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Funerary mask, from Grave Circle A

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AEGEAN
From: Mycenae, Greece
Date: ca. 1600-1500 BCE
Material: beaten gold

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Inlaid dagger blade with lion hunt, from Grave Circle A

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AEGEAN
From: Mycenae, Greece
Date: ca. 1600-1500 BCE
Material: bronze, inlaid with goid, silver & niello

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Snake Goddess

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AEGEAN
From: Crete, Greece
Date: ca. 1600 BCE
Material: Fiance

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Marine style octopus jar

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AEGEAN
From: Crete, Greece
Date: ca. 1500 BCE

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Bull-leaping, from the palace at Knossos

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AEGEAN
From: palace at Knossos (Crete), Greece
Date: 1400 BCE

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Figure of a woman

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AEGEAN
From: Syros, Greece
Date: ca. 2500-2300 BCE
Material: Marble

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Akhenaton, Nefertiti and 3 daughters

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EGYPT
From: Amarna, Egypt
Date: 18th dynasty ca. 1353-1335 BCE
Material: Limestone

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Hypostyle hall (kings kept building on, windows because so many columns)

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EGYPT
From: Temple of Amen-Re, Karnak
Date: 18th Dynasty ca. 1473-1458 BCE

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Hatshepsut with offering jars, from the upper court of her mortuary

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EGYPT
From: Deir el-Bahri, Egypt
Date: 18th Dynasty ca. 1473-1458 BCE
Material: red granite

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Mortaury temple of Hatshepsut

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EGYPT
Location: Deir-el Bahri, Egypt
Date: 18th Dynasty ca. 1473-1458 BCE

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Interior hall of the rock-cut tomb of Amenemhet (tomb BH2)

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EGYPT
Location: Beniltasan, Egypt
Date: 12th Dynasty ca. 1950-1900 BCE

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Wall painting of Ti watching a hippopotamus hunt

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EGYPT
From: in the mastaba of Ti, Saqqara, Egypt
Date: Fifth Dynasty ca. 2450-2350 BCE
Materials: painted limestone (relief)
**NOT a pharaoh, GRID
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Seated scribe from Saqqara

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EGYPT
Date: 4th Dynasty ca. 2500 BCE
Material: Limestone
***FROM???

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DIorite Statue of Khafre enthroned

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EGYPT
From: Gizeh, Egypt
Date: 4th Dynasty ca. 2520-2494 BCE
Material: Diorite

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Pyramids of Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure

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EGYPT
Great Pyramids, 4th Dynasty
Khufu: ca. 2551-2528 BCE
Khafre: ca. 2520-2494 BCE
Menkaure: ca. 2490-2472 BCE
Location: Ghiza, Egypt
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Step pyramid of Djoser

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EGYPT
Creater: Imhoteop
Date: ca. 2630-2611 BCE 3rd Dynasty
Location: Saqqara, Egypt

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Narmer Palette

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EGYPT
From: Hierakonpolis, Egypt
Date: Predynastic ca. 3000-2920 BCE
Materials: Slate

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Wall painting from tomb 100 at Hierakonpolis

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EGYPT
From: Egypt
Date: Predynastic ca. 3500-3200 BCE
Materials: Paint on plaster

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Processional Frieze from the Apadana at Persepolis

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST
From: Iran
Date: ca. 521-465 BCE
Materials: Limestone

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Ishtar gate

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST
From: Babylon, Iraq
Date: ca. 575 BCE
Materials: glazed bricks (blue)

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Assurbanipal hunting lions (relief)

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST
From: Northern palace of Ashurbanipal, Nineveh, Iraq
Date: ca. 645-640 BCE
Materials: Gypsum

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Lamassu (man-headed winged bull)

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST
From: Khorsabad, Iraq
Date: ca. 720-705 BCE
Materials: Limestone

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Statue of Queen Napir-Asu

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST
From: Susa Iran
Dates: ca. 1350-1300 BCE
Materials: Bronzed copper

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Stele of Hammurabi

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST
From: Susa, Iran
Dates: ca. 1780 BCE
Materials: Basalt

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Statue of Gudea with temple plan

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST
From: Girsu, Iraq
Date: ca. 2100 BCE
Materials: Diorite

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Stele of Naram-Sin

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST
From: Susa, Iran
Dates: 2254-2218 BCE
Materials: pink sandstone

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Head of an Akkadian ruler

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST
From: Nineveh, Iraq
Dates: ca. 2250-2200 BCE
Materials: copper

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Stele of the Vultures

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST
From: Girsu, Iraq
Dates: ca. 2600-2500 BCE
Materials: limestone

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Standard of Ur (from Tomb 779)

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST
From: Tell Muqayar, Iraq
Dates: ca. 2600-2400 BCE
Materials: wood, lapis, lazuli, shell & red limestone

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Figurines from Tell Asmar

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST
From: Tell Asmar, Iraq
Date: ca. 2700 BCE
Materials: Gypsum, shell & black limestone

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Warka Vase

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST
From: Ukur, Iraq
Date: 3200-3000 BCE
Material Alabaster

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Female head (Inanna?)

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST
From: Uruk, Iraq
Dates: 3200-3000 BCE
Material: Marble

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White temple and ziggurat

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST
Location: Uruk, Iraq
Date: ca. 3200-3000 BCE

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Beaker with animal decoration

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NEOLITHIC
From: Susa, Iran
Date: ca. 4000 BCE
Material: painted ceramic

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Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain

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NEOLITHIC
From: Wiltshire, England
Date: ca 2550-1600 BCE

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Gallery leading to the main chamber of the passage grave

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NEOLITHIC
From: Newgrange, Ireland
Date: ca. 3200-2500 BCE

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Landscape with volcanic eruption (detail of a watercolor copy of a wall painting)

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NEOLITHIC
From: Catal Höyük, Turkey
Date: 6150 BCE

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Human figure

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NEOLITHIC
From: Ain Ghazal, Jordan
Date: ca. 6750-6250 BCE
Material: plaster and bitumen

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Rhinoceros, wounded man, and disemboweled bison, painting in the well of the cave

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PALEOLITHIC
From: Lascaux, France
Date: ca. 16000-14000 BCE

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Hall of bulls

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PALEOLITHIC
From: Lascaux, France
Date: ca. 15,000-13000

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Spotted horses and negative hand imprints (wall painting in the cave at Pech-Merle)

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PALEOLITHIC
From: France
Date: ca. 23000-22000 BCE

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Nude woman (Venus of Willendorf)

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PALEOLITHIC
From: Willendorf, Austria
Date: ca. 28000-25000 BCE
Material: limestone

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Woman with feline head

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PALEOLITHIC
From: Hohenstein, Germany
Date: ca. 30000-28000 BCE
Material: Mammoth ivory

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Corbeled gallery in the walls of the citadel

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AEGEAN
From: Tiryns, Greece
Date: ca. 1400-1200 BCE
Material: big rock (mighty)

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Warrior vase

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AEGEAN
From: Mycenae, Greece
Date: ca. 1200 BCE

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