front 1 | back 1 Scene with a group of rhinoceroses Provenance: Chauvet Cave (France) Place of Conservation: In situ Chronology: Palaeolithic |
front 2 | back 2 Hand's red-painted negative Provenance: Chauvet Cave (France) Place of Conservation: In situ Chronology: Palaeolithic |
front 3 | back 3 Secondary burial with the top of the cranium used as a container for further human remains Provenance: Germany Place of Conservation: Prehistoric Museum of Blaubeuren Chronology: Upper Palaeolithic |
front 4 | back 4 Cave painting of a bird-headed man, bison, and rhinoceros Provenance: Lascaux Cave (France) Place of Conservation: In situ Chronology: Upper Palaeolithic |
front 5 | back 5 Mammoth tusk figurine of a human with a lion's head Provenance: Germany Place of Conservation: Ulm Museum Chronology: Upper Palaeolithic |
front 6 | back 6 Female figurine carved from a red tunic pebble with at least three intentional grooves Provenance: Israel Place of Conservation: Israel Museum, Jerusalem Chronology: Lower Palaeolithic |
front 7 | back 7 The "Venus" of Laussel Provenance: France Place of Conservation: Museum of Aquitania, Bordeaux (France) Chronology: Upper Palaeolithic |
front 8 | back 8 Vulture bone flute Provenance: Germany Place of Conservation: Prehistoric Museum of Blaubeuren Chronology: Upper Paleolithic |
front 9 | back 9 Painting with a deer-hunting scene Provenance: Valencia, Spain Place of conservation: In situ Chronology: Mesolithic |
front 10 | back 10 Skull of a 35/40 year old man struck by one arrowhead in the chest and another in the face Provenance: Denmark Place of Conservation: National Museum of Denmark (Copenhagen) Chronology: Neolithic |
front 11 | back 11 The world's oldest known sanctuary Provenance: Turkey Place of conservation: In situ Chronology: Pre Pottery Neolithic |
front 12 | back 12 Seated female clay figurine between feline-headed arm rests Provenance: Turkey Place of Conservation: Museum of Anatolian Civilizations (Ankara) Chronology: Neolithic |
front 13 | back 13 Mask made with a deer skull with carved eyeholes Provenance: Star Carr, Scarborough (UK) Place of Conservation: Scarborough Museum Chronology: Mesolithic |
front 14 | back 14 Limestone mask decorated with paint Provenance: Israel Place of Conservation: Israel Museum (Jerusalem) Chronology: Pre-Pottery Neolithic |
front 15 | back 15 Cylinder seal showing a "priest-king" participating in a liturgical ceremony Provenance: Iraq Place of Conservation: Louvre (Paris) Chronology: Bronze Age |
front 16 | back 16 Syrian marble double "eye idol" Provenance: Syria Place of Conservation: Private Collection Chronology: 3,500-3,300 BCE |
front 17 | back 17 Gerza schist palette depicting the goddess Hathor in the form of a cow Provenance: Tomb 59, Gerza (Egypt) Place of Conservation: Egyptian Museum (Cairo) Chronology: Bronze Age |
front 18 | back 18 Ithifallic colossus of Min Provenance: Egypt Place of Conservation: Ashmolean Museum (Oxford) Chronology: Bronze Age |
front 19 | back 19 Narmer palette Provenance: Egypt Place of Conservation: Egyptian Museum (Cairo) Chronology: 3,200-3,000 BCE |
front 20 | back 20 Clay tag with proto-cuneiform glyphs Provenance: Uruk (Iraq) Place of Conservation: Berlin Chronology: Bronze Age |
front 21 | back 21 Proto-cuneiform Mesopotamian tablet Provenance: Uruk (Iraq) Place of Conservation: LA County Museum of Art (California) Chronology: Bronze Age |
front 22 | back 22 Cuneiform Mesopotamian tablet Provenance: Umma (Iraq) Place of Conservation: Spurlok Museum of World Cultures (Illinois) Chronology: Bronze Age |
front 23 | back 23 Cuneiform Mesopotamian tablet Provenance: Uruk (Iraq) Place of Conservation: Spurlok Museum of World Cultures (Illinois) Chronology: Neo-Babylonian Period |
