Ancient to Medieval Art Timeline - Prehistoric to Greek Art

Paleolithic

Paleolithic

30,000 - 9,000 BCE

Neolithic

8,000 - 2,300 BCE

Sumerian

3,500 - 2,332 BCE (Mesopotamian)

Akkadian

2,332 - 2,150 BCE (Mesopotamian)

Neo-Sumerian & Babylonian

2,150 - 1600 BCE (Mesopotamian)

Achaemenid (Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian)

559 - 330 BCE (Persian)

Predynastic & Early Dynastic

3,500 - 2,575 BCE (Egyptian)

Old Kingdom

2,575 - 2,134 BCE (Egyptian)

Middle Kingdom

2,040 - 1,640 BCE (Egyptian)

New Kingdom

1,550 - 1,070 BCE (Egyptian)

Early Cycladic

3,000 - 2,000 BCE (Aegean)

Late Minoan

1,600 - 1,200 BCE (Crete)

Mycenaean

1,600 - 1,200 BCE (Mainland Greece)

Geometric (& Orientalizing)

900 - 600 BCE (Ancient Greece)

Archaic

600 - 480 BCE (Ancient Greece)

Early & High Classical

480 - 400 BCE (Ancient Greece)