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Great Stupa at Sanchi
Madhya Pradesh, India, Buddhist, Mauyra, late Sunga Dynasty
300 bce-100 ce
stone masonry, sandstone on dome

Terra cotta warriors from mausoleum of the first emperor of China
Qin Dynasty
221-209 bce
painted terra cotta

Funeral banner of Lady Dai (Xin Zhui)
Han Dynasty, China
180 bce
painted silk

Longmen caves
Luoyang, China, Tang Dynasty
493-1127 ce
limstone

Gold and jade crown
Three kingdoms period, Korea, Silla Kingdom, Korea
5th/6th centuries ce
metalwork

Todai-ji
Nara, Japan, various artists, including sculptors Unkei and Keikei, as well as the Kei School
743 ce, rebuilt c 1700 ce
bronze/wood sculpture, wood with ceramic tile roofing architecture

Borobudur Temple
Central Java, Indonesia, Sailendra Dynasty
750-842 ce
volcanic-stone masonry

Angkor, the Temple of Angkor Wat, and the city of Angkor Thom, Cambodia
Hindu, Angkor Dynasty
800-1400 ce
stone masonry, sandstone

Lakshmana Temple
Khajuraho, India, Hindu, Chandella Dynasty
930-950 ce
sandstone

Travelers among Mountains and Streams
Fan Kuan
1000 ce
ink/colors on silk

Shiva as Lord of Dance (Nataraja)
Tamil Nadu, India, Hindu, Chola Dynasty
11th century ce
cast bronze

Night Attack on the Sanjô Palace
Kamakura period, Japan
1250-1300 ce
handscroll, ink/color on paper

The David Vase
Yuan Dynasty, China
1351 ce
white porcelain with cobalt-blue underglaze

Portrait of Sin Sukju (1417-1475)
Imperial Bureau of Painting
15th century ce
hanging scroll, ink/color on silk

Forbidden City
Beijing, China, Ming Dynasty
15th century ce and later
stone masonry, marble, brick, wood, ceramic tile

Ryoan-ji
Kyoto, Japan, Muromachi period, Japan
1480 ce, current design most likely dates to the 18th century ce
rock garden

Jahangir Preserring a Sufi Shaileh to Kings
Bichitr
1620 ce
watercolor/gold/ink on paper

Taj Mahal
Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India, masons/marble workers/mosaicists/decorators working under the supervision of Ustad Ahmad Lahori (architect of the emperor)
1632-1653 ce
stone masonry, marble with inlay of precious/semiprecious stones, gardens

White and Red Plum Blossoms
ogata Korin
1710-1716 ce
ink/watercolor/gold leaf on paper

Under the wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura) aka the Great Wave, from ther series Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji
Katsushika Hokusai
1830-1833 ce
polychrome woodblock print, ink/color on paper

Chairman Mao en Route to Anyuan
artist unknown, based on an oil painting by Liu Chunhua
1969 ce
color lithograph

Petra, Jordan: Treasury and Great Temple
Nabataen Ptolemaic and Roman
c 400 BCE to 100 CE
cut rock

Buddha
Bamiyan, Afghanistan, Gandharan
c 400 to 800 CE, destroyed in 2001
cut rock with plaster and polychrome paint

The Kaaba
Mecca, Saudia Arabia, Islamic - pre-Islamic
rededicated by Muhammad in 631-632 CE, multiple renovations
granite masonry, covered with silk curtain, calligraphy in gold/silver wrapped thread

Jowo Rinpoche, enshrined in the Jokhang Temple
Lhasa, Tibet, Yarlung Dynasty
believed to have been brought to Tibet in 641 CE
gilt metals with semiprecious stones/pearls, paint, various offerings

Dome of the Rock
Jerusalem, Islamic, Umayyad
691 to 692 CE, multiple renovations
stone masonry, wooden roof decorated with glazed ceramic tile/mosaics/gilt aluminum, bronze dome

Great Mosque (Masjid-e Jameh)
Isfahan, Iran, Islamic, Persian, Seliuk, Il-Khanic, Turmid and Safavid Dynasties
c 700 CE, additions/restorations in the 14th/18th/20th centuries CE
stone, brick, wood, plaster, glazed ceramic tile

