Name
Venus of Dolni Vestonice
Location
Czech
Time Period
Ca. 29,000 BCE
Medium
Ceramic
Name
Venus of Wilendorf
Location
Wilendorf, Austria
Time period
28,000 - 25,000 BCE
Medium
Limestone
Name
Camelid sacrum in the shape of a canine
Location
Tequixquiac, central Mexico
Time period
14,000 - 7,000 BCE
Medium
Bone
Name
Anthropomorphic stele
Location
Arabian Peninsula
Time Period
Fourth millennium BCE
Medium
Sandstone
Name
Jade cong
Location
Liangzhu, China
Time period
3300 - 2200 BCE
Medium
Carved jade
Name
The Ambum Stone
Location
Ambum Valley, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea
Time Period
c. 1500 BCE
Medium
Greywacke
Name
Tiatilco Female Figurine
Location
Mexico, site of Tiatilco
Time Period
1200 - 900 BCE
Medium
Ceramic
Name
Terra Cotta fragment
Location
Lapita, Solomon Islands, Reef Islands
Time Period
1000 BCE
Medium
Terra cotta (incised)
Name
Apollo 11 Stones
Location
Nambia
Time Period
c. 25,500 - 25,300 BCE
Medium
Charcoal on stone
Name
Great Hall of Bulls
Location
Lascaux, France
Time Period
15,000 - 13,000 BCE, Paleolithic Europe
Medium
Rock painting
Name
Running horned woman
Location
Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria
Time Period
6,000 - 4,000 BCE
Medium
Pigment on rock
Name
Beaker with ibex motifs
Location
Susa, Iran
Time Period
4,200 - 3,500 BCE
Medium
Painted terra cotta
Name
Stonehenge
Location
Wiltshire, UK
Time Period
2500 - 1600 BCE, Neolithic Europe
Medium
Sandstone
Name
White Temple and its Ziggurats
Location
Uruk (modern Warka Iraq), Sumerian
Time period
c. 3500-3000 BCE
Medium
Mud brick
Name
Statues of Votive Figures from the Square
Location
Temple at Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmer, Iraq) Sumerian
Time period
c. 2700 BCE
Medium
Gypsum Inlaid with shell and black limestone
Name
Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur
Location
(modern Tell-el Muqayyar, Iraq) Sumerian
Time period
c. 2600 - 2400 BCE
Medium
Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone
Name
The Code of Hammurabi
Location
Babylon (modern Iran) Suisun
Time period
c. 1792 - 1750 BCE
Medium
Basalt
Name
Lamassu from the Citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin
Location
Neo - Assyrian
Time period
c. 750 - 705 BCE
Medium
Alabaster
Name
Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes
Location
Persepolis, Iran; Persian
Time period
c. 520 - 465 BCE
Medium
Limestone
Name
Palette of King Narmer
Location
Predynastic Egypt
Time Period
c. 3000 - 2920 BCE
Medium
Greywacke
Name
Seated Scribe
Location
Saqqara, Egypt; Fourth Dynasty
Time period
c. 2620 - 2500 BCE
Medium
painted limestone
Name
Great Pyramids (Menkaura, Khafre, Khufu)
Location
Giza, Egypt; Old Kingdom
Time period
c. 2550 - 2490 BCE
Medium
Cut limestone
Name
Great Sphinx
Location
Giza, Egypt
Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty
Time period
c. 2550 - 2490 BCE
Medium
Cut limestone
Name
King Menkaure and Queen
Location
Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty
Time period
c. 2490 - 2472 BCE
Medium
Greywacke
Name
Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall
Location
Karnak, Near Luxor, Egypt
New Kingdom, 18th and 19th Dynasties
Time period
Temple: c. 1550 BCE
Hall: c. 1250 BCE
Medium
Cut limestone and mud brick