White Temple and its ziggurat. Uruk. c. 3500-3000 BCE. Mud brick.
Palette of King Narmer. Predynastic Egypt. c. 3000-2920 BCE. Greywacke.
Statues of votive figures, from the Square Temple at Eshnunna. Sumerian. c. 2700 BCE. Gypsum
Seated Scribe. Saqqara, Egypt. Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. c. 2620-2500 BCE. Painted limestone.
Standard of Ur from Royal Tombs at Ur. Sumerian. c. 2600-2400 BCE. Lapiz lazuli
Cylinder Seal of Pu-abi. Sumerian. c. 2600. Lapis lazuli
Great Pyramids and Great Sphinx. Giza, Egypt. Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. c. 2550-2490 BCE. Cut limestone.
King Menkaura and queen. Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. c. 2490-2472 BCE. Greywacke.
Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall. Egypt. New Kingdom, 18th and 19th Dynasties. 550 BCE; hall: c. 1250 BCE. Cut sandstone and mud brick
Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut Egypt. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty. c. 1473-1458 BCE. Sandstone
Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty. c. 1353-1335 BCE. Limestone.
Tutankhamun's tomb, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty. c. 1323 BCE. Gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones.
Last judgement of Hu-Nefer, New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty. c. 1275 BCE. Painted papyrus scroll.
Dying Lioness. Nineveh. Assyrian. c. 650 BCE. Alabaster
The Code of Hammurabi. Babylon c 1792-1750 BCE. Diorite
Lamassu , Dur Sharrukin Neo-Assyrian. c. 720-705 BCE. Alabaster
Audience Hall. Persepolis, Iran. Persian. c. 520-465 BCE. Limestone.
