Neolithic (Mesolithic) cave painting,
8,000 BCE
Human figures, narrative,
monochromatic
Code of Hammurabi,
Mesopotamia (Babylon),
1750 BCE,
First code of Law
Ziggurat at Ur,
Mesopotamian Temple
(Sumerian),
2,100 BCE
Palace of Knossos,
Minoan Civilization,
Crete, 1,500 BCE
Paleolithic Cave Painting,
30,000 BCE
Animals, polychromatic,
descriptive, sympathetic magic
Cuneiform writing,
Mesopotamia,
Started ca. 3,000 BCE
Stonehenge,
Megalithic Monument,
Neolithic period, ca.
2,000 BCE,
England
Venus of Willendorf,
Paleolithic sculpture,
25,000 BCE,
fertility goddess?
Standard of Ur,
Social hierarchy, prosperity,
Mesopotamia (Sumerian),
2,600 BCE
Standard of Ur,
Military victory and spoils,
Mesopotamia (Sumerian),
2,600 BCE
Fresco of the Jumping of the Bull,
Minoan Civilization,
Crete, 1,500 BCE
Worshiper found in temples,
Mesopotamian
(Sumerian),
2,100 BCE
Mycenaean tholos (Tomb)
City of Mycenae,
Mycenaean Culture
1,300 BCE
Ceremony of the opening
of the mouth,
Egyptian funeral represented in the
Book of the Dead
Theseus killing the Minotaur,
Legend of Theseus, Ariadne,
Pasiphae, Minos and the labyrinth.
Pyramids of Giza,
Egypt, 2500 BCE
Gate of the Lions,
And cyclopean walls,
City of Mycenae,
Mycenaean Culture
1,300 BCE
The ransom of Hector,
(Achilles, Priam, Hector’s body),
Homer’s Iliad,
8th cent. BCE
Weighing of the heart,
Ceremony of the weighing of
the heart
represented in the
Book of the Dead
Egyptian funerary figurines
(Shabti)
representing servants to be used in
the afterlife
Menakaure and Queen,
Egyptian sculpture,
2460 BCE,
Rigidity, frontality, idealization.
Rosetta stone, trilingual inscription
(hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek)
that was the key for the decipherment
of hieroglyphic script.
Egyptian mummy and canopic jars
with organs
Phaestus Disk,
Linear A,
Undeciphered Minoan writing,
2,000 BCE, Crete.