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Animal facing left
Apollo 11 cave, Nambia 23,000 BCE paleolithic
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Ashurbanipal hunting lions
Nineveh, Iraq
645-640 BCE
Assyrian |
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Assyrian archers persuing enemies
Kalhu, Iraq
875-860 BCE
Assyrian |
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Aurochs horses and rhinoceroses wall
(Chauvet cave) Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, France
30,000-28,000 or 15,000-13,000 BCE
Paleolithic |
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Banquet scene, cylinder seal
Ur, Iraq
2600 BCE
Sumerian |
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Bison
Cave in Altamira, Spain
12,000- 11,000
Paleolithic |
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Bison with turned head
La Madeleine, France
12,000 BCE
Paleolithic |
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Bull-headed Lyre
Ur, Iraq
2600 BCE
Sumerian |
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Deer hunt
Level III, Catal Hoyuk, Turkey
5750 BCE
Neolithic |
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Female head (Inanna?)
Uruk, Iraq
3200-3000 BCE Sumarian |
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Fragment of the victory stele eannatum
Girsu, Iraq
2600-2500 BCE
Sumerian |
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Gallery leading to the main chamber of the passage grave
Newgrange, Ireleand 3,200-2,500 bce Neolithic |
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Great stone tower built into the settlement wall
Jericho 8,000-7,000
Neolithic |
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Hall of the bulls Cave at Lascaux, France 15,000- 13,000 BCE Paleolithic |
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Head of an Akkadian ruler
Nineveh, Iraq
2250-2200 BCE
Akkadian |
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Human figure
Ain Ghazal, Jordan
6750-6250BCE
Neolithic |
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Human with feline head Hohlenstein-stadel, Germany 30,000 - 28,000 BCE paleolithic
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Ishtar gate
Babylon, Iraq
575 BCE
Neo-Babylonian/ Persian |
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Lamassu(winged human-headed bull)
Dur Sharrukin, Iraq
720-705 BCE
Assyrian |
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Lanscape with volcanic eruption
Level III Catal Hoyuk
6,150 BCE
Neolithic |
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Lion Gate
Hattusa, Turkey
1400 BCE
Neo-Sumerian/ Babylonian |
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Nude woman (Venus of Willendorf) Willendorf, Austria 28,000- 25,000 BCE
Paleolithic
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Palace of shapur I
Ctesiphon, Iraq
250CE
Neo-Babylonian/ Persian |
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Peace side of the standard of Ur
Ur, Iraq
2600 BCE
Sumerian |
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Persepolis(apadana in the background)
Iran
521- 465 BCE
Neo-Babylonian/Persian |
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Presentation of offerings to Inanna
Uruk, Israel
3200-3000 BCE
Sumerian |
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Processional frieze
Persepolis, Iran
521-465 BCE
Neo-Babylonian/Persian |
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Reconstruction drawing of the white temple and ziggurat
Uruk, Iraq
3,200-3,000 BCE
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Reconstruction of the citadel of sargo II
Dur Sharrukin, Iraq
720-705 BCE
Assyrian |
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Rhinoceros, wounded man and disemboweled bison
Lascaux, France 15,000-13,000 BCE Paleolithic
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Seated statue of Gudea holding temple plan
Girsu, Iraq
2100 BCE |
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Sound Box
Ur, Iraq
2600 BCE
Sumerian |
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Spotted horses and negative hand imprints
Cave at Pech-Merle, France 22,000BCE paleolithic
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Statue of queen napir-asu
Susa, Iran
1350-1300 BCE
Neo-Sumerian/ Babylonian |
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Statuettes of two worshipers
Square Temple at Eshnunna, Iraq
2700 BCE
Sumerian |
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Stele with law code of hummurabi from susa
Iran 1780 BCE Neo-Sumerian/ Babylonian |
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Triumph of Shapur I over Valerian
Bishapur, Iran
260 CE
Neo-Babylonian/Persian |
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Two bison (reliefs) Cave in Le Tuc d' Audobert, France
15,000- 10,000 BCE
Paleolithic |
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Victoy stele of naram-sin
Susa, Iran
2254-2218 BCE
Akkadian |
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Votive disk of Enheduanna
Ur, Iraq
2300-2275 BCE
Akkadian |
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War side of the standard of Ur
Ur, Iraq
2600 BCE
Sumerian |
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Waterworn pebble resembling a human face
Makapansgat, South Africa 3,000,000 BCE paleolithic
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White temple and Ziggurat
Uruk, Iraq
3,200-3,000 BCE
Sumerian |
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Woman holding a bison horn
Laussel, France 25,000- 20,000 paleolithic
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Ziggurat (north stairs restored)
Ur, Iraq
2100 BCE
Akkadian |