Apollo 11 Stones
Namibia
C. 25,000-25,300 B.C.E.
Charcoal
Great Hall of the Bulls
Lascaux, France
Paleolithic Europe
15,000-13,000 B.C.E.
Rock painting
Camelid Sacrum in the Shape of a Canine
Tequixquiac, central Mexico
14,000-7,000 B.C.E.
Running Horned Woman
Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria
6,000-4,000 B.C.E.
Pigment on rock
Bushel with ibex motifs
Susa, Iran
4,200-3,500 B.C.E.
Painted terracotta
Anthropomorphic stele
Arabian Peninsula
Fourth millennium B.C.E.
Sandstone
Jade cong
Liangzhu, China
3,300-2,200 B.C.E.
Carved jade
Stonehenge
Wiltshire, UK
Neolithic Europe
2,500-1,600 B.C.E.
Sandstone
The Ambum Stone
Ambum Valley, Engo Peovince, Papua New Guinea
C. 150 B.C.E.
Greywacke
Tlatilco female figurine
Central Mexico, site of Tlatilco
1,200-900 B.C.E.
Ceramic
Terracotta fragment
Lapita
Solomon Islands, Reef Islands
1000 B.C.E.
Terracotta (incised)
White Temple and Ziggurat
Uruk (Modern Warka, Iraq) Sumerian
c. 3,500-3,000 B.C.E.
Mud brick
Statues of votive figures
Square Temple at Enshunna (modern Tell Asmar, Iraq)
Sumerian
C. 2,700 B.C.E.
Gypsum inlaid with shell and limestone
Standard of Ur
Royal Tombs at Ur (modern Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq)
Sumerian
C. 2,600-2,400 B.C.E.
Wood inlaid with shells, lapis lazuli, and red limestone
The Code of Hammurabi
Babylon (modern Iran
Susian
c. 1792-1750 B.C.E.
Basalt
Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II
Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad, Iraq)
Neo-Assyrian
c. 720-705 B.C.E.
Alabaster
Palette of King Narmer
Predynastic Egypt
c. 3000-2920 B.C.E.
Greywacke
Seated Scribe
Saqqara, Egypt
Old Kingdom, Fourth dynasty
c. 2620-2500 B.C.E.
Painted limestone
Great pyramids and Great Sphinx
Giza, Egypt
Old Kingdom, fourth dynasty
c. 2550-2490 B.C.E.
Cut limestone
King Menkaura and queen
Old Kingdom, fourth dynasty
c. 2490-2472 B.C.E.
Greywacke
Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall
Karnak, near Luxor, Egypt
New Kingdom, 18th and 19th dynasties
Temple: c. 1550 B.C.E.; Hall: c. 1250 B.C.E.
Cut sandstone and mud brick
Catacomb of Priscilla
Early 4th century
Greek Chapel, Orant, Good Shepherd frescos
San Vitale
Ravenna, Italy
Early Byzantine Europe
c. 526-547 C.E.
Brick, Marble, and Stone veneer
Mosaics: Justinian panel and Theodora panel
Hagia Sophia
Constantinople (Istanbul)
Anthemius of Tralles and Isodorus of Miletus
532-537 C.E.
Brick and ceramic elements with stone and mosaic veneer
Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George
Early Byzantine Europe
Sixth or early seventh century C.E.
Encaustic on wood
Great Mosque
C�rdoba, Spain
Umayyad
c. 785-786 C.E.
Stone masonry
Pyxis of al-Mughira
Umayyad
c. 968 C.E.
Ivory
Merovingian looped fibulae
Early medieval Europe
Mid-sixth century C.E.
Silver gilt worked in filigree, with inlays of garnets and other stones
Church of Sainte-Foy
Conquers, France
Romanesque Europe
Church: c.1050-1130 C.E.
Reliquary of Saint Foy: ninth century C.E., with later additions
Stone (architecture); stone and paint (tympanum); gold, silver, gemstone, and enamel over wood (reliquary)
Bayeux Tapestry
Romanesque Europe (English or Norman)
c. 1066-1080 C.E.