front 24 | back 24 Bone and ivory tags Provenance: Tomb UJ, Abydos (Egypt) Place of Conservation: Cairo Chronology: Bronze Age |
front 25 | back 25 Seal impression with the first complete hieroglyphic sentence Provenance: Tom of Seth-Peribsen (Egypt) Place of Conservation: British Museum (London) Chronology: Bronze Age |
front 26 | back 26 Fragment of wall decoration with hieroglyphs Provenance: Valley of the Kings (Egypt) Place of Conservation: British Museum (London) Chronology: New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty |
front 27 | back 27 Ipuwer papyrus in hieratic language Provenance: unknown Place of Conservation: Dutch National Museum of Antiquities (Leiden) Chronology: New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty |
front 28 | back 28 Funerary papyrus of Tanuat in demotic language Provenance: Thebes (Egypt) Place of Conservation: Royal Scottish Museum (Edinburgh) Chronology: Roman period, 9 BCE |
front 29 | back 29 Stele celebrating the victory of Naram-Sin against the Lullubi Provenance: Susa (Iran) Place of Conservation: Louvre (Paris) Chronology: Akkadian Empire |
front 30 | back 30 The Standard of Ur Provenance: Ur (Iraq) Place of Conservation: British Museum (London) Chronology: Early dynastic period |
front 31 | back 31 Tablette with house ground plan Provenance: Umma (Iraq) Place of Conservation: Berlin Chronology: Ur III period |
front 32 | back 32 Limestone statue of King Djoser Provenance: Saqqara (Egypt) Place of Conservation: Egyptian Museum (Cairo) Chronology: Old Kingdom, 3rd Dynasty |
front 33 | back 33 Pyramid of Djoser or Step Pyramid Provenance: Saqqara (Egypt) Place of Conservation: In situ Chronology: Old Kingdom, 3rd Dynasty |
front 34 | back 34 Code of Hammurabi Provenance: Susa (Iran) Place of Conservation: Louvre (Paris) Chronology: 1,770 BCE |
front 35 | back 35 Plimpton 3332 tablet: the world's oldest and most accurate trigonometric tablet Provenance: Larsa (Iraq) Place of Conservation: Columbia University (New York) Chronology: 1,822-1,762 BCE |
front 36 | back 36 Babylonia clay tablet YBC 7289 with representation of √2 |
front 37 | back 37 First known depiction of a map, showing fields belonging to royal estates in Nippur Provenance: Nippur (Iraq) Place of Conservation: New York Public Library Chronology: 1,500 BCE |
front 38 | back 38 Calendar with Nile floods and sacrifice requirements Provenance: temple of Horus and Sobek (Egypt) Place of Conservation: In situ Chronology: 170 BCE |
front 39 | back 39 Clay tablet with labyrinth Provenance: Babylon (Iraq) Place of Conservation: unknown Chronology: 2,000-1,700 BCE |
front 40 | back 40 Papyrus depicting a lion playing the board game of senet against a gazelle Provenance: Egypt Place of Conservation: British Museum (London) Chronology: 1,250-1,150 BCE |
front 41 | back 41 Royal Game of Ur or Game of Twenty Squares Provenance: Ur (Iraq) Place of Conservation: British Museum (London) Chronology: 2,600-2,400 BCE |
front 42 | back 42 Brick relief representing the snake-dragon Mushussu Provenance: Ishtar Gate, Babylon (Iraq) Place of Conservation: Pergamon Museum (Berlin) Chronology: Neo-Babylonian |
front 43 | back 43 Wall panel relief representing a possible parkland in Nineveh with irrigation canals, aqueduct, path with altar, and a pavilion Provenance: North Palace, Nineveh (Iraq) Place of Conservation: British Museum (London) Chronology: Neo-Assyrian |
front 44 | back 44 Relief representing Darius I's elite warriors (the "Immortals") Provenance: Susa (Iran) Place of Conservation: Pergamon Museum (Berlin) Chronology: 500 BCE |
