White Temple and Its Ziggurat
Uruk (Modern Warka, Iraq)
Mud Brick
Palette of King Narmer
Predynastic Egypt
Greywacke
Statuettes of Votive Figures
2700 B.C.E
Gypsum inlaid with Shell and Black Limestone
Seated Scribe
Saqqara, Egypt
Painted Limestone
Standard of Ur
Wood inlaid Shell, Lapis Lazuli, and Red Limestone
2600-2400 B.C.E
Great Pyramids and Great Sphinx
Giza, Egypt
Cut Limestone
King Menkaura and Queen
Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty
Greywacke
The Code of Hammurabi
Babylon (Modern Iran)
Basalt
Temple of Amun-re and Hypostyle Hall
Karnak, near Luxor, Egypt
Cut Sandstone and Mud Brick
Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
Near Luxor, Egypt
Sandstone, Partially carved into a Rock Cliff, and Red Granite
Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and Three Daughters
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty
Limestone
Tutankhamun’s Tomb, Innermost Coffin
1323 B.C.E
Gold with inlay of Enamel and Semiprecious Stones
The Last Judgement of Hu-Nefer, From his Tomb
1275 B.C.E
Painted Papyrus Scroll
Lamassu from the Citadel of Sargon II
720-705 B.C.E
Alabaster
Athenian Agora
Archaic through Hellenistic Greek
Plan
Anavysos Kouros
Archaic Greek
530 B.C.E
Peplos Kore
Archaic Greek
530 B.C.E
Sarcophagus of the Spouses
520 B.C.E
Terracotta
Audience Hall of Darius and Xerxes
Persepolis, Iran
Limestone
Temple of Minerva and Sculpture of Apollo
Master Sculpture Vulca
510-530 B.C.E
Tomb of Triclinium
480-470 B.C.E
Tufa and Fresco
Niobides Krater
460-450 B.C.E
Clay, Red Figure Technique (White Highlights)
Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)
Polykleitos
450-440 B.C.E.
Acropolis
Athens, Greece
Marble
Grave Steele of Hegeso
410 B.C.E
Marble and Paint
Winged Victory of Samothrace
190 B.C.E
Marble
Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon
175 B.C.E
Marble
House of the Vettii
Pompeii, Italy
Cut Stone and Fresco
Alexander Mosaic From the House of Faun
Pompeii, Italy
Mosaic
Seated Boxer
100 B.C.E
Bronze
Head of a Roman Patrician
Republican Roman
Marble
Augustus of Prima Porta
Imperial Roman
Marble
Colosseum
Rome, Italy
Stone and Concrete
Forum of Trajan
Apollodorus of Damascus
Rome, Italy
Pantheon
Imperial Roman
Concrete with Stone Facing
Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus
250 C.E
Marble