The Museum nevertheless preserves its universality in its collections of artefacts representing the cultures of the world, ancient and modern.

The collections represent the civilisations of the ancient Near East and its adjacent areas.

Following his lead, many European kings, princes, and other nobility kept collections of ancient coins.

* Period collections: Collectors may restrict themselves to coins of the 18th or 19th century, while others collect ancient and medieval coins.

According to some ancient Greek collections, canons 29 and 30 are attributed to the council: canon 29, which states that an unworthy bishop cannot be demoted but can be removed, is an extract from the minutes of the 19th session ; canon 30, which grants the Egyptians time to consider their rejection of Leo's Tome, is an extract from the minutes of the fourth session.

The most recent study on the ante-Aesopic fables or the fables in ancient Near Eastern languages by Akimoto discovers the rich fable traditions in ancient Mesopotamia and Anatolia ; for example, the Ninurta-uballitsu Assyrian fable collection which is the oldest known fable collection with the compiler's autograph and the completion date 883 BCE, the Hurrian-Hittite bilingual fable collections are embedded in a long myth and the storyteller tells after each fable his / her own moral.

There were a few institutional or royal libraries which were open to an educated public ( such as the Serapeum collection of the Library of Alexandria, once the largest library in the ancient world ), but on the whole collections were private.

Recent research suggests that much of his prophetic work paraphrases collections of ancient end-of-the-world prophecies ( mainly Bible-based ), supplemented with references to historical events and anthologies of omen reports, and then projects those into the future in part with the aid of comparative horoscopy.

In both ancient Japanese collections, the Nihongi and Kojiki, Ame-no-uzeme ’ s dance is described as asobi, which in old Japanese language means a ceremony that is designed to appease the spirits of the departed, and which was conducted at funeral ceremonies.

While many American museums, both Natural History museums and Art museums alike, were founded with the intention of focusing on the scientific discoveries and artistic developments in North America, many moved to emulate their European counterparts in certain ways ( including the development of Classical collections from ancient Egypt, Greece, Mesopotamia and Rome ).

Besides these corpora of living languages, computerized corpora have also been made of collections of texts in ancient languages.

These skin collections have been utilized in more recent times for studies on molecular phylogenetics by the extraction of ancient DNA.

The National Palace Museum in Taipei now boasts a truly international collection while housing one of the world's largest collections of artifacts from ancient China.

Currently, eleven species are formally recognised, although recent studies using ancient DNA recovered from bones in museum collections suggest that distinct lineages exist within some of these.

One of the major collections of rock-cut tombs in Israel is the necropolis of the ancient Kingdom of Judah, which had its capital in Jerusalem.

* Corpus vasorum antiquorum, an international research project documenting ancient ceramic pottery collections

To the château, he added one of the largest art collections in Europe and the largest collection of ancient Roman sculpture in France.

The Museum at the Getty Villa houses Getty's collections of antiquities, sculptures, art pieces and cultural artifacts of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria.

* The Roemer-und-Pelizaeus-Museum, with significant collections from ancient Egypt and Peru and spectacular special exhibitions organized every year.

* Herzog-August-Bibliothek ( HAB ), the ducal library, hosts one of the largest and best-known collections of ancient books in the world.

Not far from these ancient monuments is the new Raetian Museum, which contains an extensive collection of objects relating to Raetia ( including the geological collections of the Benedictine monk of Disentis Abbey, Placidus a Spescha ( 1752 – 1833 ), who explored the high snowy regions around the sources of the Rhine ).

Sacrifice of a young boar in ancient Greece ( tondo from an Attic red-figure vase | Attic red-figure cup, 510 – 500 BC, by the Epidromos Painter, collections of the Louvre )

He also owned 19 ancient Egyptian papyri that he gave to the British Museum, including the Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri and the Chester Beatty Medical Papyrus .< REF NAME =" MARRY-2004 "> Marry 2004 .</ ref > He moved his collections to Dublin, Ireland, in 1950.

The Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom are considered to be the most valuable and one of the largest jewellery collections in existence, with a number of famous diamonds and rubies including the Cullinan Diamond ( the largest diamond ever found before it was cut ).

The jewellery collection, containing over 6000 items is one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of jewellery in the world and includes works dating from Ancient Egypt to the present day, as well as jewellery designs on paper.

When he died he possessed 700 paintings, along with large collections of sculpture, books, prints, drawings, and antique jewellery.

In addition to the main women's wear collections, Karen Walker has expanded her designs to include sunglasses, jewellery, shoes and a range of paints for Resene.

Two galleries feature the museum's decorative art collections, including costume, textiles, jewellery, glass, ceramics and silverware, and a large display of ceramic teapots.

