Venus of Willendorf

from Willendorf, Austria,

ca. 28,000-25,000 BCE

Peace side of the Standard of Ur,

Iraq,

ca.2600-2400

Reconstruction drawing of the White Temple and ziggurat,

Uruk (modern Warka), Iraq,

ca. 3200- 3000 BCE

Presentation of offerings to Inanna (Warka Vase),

from Uruk (modern Warka), Iraq,

ca. 3200- 3000BCE,

Statuettes of two worshippers,

from the Square Temple at Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar), Iraq,

ca. 2700 BCE

War Side of the Standard of Ur, 

Iraq,

ca. 2600 BCE

Bull-headed lyre and sound box,

from tomb 789 (“King’s Grave”),Royal Cemetery,

Ur (modern Tell Myqayyar), Iraq,

ca. 2600 BCE

Victory stele of Naram-Sin,

from Susa, Iran,

2254-2218 BCE

Stele with law code of Hammurabi,

from Susa, Iran,

ca. 1780 BCE, basalt

Palette of King Narmer,

from Hierakonpolis, Egypt,

Predynastic,

ca. 3000- 2920 BCE

Imhotep, Stepped Pyramid and mortuary precinct of Djoser,

Saqqara, Egypt,

Third Dynasty,

ca. 2630-2611 BCE

Great Pyramids,

Gizeh, Egypt,

Fourth Dynasty,

Pyramids of Menkaure, ca. 2490- 2472 BCE;

Khafre ca. 2520- 2494 BCE;

and Khufu, ca. 2551- 2828 BCE

Khafre enthroned,

from Gizeh, Egypt,

Fourth Dynasty,

ca. 2520- 2494 BCE

Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut (with the Middle Kingdom mortuary temple of Mentuhotep II),

Deir el-Bahri, Egypt,

18th Dynasty

Nebamun hunting fowl,

from the tomb of Nebamun,

Thebes, Egypt,

18th Dynasty,

ca. 1400-1350 BCE

Akhenaton,

from the temple of Aton,

Karnak, Egypt,

18th Dynasty,

ca. 1353- 1335 BCE 

Thutmose, Nefertiti,

from Amarna, Egypt,

18th Dynasty,

ca. 1353- 1335 BCE

Akhenaton, Nefertiti and three daughters,

from Amarna, Egypt,

18th Dynasty,

ca. 1353- 1335 BCE

Death mask of Tutankhamen,

from the innermost coffin of his tomb at Thebes, Egypt,

18th Dynasty,

ca. 1323 BCE

Last judgment of Hu-nefer,

from his tomb at Thebes, Egypt,

19th Dynasty,

ca. 1290- 1280 BCE

Palace at Knossos (Crete),

Greece,

ca. 1700- 1400 BCE

Bull-leaping, from the palace at Knossos (Crete),

Greece,

ca. 1450- 1400 BCE,

fresco

Snake Goddess,

from the palace at Knossos (Crete),

Greece,

ca. 1600 BCE

Aerial view of the citadel at Tiryns,

Greece,

ca. 1400-1200 BCE

Plan of the palace and southern part of the citadel,

Tiryns, Greece,

ca. 1400- 1200 BCE

Lion Gate,

Mycenae, Greece,

ca. 1300- 1250 BCE