History of the World

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Many objects have come to us from ancient times through

the rituals surrounding death. Our knowledge of the

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ancient Egyptians, for example, would be much poorer

but for their habit of burying personal possessions with

the dead. The exquisite decoration and furnishing of

palaces and places of worship has been another rich source

of surviving artifacts. We are also beholden to the desire

of people to record the great events of their own time,

which has given us Trajan’s column in Rome and the

Norman Bayeux Tapestry. Some objects were created to

celebrate heroes or gods, like the statues of ancient Greece

and Rome. Some are exquisite craft work, such as Japanese

Samurai armor and the gold figurines of the West African

Asante. Others are famous puzzles, such as the Rosetta

Stone, which eventually allowed scholars to decipher

Egyptian hieroglyphs.