Zandra also has her very own collection of jewellery. The Zandra Rhodes jewellery includes five separate collections, which are Oriental Whisper collection, Punk Chic Collection, Lovely Lilies collection, Signature collection and Manhattan Lady Collection.

Since the birth of the Happy Diamonds, concept in 1976 the history of Chopard has been punctuated by iconic collections that have made their mark on the development of both watchmaking and jewellery:

Like an American millionaire of the Gilded Age, he bought whole collections in Rome and Venice ; in Venice, after tiresome drawn-out negotiations with the aged Andrea Loredan, he purchased the Loredan collection virtually in its entirety: 120 bronzes, 2480 medals and coins, 91 marble heads, 43 marble statues, 33 reliefs and 14 various curiosities, for the sum of 7000 ducats ; " they were all exported from Venice secretly at night in large chests ".

A major source for Greek literary epigram is the Greek Anthology, a compilation from the 10th century AD based on older collections.

In Rome, the papal collections were brought together by Pope Nicholas V, in separate Greek and Latin libraries, and housed by Pope Sixtus IV, who consigned the Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana to the care of his librarian, the humanist Bartolomeo Platina in February 1475.

The museum also contains some sculptures by famous sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, another native of Montauban, as well as collections of antiquities ( Greek vases ) and 18th and 19th ceramics.

Greek and Roman pilgrims to pagan shrines often made collections of miniature images of gods and goddesses or their emblems, and Christian pilgrims later did the same.

In 1931 the British Academy launched the Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum publishing collections of Ancient Greek coinage.

In his lectures, illustrated from his own collections of coins and vases, he dealt chiefly with Greek and Ancient Roman pottery and numismatics.

It has strong collections in areas as diverse as old masters, Greek vases, Egyptian artifacts and historical European ceramics, and contains the largest and most comprehensive range of artworks in Australia.

The death of Dirce is depicted in a marble statue, a 1st-century AD Roman Copy of a 2nd-century BC Hellenistic Greek original known as the Farnese Bull, which is now in the collections of the National Archaeological Museum in Naples.

He is credited with an excellent work on Homer, collections of Greek and foreign literature, and archaeological treatises, but nothing remains except the barest notes.

While there, he helped to write the first collections catalogues for Greek coins at the museum.

Eventually the imperial collections were enriched by Greek and Scythian artifacts excavated within the Russian Empire.

The first libraries open to the public were the collections of Greek and Latin scrolls which were available in the dry sections of the many buildings that made up the huge Roman baths of the Roman empire.

It was also included in some collections of Greek canons.

His other works include Griechische Reiseskizzen (" Greek Travel Sketches ") ( 1853 ), Das moderne Drama ( 1852 )-- a book that arose from a correspondence with Gottfried Keller -- Italienische Studien ( 1879 ), and several works descriptive of the Dresden art collections.

According to the Preface of Catalogue of Greek Coins in the Hunterian Collection ( Macdonald 1899 ), Hunter purchased many important collections, including those of Horace Walpole and the bibliophile Thomas Crofts.

Together with the university's museums, they include original manuscripts and prints by Galileo, Ignatius of Loyola, and Francis Xavier as well as world renowned collections in Jesuitana, Irish literature, sixteenth century Flemish tapestries, ancient Greek pottery, Caribbean folk art and literature, Japanese prints, U. S. government documents, Congressional Archives, and paintings that span the history of art from Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

Present day collections evolved from the later Greek version of Babrius, of which we have an incomplete manuscript of some 160 fables in choliambic verse.

While papyri containing fragments of collections of poetry have been found in Egypt, the earliest known anthology in Greek was compiled by Meleager of Gadara in the first century BC, under the title Anthologia, or " Garland.

The word " rhapsody " is derived from the Greek rhapsōdos, a reciter of epic poetry, and came to be used in Europe by the 16th century as a designation for literary forms, not only epic poems, but also for collections of miscellaneous writings and, later, any extravagant expression of sentiment or feeling.

Founders of papyrology were the Viennese orientalist Joseph von Karabacek ( Arabic papyrology ), Wilhelm Schubart ( Greek papyrology ), the Austrian antiquarian Theodor Graf who acquired more than 100, 000 Greek, Arabic, Coptic and Persian papyri in Egypt, which were bought by the Austrian Archduke Rainer, G. F. Tsereteli who published papyri of Russian and Georgian collections, Frederic George Kenyon, Ulrich Wilcken, Bernard Pyne Grenfell, Arthur Surridge Hunt and other distinguished scientists.

Grove City College housing groups are collections of similarly-interested students which enjoy block housing, yet are not fraternal or Greek in nature.