The store is small and unassuming from the outside.  Just a plain facade with a sign hanging over the door written in a pseudo-archaic scrïpt.  The display window holds a few select items - an African tribal mask, a Chinese vase, a set of replica Egyptian canopic jars.

Inside the store is small but designed in the sleekest sparse modern style, looking more like an art gallery in a museum than an antiques shop.  And it is different from your typical antiguery.  While you might find the occasional few pieces of Victorian herringbone china, or a colonial spinning wheel, or a chippendale armoir most of the pieces on sale here are artifacts that many a museum would pay top dollar for:  lapis lazuli scarabs from Egypt, Grecan urns, Etruscan tablets.  While most of the shop's stock comes from the Mediterranean and Near East there are a few pieces from elsewhere in the world, such as Mesoamerican glyph fragments, Tibetan prayer beads, and a Japanese shogun helm.

The other part of the store's stock, the one that counts for most of the sales, is made up of historical replicas and other gifts for historically inclined individuals who can't afford thousand year old artifacts.  Resin figurines of Egyptian animal-headed deities, dancing Natarajas, and smiling Buddhas sit on shelves with books, silk Chinese fans, and cases of jewelry sporting motifs from ancient civilizations from around the world.  While these gift objects account for most of the physical sales in the shop, even one of the more modest pieces of actual art could easily pay for half the stock.

[If this shop is open after dark I have a visitor for you.]

(Yes the store has some after dark hours)