24 Ancient and Incredible Things People Saw in Museums

1. This is an ancient Roman doll made of colored ivory. It was found in the sarcophagus of an 8-year-old kid who lived about 1,800 years ago.

2. Mechanical prosthesis from the seventeenth century

3. A child’s tunic with a hood that’s about 1,100 to 1,400 years old

4. Here’s a loaf of bread that’s partially preserved thanks to carbonization. This piece is more than 1,940 years old.

5. A real mask that belonged to a plague doctor in the seventeenth century

6. It’s made of a preserved shoulder of beef and half of a wooden box. This meat is about 3,500 years old. It was found near the entrance to a rock burial in Thebes.

7. Here’s another 3,500-year-old box with food that presumably contained preserved duck.

8. An inkstand with Apollo and the Muses that was made in a workshop of the Patanazzi family in 1584.

9. Miniature linen sheets that are approximately 3,500 years old

10. A portable, boat-shaped arched harp that’s about 3,300 to 3,400 years old

11. The armor of Ferdinand II, the Holy Roman Emperor, that was made in the 1600s in Italy

12. This drawing was made approximately 700 years ago by a 7-year-old boy named Onfim who lived in Novgorod (present-day Russia).

13. Pope Clement XI’s chariot was designed in a sophisticated manner (the period of the papacy, from 1700 to 1721).

14. This oak Viking ship was discovered in 1904 near Tønsberg in Norway. The ship was set afloat in the year 820, approximately.

15. Roman makeup foundation that’s almost 2,000 years old

16. The head of Deinotherium at the Mainz Natural History Museum

17. A Roman glass perfume flask and a 2-part eye makeup container

18. Glass jars for storing essential oils that are approximately 2,000 years old

19. A vessel stand with ibex support made sometime around 2,600 BCE to 2,350 BCE

20. Stone spheres that were found in Scotland — their purpose remains unknown.

21. The table fountain (circa 1727-1732), Meissen Manufactory, Germany

22. This funerary urn from the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca was made between 500 CE and 1,000 CE.

23. Ancient Egyptian mummies of a cat and a dog that are approximately 2,100 to 2,400 years old

24. The Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen has a joke exhibit that contains a mermaid’s skeleton. It’s made of a human skeleton and swordfish bones.