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Mesopotamia: Date, medium, location, culture Egypt: Culture, date, medium, location
White Temple and its ziggurat
3,500-3,000 BCE
Mud brick
Uruk (modern day Warka, Iraq)
Sumerian
Palette of King Narmer
Predynastic Egypt
3000-2920 BCE
Greywacke
Statues of votive figures from the Square Temple of Eshnunna
2,700 BCE
Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone
Tell Asmar, Iraq
Sumerian
Seated Scribe
Egyptian Old Kingdom
2620-2500 BCE
Painted limestone
Saqqara, Egypt
Standard of Ur
2,600-2,400 BCE
Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, an red limestone
Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq
Sumerian
Great Pyramids (Menkaure, Khafre, Khufu) and Great Sphinx
Egyptian Old Kingdom
2550-2490 BCE
Cut limestone
Giza, Egypt
King Menkaure and Queen
Egyptian Old Kingdom
2490-2472 BCE
Greywacke
Code of Hammurabi
1,792-1,750 BCE
Basalt
Babylon → Susa, Iran
Babylonian → Susian
Temple of Amun-Re
Egyptian New Kingdom
Temple: 1550 BCE, Hall: 1250 BCE
Cut sandstone
Karnak, near Luxor, Egypt
Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
Egyptian New Kingdom
1473-1458 BCE
Sandstone, partially carved into a rock cliff, and red granite
Near Luxor, Egypt
Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters
Egyptian New Kingdom (Amarna Period)
1353-1335 BCE
Limestone
Tutankhamun’s tomb, innermost coffin
Egyptian New Kingdom
1323 BCE
Gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones
Last Judgment of Hu-Nefer from The Book of the Dead
Egyptian New Kingdom
1275 BCE
Painted papyrus scroll
Lamassu from the Citadel of Sargon II
720-705 BCE
Alabaster
Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad, Iraq)
Neo-Assyrian
Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes
520-465 BCE
Limestone
Persepolis, Iran
Persian
