APAH-Mesopotamia and Egypt

White temple and its ziggurat

c. 3500-3000 BCE

Sumerian

mud brick

Uruk, Iraq

Statues of votive figures, from the square temple at Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar, Iraq)

c. 2700 BCE

gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone

Sumerian

The Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur

Sumerian

c. 2600-2400 BCE

Wood Inlaid with lapis lazuli, shell, and red limestone

The Code of Hammurabi

Babylon (Modern Iran)

Susian

c. 1792-1750 BCE

Basalt

Lamassu from the Citadel of Sargon II

Dur Sharrukin (Modern Khorsabad, Iraq)

Neo-Assyrian

C. 720-705 BCE

Alabaster

Audience Hall (Apadana) of Darius and Xerxes

Persepolis, Iran

Persian

c. 520-465 BCE

Limestone

Audience Hall picture 2

The Pallete of King Narmer

Predynastic Egypt

c. 3000-2920 BCE

greywacke

Khafre

Old Kingdom

Egypt

Diorite

King Menkaura and Queen

Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty

Greywacke

Seated Scribe

Saqqara, Egypt

Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty

Limestone

The last judgement of Hu-Nefer, from his tomb (page from the Book of the Dead)

New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty

c. 1275 BCE

Painted papyrus scroll

The Great Pyramids at Giza (Menkaura, Khafre, Khufu) and the Great Sphinx

Giza, Egypt

Old Kingdom, 4th dynasty

Limestone

The Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall

Karnak, near Luxor, Egypt

New Kingdom, 18th and 19th dynasties

Cut Sandstone and Mud Brick

Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

Near Luxor, Egypt

New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty

Sandstone, partially carved into a rock cliff and red granite

Kneeling Statue of Hatshepsut

(Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

Near Luxor, Egypt

New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty

Sandstone, partially carved into a rock cliff and red granite)

Akhenaton, Nefertiti and three daughters

New Kingdom (Amarna), 18th Dynasty

Limestone

Tutankhamun's Innermost Coffin

New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty

c. 1323 BCE

Gold with inlay of enamel and semi-precious stones