Dr Emil Holub visited the South African rock art site Gestoptefontein in 1884 and collected several examples of engraved rock art, some of which is in the collection of the Náprstek Museum in Prague. The engravings occur on a local form of pyrophyllite (similar to talc) known as wonderstone. The…

The Náprstek Museum in Prague administers a collection of graphics consisting of 3344 images released during 1890 and 1905. 2515 of these pictures were published by the Liebig Company. The collection of advertising pictures was presumably acquired in 1967 by the former library curator Dr. Lifka. It…

The small collection of terracotta and pottery finds, stored in the depository of the Náprstek Museum in Prague, comes from the ancient city of Karakorum in Mongolia. Their origin is connected with the first Czechoslovak-Mongolian expedition led by Dr. Lumír Jisl (1921-1969), whose interests were…

The Dong Son culture developed at the Red River Valley of northern Vietnam (approx. 6 BC to 2 AD). This highly mature civilization influenced the whole Southeast Asia region. The majority of bronze items were decorated with refined motives, realistic and stylized. The most famous artefacts produced…

The aim of this article is a detailed description of a little lot of Turkmen jewels which makes part of the Central Asian collection of the Náprstek Museum in Prague (two pectoral ornaments and two bracelets) and can be also considered to be a tentative basilary introduction to the study of…

The tombs of Unisankh and Nyankhba located at the Unis Cemeteries at Central Saqqara represents – in terms of development of inner structure – a specific subtype of large multi-roomed mastabas from the latter part of the Old Kingdom. These tombs contain a special feature not attested in other tombs’…

Review of a book "Changing Clothes in China: Fashion, History, Nation" by Antonia Finnane (Columbia University Press. New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-231-14350-9)