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Title: Venus of Willendorf
Creator(s): Paleolithic
Date: ca. 28,000 – 25,000 BCE
Medium: Limestone with red ochre
Size: 4.25 inches tall
Location: Willendorf, Austria |
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Title: Hall of the Bulls
Creator(s): Paleolithic
Date: ca. 15,000 – 13,000 BCE
Medium: Charcoal and various
earth pigments
Location: Caves of Lascaux
in Dordogne, France
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Title: Stonehenge
Creator(s): Neolithic
Date: ca. 2550 - 1600 BCE
Medium: Sandstone
megaliths
Location: Salisbury Plain,
England
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Title: Standard of Ur
Creator(s): Sumerians
Date: ca. 2600 BCE
Medium: Wood inlaid with shell,
lapis lazuli, and red
limestone
Location: Royal Cemetery at Ur
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Title: War
Creator(s): Sumerians
Date: ca. 2600 BCE
Medium: Wood inlaid with shell,
lapis lazuli, and red
limestone
Location: Standard of Ur
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Title: Peace
Creator(s): Sumerians
Date: ca. 2600 BCE
Medium: Wood inlaid with shell,
lapis lazuli, and red
limestone
Location: Standard of Ur
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Title: Bull-headed Lyre
Creator(s): Sumerians
Date: ca. 2600 BCE
Medium: Wood, gold leaf, shell,
and lapis lazuli
Location: Royal Cemetery at Ur
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Title: Ur Ziggurat
Medium: Mud brick
Creator(s): 3rd Dynasty of Ur
Location: Ur
Date: ca. 2100 BCE
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Title: Hammurabi’s Law Code
Creator(s): Babylonians
Date: ca. 1780 BCE
Medium: Basalt Stele
Location: Babylon
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Title: Dur Sharrukin
Creator(s): Assyrians (Sargon II)
Date: ca. 720-705 BCE
Medium: Mudbrick
Location: Assyria
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Title: Lamassu
Creator(s): Assyrians
Date: ca. 720-705 BCE
Medium: Limestone
Size: 13 feet high
Location: Dur Sharrukin
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Title: Ishtar Gates
Creator(s): Neo-Babylonians
Date: ca. 575 BCE
Medium: Glazed bricks
Location: Babylon
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Title: Palette of Narmer
Creator(s): Predynastic Egyptian
Date: 3000 – 2920 BCE
Medium: Slate
Size: 2 feet tall
Location: Temple of Hathor in
Hierakonpolis, Egypt
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Title: Pyramids at Giza
Creator(s): 4
th
Dynasty
(Old Kingdom)
Date: 2551 – 2472 BCE
Medium: Granite and limestone
Location: Giza, Egypt
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Title: Stepped Pyramid
at Djoser
Creator(s): Imhotep
3rd Dynasty
(Old Kingdom)
Date: 2630 – 2611 BCE
Medium: Stone
Location: Saqqara, Egypt
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Title: Menkaure and Wife
Creator(s): 4
th
Dynasty
(Old Kingdom)
Date: 2490 – 2472 BCE
Medium: Diorite
Size: 4’6” tall
Location: Valley Temple in Gizeh, Egypt
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Title: Akhenaten, Nefertiti,
and Three
Daughters
Creator(s): 18
th
Dynasty
(Amarnan Period)
Date: ca. 1353 – 1335 BCE
Medium: Limestone
Location: Amarna, Egypt
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Title: Geometric Krater (Dipylon)
Creator(s): Geometric Period, Greek
Date: 740 BCE
Medium: Clay
Location: Cemetery in Athens, Greece
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Title: Kouros
Creator(s): Archaic Period, Greek
Date: ca. 600 BCE
Medium: Marble
Size: 6 feet tall
Location: Athens, Greece
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Title: Doryphorus
Creator(s): Polykleitos
Date: ca. 450 - 400 BCE
High Classical Period, Greek
Medium: Marble
Size: 6 feet tall
Location: Athens, Greece
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Title: Parthenon
Creator(s): Iktinos and Kallikrates
Date: 447 - 438 BCE
High Classical Period
Medium: Pantelic Marble
Location: Acropolis in Athens, Greece
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