They come from all over southern Italy, and they date to between the Archaic period (roughly 650 to 480 B.C.E.) and the Middle Ages. The show highlights several stories of illegal exchange ...

This period is known by historians as the Archaic period of Greek history. During this time many of the cities in Greece were ruled by a king-like figure. Around 480BC Greece entered a golden age ...

The inscriptions also document a queen named Neith-Hotep, who ruled as a regent for a young pharaoh named Djer sometime In the late predynastic period. Related: How old is ancient Egypt?