Apulo-Corinthian bronze helmet. Greece 500 BC. (British Museum).

Apulo-Corinthian bronze helmet. Greece 500 BC. (British Museum).

Etruscan Helmet - from Italy. (British Museum).

Gallo-Celtic (possibly Galatian) helmet from Gaul (France). (British Museum).

Bronze Messapian Greek sea monster helmet 375 - 325 BC. (The British Museum)

Ancient Greek (Messapian) sea serpent helmet 375 - 325 BC. (The British Museum)

Bronze Greek 'C-shaped type' helmet from southern Italy 700 BC. (British Museum).

Bronze Greek 'C-shaped type' helmet from southern Italy 700 BC. (British Museum).

Roman legionary helmet. (The British Museum)

Greek 'Thracian type' bronze helmet 450 - 400 BC.The design is very similar to a Hoplite type helmet. Found at Lake Copais, Boeotia, the letters punched on the rim read HIARON meaning 'sacred' which indicates that the helmet was probably a votive offering. (British Museum).

Greek 'attic type' bronze helmet with silver satyr, probably from Athens 5th century BC. (British Museum).

A close-up of the silver satyr mount on the Greek 'attic type' bronze helmet, probably from Athens 5th century BC. (British Museum).

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Mermillo/Murmillo Roman Gladiators helmet with angular crest probably from Italy. 1st century AD (The British Museum)

Mermillo/Murmillo Roman Gladiators helmet with angular crest probably from Italy.1st century AD. (The British Museum)

Mermillo/Murmillo Roman Gladiators helmet with angular crest probably from Italy.1st century AD. (The British Museum)

Mermillo/Murmillo Roman Gladiators helmet with angular crest probably from Italy.1st century AD. (The British Museum)

A finely decorated bronze two-piece visor of Murmillo gladiator helmet. 1st - 2nd century AD. (British Museum).

A Roman marble relief which commemorates the freeing of two female gladiators. 1st/2nd century AD from Halicarnassus, (now Bodrum, modern Turkey). (British Museum).

Bust of the Roman emperor Augustus (Octavian). (The British Museum)

A collection of various types of glassware from Roman Colchester. (Colchester Castle Museum).

A collection of various types of glassware from Roman Colchester (image 2).(Colchester Castle Museum).

A collection of Roman pottery vessels found during excavations at Colchester (Colchester Castle Museum).

Roman bowl with hunting scene depicting hounds chasing a hare, this type of dog looks remarkably similar to modern breeds of greyhounds and whippets. (Colchester Castle Museum).

Roman samian ware bowl AD 150 -200 made in Germany by a potter known as Latinnus. (Colchester Castle Museum).

Dark coloured Roman jar with lid (with roller-stamped decoration known as 'roulette') AD 125 -50 from Abbey Fields & North Hill. (Colchester Castle Museum).

Coloured floral decorated beaker from Colchester AD 175 - 250 CCM. (Colchester Castle Museum).

A Roman samian ware bowl made at Colchester AD 175 -200 (Colchester Castle Museum).

A Roman cup with white painted decoration made at Oxford potteries AD 340-400. (Colchester Castle Museum).

Roman Amphora (storage jars) (Colchester Castle Museum).

Roman pottery pouring jug (Colchester Castle Museum).

Roman Samian beaker with leaf decoration AD 75 - 150 (Colchester Castle Museum).

Roman merchant ship and port of Colchester, model display at Colchester Castle Museum.

A model display reconstruction of the Balkerne Gate house from the Roman walled town of Camulodunum. (Colchester Castle Museum).

Mummified cat. Ancient Egypt (tomb burials) Exhibition Ipswich Museum

Ancient Egyptian burial mask. From the Ancient Egypt Exhibition Ipswich Museum

Ancient Egyptian model boat from a tomb burial. From Ancient Egypt Exhibition Ipswich Museum

Meijiaoyao culture pot c. 2,500 BC from north-west China. The painted scenes of cowries reveal these early imported pottery ware vessels originated in the coastal regions. (The British Museum)

Sumerian female's headdress, earrings and jewellery. from a burial at Ur (now Iraq) 2600 BC. 1 (The British Museum)

Sumerian female's headdress, earrings and jewellery. from a burial at Ur (now Iraq) 2600 BC. 2 (The British Museum)

Standard of Ur 2600 BC. (The British Museum)

Electrotype replica of the gold 'Meskalamdug' helmet from Ur. Early Dynastic III, 2600 BC. 1 (The British Museum)

Electrotype replica of the gold 'Meskalamdug' helmet from Ur. Early Dynastic III, 2600 BC. 2 (The British Museum)

Ram in thicket; standard of UR, 2600 BC. (The British Museum)

The Queen's lyre replica from UR. (The British Museum)

The Queen's harp replica from UR. (The British Museum)

Stone dramatic mask 1. 1st - 2nd century AD. (The British Museum)

Stone dramatic mask 2. 1st - 2nd century AD. (The British Museum)

Stone dramatic mask 3. 1st - 2nd century AD. (The British Museum)

Marble bust of the emperor Marcus Aurelius AD 161 - 180. From the house of Jason Magnus, Cyrene, North Africa. (The British Museum)

Marble bust of the emperor Antoninus Pius AD 138 - 161. From the house of Jason Magnus, Cyrene, North Africa.(The British Museum)

Marble bust of Lucius Verus, emperor of Rome (AD 161 - 169). From the house of Jason Magnus, a wealthy citizen of Cyrene, North Africa. (The British Museum)

Marble bust of Herodes Atticus, the Ancient Greek millionaire philosopher from Athens. (AD 101 - 177) Also Consul of Rome and tutor of Marcus Aurelis and Lucius Verus. (The British Museum)

Marble bust of; the Roman god Bacchus. (The British Museum)

Marble statue of Mithras the bull-slaying eastern deity. Roman 2nd century AD. (British Museum).

Crocodile skin parade suit/armour. 2nd century AD. (British Museum).

An elaborately decorated parade sword and scabbard which was presented to a senior officer. It commemorates the ceding of military victory to Augustus following Tiberius' successful Alpine campaign 16/15 AD. (British Museum).

Colossal marble statue of a lion which originally crowned a clifftop tomb. The eye sockets may have had insets of glass which reflected the light across the sea. Hellenistic period; late 4th to early 3rd century BC from Knidos, Asia Minor, now Turkey. (The British Museum)