The show includes one spurious work that Mr. Wilson thinks the collector bought knowingly a 20th-century imitation of an ancient turquoise-inlaid bronze plaque with "taotie" (a mask motif) from the late Erlitou culture, Henan province, 1800-1600 B.

WSJ: The Craft Collector | One Man's Search for Ancient China | Sackler Gallery | By Lee Rosenbaum

If you have time, it is only a short 2km drive from here to the little-visited ruins of Khirbet Mukhayyat, believed to be the original ancient town of Nebo, settled since the early Bronze Age.

BBC: Travelling the slow route to Petra

Statuettes in bronze and terracotta emphasise such mundane details as the sophistication of ancient hair-styles and a wrestler's technique for throwing an opponent.

ECONOMIST: Alexandria

Some 20, 000 pieces--including arms, armour, ceramics, earthenware, seals and decorative arts from ancient Persia, Mamluk Egypt and the Mughal emperors in India and Kuwait of the Bronze Age--were packed in crates and driven to the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad in a 17-lorry convoy.

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