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Antiquity means different items: Typically it means "ancient history", and can be utilized of any period before the Middle Ages. Most usually it means a classical antiquity of Greece and Rome. It can likewise become utilized to refer to various periods of ancient history, prefer Ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia or other early civilizations of the Near East. These are less ordinarily seen for civilizations of the Far East. The term could besides exist as utilized of archaeological objects from ancient cultures. Antiquity (journal) is also the title of a quarterly journal of archeologic locate. [http://antiquity.ac.uk/] Antiquities is also the placed in the popular CCG Magic: The Gathering.

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Museum of Cycladic Art
Ancient Aegean sculpture and artifacts.

The Nicholas P. Goulandris Foundation
Houses the collections of Cycladic and ancient Greek art belonging to Nicholas and Aikaterini Goulandris. The Cycladic collection is ancient art from the Cyclades Island culture between 3200 and 200 b.c.e.

The Acropolis Museum
Houses masterpieces of ancient Greek civilization and art, including sculptures, friezes, and figurines.

Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
Attached to the University of Oxford. Antiquities collections range from Palaeolithic to Victorian, from Egypt to Britain.

The Museum of National Antiquities
Antiquities museum in Stockholm, Sweden. Includes exhibits, activities, collection information, and a virtual tour.

Museum of Antiquities, University of Saskatchewan
Features full scale replicas of Greek, Roman, and Medieval sculpture, the originals of which are housed in such famous museums as the British Museum and the Louvre.

The Shefton Museum of Greek Art and Archaeology
With a collection of over 800 examples of Greek art and archaeology, the museum has gained international notice for its important collection from the Greek world.

The Menil Collection
Houses and exhibits the permanent collection of John and Dominique de Menil, including art from antiquity, the Byzantine world, tribal cultures, and the twentieth century. In Houston, Texas.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This museum in New York has large collections of ancient art, including Greek, Roman and Near Eastern. Online descriptions and highlights of the collections, current exhibitions and visitor information.

The Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology
Fourth finest collection of Greek ceramics in Britain, attached to the University of Reading's Classics department. History of the museum, plan and description of exhibits, schools information and tour.


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