The bronze disc is the base plate of a bronze mirror, that was once attached to a handle and coated with a reflective metal layer. Typical for upper class Roman households during Imperial times.

Big hand axe from Niger. Made during the Old Stone Age, around 200,000 years ago. The universal stone age tool could be use as a borer or cutting tool.

Compact stone axe from the 3rd Millenium BC. Found on the Danish island of Moen.

Gorgeous axe head made of polished dark rock. Made by the Single Grave culture and found in northern Germany.

Elegantly shaped chisel with two polished sides. Made of dark flint. Approx. 3400 to 2400 BC.

Polished axe made of beautiful brown flint. It was found more than 100 years ago near the town of Luetzow.

The finely worked long blade was found in Luetzow in Northern Germany. The artefact was made towards the end of the Neolithic.

Elegantly shaped chisel with two polished sides. Made of grey flint. Approx. 3400 to 2400 BC.

Crescent-shaped blade made of beautiful grey flint. This tool represents an intermediate state within the radical transition from Neolithic to Bronze Age.

Small crescent-shaped blade made of beautiful grey flint. This tool represents an intermediate state within the radical transition from Neolithic to Bronze Age.

Nice polished axe from brown flint. It was found more than 100 years ago near the town of Luetzow.

Nicely worked flint dagger from the transitional period between Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. Jungshoved on the Danish Island of Moen was the find spot.

Extremely well preserved piece from a Bronze Age hoard found in Manston, UK. 1400 to 1150 BC.

Nicely worked flint dagger of type III. Sprove on the Danish Island of Moen was the find spot. 1700 to 1500 BC.

Extremely well preserved piece from a Bronze Age hoard found in Manston, UK. 1400 to 1150 BC. This axe belongs to a very rare type.

Extremely well preserved piece from a Bronze Age hoard found in Manston, UK. 1400 to 1150 BC.

The zoomorphic axehead from Mesopotamia is an exceedingly rare variety of the Naram-Sin type. Akkadian Empire, around 2300 BC.

Extremely well preserved piece from a Bronze Age hoard found in Manston, UK. 1400 to 1150 BC.

Workpiece of an artisan for grinding materials. A very similar grinding palette was found in Abydos. From the inventory of the Falmouth Museum.

The universal tool of the older Stone age. It could be used as a borer or a cutter. Approx. 500,000 to 200,000 BC.

The object is a trapezoid thick-butted thin bladed axe head dating to the Passage Grave Period to Dagger Period. 3200 to 1950 BC.

The compact axe head is made of beautiful and polished green-black stone with white veins. Late Neolithic to Copper Age.

The small tool from the younger Stone Age has a nicely polished surface revealing the beautiful black stone it is made of. Approx. 4200 to 2400 BC.

The stone age tool of the younger Funnel beaker culture or Single Grave culture is exceptional because if its material. It is made of beautiful finely polished green stone.

Halfmoon shaped blade with fine edges. Nice and typical example for this neolithic type of tool.

Very well preserved axe head. Late Bronze Age, 10th to 9th cent. BC.

Excellently preserved, massive bronze, stable. Workshop mark "N" on the reverse.

Beautifully decorated with tendrils and a dolphin

Large piece in very good condition with nice patina. On display in "Ex Oriente Lux" exhibition, published in the corresponding catalogue.

Well preserved small bronze scale. Including two dished pans decorated with incised concentric rings.

Very well preserved axe head. Late Bronze Age, 10th to 9th cent. BC.

Very well preserved axe head. Late Bronze Age, 10th to 9th cent. BC.

Big paleolithic hand axe. The universal stone age tool could be use as a borer or cutting tool. Around 500,000 to 200,000 BC.

The elaborate decorations are contrary to the actual use as a pick. The object is from the class of pseudo tools common in Iran at the end of the 2nd millenium BC. It probably served a ritualistic purpose.

The so-called specillum is a surgical probe. It was standard issue for roman doctors. Similar probes are still in use today. 1st to 4th cent. AD.

The so-called specillum was standard issue for roman doctors. Similar probes are still in use today. Very fine craftsmanship of an ancient surgical instrument.