Crown by ルナクル [Twitter/X]
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This 6,000 year-old copper crown from a Dead Sea cave is the world's oldest ever found. It was discovered in 1961 as part of the Nahal Mishar Hoard in a cave in the Judean Desert near the Dead Sea.
Ancient crown dates back to the Copper Age between 4000–3500 BC. The crown features vultures and doors protruding from the top. The enigmatic protuberances along its rim of vultures and building façades with squarish apertures and its cylindrical shape suggest that crown played a part in burial ceremonies for people of importance at that time. Crown was made with lost wax method.