Here are two items in the British museum. One is a beer cup. The docent said in the old days a lot of icky stuff was in the beer and it would float to the top so the cup allows one to drink from the bottom where the good stuff is.

The other item is a tablet of ancient literature many thousands of years old.



These two picture are before and after. In the before, the head-dress is found in its smashed state. The after is what researchers think it looked like.

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