1.   Among the items scientists have unearthed are four-inch clay figurines depicting men wearing hip and shoulder pads.

2.   Be prepared to be solicited by the roving Indian street sellers, many of them children, plying everything from woven baskets and clay figurines to musical instruments.

3.   In many Middle Eastern excavations, fire-hardened clay figurines, the first ceramics, predate the fired pots.

4.   Among the most valuable artifacts was a clay figurine of a child.