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The British Museum Thought This Was An Ancient Sumerian Vase. Turns Out It Was A Deadly Weapon

VISUAL Posted: January 8, 2019 4:45 am

After years of displaying this 4,400-year-old object face-down, thinking it was a vessel for flowers, curators realized that was actually a vessel of grievous bodily harm: the head of a mace. — The Art Newspaper

VISUAL Published: 01.07.19

Read the story in The Art Newspaper Published: 01.07.19

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