Paleolithic.  Old Stone Age.  40,000-8,000 bce 

Venus of Willendorf, Austria, one of ca.150 small statuettes found throughout Europe that all have similar characteristics: nude bodies with featureless faces, arms resting on breasts, and enlarged breasts and stomach.

Paleolithic.  Old Stone Age.  40,000-8,000 bce 

Spotted horses and human hands, Pech-Merle, France.

Paleolithic Period.  Old Stone Age. 40,000-8,000 bce 

Plan of chambers at Lascaux, France.

Paleolithic Period.  Old Stone Age.  40,000-8,000 bce.

Rotunda (also called Hall of the Bulls), Lascaux, France. 

Paleolithic Period.  Old Stone Age.  40,000-8,000 bce.

Axial Gallery, Lascaux, France: Detail of "Chinese" horse with female symbol over head and male symbol piercing stomach.

Paleolithic Period.  Old Stone Age.  40,000-8,000 bce.

Shaft of the Dead Man, Lascaux, France: Collapsed man with bird mask and erect phallus, beneath whom, is bird-topped spearthrower, and bison with horns lowered, under whose belly are coupled sexual symbols.

Paleolithic Period.  Old Stone Age.  40,000-8,000 bce. 

Bison on ceiling at Altamira, Spain

Paleolithic Period.  Old Stone Age.  40,000-8,000 bce.

Clay relief bison from Ariege, France

Mesolithic Period. Europe (Middle Stone Age): 8000-4000 B.C.

Marching warriors (ritual dancers?) with bows and arrows, painting from rock shelter, Gasulla Gorge, Spain.

Neolithic Period in Ancient Near East (New Stone Age): ca. 9000-4000 B.C.

Plaster ancestor ? figure from Ain Ghazal, Jordan. C. 7000-6000 BCE.

Shrine with horned bulls' heads, symbol of male potency, and leopard-headed goddess giving bvirth to a ram's head

Neolithic Period in Ancient Near East (New Stone Age): ca. 9000-4000 B.C.

Seated statuette of agrarian fertility goddess from Chatal Huyuk.

Drawings of same goddess showing front and side views.

Neolithic Period in Ancient Near East (New Stone Age): ca. 9000-4000 B.C.

Wall painting from shrine showing local landscape with volcanic eruption.

Neolithic Period in Ancient Near East (New Stone Age): ca. 9000-4000 B.C.

Reconstruction drawing of shrine at Chatal Huyuk with deer hunt.Recontructed view of wall painting of deer hunt from shrine

Detail of hunter from deer hunt .

Early Chalcolithic Cultures of Mesopotamia and S. Iran

Vases from the Al Ubaid culture, Mesopotamia, 4000-3500 B.C.

Early Chalcolithic Cultures of Mesopotamia and S. Iran 

Ibex beaker from Susa, Susa culture, S. Iran, 4000-3500 B.C.

Late Chalcolithic Period in Mesopotamia (3500-3000 B.C.): Protoliterate Culture of the Early Sumerians 

   Cone Mosaic from columned temple porch and sunken court, Sanctuary of fertility goddess Inanna, Uruk (Warka); mosaic made of baked-clay cones

Reconstruction of columns from stair with cone mosaic.

Late Chalcolithic Period in Mesopotamia (3500-3000 B.C.): Protoliterate Culture of the Early Sumerians

Head of Inanna (?) from her sanctuary, Uruk.

Reconstruction of Inanna's head with gold leaf on hair.

Late Chalcolithic Period in Mesopotamia (3500-3000 B.C.): Protoliterate Culture of the Early Sumerians

   Alabaster vase from sanctuary of Inanna, Uruk, showing First Fruits or New Year's Festival.

Two views of lower part of vase, showing fruitful plants and water (bottom register); procession of sheep (middle register) and priests with offerings (top register).

Two additional details of top register showing servant with belt of priest/king and offerings for Inanna.

Late Chalcolithic Period in Mesopotamia (3500-3000 B.C.): Protoliterate Culture of the Early Sumerians 

Cylinder seal designs with priest/king performing religious acts for Inanna.

Cylinder seal (the bottommost view from above) from near Uruk showing priest/king feeding sacred sheep.

Early Dynastic Period in Mesopotamia (3000 to 2340 B. C.) =Early Bronze Age

Plan of temple of Abu, Tell Asmar, Mesopotamia=modern-day Iraq.

Worshipers, hero and deities? from temple of Abu.

*know 5 figures*

other cards for them... 

