These impressive 4,550 year old elaborate adornments covered the body of Queen Puabi in the Royal Cemetery at Ur in Sumer, present-day Iraq.

The strands of beads, created of precious metals and semiprecious stones, are just jaw droppingly beautiful.

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Replica of the helmet from the Sutton Hoo ship-burial 1, early 7th century. England. Image: British Museum. The Sutton Hoo helmet was buried around 625 and is widely believed to have been the helmet of King Rædwald of East Anglia.

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