, Touyaj,
Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
(London, 2009)

Harper, Prudence O.,
In search of a Cultural Identity: Monuments and Artefacts of the Sasanian Near East, 3rd to 7th century
AD
(New York, 2006)

44.
Hinton St Mary Mosaic

Petts, David,
Christianity in Roman Britain
(Stroud, 2003)

Mattingly, David,
An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire
(London, 2007)

45.
Arabian Bronze Hand

Gunter, A. C. (ed.),
Caravan Kingdoms: Yemen and the Ancient Incense Trade (
Washington, 2005)

Simpson, St John,
Queen of Sheba: Treasures from Ancient Yemen
(London, 2002)

46.
Gold Coins of Abd al-Malik

Crone, P., and M. Hinds,
God’s Caliph: Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam
(Cambridge, 2003)

Robinson, Chase F.,
Abd al-Malik
(Oxford, 2005)

47.
Sutton Hoo Helmet

Carver, Martin,
Sutton Hoo: Burial Ground of Kings
(London, 2000)

Campbell, James,
The Anglo Saxons
(London, 1991)

Marzinzik, Sonja,
The Sutton Hoo Helmet
(London, 2007)

48.
Moche Warrior Pot

Bawden, G.,
The Moche
(Cambridge, 1999)

Bourget, S., and K. L. Jones (eds.),
The Art and Archaeology of the Moche
(Austin, 2008)

49.
Korean Roof Tile

Nelson, Sarah Milledge,
The Archaeology of Korea
(Cambridge, 1993)

Portal, Jane,
Korea: Art and Archaeology
(London, 2000)

Seth, Michael J.,
A Concise History of Korea: From the Neolithic Period to the Nineteenth Century
(Lanham, 2006)

50.
Silk Princess Painting

Baumer, Christoph,
The Southern Silk Road: In the Steps of Sir Aurel Stein and Sven Hedin
(Bangkok, 2000)

Vainker, S.,
Chinese Silk: A Cultural History
(London, 2004)

51.
Maya Relief of Royal Blood-letting

Grube, Nilolai, and Simon Martin,
Chronicle of the Mayan Kings and Queens: Deciphering the Dynasties of the Ancient Maya
(London, 2008)