Amazing place. It's set up in time order, from Paleolithic to Neolithic to Bronze Age, finishing with Roman times. I spent 4 hours there and only left because my brain was full. Also my hips ached after 3 days of stairs.
Hand tools
Soon after the glaciers retreated, the flintknapping got more refined
then... Tragedy. Combination of grain agricultural and starting to bang on cuprous rocks, and it all leads up to wars and class differences and many awful things. I wanted to go back and say, stop and think this through, guys!
Soon after, there's jewelry. For the ruling class at least
550 BCE shield disc. Gorgeous work. 2 horsemen and a victim.
shocked at the dates. 500 BCE and the whole pantheon of Roman gods is already in place. There's not a Roman empire yet. Also, shocked the redware came this early.
Celtic influence dipped down just this far South. These grave goods, gold leaf laurel wreaths, are either miraculously preserved, or some conservator did amazing work over months to get them back to this level. Like tinsel, but pure gold.
An ostraca. Writing from 120 BCE. With the help of AI, i got a translation. Basically "famous girl... male concubine, whose legs spread to... " Is it gossip, a love note, an ad for a brothel? We can't know. You can see "concubinus" right there.
fantastically fine mosaic of a hunting scene. Upside down, Sorry. I was so tired by this point, didn't know up from down.
€5. Best museum value in the nation, I bet.
I am soooo tired. Travel tomorrow.
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