Fertility figurine (known as a Paddle doll) consisting of a flat, painted wooden body with the body with a separate string of mud beads intermixed with folded straw (imitating gold ornaments) beads suspeneed at the top as a representation of hair: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, early Middle Kingdom, c.2125 - 1795 BC

Figurine in wax-coated mud representing Imsety, one of the Four Sons of Horus, with a human head: Ancient Egyptian, 21st - 23rd Dynasty, Third Intermediate Period

Seal impression in mud stamped with an oval signet incorporating the sphinx wearing the Blue Crown trampling upon two prostrate foes and cartouche with nomen of Akhenaten: Ancient Egyptian, Middle Egypt, Amarna, Maru-Aten, 18th Dynasty

Seal impression in mud with the base stamped with an oval signet giving the prenomen of Akhenaten: Ancient Egyptian, Middle Egypt, Amarna, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty

Painting from a tomb wall, on a slab of straw-bound mud coated with plaster and painted in glue tempera, showing part of a banquet scene: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, 18th Dynasty, c.1550-1400 BC

Cone of sun-baked mud and calcined lama's bones, everyday ritual: China, Tibet Autonomous Region, Xigaze Prefecture, Yadong County, from a cave