front 45 | back 45 Relief representing Sennacherib attacking a walled city (probably Jerusalem) Provenance: Nineveh (Iraq) Place of Conservation: British Museum (London) Chronology: 704-681 BCE |
front 46 | back 46 Relief representing timber being unloaded from Phoenician ships Provenance: Palace of Sargon II (Iraq) Place of Conservation: Louvre (Paris) Chronology: 8th century BCE |
front 47 | back 47 Marble seated harp player Provenance: Cyclades (Greece) Place of Conservation: The Metropolitan Museum (New York) Chronology: Late Early Cycladic I - Early Cycladic II |
front 48 | back 48 Painted faience plaques Provenance: Knossos (Crete) Place of Conservation: Heraklion Archaeological Museum Chronology: 1,700-1,600 BCE |
front 49 | back 49 The Master Impression representing Poseidon on a temple dominating the sea Provenance: Chania (Crete) Place of Conservation: The Chania Archaeological Museum Chronology: 1,450-1,400 BCE |
front 50 | back 50 The Snake Goddess Provenance: Knossos (Crete) Place of Conservation: Heraklion Archaeological Museum Chronology: 1,600 BCE |
front 51 | back 51 The harvester vase Provenance: Hagia Triada (Crete) Place of Conservation: Heraklion Archaeological Museum Chronology: 1,550-1,500 BCE |
front 52 | back 52 The Hagia Triada sarcophagus Provenance: Hagia Triada (Crete) Place of Conservation: Heraklion Archaeological Museum Chronology: 1,370-1,320 BCE |
front 53 | back 53 The so-called "Mask of Agamemnon" Provenance: Grave Circle A, Mycenae (Greece) Place of Conservation: National Archaeological Museum (Athens) Chronology: 1,550-1,500 BCE |
front 54 | back 54 The "Pylos Combat Agate" Provenance: "Tomb of the Griffin Warrior", Plyos (Greece) Place of Conservation: unknown Chronology: 1,450 BCE |
front 55 | back 55 Mycenaean dagger Provenance: Grave Circle A, Mycenae (Greece) Place of Conservation: National Archaeological Museum (Athens) Chronology: 1,600 BCE |
front 56 | back 56 Boar's tusk helmet Provenance: Mycenae (Greece) Place of Conservation: National Archaeological Museum (Athens) Chronology: 14th century BCE |
front 57 | back 57 The "Warrior Vase" Provenance: Mycenae (Greece) Place of Conservation: National Archaeological Museum (Athens) Chronology: 13th century BCE |
front 58 | back 58 Painted plaster head (sphinx?) Provenance: Mycenae (Greece) Place of Conservation: National Archaeological Museum (Athens) Chronology: 13th century BCE |
front 59 | back 59 Linear B tablet Provenance: Knossos (Crete) Place of Conservation: Archaeological Museum of Iraklion Chronology: 1,450 BCE |
front 60 | back 60 Proto-geometric skyphos Provenance: Kerameikos, Athens (Greece) Place of Conservation: Kerameikos Archaeological Museum (Athens) Chronology: end of 11th-10th century BCE |
front 61 | back 61 Attic amphora Provenance: Kerameikos, Athens (Greece) Place of Conservation: National Archaeological Museum (Athens) Chronology: late geometric IA, 760-750 BCE |
front 62 | back 62 Terracotta centaur Provenance: Lefkandi (Greece) Place of Conservation: Archaeological Museum of Eretria Chronology: end of the 10th century BCE |
front 63 | back 63 Mantiklos Apollo Provenance: Thebes (Greece) Place of Conservation: National Archaeological Museum (Athens) Chronology: late geometric 700-675 BCE |
front 64 | back 64 Bronze statuette of a horse Provenance: Olympia (Greece) Place of Conservation: Altes Museum (Berlin) Chronology: late geometric, 730 BCE |
front 65 | back 65 Votive clay model of the Heraion Provenance: Argos (Greece) Place of Conservation: National Archaeological Museum (Athens) Chronology: 725-700 BCE |
front 66 | back 66 Silver stater with a turtle Provenance: Aegina (Greece) Place of Conservation: unknown Chronology: 6th century BCE |
front 67 | back 67 The Chigi vase Provenance: Veio (Italy) Place of Conservation: National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia (Rome) Chronology: 650-640 BCE |
