Ambres gravés. La collection du département des Antiquités grecques, étrusques et romaines du musée du Louvre. Egypte Collection «Documents préhistoriques« n°26

Collection «Documents préhistoriques« n°26

III: African islands of the Atlantic Ocean

the only way to learn about the lives of its inhabitants is to understand their mortuary remains and the funerary rituals that accompanied them into the afterlife

elle montre en particulier que la Bible hébraïque

Ambres gravés. La collection du département des Antiquités grecques, étrusques et romaines du musée du Louvre. Egypte Collection «Documents préhistoriques« n°26Amber, highly valued in Antiquity for its decorative qualities and its therapeutic or apotropaic virtues, was often used to make jewelry, amulets, and other prestigious objects. This fossil resin is now the subject of renewed interest. Dating from the orientalizing Etruscan period (c. 1000 BC) to the high Roman imperial period (11th century AD), the rich collection of figurines, jewelry, and engraved instruments in the Louvre Museum provides new data