    Sentence 1: The earliest items in the jewelry collection  come from which ancient civilization?    a  Sentence 2; Major bequests include Reverend  Chauncy Hare Townshend's collection of 154 gems  bequeathed in 1869, Lady Cory's 1951 oift of major  diamond jewellery from the 18th and 19th centuries,  and jewellery scholar Dame Joan Evans' 1977 gift of  more than 800 jewels dating from the Middle Ages to  the early 19th century.    —