Name: Nude woman (Venus of Willendorf),

From: Willendorf, Austria,

Age:ca. 28,000–25,000 BCE.

Materials & dimensions: Limestone, 4–1′′ high.

location:Naturhistorisches

Museum, Vienna. 

Name: Spotted horses and negative hand imprints, 
Location: Pech-Merle, France,

Age: ca. 23,000–22,000 BCE.

Dimensions: 11′ 2′′ long. 

Name: Left wall of the Hall of the Bulls

Location: the cave at Lascaux, France,

Age: ca. 16,000–14,000 BCE.

Dimensions: Largest bull 11′ 6′′ long. 

Name: Rhinoceros, wounded man, and disemboweled bison, painting in the well of the cave at

Location: Lascaux, France,

Age:ca. 16,000–14,000 BCE.

Dimensions: Bison, 3′ 4.5 ′′ long. 

Name: Deer hunt, detail of a wall painting from level III,

Location: Çatal Höyük, Turkey,

Age: ca. 5750 BCE.

Current location: Museum of Anatolian Civilization, Ankara. 

Name: Stonehenge (looking northwest),

Location: Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England,

Age: ca. 2550–1600 BCE.

Dimensions:  Outermost ring, 97 feet in diameter, 17 feet tall, 50 ton stones

Name:  Ur Ziggurat (looking southwest),

Location: Mesopotamia. (modern Tell Muqayyar), Iraq,

Age: ca. 2100 BCE.
Materials/dimensions: is 50 feet high. It has three (restored) ramplike stairways of a hundred steps each that

Name: Presentation of offerings to Inanna (Warka Vase)

From: Uruk (modern Warka), Iraq, ca.

Age: 3200–3000 BCE.

Materials & Dimensions:Alabaster, 3′ 1/2 ′′ high.

Location: National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad. 

Name: Statuettes of two worshipers,

From: the Square Temple at Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar), Iraq, Age: ca. 2700 BCE.

Materials/dimensions: Gypsum, shell, and black limestone,

man: 2′ 4.5′′ high, woman 1′ 11.25′′ high.

Location: National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad. 

Name: War side of the Standard of Ur,

From: tomb 779, Royal Cemetery, Ur (modern Tell Muqayyar), Iraq, ca.

Age: 2600–2400 BCE.

Materials & Dimensions: Wood, shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone, 8′′ × 1′ 7′′.

Location: British Museum, London. 

Name: Head of an Akkadian ruler,

From: Nineveh (modern Kuyunjik), Iraq,

Age: ca. 2250–2200 BCE.

Materials & dimensions: Copper, 1′ 2, 3/8′′ high.

Location: National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad. 

Name: Victory stele of Naram-Sin,

From: Susa, Iran, ca.

Age: 2254–2218 BCE.

Materials & dimensions: Pink sandstone, 6′ 7′′ high.

Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris. 

Name: Stele with the laws of Hammurabi,

From: Susa, Iran,

Age: ca. 1780 BCE.

Materials & Dimensions: Basalt, 7′ 4′′ high.

Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris. 

Name: Lamassu (man-headed winged bull),

From: the citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad), Iraq,

Age:ca. 720–705 BCE.

Materials & dimensions: Limestone, 13′ 10′′ high.

Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris. 

Name: Palette of King Narmer

From: Hierakonpolis, Egypt, Predynastic,

Age: ca. 3000–2920 BCE.

Materials & Dimensions: Slate, 2′ 1′′ high.

Location: Egyptian Museum, Cairo. 

Name: Imhotep, stepped pyramid (looking northeast)

From: Djoser, Saqqara, Egypt, Third Dynasty, ca.

Age: 2630–2611 BCE

Dimensions:  37-acre rectangular enclosure surrounded by a monumental 34 feet high and 5,400 feet long wall of white limestone

Name: Great Pyramids, Gizeh, Egypt, Fourth Dynasty.

From bottom:

pyramids of Menkaure, ca. 2490–2472 BCE;

Khafre, ca. 2520–2494 BCE; 

Khufu, ca. 2551–2528 BC 

Name: Great Sphinx (with pyramid of Khafre in the background
at left),

Location: Gizeh, Egypt, Fourth Dynasty,

Age:ca. 2520–2494 BCE.

Materials & dimensions: Sandstone, 65′ × 240′. 

Name: Khafre enthroned,

From: Gizeh, Egypt,

Age: Fourth Dynasty, ca. 2520–2494 BCE.

Dimensions & Materials: Diorite, 5′ 6′′ high.

Location: Egyptian Museum, Cairo 

Name: Menkaure and Khamerernebty(?),

From: Gizeh, Egypt,

Age: Fourth Dynasty, ca. 2490–2472 BCE.

Materials & dimensions: Graywacke, 4′ 6.5′′ high.

Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 

Name: Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut (looking southwest),

Location: Deir el-Bahri, Egypt,

Age: 18th Dynasty, ca. 1473–1458 BCE.

Name: Facade of the temple of Ramses II,

LocationL Abu Simbel, Egypt,

Age: 19th Dynasty, ca. 1290–1224 BCE.

Materials & dimensions: Sandstone, colossi 65′ high. 

Name: Akhenaton,

From: the temple of Aton, Karnak, Egypt,
Age: 18th Dynasty, ca. 1353–1335 BCE.

Materials & dimensions: Sandstone, 13′ high.

Location: Egyptian Museum, Cairo. 

Name: Thutmose, Nefertiti,

From: Amarna, Egypt,

Age: 18th Dynasty, ca. 1353–1335 BCE.

