We toured nearby Nairn, a fishing port ruled for centuries by the Roses, then drove through fields to the Bronze-Age Clava Cairns, two bus-size circles of stones set within an eerily silent grove.
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.
They were used all over again in the late Bronze Age (1200-800 BC) as cremation cemeteries and cremation pyres.
The collapse of early Bronze Age civilizations in modern-day Greece, India and Greece have been theoretically linked to abrupt climate changes about 4, 200 years ago.
At the foot of the red rock, there are remains dating back thousands of years: a Romano-Celtic temple, Bronze Age walls and structures built as long ago as the Neolithic period.
The museum's collection comprises more than 6, 300 objects including pre-historic tools, Bronze Age, Roman and Saxon artefacts, maps, textiles, books, paintings and prints, together with objects and ephemera from before Victorian times up to World War II, the 1950s and the present day.
The 4, 000-year-old remains of the Bronze Age grave or cist, which were found in a peat bog, are set to rewrite the history books.
By the end of 2005 they had some 300 items - from the Neolithic Era, the Bronze Age, the Roman period and medieval times.
Y. systems engineer Michael Crisafulli , 55, a history buff, has taken a volunteer trip nearly every year since 1991-including the 1994 excavation of a Bronze Age site in Borja, Spain where he met his wife, Karen, a teacher.
Items also declared treasure by Norfolk's assistant deputy coroner David Osborne included an Anglo-Saxon silver pin found in Scoulton, a Middle Bronze Age Gold Bead discovered in Salthouse and a hoard of 59 silver Roman coins that date from the Roman Republic to Tiberius, the second emperor of Rome.
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Nothing has taken our collective mind off the endless economic and political suckitude like this lovable crew of Bronze Age cave people pierced and tattooed and unsophisticated and fake-tanned but all heart.
Both pots - known as collared urns - could be up to 4, 000 years old and were typically used in early Bronze age cremation burials.
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