Near East Antiquities

The ancient Near East, a region extending from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea to present-day Afghanistan centered around the Fertile Crescent, was home to several of the world's oldest civilizations, spanning more than two millennia, from the Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age. Favored with an abundance of natural resources, the people of this region developed metalworking and pottery-making to a level of sophistication unknown elsewhere at the time.

Bronze Age	Byzantine
Cypriot	Holyland
Indus Valley	Iron Age
Luristan	Mesopotamian

Featured Products

3-Handled Krater, Middle Bronze Age	Islamic Glass Vessel	Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age Ladle	Pair of Late Roman/Byzantine Oil Lamps	Early Iranian Bull Askos, Ex-Royal Athena	Cypriotic Terracotta Pilgrim's Flask
Bar Kochba Revolt Coin - Set in Gold, 27 Emeralds

Did you know?

Considered the cradle of civilization, the Ancient Near East was the first to practice intensive year-round agriculture, gave us the first writing system, invented the potter's wheel and then the vehicular- and mill wheel, created the first centralized governments, law codes and empires, as well as introducing social stratification, slavery and organized warfare, and it laid the foundation for the fields of astronomy and mathematics.