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| Catal Huyuk (Turkey), c. 7000-5000 BCE |
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| Jericho (West Ban), 8500-7000 BCE |
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| Ziggurat and White Temple of Warka (Uruk, Erech), ancient Sumer, c. 3200-3000 BCE |
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| Plastered and painted skull, Jericho, c. 8000-7000 BCE |
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| Marble head of a goddess, Warka (Sumer), c. 3200-3000 BCE |
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| Ziggurat of Ur, c. 2120 BCE (Neo-Sumerian Age) |
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| Statues from the Temple of Abu, Tell Asmar, Sumer, c. 2900-2600 BCE |
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| Statues from the Square Temple, Eshnunna (Tell Asmar), Sumer, c. 2900-2600 BCE |
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| Sumerian Head, Provenance Unknown (Nelson Gallery, Kansas City), c. 2500 BCE |
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| Mycerinus (Menkaure) and Khamerenebti, Egypt, Dynasty IV (Old Kingdom), c. 2490-72 BCE |
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| Bull-Headed Iyre from Tomb 789 ("King's Grave"), Royal Tombs of Ur, Sumer, c. 2600 BCE |
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| The Standard of Ur, Tomb 779, Royal Tombs of Ur, Sumer, c. 2600 BCE |
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| Copper Head of an Akkadian King, found at Nineveh, c. 2250-2200 BCE |
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| Stele of King Naram-Sin, Akkadian, c. 2254-2218 BCE |
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| Stele of Hammurabi, Babylonian, c. 1780 BCE |
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| Palace and citadel of Sargon II of Assyria, Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad), Iraq, c. 720-705 BCE |
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| Assyrian guardian figures (Lamassu) at the Citadel of Sargon II at Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad), 742-06 BCE |
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| Persian, winged ibex, gold and silver, c. 500 BCE |
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| Silver rhyton with some gilding, 5th-4th century BCE |
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Bronze head of a Persian Emperor (Darius or Xerxes?), c. 490 BCE
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| The bronze head of a Persian ruler compared with the “Blond Boy,” a Greek sculpture of c. 490 BCE |
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| View of the Persian Palace at Persepolis, constructed c. 521-465 BCe |
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| Reconstruction of the Tachara (Winter) Palace of Darius I, Persepolis, c. 490 BCE |
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| Bull-Headed Capital from the Hall of One Hundred Columns, Palace of Persepolis, c. 486-late 400s BCE |
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| Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut beneath the cliffs of Deir el Bahri, Dynasty XVIII (New Kingdom) |
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| Jean Léon Gérome, Napoleon and the Sphinx, 1864 |
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| The Palette of King Narmer, First Dynasty, Archaic Period, c. 3200 BCE |
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