Folio from a Qur’an
Arab, North Africa or Near East, Abbasid
c. 8th-9th centuries CE
ink/color/gold on parchment

Basin (BaptistEre de St. Louis)
Muhammad ibn al-Zain
c 1320 to 1340 CE
brass inlaid with gold/silver

Bahram Gur fights the Karg, folio from the Great Il-Khanid Shahnama
Islamic, Persian, Il-Khanic
c 1330 t0 1340 CE
ink/opaque watercolor/gold/silver on paper

The Court of Gayumars, folio from Shah Tehmasp’s Shahnama
Sultan Muhammad
c 1522 to 1525 CE
ink/opaque watercolor/gold on paper

The Ardabil Carpet
Maqsud of Kashan
1539 to 1540 CE
silk/wool

Chavín de Huántar 4
northern highlands, Peru, Chavín
900 to 200 BCE
stone architecture complex, granite Lanzón and sculture, hammered gold alloy jewelry

Mesa Verde Cliff Dwellings
Montezuma County, CO, Ancestral Puebloan, Anasazi
450 to 1300 CE
sandstone

Yaxchilán 3
Chiapas, Mexico, Mayan
725 CE
limestone architectural complex

Great Serpent Mound
Adams County, southern OH, Mississippian, eastern woodlands
1070 CE
earthwork, effigy mound

Templo Mayor/Major Temple 4
Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City), Mexica/Aztec
1375 to 1520 CE
stone temple, volcanic stone Coyolxauhqui, jadeite Olmec-style mask, basalt calendar stone

Ruler’s feather headdress (probably of Motecuhzoma II)
Mexica/Aztec
1428 to 1520 CE
feathers (quetza and cotinga) and gold

City of Cusco, including Qorikancha (Inka main temple), Santo Domingo (Spanish colonial convent), and Walls at Saqsa Waman (Socsayhuaman) 3
central highlands, Peru, Inka
1440 CE, convent added 1550 to 1650
adesite

Maize cobs
Inka
1440 to 1533 CE
sheet metal/repussé, metal alloys

City of Machu Picchu 3
central highlands, Peru, Inka
1450 to 1540 CE
granite architectural complex

All-T’oqapu tunic
Inka
1450 to 1540 CE
camelid fiber and cotton

Bandoiler bag
Lenape/Delaware tribe, eastern woodlands
1850 CE
beadwork on leather

Transformation mask
Kwakwaka’wakw, northwest coast of Canada
late 19th century CE
wood, paint, string

Painted elk hide
attributed to Cotsiogo (Cadzi Cody), eastern Shoshone, Wind River Reservation, WY
1890 to 1900 CE
painted elk hide

Black-on-black ceramic vessel
Maria Martínez and Julian Martínez, Tewa Puebloan, San Il defonso Pueblo, NM
mid 20th century CE
blackware ceramic

Jade Cong
Liangzhu, China
3300 - 2200 BCE
carved jade

Stonehenge
Wiltshire, UK
2500 - 1600 BCE (Neolithic Europe)
sandstone

The Ambum Stone
Ambum Valley, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea
1500 BCE
greywacke

Great Hall of the Bulls
Lascaux, France
15,000 - 13,000 BCE (Paleolithic Europe)
rock painting

Apollo 11 Stones
Namibia
25,500 - 25,300 BCE
charcoal on stone

Camelid sacrum in the shape of a canine
Tequixquaic, Central Mexico
14,000 - 7000 BCE
bone

Anthropomorphic Stele
Arabian Peninsula
fourth millennium BCE
sandstone

Beaker with ibex motifs
Susa, Iran
4200 - 3500 BCE
painted terra cotta

Running horned woman
Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria
6000 - 4000 BCE
pigment on rock

Tlatilco female figurine
site of Tlatilco, Central Mexico
1200 - 900 BCE
ceramic

Terra cotta fragment
Soloman Islands, Reef Islands
1000 BCE
terra cotta (incised)
