3400 yo painter's palette from ancient Egypt, Amenhotep III era.

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The world's oldest surviving toy, dating back to the Chalcolithic Period around 5500-3000 BCE, approximately 7500

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Mardin Museum in Turkey
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A 28,000 years old; Stone Phallus, discovered in Germany

The 20cm long, 3cm wide stone object, which was dated to around 28,000 years old, was buried in the famous Hohle Fels Cave near Ulm in Germany's Swabian Jura region. The prehistoric 'tool' was reassembled from 14 fragments of siltstone. Its life size suggested that it may well have been used as a sex aid by its makers, people of Gravettian culture.

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The bones of a cat were found near human bones in a grave uncovered in Cyprus,dating from 7,500 to 7,000 B.C.This is the oldest known evidence of the taming of cats.The evidence comes from the neolithic village of Shillourokambos which was inhabited from the 9th to the 8th millennium B.C

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A 5200-year-old pottery bowl from Shahr-e Sukhteh bearing what could possibly be the world's oldest example of animation. It shows 5 images of a wild goat leaping, and if you put them in a sequence (like a flip book), the wild goat leaps to nip leaves off a tree. Museum of Ancient Iran

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This is an extraordinary child’s drawing on an ostracon. It was found in Athribis, Egypt, dated 1st c. BCE to 2nd c. AD

Ostraca (plural for ostracon) are pottery fragments used as surfaces for writing or drawing. They were used as notepads for private letters, laundry lists, records of purchases, and copies of literary works.

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Tassili n'Ajjer Sahara Cave painting. 12000-7000 years old.

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A pair of earrings from a tomb in Tillya Tepe. About 2000 years old, gold and turquoise, part of the collection of the National Museum of Afghanistan

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A Roman helmet of the Montefortino type pulled from the sea off Sicily, it is believed to have been worn by a soldier during the Battle of the Aegates of 241 B.C.

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A 5,500-year-old leather shoe – complete with laces – has been unearthed in cave in Armenia.The perfectly preserved shoe – 1,000 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza and 400 years older than Stonehenge.

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