Embroidery on linen
Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, France
Early Gothic Europe
Original construction c. 1145-1155 C.E.; reconstruction c. 1194-1220 C.E.
Limestone, stained glass
Dedication Page with Blanche of Castile and King Louis IX of France and Scences from the Apolocalypse, from a Bible moralisee
Gothic Europe
c. 1226-1234 C.E.
Illuminated manuscript (ink, tempra, and gold leaf on vellum)
Rottgen Pieta
Late medieval Europe
c. 1300-1325 C.E.
Painted wood
Athenian Agora
Archaic through Hellenistic
600 B.C.E.-150 C.E.
Anavysos Kouros
Archaic Greek
c. 530 B.C.E.
Peplos Kore from the Acropolis
Archaic Greek
c. 530 B.C.E.
Mable, painted details
Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes
Persepolis, Iran
Persian
c. 520-465 B.C.E.
Limestone
Sarcophagus of the Spouses
Etruscan
c. 520 B.C.E.
Terra cotta
Temple of Minerva and sculpture of Apollo (Aplulu)
Veii, near Rome, Italy
Master sculptor Vulca
c. 510-500 B.C.E.
Original temple of wood, mud brick, or tufa (volcanic rock); terracotta sculpture, 5'11
Temple of the Triclinium
Tarquinia, Italy
Etruscan
c. 480-470 B.C.E.
Tufa and fresco
Niobides Krater
Anonymous vase painter of Classical Greece known as the Niobid Painter
c. 460-450 B.C.E.
Clay, red-figure technique (white highlights)
Doryphorus (Spear bearer)
Polykleitos
Original 450-440 B.C.E.
Roman copy (marble) of Greek original (bronze)
Acropolis
Athens, Greece
Illinois and Kallikrates
c. 447-434 B.C.E.
Marble
Parthenon
Athens, Greece
447-432 B.C.E.
Temple of Athena Nike
Athens, Greece
447-425 B.C.E.
The Erechtheion
Athens, Greece
420-406 B.C.E.
Grave stele of Hegeso
Attributed to Kallimachos
High (late) Classical
c. 410 B.C.E.
Marble and paint
Winged Victory of Samothrace
Hellenistic Greek
c. 190 B.C.E.
Marble. 8'1" high
Great Alter of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon
Asia Minor (present-day Turkey)
Hellenistic Greek
c. 175 B.C.E.
Marble (architecture and sculpture)
Seated Boxer
Hellenistic Greek
c. 100 B.C.E.
Bronze
House Vettii
Pompeii, Italy
Imperial Roman
c. Second century B.C.E.; rebuilt c. 62-79 B.C.E.
Cut stone and fresco
Alexander Mosaic from the House of Fuan, Pompeii
Republican Roman
c. 100 B.C.E.
Mosaic
Head of a Roman patrician
Republican Roman
c. 75-50 B.C.E.
Marble
Augustus of Prima Porta
Imperial Roman
Early first century C.E.
Marble
Colosseum (Flavin Ampitheater)
Rome, Italy
Imperial Roman
70-80 C.E.
Stone and concrete
Forum of Trajan
Rome, Italy
Apollodorus of Damascus
Forum and markets: 106-112 C.E.; column completed 113 C.E.
Brick and concrete (architecture)
Marble (column)
Panthenon
Imperial Roman
118-125 C.E.
Concrete with stone facing
Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus
Late Imperial Roman
c. 250 C.E.
Marble
Kneeling Statue of Hatesheput
18th Dynasty
c. 1473-1458 B.C.E.
New Kingdon
Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters
New Kingdom(Amarna)
18th dynasty
c. 1353-1335 B.C.E.
limestone
Tutankhamun's tomb, innermost coffin
New Kingdom, 18th dynasty
c. 1323 B.C.E.
Gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones
Last Judgement of Hu-Nefer, from his tomb (page from the Book of the Dead)
New Kingdom, 19th dynasty
c. 275 B.C.E.
Painted Papyrus scroll