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1. Silver
Silver and gold were first used in Europe by Greeks and Romans for jewelry, utensils, and vases; the Egyptians worked precious metals before 2000 B.
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2. Wood Carvings
In Egypt, Arabia, and the other Mohammedan countries of Northern Africa, wood carving remained decorative and was used primarily to adorn furniture and other articles in daily use.
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3. Card Games
Without being able to fix any date, we do know that card-playing was an early pastime in India, Egypt, and Arabia.
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4. Checkers And Chess
It has also been ascribed to Greece, Rome, Babylon, Egypt, China, and India. At any rate, it is definitely known that chess was played at least 1,000 years ago, and whatever its country of origin, it is now played all over the world.
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5. Sgraffito
Sgraffito has long been used in decorative plaster work, as evidenced by wall panels in some ancient Egyptian tombs, but in ceramics it first gained ascendance in Byzantium (now called Istanbul), during the period when that city was the imperial capital of the Roman Empire.
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6. Surface Alteration - Carving And Incising
The carving of designs into the surface of ceramic ware is among the oldest of decorative techniques, examples having been discovered from pre-dynastic Egypt and ancient China.
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