The Persians also worked with bronze; one stunning object depicts three prowling lions, conjoined.

These meticulously carved objects of cinnabar lacquer, prized by some collectors above all other lacquer wares, depict flowers, trees and legendary scenes.

We use objects to depict how people lived, and we have no problem making changes.

The oldest object in the exhibition, the famous Lindisfarne Stone, depicts the 793 Viking invasion of the Lindisfarne Priory on the English coast.

The objects (or designs) depicted on shields - the charges - can be anything the armiger wishes and the granting kings of arms deem fit.

It is known that the object known as mehen depicts a game rather than a religious fetish as studies of paintings in tombs and game boards and equipment demonstrate this.

These objects depict a mustached man wearing a helmet that features two head-ornaments.

Every sort of Washingtoniana is on display, including about 70 engravings, lithographs, biographies and other objects depicting Washington the farmer, the family man, the Christian, the soldier and the father of his country.

The objects typically depicted herders, effigies, trophy heads, sacrificial victims, and felines.

Many objects depict fierce-faced personages known as decapitators, creatures with cat's eyes and fangs holding a trophy head in one hand, an ax in the other.