Early Dynastic Period in Mesopotamia (3000 to 2340 B. C.) =Early Bronze Age

Figure possibly of Abu 

Early Dynastic Period in Mesopotamia (3000 to 2340 B. C.) =Early Bronze Age

Figure possibly of Abu's consort, with child.

Early Dynastic Period in Mesopotamia (3000 to 2340 B. C.) =Early Bronze Age

Figure of worshiper with cup.

detail. 

Early Dynastic Period in Mesopotamia (3000 to 2340 B. C.) =Early Bronze Age

Figure of kneeling hero.

Early Dynastic Period in Mesopotamia (3000 to 2340 B. C.) =Early Bronze Age

Bull-headed lyre from tomb of king, Royal Cemetery, Ur. View of lyre before most recent restoration.

Panel with inlaid shell figures including Gilgamesh-like hero holding two man-headed bulls (top register).

Early Dynastic Period in Mesopotamia (3000 to 2340 B. C.) =Early Bronze Age

Cylinder seal and impression showing banquet with Queen Puabi from her tomb, Royal Cemetery, Ur.

Chalcolithic Period in Egypt: Amratian (3800-3600 B. C.) and Gerzean (3600-3150 B. C.) Cultures

Amratian beaker with incised animal designs on red ground, including an ibex.

Chalcolithic Period in Egypt: Amratian (3800-3600 B. C.) and Gerzean (3600-3150 B. C.) Cultures

Amratian statuette of Hathor (?) from a tomb.

Chalcolithic Period in Egypt: Amratian (3800-3600 B. C.) and Gerzean (3600-3150 B. C.) Cultures

Gerzean jar with red funerary boat on Nile.

Chalcolithic Period in Egypt: Amratian (3800-3600 B. C.) and Gerzean (3600-3150 B. C.) Cultures 

Gerzean painting from Hierakonpolis, probably from tomb of a king.Painting depicts boats on the Nile and repeated heroic figure, possibly king himself.

Chalcolithic Period in Egypt: Amratian (3800-3600 B. C.) and Gerzean (3600-3150 B. C.) Cultures

Gerzean knife with designs imitating Mesopotamian Protoliterate cylinder seals.

Detail of handle showing sea battle.

Second side of handle showing priest/king figure (derived from Mesopotamian cylinder seal designs) between tow lions, and animals.

Chalcolithic Period in Egypt: Amratian (3800-3600 B. C.) and Gerzean (3600-3150 B. C.) Cultures

Side A of Gerzean palette from temple of Horus, Hierakonpolis, which shows King Narmer conquering Lower Egyptians.

"Palette of Narmer" 

see http://art.uga.edu/courses/arhi3000/

for more details of this... too much... 

Old Kingdom 2700-2190 B.C. (Early Bronze Age)

Relief from false door of King Djoser running Heb-sed (Jubilee) Race, from Step Pyramid complex, Saqqara

Old Kingdom 2700-2190 B.C. (Early Bronze Age)

Ka statue showing King Djoser in false beard, headcloth and white robe from serdab, Step Pyramid complex, Saqqara.

Old Kingdom 2700-2190 B.C. (Early Bronze Age)

Giza pyramids, constructed of limestone:

Plan. as viewed from Nile on the east Each pyramid is part of a complex, consisting of Valley Temple, roofed causeway, mortuary=funerary temple, and the pyramid itself for the king's burial. Note also rectangular mastaba tombs of the nobility.

Reconstruction showing same elements as plan, and also Great Sphinx on far right.

View of actual remains, as viewed from south, with pyramids of King Menkaure's queens in the foreground.

Old Kingdom 2700-2190 B.C. (Early Bronze Age) 

Section of Great Pyramid of King Khufu (Cheops), Giza.

Old Kingdom 2700-2190 B.C. (Early Bronze Age) 

 King Khafre (Cephren) as Horus from his Valley Temple, Giza. He wears ceremonial pleated kilt, false beard and headcloth, and sits on throne with lion-shaped arms.

 Side view showing falcon-god Horus hovering over king's headcloth, and side of throne with bound papyrus and lotus.

Old Kingdom 2700-2190 B.C. (Early Bronze Age) 

    Great Sphinx (lion bodied monster with King Khafre=Chephren's head), a guardian figure with a form of the king as Ra (=Atum?), Giza.

Old Kingdom 2700-2190 B.C. (Early Bronze Age)

King Menkaure (Mycerinus) and his Wife from his Valley Temple, Giza

Old Kingdom 2700-2190 B.C. (Early Bronze Age)

Seated scribe =? nomarch and judge named Kay, from Kay's mastaba tomb, Saqqara.