front 68 | back 68 The helmet of Miltiades, the Athenian general of the Battle of Marathon Provenance: Olympia (Greece) Place of Conservation: Archaeological Museum of Olympia Chronology: 490 BCE |
front 69 | back 69 Pediment of the temple of Artemis in Corfu with Gorgon and Panthers Provenance: Corfu (Greece) Place of Conservation: Corfu Archaeological Museum Chronology: 580 BCE |
front 70 | back 70 The Peplos Kore Provenance: Athens (Greece) Place of Conservation: Acropolis Museum (Athens) Chronology: 530 BCE |
front 71 | back 71 The Kroisos Kouros Provenance: Anavyssos (Greece) Place of Conservation: National Archaeological Museum (Athens) Chronology: 540-515 BCE |
front 72 | back 72 Moschophoros Provenance: Athens (Greece) Place of Conservation: Acropolis Museum of Athens Chronology: 560 BCE |
front 73 | back 73 Corinthian olpe by the Vatican Painter 73 Provenance: Corinth (Greece) Place of Conservation: Gregorian Etruscan Museum (Rome) Chronology: 630-615 BCE |
front 74 | back 74 Stele with Democracy crowning Demos Provenance: Athens (Greece) Place of Conservation: Agora Museum (Athens) Chronology: 337 BCE |
front 75 | back 75 Bust of Pericles Provenance: Tivoli (Italy) Place of Conservation: Museo Pio Clementino (Rome) Chronology: 2nd century CE Roman copy afters a Greek original from 430 BCE |
front 76 | back 76 Marble head of Socrates (469-399 BCE) Provenance: Rome (Italy) Place of Conservation: Palazzo Massimo alle Terme (Rome) Chronology: 1st century CE (Roman copy) |
front 77 | back 77 The kleroterion Provenance: Athens (Greece) Place of conservation: Agora Museum (Athens) Chronology: 3rd century BCE |
front 78 | back 78 Bronze ballots Provenance: Athens (Greece) Place of Conservation: Agora Museum (Athens) Chronology: 4th century BCE |
front 79 | back 79 Fragmentary waterclock measuring the time allotted to the speakers Provenance: Athens (Greece) Place of Conservation: Agora Museum (Athens) Chronology: late 5th century BCE |
front 80 | back 80 Ostrakon with the name of Perikles Provenance: Athens (Greece) Place of Conservation: Agora Museum (Athens) Chronology: mid 5h century BCE |
front 81 | back 81 Bust of Aristophanes Provenance: Tivoli (Italy) Place of Conservation: Uffizi Gallery (Florence) Chronology: 2nd century CE Roman copy of a Greek original |
front 82 | back 82 Temple of Concordia Provenance: Agrigento (Italy) Place of Conservation: In situ Chronology: 440-430 BCE |
front 83 | back 83 Marble statue of ephebe Provenance: Agrigento (Italy) Place of Conservation: Museo Archeologico di Agrigento Chronology: 480 BCE |
front 84 | back 84 Temple of Hera Provenance: Paestum (Italy) Place of Conservation: In situ Chronology: 460-450 BCE |
front 85 | back 85 Frescoes from the tomb of the Diver Provenance: Paestum (Italy) Place of Conservation: Archaeological Museum of Paestum Chronology: 480-470 BCE |
front 86 | back 86 Fresco from the Tomb of the Black Rider Provenance: Paestum (Italy) Place of Conservation: Archaeological Museum of Paestum Chronology: 340 BCE |
front 87 | back 87 Ivory bust of Philip II of Macedonia Provenance: Vergina (Greece) Place of Conservation: Vergina Museum Chronology: 335 BCE |
front 88 | back 88 Facade and fresco from Tomb II (of Philip II?) Provenance: Vergina (Greece) Place of Conservation: In situ Chronology: 335-315 BCE |
front 89 | back 89 Bust of Alexander the Great Provenance: Alexandria (Egypt) Place of Conservation: British Museum (London) Chronology: 2nd-1st century BCE |
front 90 | back 90 The Battle of the Issus (333 BCE) between Alexander the Great and Darius III of Persia Provenance: House of the Faun, Pompeii (Italy) Place of Conservation: National Archaeological Museum (Naples) Chronology: late 2nd century BCE |
