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Neanderthal
c. 100,000 years ago
(around time humans appeared) |
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aurochs and rhinocerous
caves at Chauvet, France
c. 30,000 BCE |
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Spotted horses
caves at Pech-Merle, Lot, France
c. 22,000 BCE |
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Great stone tower at Jericho
c. 8,000-7,000 BCE |
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Çatal Hüyuk, Turkey
c.6000 BCE |
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Seated goddess
Çatal Hüyuk, Turkey
c. 6,000 BCE |
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Plan of the temple of Enki at Eridu
Iraq
c.4000-3800 BCE |
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Eanna precinct
Uruk, Iraq
c. 3400-3000 BCE |
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Anu Ziggurat
Uruk
3200-3000 BCE. |
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Administrative tablet
Mesopotamia (probably Uruk)
c.3100-2900 BCE |
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“Priest-king” statue
Uruk
c. 3200-3000 BCE |
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Votive figurines from the temple
Tell Asmar, Iraq
c. 2700 BCE |
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Head dress and jewelry of Pu-Abi
from the Royal Cemetery at
Ur Iraq
c. 2500 BCE |
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Bronze head of an Akkadian ruler
Nineveh, Iraq
c. 2250 BCE |
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Ziggurat at Ur
built c. 2000 BCE
external reconstruction by Saddam Hussein, c. 1990 |
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Statue of Gudea of Lagash
Iraq
c. 2100 BCE |
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Torso of a “priest-king” statue
Mohenjo-Daro, Pakistan
c. 2000 BCE |
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Plan of the palace of Assurnasirpal at Kalhu
ancient Nimrud, in northern Iraq
c. 870 BCE |
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Relief depicting Assurbanipal and his queen in his garden, following the defeat of the Elamite King
from his palace at
Nineveh, Iraq
c. 650 BCE |
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Relief panel from the palace of Ashurnasirpal
Nimrud, Iraq
c. 875 BCE |
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Ivory tags recovered from Tomb U-j
Abydos, Egypt
c. 3200 BCE |
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Plan of Umm el Qa’ab: cemetery of early Dynastic rulers
with cemeteries B and U, Abydos, Egypt; from (earliest)
c. 3600 to (latest) c. 2900 BCE |
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Step Pyramid Complex of Djoser at Saqqara,
Egypt, 3rd Dynasty, Old Kingdom
c. 2700 BCE |
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Pyramids of the 4th Dynasty on the Giza Plateau
Egypt
c. 2600-2500 BCE |
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Statue of Khafre
Giza, Egypt, Old Kingdom,
c. 2500 BCE |
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Statue of Menkaure and his wife, Khamerernebty, from his mortuary temple
Giza, Egypt
c. 2500 BCE |
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Stele of Nefret-Iabet, from her tomb
Giza, Egypt, Old Kingdom
c. 2550 BCE |
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Statue of Hemi-unu
Giza, Egypt, Old Kingdom
c.2500 BCE |
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Head of Senwosret III
Egypt, 12th Dynasty, Middle Kingdom
c. 1850 BCE |
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| Plan of the temple complex of Amun-Re at Karnak, in Luxor, Egypt, begun in the 12th Dynasty, c. 2000 BCE, built continuously through the era of Roman control, c. 200 CE |
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Statues of Hatshepsut
Luxor, Egypt, 18th Dynasty, New Kingdom
c. 1465 BCE |
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Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut
Deir el Bahri in western Luxor, Egypt
18th Dynasty, New Kingdom
c.1450 BCE |
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Cycladic figurines
from Greece
c. 2600-2300 BCE |
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Terracotta Krater vase
Athens, Greece
c.750 BCE |
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“Chios” Kore
Athens, Greece
c.520 BCE |
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Spear Bearer (Doryphoros), by Polykleitos, his “Canon”.
This is a Roman copy of a Greek original bronze,
made c.450 BCE. |
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Riace Warriors
bronze statues
Greek, c.460-450 BCE |
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Parthenon
Athens, Greece
c. 440 BCE |
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| Lapith and Centaur, metope from south side of the Parthenon, c. 440 BCE |
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Three goddesses
from the East pediment of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece
c. 440 BCE |
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Aphrodite of Knidos
original by Praxiteles in marble
c.350 BCE.
This is a composite of 2 Roman copies of the Greek original. |
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Gallic Chieftain killing his wife and himself
Roman copy of Hellenistic bronze original from Pergamon
c. 220 BCE |
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Old Market Woman
Hellenistic Greek
c. 50 BCE |
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Plan and elevations of a typical Etruscan temple
according to Vitruvius, Italy
c. 600 BCE. |
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Portrait bust of a Roman patrician
Otricoli, Italy
c.75- 50 BCE |
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Augustus of Prima Porta
Rome
c. 20 BCE |
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Colosseum, Rome
built under Vespasian and his son Titus
c. 70-80 CE |
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Interior view of the Pantheon
Rome
118-125 CE |
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Portrait of Caracalla
Roman
c.210 CE |
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