Archaeological artefacts

Type 2 sino-bezoars are the far more common variety. These occur within the enteric tract of an individual from the appropriate geographically restricted area. These have been well documented (Grupka et al.). ...more on Wikipedia about "Sino-bezoar"

::This article is about the stone structure. Stele is also a concept in plant biology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Stele"

The Thebes tablets are clay tablets, discovered in the city of Thebes, with inscriptions in the Mycenaean language in the Linear B script, dating to the 13th century BC. ...more on Wikipedia about "Thebes tablets"

The Venus of Berekhat Ram is a proposed small venus figurine that was found on the Golan Heights. ...more on Wikipedia about "Venus of Berekhat Ram"

The Venus of Tan-Tan was found in Morocco. It is 6 centimeters long, gender indeterminate and headless, and has been dated between 300,000 and 500,000 BCE. It and its contemporary, the Venus of Berekhat Ram, might be the earliest representations of the human form. ...more on Wikipedia about "Venus of Tan-Tan"

The Venus of Willendorf, also known as the Woman of Willendorf, is a 11.1 cm (4 3/8 inches) high statuette of a female figure, discovered at a paleolithic site near Willendorf, Austria, in 1908 by archaeologist Josef Szombathy. It is carved from an oolitic limestone that is not local to the region, and tinted with red ochre. ...more on Wikipedia about "Venus of Willendorf"

The Visby lenses are ten lens-shaped rock crystals found in a viking grave in Gotland dating from the 10th century. Some of them are mounted in silver and may have been carried as a pendant, but others appear not to have been used as jewelry. The lenses are almost perfectly elliptical and very similar to modern lenses. They may have been used for magnification, to start fire or in a telescope. ...more on Wikipedia about "Visby lenses"

Yetholm-type shields are artefacts dating from 1200-800 BC during the bronze age. Some twenty shields of this type have been discovered, all from the British Isles except for one find in Denmark. The shields vary significantly in size, but the shields are otherwise very similar in the details of their design. Shields of this type are named for Yetholm in southern Scotland where a peat bog yielded three examples. ...more on Wikipedia about "Yetholm-type shields"

The Zayit Stone is a 38-pound limestone boulder excavated from Tel Zayit ( Zeitah) in southwest Israel (the Beth Guvrin Valley about 35 miles from Jerusalem), territory belonging to the kingdom of Judah, with an incised Paleo-Hebrew abecedary (19 letters carved in the first line; 3 in the second line with 2 terminating symbols) and remnants of several other inscriptions (3 words plus 2 pairs of terminating symbols): ...more on Wikipedia about "Zayit Stone"

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