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The University of Sydney's museum of art, science, history and ancient cultures.
We acknowledge that we work on Aboriginal land, traditionally the home of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation.
Featured images (top of the page), clockwise from top: Axe head; Tiwi Islands (Bathurst & Melville), Northern Territory, Australia, South Sea Beauty; Nicholas Chevalier, 1881, Ornithoptera priamus; Aru Islands, Maluku Province, Indonesia, Gold dinar of Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, Umayyad Caliphate; AD 741-742; Syria.