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Period: 35,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE
Paleolithic
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28,000 BCE
Venus of Willendorf
Subtracted limestone, Fertility idol -
25,500 BCE
Apollo 11 Stones
Namibia, Charcoal on stone -
25,000 BCE
Humans in America
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Period: 15,200 BCE to 2000 BCE
Neolithic
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15,000 BCE
Ambum Stone
Ambum Valley (New Guinea), Greywacke -
4200 BCE
Ibex Beaker
Susa (Iran), Painted terra cotta, Found in an acropolis -
4000 BCE
Anthropomorphic Stele
Arabian Peninsula, Sandstone -
3500 BCE
White Temple
Uruk (Iran), Sumerian, Mud brick -
3000 BCE
Palette of King Narmer
Predynastic Egypt, greywacke, early propaganda -
2620 BCE
Seated Scribe
Saqqara (Egypt), Old Kingdom, painted limestone, subtraction, carved in the round, funerary -
Period: 2613 BCE to 2181 BCE
Old Egypt
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2600 BCE
Standard of Ur
Royal tombs at Ur (Iraq), Sumerian, Wood inlaid with shells, lapis lazuli, and red limestone -
2500 BCE
Stonehenge
Wiltshire (UK), Sandstone, Where bones were buried -
2500 BCE
First Iron Objects
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2490 BCE
Great Pyramids (Menkaura, Khafre, Khufu)
Giza (Egypt), Old Kingdom, cut limestone, pyramids are tombs of the pharaohs -
1792 BCE
The Code of Hammurabi
Babylon (Modern Iran), Susian, basalt, engraved with the laws of the people -
Period: 1570 BCE to 1069 BCE
New Egypt
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1473 BCE
Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
Egypt, New Kingdom, sandstone, partially carved into rock cliff, and red granite, Senemut was the architect -
1473 BCE
Hatshepsut Statue
Egypt, New Kingdom, sandstone -
1353 BCE
Akhenaton, Nefertiti, & 3 Daughters
New Kingdom (Amarna), 18th Dynasty, limestone -
Period: 1353 BCE to 1335 BCE
Amarna
Akhenaton moved the capital of Egypt from Thebes to Amarna, made Egypt polytheistic to monotheistic -
1200 BCE
Tlatilco
Central Mexico, Ceramic -
1200 BCE
Fall of Troy
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776 BCE
First Olympic Games
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753 BCE
Rome Founded
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720 BCE
Lamassu
Citadel of Sargon II (Iraq), Nep-Assyrian, Alabaster -
600 BCE
Athenian Agora
Archaic through Hellenistic Greece, plan, 30 acres -
530 BCE
Anavysos Kouros
Archaic Greece, marble with remnants of paint, ideal form -
530 BCE
Peplos Kore
from Acropolis, Archaic Greece, marble with remnants of paint, peplos is a garment -
520 BCE
Audience Hall (Apadana)
of darius and Xerxes, Persepolis, Iran, Persian, limestone -
Period: 510 BCE to 323 BCE
Classical Greece
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Period: 509 BCE to 27 BCE
Republic Rome
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449 BCE
Persian Wars
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447 BCE
Parthenon
Acropolis, Greece, Iktinos and Kalikrates were the architects, marble, -
447 BCE
Acropolis Plan
Acropolis, Greece, Iktinos and Kalikrates were the architects -
447 BCE
Temple of Athena Nike
Acropolis, Greece, Iktinos and Kalikrates were the architects, marble -
447 BCE
Victory Adjusting Her Sandal
Acropolis, Greece, Iktinos and Kalikrates were the architects, marble, in the frieze that was around the Temple of Athena Nike -
447 BCE
Helios, Horses, & Dionysos
Acropolis, Greece, Iktinos and Kalikrates were the architects, marble, located in the East pediment of the Parthenon -
447 BCE
Plaque of the Ergastines
Acropolis, Greece, Iktinos and Kalikrates were the architects, marble, frieze at the East entrance of Parthenon -
323 BCE
Alexander the Great Dies
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Period: 323 BCE to 31 BCE
Hellenistic Greece
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120 BCE
Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)
Classical Greece, Polykleitos was the artist, original (bronze) 450 BCE, copy (marble) 120 BCE, -
100 BCE
Seated Boxer
Hellenistic Greece, bronze, lost wax, not ideal body (looks tired) -
100 BCE
Alexander Mosaic
from House of Faun, Pompeii, Republican Roman, mosaic, shows when Alexander defeated the Persians -
44 BCE
Assassination of Julius Caesar
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Period: 27 BCE to 476
Imperial Rome
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70
Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater)
Rome, Italy, Imperial Rome, stone & concrete (CONCRETE CHANGED THE WORLD) -
100
Augustus of Prima Porta
Imperial Roman, marble, controposto, idealized form, propaganda -
118
Pantheon
Imperial Rome, concrete with stone facing, pantheon means all gods -
476
Western Rome Falls
