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Venus of Willendorf
Willendorf Austria
Culture: Paleolithic
ca. 28,000 BCE
Limestone, approx. 4 " high
Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna

Spotted Horses and Negative Hand Imprints
wall painting in the cave at Pech-Merle, Lot, France
Culture: Paleolithic
ca. 22,000 BCE

Hall of Bulls
wall painting in the cave at Lascaux, Dordogne, France
Culture: Paleolithic
ca. 15,000 BCE

Stonehenge
Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England
Neolithic Era
Megalithic Culture
ca. 2550 BCE

White Temple and Ziggurat
Urak (modern Warka), Iraq
Culture: Sumerian
ca. 3200 BCE

Statuettes of Worshipers
from the Square Temple at Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar), Iraq
Culture: Sumerian
ca. 2700 BCE
Iraq Museum, Bagdad

Standard of Ur
War side (top) and peace side (bottom)
Royal Cemetary, Ur (modern Tell Muqayyar), Iraq
Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone
Culture: Sumerian
ca. 2600 BCE
British Museum, London

Victory Stele of Naram-Sin
Susa, Iran
Culture: Akkadian
Pink sandstone, approx. 6 feet, 7 inches high
ca. 2250 BCE
Louvre, Paris

Code of Hammurabi
Susa, Iran
Culture: Babylonian
Basalt, approx. 7 feet, 4 inches high
ca. 1780 BCE
Louvre, Paris

Ashurbanipal Hunting Lions (Lion Hunt)
relief from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal, Nineveh (modern Kuyunjik), Iraq
Culture: Assyrian
ca. 645-640 BCE
British Museum, London

Ishtar Gate (restored)
Babylon, Iraq
Culture: Babylonian
glazed brick
ca. 575 BCE
Staatliche Museum, Berlin

Palette of King Narmer (left, back; right, front)
from Hierakonpolis, Egypt
Culture: Predynastic, Egyptian
Slate, approx. 2 feet, 1 inch high
ca. 3000 BCE
Egyptian Museum, Cairo

Imohtep
Stepped Pyramid and morturary precinct of Djoser
Saqqara, Egypt
Culture: Old Kingdom
ca. 2630 BCE

Great Pyramids, Gizeh, Egypt
Culture: Old Kingdom
ca. 2550-2470 BCE

Great Sphinx
Gizeh, Egypt
Culture: Old Kingdom
ca. 2520-2494 BCE
Sandstone, approx. 65 feet high

Seated Scribe
Saqqara, Egypt
Culture: Old Kingdom, ca. 2450-2350 BCE
Painted Limestone
Louvre, Paris

Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
Deir el_Bahri, Egypt
Culture: New Kingdom
ca. 1473-1458

Temple of Ramses II
Abu Simbel, Egypt
Culture: New Kingdom
Sandstone, approx. 65 feet high
ca. 1290-1224 BCE

Akhenaton, from the Temple of Aton
Karnak, Egypt
Culture: New Kingdom
Sandstone, approx. 13 feet high
ca. 1353-1335 BCE
Egyptian Museum, Cairo

Nefertiti (Akhenaton's wife)
Tell el-Amarna, Egypt
Culture: New Kingdom
Painted limestone, approx. 1foot, 8 inches high
ca. 1353-1335 BCE
Agyptisches Museum, Berlin

Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and Three Daughters

Akhenaton, Nefertit, and Three Daughters
Tell el-Amarna, Egypt
Culture: New Kingdom
Limestone, approx. 12 inches high
ca. 1353-1335 BCE
Agyptisches Museum, Berlin

Death Mask of Tutankhamen, from the innermost coffin in his tomb at Thebes, Egypt
Culture: New Kingdom
Gold with inlay of semiprecious stones, 1foot, 9 inches high
ca. 1323 BCE
Egyptian Museum, Cairo

Last Judgement of Hu-Nefer, from his tomb at Thebes, Egypt
Culture: New Kingdom
Painted papyrus scroll, approx. 1 foot, 6 inches
ca. 1290-1280 BCE
British Museum, London

Indus Seal with seated figure in yogic pose
Mohenjo-daro
Pakistan, ca. 2600-1900 BCE
Culture: Indus River Valley

Lion Capital from Asoka pillar
Sarnath, India
ca. 250 BCE
Culture: Buddhist/Indian

Great Stupa
Sanchi, India
third century BCE to first century CE.
Culture: Buddhist/Indian

Seated Buddha preaching first sermon
Sarnath, India
450 CE
Culture: Buddhist/Indian

Shiva as Mahadeva
Cave 1, Elephanta, India
ca. 550-575 CE
Basalt, 17 feet 10 inches high
Culture: Hindu/Indian

Guang
Culture: Shang Dyanasty
ca. 11th century BCE
Bronze

Army of the First Emperor of Qin
Lintong, China
Culture: Qin Dynasty
ca. 210 BCE
painted terracotta
ave. height: 5 feet 10 inches

Figurine of a woman
Cyclades, Greece
ca. 2500-2300 BCE
Marble
Culture: Cycladic

Bull-leaping, from the palace at Knossos
Crete, Greece
Culture: Minoan
ca. 1450-1400 BCE
fresco

Funerary Mask
Mycenae, Greece
ca. 1600-1500 BCE
Beaten Gold
Culture: Mycenaen

Kouros
ca. 600 BCE
Marble, appox. 6 feet high
Archaic Greek
(note Egyptian influence)

Kroisos
Anavysos, Greece
ca. 530 BCE
(archaic smile)
Culture: archaic Greek

Warrior, from the sea off Riace, Italy
ca. 460-450 BCE
Bronze, approx. 6 feet 6 inches high
Culture: archaic Greek

Myron
Diskobolos (discus thrower)
Roman marble copy after a bronze original
ca. 450 BCE
Culture: classical Greek

Iktinos and Kallikrates
Parthenon, the Temple of Athena Parthenos
Acropolis, Athens, Greece
447-438 BCE
Culture: Classical Greek

Grave Stele of Hegeso, from the Dipylon cemetary
Athens, Greece
ca. 400 BCE
marble, 5 feet 2 inches high

Nike alighting on a warship (Nike of Samothrace)
from Samothrace, Greece
Culture: Hellenistic
ca. 190 BCE
marble, approx 8 feet 1 inch high

Old market woman
ca. 150-100 BCE
marble, approx. 4 feet high
Hellenistic

Capitoline Wolf
Culture: Etruscan
made of bronze
Rome, Italy
ca. 500-480 BCE

Head of a Roman Patrician
Culture: Roman Republic
From Otricoli, Italy
ca. 75-50 BCE
marble

Portrait of Augustus as General
Culture: Early Roman Empire
Primaporta, Italy
early 1st. century CE
marble copy of bronze original
located in Vatican Museum, Rome

Pont-du-Gard
Roman aqueduct bridge
Nimes, France
ca. 16 BCE
Culture: early Roman Empire

Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater)
Rome, Italy
ca. 70-80 CE
Culture: Roman Empire

Spoils of Jerusalem
relief panel in the passageway of the Arch of Titus
Rome, Italy
after 81 CE
Marble, approx. 7feet 10 inches high
Culture: Roman Empire