We offer beads and artifacts from the ancient world, that originate from three main cultural regions: Egypt, The Near East (or Eastern Mediterranean), and Central Asia. These are the areas where the earliest civilizations bloomed, cities were built, populations prospered, and remarkable art and artifacts were produced.

These regions were clearly also in contact with each other, since we can recognize the produce of one among the recovered articles of another. Added to this, the mutual exploitation of certain technologies indicates the transfer of that technology from one region to another—as, for instance, glassworking for the manufacture of beads and other objects.