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Indus Valley Seals
- 2500-1700 BCE
- Indus River Calley Civilization
- Steatite/Ceramic
- Various (British Museum, National Museum)
- (New Delhi, National Museum, Karachi)
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Mojenjo-Daro Dancer
- 2100-1700 BCE
- Indus River Valley Civilization
- Bronze
- National Museum, New Delhi
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Ashokan Pillar
- Mid 3rd C. BCE
- Mauryan Empire
- Polished Sandstone
- Various Locations, India
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Great Stupa Gate at Sanchi
- 3rd - 1st C. BCE
- Mauryan and Sunga Dynasties
- Sandstone
- Madhya Pradesh, India
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Scenes of the Life of the Buddha
- 1st- 3rd C. CE
- Gandharan period
- Schist
- Various Collections
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Bamiyan Buddhas
- 6th C. CE
- Sandstone and Stucco
- Baniyan, Afghanistan
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Vishnu Temple
- Early 6th C. CE
- Sandstone
- Deogarh
- Uttar Pradesh, India
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Rock Cut Temples at Mahabalipuram
- Early 8th C. CE
- Sandstone
- Mamallapuram
- Tamil Nadu, India
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Lakshmana Temple (plus relief sculptures)
- 10th C. CE
- Sandstone
- Khajuraho
- Madhya Pradesh, India
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Nataraja (Shiva Lord of the Dance)
- 10th C. Chola period
- Bronze
- LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
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Stupa at Borobudur
- 9th C.
- Stone
- Java, Indonesia
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Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom
- Early 12th - 13th C.
- Khmer Empire
- Stone
- Angkor Archeological Park, Cambodia
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Ding, Ritual Bronze Vessel
- Tomb of Fu Hao
- 1200 BCE
- Shang Period
- Bronze
- China
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Terracotta Army
- Tomb of Emperor Qin
- Shihunagdi
- 219-210 BCE
- Qin Dynasty
- Lintong District, Xi'an
- Shaanxi province, China
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Han Tomb Models
- Han Dynasty
- Veramic
- Various Collections
- China
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Gu Kaizhi, Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies
- Jin Period (Tang Dynasty Copy of Jin Original)
- Handscroll
- Ink, color on silk
- British Museum, London
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Han Gan, Night-Shining White
- Tang Dynasty
- 750 CE
- Handscroll
- Ink on Paper
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Yamantaka Mandal with Imperial Portraits
- 1330-1332
- Yuan Dynasty
- Silk Tapestry (Kesi)
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Wu Boli, Dragon Pine
- 1400 CE, Mind Dynasty
- Hanging Scroll
- Ink on paper
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Forbidden City, Royal Palace
- Mind Dynasty
- Wood Architecture
- Beijing, China
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Old Silla Gold Crown
- 5-6th C.
- Old Silla Period
- Gold and jade
- National Museum of Korea, Seoul, Korea
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Bodhisattva Maitreya in Meditation
- 7th C.
- Silla Period
- Gilt Bronze
- National Museum of Korea, Seoul, Korea
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Lotus Sutra
- 12th Century
- Heian Period
- Gold on Indigo-dyed paper
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Illustrated Legends of the Kitano Shrine
- 13th Century
- Kamakura Period
- Handscroll
- Ink and Color on paper
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Mikaeri Amida
- Amida Looking Back
- Late 12th C. Kamakura Period
- Gilt Wood
- Eikando, Zenrinji
- Kyoto, Japan
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Kano Tan'yu, The Sixth Patriarch of Zen the Moment of Enlightenment
- 1635-45, Edo Period
- Ink on paper
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave at Kanagawa
- From a series of 36 views of mount Fuji
- 1831-33, Edo Period
- Published by Eijudo
- Polychrome ink and color on paper
- Metropolitan museum of art, New York
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House of the Prophet
- 635 CE
- Architecture
- Medina, Saudi Arabia
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Coins of Abd al-Malik
- Pre-Reform and Post Reform
- 675-696 CE
- Bronze, Gold
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Haram al-Sharif (Dome of the Rock)
- 690 CE, Umayyad Period
- Designed by Abd al-Malik
- Architecture
- Jerusalem
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Great Mosque of Damascus
- 713 CE, Umayyad Period
- Designed by Al Walid
- Architecture
- Damascus
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Great Mosque of Cordoba
- 10th-14th CE
- Architecture
- Cordoba, Spain
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Plan of Baghdad
- 9th Century
- Architecture
- Baghdad, Iraq
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The Mosque of Al-Mutawakkil
- 836 CE
- Architecture
- Samarra, Iraq (minaret)
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Coronation Robe of Roger II
- 1133 CE
- Gold Brocaded Silk
- Imperial Treasury, Vienna
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Imam Dur Mausoleum
- 1085 CE
- Brick and Stucco
- Iraq (Murqarnas)
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Folio From the "Blue" Quran
- 850-950 CE, Fatimid Period
- Dyed Parchment and Gold Lettering
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Mosque, Madrassa and Mausoleum COmplex of Sultan Hassan
- 1356, Mamluk Period
- Limestone
- Cairo, Egypt
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Mosque, Madrassa, and Moausoleum Complex of Sultan Hassan
- 1356, Mamluk Period
- Limstone
- Cairo, Egypt
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Quran of Baybars II
- 1304-1306, Mamluk Period
- Manuscript
- British Library, London
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Folio from a Shahnama, Iskandar(Alexander the Great) at the Talking Tree
- 1330-1340, Iikhanid Period
- Ink on paper
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Aq Saray Palace
- 1380-1385, Timurid Period
- Brick and Tile
- Shakhrisabz, Uzbekistan
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The Alhambra Palace
- 13th-15th C, Nasrid Dynasty
- Stucco and Architecture
- Granada, Spain
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Sinan, Sulemaniye Cami
- 1550 CE
- Architecture
- Istanbul, Turkey
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Tughra of Suleiman the Magnificent
- 1555 CE
- Ink, Watercolor and gold on paper
- Freer and Sackler Gallery
- Smithsonian, Washington D.C.
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Taj Mahal
- 1632-53, Mughal Period
- Sandstone and Marble
- Agra, India
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The Conference of the Birds
- Page from manuscript of the Mantiq al-Tayr of Farid al-Din Attar
- 1600, CE, Safavid Period
- Opaque watercolor, ink, silver, gold on paper
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New york
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