very. The tomb alonecould offer a safe asylum to such treasures, and preserve them inits shadows for the inquisitive eyes of modern archaeologists.Before being abandoned to the slow effects of time, the templesand palaces were pillaged. Here and there, however, in somewell contrived hiding-place or… … Fig. 229.—Comb. Actual size. Louvre. The oldest jewels left to us by these peoples are those foundin the most ancient tombs at Warka. Their forms are simpleenough—bronze bracelets made of a bar tapering rapidly to eachend and beaten with a hammer into a slight oval (Figs. 232, 233).These bars are…
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