Old Kingdom 2700-2190 B.C. (Early Bronze Age)

Typical mastaba from 4th Dynasty: section, with burial beneath the tomb, and offering chapel and serdab in tomb itself.

Drawing of exterior of mastaba, showing limestone construction.

Old Kingdom 2700-2190 B.C. (Early Bronze Age) 

   Plan, mastaba of Ti, Saqqra

Hippopotamus hunt from Offering Chapel of mastaba of Ti, Saqqara Ti is the large immobile figure in the boat.

Cattle crossing ford from same tomb, a scene symbolic of the meat (= the cattle) that was to be fed to the deceased in the afterlife

Old Kingdom 2700-2190 B.C. (Early Bronze Age)  

Relief showing sculptors at work, from mastaba, Saqqara

Middle Kingdom (Middle Bronze Age, 2040-1674 B. C.

King Mentuhotep in white robe, from his mortuary temple, Deir el-Bahri

red crown of Lower Egypt and false beard.

Middle Kingdom (Middle Bronze Age, 2040-1674 B. C.

Section and plan of typical rock-cut tomb at Beni Hasan; offering chapel is on the right.

Middle Kingdom (Middle Bronze Age, 2040-1674 B. C.

Painting from chapel of rock-cut tomb of Khnumhotep II at Beni Hasan, showing Egyptians gathering figs.

Middle Kingdom (Middle Bronze Age, 2040-1674 B. C.

Fragmentary portrait head of King Sesostris III.

Middle Kingdom (Middle Bronze Age, 2040-1674 B. C.

Princess Sennui (Sennuwy) from her husband's tomb, Kerma, Nubia

New Kingdom (Late Bronze Age), 1552-1069 B.C.

MortuaryTemple of Queen Hatshepsut, designed by Senmut, Deir el-Bahri

New Kingdom (Late Bronze Age), 1552-1069 B.C.

Seated statue of Queen Hatshepsut in costume of pharaoh, found at her mortuary temple, Deir el-Bahri (originally from temple of Amun, Karnak).

 Detail of head of Queen Hatshepsut.

New Kingdom (Late Bronze Age), 1552-1069 B.C.

Painting of memorial meal for dead, tomb of Nebamun (an Egyptian official), Western Thebes.

Detail of musicians and dancers from lower register. 

 New Kingdom (Late Bronze Age), 1552-1069 B.C.

[Limestone] relief from aristocratic home, Amarna (Aketaten), King Akhenaten, Queen Nefertiti and daughters under Aten disk.

Detail of Queen Nefertiti and one of her daughters, who plays with cobra from her mother's crown.

New Kingdom (Late Bronze Age), 1552-1069 B.C.

[Plaster] head of King Akhenaten, from sculptor Tuthmose's villa, Amarna

New Kingdom (Late Bronze Age), 1552-1069 B.C.

Queen Tiy (mother of Akhenaten, from her palace, Ghurab.

ebony face of the queen

New Kingdom (Late Bronze Age), 1552-1069 B.C.

[Limestone] bust of Queen Nefertiti, from sculptor Tuthmose's villa, Amarna

New Kingdom (Late Bronze Age), 1552-1069 B.C.

Painting of kingfisher in papyrus swamp, palace of King Akhenaten, Amarna

New Kingdom (Late Bronze Age), 1552-1069 B.C.

Plan, tomb of King Tut, Valley of Kings.

New Kingdom (Late Bronze Age), 1552-1069 B.C.

Throne from tomb of King Tut.

Relief from throne back with King Tut and his wife under Aten disk. She may be annointing him with unguent in preparation for his coronation.

Relief from throne back with King Tut and his wife under Aten disk. She may be annointing him with unguent in preparation for his coronation.

New Kingdom (Late Bronze Age), 1552-1069 B.C.

Innermost gold coffin of King Tut as Osiris, from burial chamber.

Detail of this coffin, showing his royal headcloth with cobra of Lower Egypt and vulture of Upper Egypt. King Tut holds crook and flail of Osiris.

New Kingdom (Late Bronze Age), 1552-1069 B.C.

Detail of mask, showing false beard, and vulture and cobra on headcloth.

 New Kingdom (Late Bronze Age), 1552-1069 B.C.

Selket, scorpion goddess and guardian of organs of King Tut, from treasury, king's tomb.

scorpion emblem on her head and her close-fitting, linen garments.