
QUICK FACTS
Name: Meskalamdug's Helmet
What it is: A 15-karat gold helmet shaped like a wig
Where it is from: The Royal Cemetery at Ur, in what is now southern Iraq
When it was made: Circa 2600 B.C.
This gold helmet, painstakingly decorated to look like the wavy hairdo and ears of its wearer, was found in 1927 by British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley during excavations at Ur, an ancient city in Mesopotamia that is now part of Iraq.