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Photos (top to bottom): photo1: main entrance to the museum; photo2: the interior of the museum, the largest covered space in Europe; photo3: in the Africa exhibit, contemporary pieces are placed alongside older work, expressing a continuity of style and form; photo4: fish masks, some from the Bijagos Archipeligo, off the coast of Guinea-Bassau; photo5: the hands of Buddha (the specific gesture indicates that he is teaching); photo6: one of a set of life-size ceramic sculptures that once stood outside a Buddhist temple; photo7: sarcophagus from the Ptolemaic Dynasty; photo8: cat mummy; photo9: hand-axe from Pre-Dynastic Egypt; photo10: helmet and skull, together crushed; photo11-13: cuneiform tablets, recording the flood story (from the Epic of Gilgamesh), the phases of the planet Venus, and a list of synonyms; photo14: the Cyrus Cylinder, recording the conquest of Babylon in 539 BCE; photo15: bust in a room of Roman sculptures; photo16: museum visitors crowd around the Rosetta Stone; photo17: Ramses-the-Great; photo18: Minoan bull-jumping.