Materials & DimensionsL Painted limestone, 1′ 1.25′′ high. Location: Ägyptisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin. 

Name: Innermost coffin of Tutankhamen,

From: his tomb at Thebes, Egypt,

Age: 18th Dynasty, ca. 1323 BCE.

Materials & dimensions: Gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones,6′ 1′′ long.

LocationEgyptian Museum, Cairo. 

Name: Death mask of Tutankhamen,

From: the innermost coffin in his tomb at Thebes, Egypt,

Age: 18th Dynasty, ca. 1323 BCE.

Materials & dimensions: Gold with inlay of semiprecious stones, 1′ 9.25′′ high.

Location: Egyptian Museum, Cairo. 

Name: Figurine of a woman,

From: Syros (Cyclades), Greece,
Age: ca. 2600–2300 BCE.

Materials & dimensions: Marble, 1′ 6′′ high.

Location: National Archaeological Museum, Athens. 

Name: palace at Knossos Aerial view (looking northeast)

Location: (Crete), Greece,

Age: ca. 1700–1370 BCE 

Name: Stairwell in the residential quarter of the palace at Knossos (Crete), Greece,

age: ca. 1700–1370 BCE. 

Name: Bull-leaping,

From: the palace at Knossos (Crete), Greece,

Age: ca. 1400–1370 BCE.

Materials & dimensions: Fresco, 2′ 8′′ high, including border. Location:Archaeological Museum, Herakleion 

Name: Octopus flask,

From: Palaikastro (Crete), Greece,

Age: ca. 1450 BCE.

Dimensions: 11′′ high.

Location: Archaeological Museum, Herakleion. 

Name: Snake Goddess,

From: the palace at Knossos (Crete), Greece,

Age:ca. 1600 BCE. Faience,

Dimensions: 1′ 1.25′′ high.

Location: Archaeological Museum,

Herakleion. 

Name: Lion Gate (looking southeast),

From: Mycenae, Greece,

Age: ca. 1300–1250 BCE.

Materials/dimensions: Limestone, relief panel 9′ 6′′ high. 

Name:Treasury of Atreus,

Location: Mycenae, Greece,
age: ca. 1300–1250 

msterials dimensions: corbelled stone, 43 foot high dome

Name: Funerary mask,

F:rom Grave Circle A, Mycenae, Greece,

Age: ca. 1600–1500 BCE.

Materials/dimensions: Gold, 1′ high.

Location: National Archaeological Museum, Athens. 

Name: Lady of Auxerre,

from: Crete

Age: ca. 650–625 BCE.

Limestone, 2′ 1.5′′ high. 

Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris. 

Name: Kouros,

From: Attica, Greece,

Age: ca. 600 BCE.

materials & dimensions: Marble, 6′ .5′′ high.

LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 

Name: Kroisos,

From: Anavysos, Greece,
Age: ca. 530 BCE.

Materials & dimensions: Marble, 6′ 4′′ high.

Location:National Archaeological Museum, Athens. 

Name: Kritios Boy,

From: the Acropolis, Athens, Greece,

Age: ca. 480 BCE.

Materials & dimensions: Marble, 3′ 10′′ high.

Location: Acropolis Museum, Athens. 

Name: Warrior, from the sea

From:  Riace, Italy,
Age: ca. 460–450 BCE.

Dimensions & materials: Bronze, 6′ 6′′ high.

Location: Museo Archeo- logico Nazionale, Reggio Calabria. 

Name: MYRON, Diskobolos (Discus Thrower).

Roman copy of a bronze statue of

Age: ca. 450 BCE.

Materials & dimensions: Marble, 5′ 1′′ high.

Location: Museo Nazionale Romano Rome. 

Name: POLYKLEITOS, Doryphoros (Spear Bearer). Roman copy from the palaestra,

Age:  ca. 450–440 BCE

From: Pompeii, Italy, 

Materials & dimensions: a bronze statue of Marble, 6′ 11′′ high.

Location: Museo Archeo- logico Nazionale, Naples. 

Name: Helios and his horses, and Dionysos (Herakles?),

From: the east pediment of the Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Greece,

Age: ca. 438–432 BCE.

Materials & dimensions: Marble, greatest height 4′ 3′′.

Location:British Museum, London. 

Name: Three goddesses (Hestia, Dione, and Aphrodite?),

From: the east pediment of the Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Greece,

Age: ca. 438–432 BCE.

Materials & dimensions: Marble, greatest height 4′ 5′′.

Location: British Museum, London. 

Name: Two details of the Panathenaic Festival procession frieze, From: the Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Greece,
Age: ca. 447–438 BCE.

Materials & Dimensions: Marble, 3′ 6′′ high.

Top: horsemen (north frieze), British Museum, London.

Bottom: elders and maidens (east frieze), Musée du Louvre, Paris. 

Name: Nike adjusting her sandal,

From: the south side of the parapet of the Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis, Athens, Greece,

Age: ca. 410 BCE.

Materials & dimensions: Marble, 3′ 6′′ high.

Location: Acropolis Museum, Athens. 

Name: LYSIPPOS, Apoxyomenos (Scraper).

Roman copy of a bronze statue of ca.

Age: 330 BCE.

Materials & dimensions: Marble, 6′ 9′′ high.

Location: Musei Vaticani, Rome. 

Name: Reconstructed west front of the Altar of Zeus,

From: Pergamon, Turkey,

Age: ca. 175 BCE.

Location: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin.
Dimensions: 400 ft long

Name: Nike alighting on a warship (Nike of Samothrace),

From: Samothrace, Greece,

Age: ca. 190 BCE.

Dimensions & materials: Marble, figure 8′ 1′′ high.

Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris.