Speaking in General
Sentence Rephrasing
One can discuss a topic using "the" to refer to specific items, or switch to speaking in general: using plural forms to refer to "all".
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The history of the furniture reflects the history of the culture. Relatively little is known about the furniture of the ancient societies, simply because furniture is usually made of the perishable materials -- wood and sometimes fabric -- that have not survived. Our limited knowledge of the Egyptian, the Greek, and the Roman furniture is based mostly on the paintings and the sculptures.
The only actual surviving pieces of the furniture of these cultures are from the burials. For example, King Tut's tomb in Egypt contained the display of elegantly decorated royal furniture. About the only surviving example of everyday Roman furniture are from the two cities near Naples that were buried under the tons of volcanic ash from the eruption of the Mt. Vesuvius on August 24, 79 A.D.