front 91 | back 91 Tetradrachm with head of horned horse Provenance: Pergamon (Turkey) Place of Conservation: unknown Chronology: reign of Seleucos I Nikator, 312-281 BCE |
front 92 | back 92 Bronze sculpture of Alexander the Great on horseback Provenance: Herculaneum (Italy) Place of Conservation: National Archaeological Museum (Naples) Chronology: 1st century BCE |
front 93 | back 93 Double decadrachm with Agathocles wearing Alexander's elephant scalp headdress Provenance: Syracuse (Italy) Place of Conservation: unknown Chronology: 310-304 BCE |
front 94 | back 94 The Pyrgi tablets Provenance: Pyrgi (Italy) Place of Conservation: National Etruscan Museum (Rome) Chronology: 500 BCE |
front 95 | back 95 Statue of a centaur in tufa stone Provenance: Vulci (Italy) Place of Conservation: National Etruscan Museum (Rome) Chronology: 590-580 BCE |
front 96 | back 96 Bronze statue of a Chimaera Provenance: Arezza (Italy) Place of Conservation: Archaeological Museum (Florence) Chronology: 380-360 BCE |
front 97 | back 97 Mars of Todi Provenance: Todi (Italy) Place of Conservation: Museo Etrusco Gregoriano (Rome) Chronology: late 5th - early 4th century BCE |
front 98 | back 98 Statuette of a woman Provenance: Nemi (Italy) Place of Conservation: Louvre (Paris) Chronology: 350 BCE |
front 99 | back 99 Liver of Piacenza Provenance: Decima di Gossolengo, Piacenza (Italy) Place of Conservation: Municipal Museum of Piacenza Chronology: late 2nd century BCE |
front 100 | back 100 Winged-horses of Tarquinia Provenance: Tarquinia (Italy) Place of Conservation: Tarquinia National Museum Chronology: mid 4th century BCE |
front 101 | back 101 The "Lady of Elche" Provenance: Alcudia de Elche (Spain) Place of Conservation: National Archaeological Museum (Madrid) Chronology: 4th century BCE |
front 102 | back 102 Bronze statuette representing a Phoenician divinity with golden face Provenance: Cadiz (Spain) Place of Conservation: National Archaeological Museum (Madrid) Chronology: 9th-7th century BCE |
front 103 | back 103 The (Tartessian?) sanctuary of Turuñuelo de Guareña Provenance: Turuñuelo de Guareña, Badajoz (Spain) Place of Conservation: In situ Chronology: 6th-5th century BCE |
front 104 | back 104 Fragment of cycladic marble statue Provenance: Turuñuelo de Guareña, Badajoz (Spain) Place of Conservation: unknown Chronology: 6th-5th century BCE |
front 105 | back 105 Denarius with Venus and Aeneas carrying Anchises and Palladium Provenance: North Africa Place of Conservation: unknown Chronology: 47-46 BCE |
front 106 | back 106 Terracotta representing Aeneas escaping from Troy with his father Anchises and his son Aeneas Provenance: Pompeii (Italy) Place of Conservation: National Archaeological Museum (Naples) Chronology: 1st century BCE |
front 107 | back 107 Marble relief with Aeneas landing in Latium with Ascanius and meeting a sow identifying the place where to found Lavinium Provenance: Rome (Italy) Place of Conservation: British Museum (London) Chronology: 140-150 CE |
front 108 | back 108 The "Capitoline Wolf" Provenance: unknown Place of Conservation: Palazzo dei Conservatori (Rome) Chronology: 5th century BCE or 11th-12th century CE |
front 109 | back 109 Consular and triumphal Fasti Provenance: Forum Romanum, Rome (Italy) Place of Conservation: Capitoline Museums (Rome) Chronology: 27 BCE - 14 CE |
front 110 | back 110 Fasti and Calendar Provenance: Rome (Italy) Place of Conservation: Roman National Museum Baths of Diocletian (Rome) Chronology: 3rd century CE |
front 111 | back 111 Rustic Calendar Provenance: Campus Marzius, Rome (Italy) Place of Conservation: Museum of Roman Civilization in Rome Chronology: 2nd century CE |
