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3 0 A massive marble foot from a statue of a god.
3 1 A silver disc showing a Hellenized portrait of the eastern goddess Cybele.
7 0 The Rosetta Stone - three versions of the same text: hieroglyphic Egyptian, Demotic Egyptian and Greek scripts.
6 0 Elephant with a battle-castle on a dish from Capena, Italy, circa 280 BC.
8 0 Eratosthenes' 2nd century BC map of the world showing five continents surrounded by the ocean.
9 0 A model of the steam turbine as described by Hero of Alexandria in the 1st century AD.
11 0 Third century BC silver coin portraying Seleucus I Nicator
11 1 Third century BC silver coin portraying Ptolemy I Sotor
11 2 Third century BC silver coin portraying Demetrius Poliorcetes, son of Antigonus
1 0 The Alexander Mosaic depicts Alexander (far left) at the battle of Issus against the Persian king Darius III in 333 BC.
2 0 Alexander portrayed on a 3rd century BC silver coin wearing horns like the Egyptian Sun God, Amun.
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14 0 Three Nemrut Dag Heads standing upright below the decapitated statues.
15 0 Portrait of a man of the Roman period painted on his mummy case. Fayum, Egypt.
16 0 A bronze bust which has been tentatively identified as Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt between 51 and 30 BC.
17 0 King Orodes I, one of the Parthian rulers, who effectively held back further Roman expansion, 80 BC.
18 0 The Pyramids of Egypt, one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world.
20 0 A reconstruction of the monumental altar of Pergamum. The staircase alone was 65 ft (20m) wide.
19 0 A Macedonian phalanx fighting with 'sarissas'.
31 0 The Macedonian and Persian armies in formation, ready for battle.
32 0 The Macedonian and Persian armies in formation, ready for battle.
69 0 A mosaic depiction of Alexander the Great in battle against Darius.