front 112 | back 112 Calendar with removable pins Provenance: Rome (Italy) Place of Conservation: unknown Chronology: 3rd-4th century CE |
front 113 | back 113 The "Lapis Niger" Provenance: Forum Romanum, Rome (Italy) Place of Conservation: National Roman Museum (Rome) Chronology: 570-550 BCE |
front 114 | back 114 The "Lex Spoletina" Provenance: Spoleto (Italy) Place of Conservation: National Archaeological Museum (Spoleto) Chronology: 241 BCE |
front 115 | back 115 "Capitoline Brutus" (portrait of Lucius Iunius Brutus) Provenance: Italy Place of Conservation: Capitoline Museums (Rome) Chronology: early 3rd century BCE |
front 116 | back 116 Ruins of the Capitolium of Rome Provenance: Rome (Italy) Place of Conservation: In situ Chronology: 509 BCE |
front 117 | back 117 The Capitoline triad Provenance: Guidonia (Italy) Place of Conservation: Civic Archaeological Museum (Guidonia) Chronology: 160-180 CE |
front 118 | back 118 The castrum of Vindolanda Provenance: Bardon Mill (UK) Place of Conservation: In situ Chronology: 85 CE |
front 119 | back 119 Silver denarius with the Italic bull trampling on the Roman She-wolf Provenance: Corfinium (Italy) Place of Conservation: unknown Chronology: 90-88 BCE |
front 120 | back 120 The Cittareale stone Provenance: Cittareale (Italy) Place of Conservation: Museum of Cittareale (Rieti) Chronology: 90-88 BCE |
front 121 | back 121 The Capitolium of Pompeii Provenance: Pompeii (Italy) Place of Conservation: In situ Chronology: 200-175 BCE |
front 122 | back 122 The altar of Claudia Syntyche Provenance: Rome (Italy) Place of Conservation: Central Montemartini (Rome) Chronology: 1st century CE |
front 123 | back 123 The sanctuary of Pietrabbondante Provenance: Pietrabbondante (Italy) Place of Conservation: In situ Chronology: end of the 2nd century BCE |
front 124 | back 124 The sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia Provenance: Palestrina (Italy) Place of Conservation: In situ Chronology: end of the 2nd century BCE |
front 125 | back 125 The Roman sanctuary of Munigua Provenance: Munigua, Seville (Spain) Place of Conservation: In situ Chronology: end of the 1st century CE |
front 126 | back 126 Bust of Lucius Cornelius Sulla Provenance: Rome (Italy) Place of Conservation: Glyptothek of Munich Chronology: Augustan epoch |
front 127 | back 127 Denarius with Hercules and a globe surrounded by four wreaths, one flanked by aplustre and grain ear Provenance: Rome (Italy) Place of Conservation: unknown Chronology: 56 BCE |
front 128 | back 128 Bust of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus Provenance: Rome (Italy) Place of Conservation: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek (Copenhagen) Chronology: 30-50 CE |
front 129 | back 129 Silver denarius advertising Brutus in conjunction with symbols justifying Caesar's assassination Provenance: Northern Greece Place of Conservation: unknown Chronology: 44 BCE |
front 130 | back 130 Marble portrait of Caius Julius Caesar Provenance: unknown Place of Conservation: Vatican Museums (Rome) Chronology: 30-20 BCE |
front 131 | back 131 Silver denarius with Mark Antony and Caesar Provenance: Cisalpine Gaul Place of Conservation: unknown Chronology: 43 BCE |
front 132 | back 132 Portrait of Marcus Antonius Provenance: Forum Romanum, Rome (Italy) Place of Conservation: Centrale Montemartini (Rome) Chronology: 35 BCE |
front 133 | back 133 Silver denarius with Octavian's head and a crocodile Provenance: unknown Place of Conservation: unknown Chronology: 28 BCE |
front 134 | back 134 Augustus of Prima Porta Provenance: Primar Porta, Rome (Italy) Place of Conservation: Vatican Museums (Rome) Chronology: 20 CE |