Indigenous Americas
It measures approximately 1,300 feet in length and ranges from one to three feet in height.
What is Great Serpent Mound
This large ceremonial object is one of the most important artifacts from the dawn of Egyptian civilization.
What is Palette of King Narmer
One of the wonders of Africa, and one of the most unique religious buildings in the world
What is Great Mosque of Djenné
Representations of the deities worshipped by Cook Islanders before their conversion to Christianity included wooden images in human form, slab carvings, and staffs.
What is Staff god
The greatest city of the Nabataeans, a people who occupied the area from Sinai and Negev to northern Arabia in the west and as far north as southern Syria.
What is Petra, Jordan
Beginning after 1000-1100 CE, more than 600 structures were built into the cliff faces of the Four Corners region of the United States: the southwestern corner of Colorado, northwestern corner of New Mexico, northeastern corner of Arizona, and southeastern corner of Utah.
What is Mesa Verde Cliff Dwellings
2620-2500 B.C.E., c. 4th Dynasty, Old Kingdom, painted limestone with rock crystal, magnesite, and copper/arsenic inlay for the eyes and wood for the nipples, found in Saqqara (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
What is Seated Scribe
Naturalistic depiction of a woman’s face with elaborately styled hair, earrings, and tattoos
What is Female (Pwo) Mask
Niue, c. 1850–1900, Tapa or bark cloth, freehand painting, 8 x 6.5 ft,
What is Hiapo
The shrine became the focal point for Muslim worship and pilgrimage.
What is The Kaaba
The site is host to an impressive number of structures and monuments (over 100) Famous for its high-quality relief carvings.
What is Yaxchilán lintel 25, structure 23
Was the principal religious center of the god Amun-Re in Thebes during the New Kingdom (which lasted from 1550 until 1070 B.C.E.).
What is Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall
This mask was part of a secular masquerade in the village of Kami in the early 1900s.
What is Portrait Mask
The Hawaiian male nobility wore feather cloaks and capes for ceremonies and battle.
What is Feather Cape
The greater part is covered with gold so that the eyes of one who gazes on its beauties are dazzled by its brilliance, now glowing like a mass of light, now flashing like lightning.
What is The Dome of the Rock
It mimics the appearance of a ripe ear of corn breaking through its husk, still on the stalk but ready to be harvested.
What is Maize Cobs
It belongs to the Etruscan group and its wall paintings reveal important information about not only Etruscan funeral culture but also about the society of the living.
What is Tomb of the Triclinium
Bamileke Peoples, Grassfields region of Cameroon, 20th century, cloth, beads, raffia, fiber, 146.7 x 52.1 x 29.2
What is Elephant Mask
This was composed of wooden sticks; the horizontal and vertical sticks act as supports, while diagonal and curved ones represent wave swells.
What is Navigation Chart
It is an architectural documentary, visually embodying the political exigencies and aesthetic tastes of the great Islamic empires of Persia.
What is The Great Mosque
The city was divided into two sections, hanan (upper or high) and hurin (lower), which paralleled the social organization of Inka society into upper and lower moieties (social divisions).
City of Cusco
Canon, Roman marble copy of a Greek bronze, c. 450-440 B.C.E.
What is Doryphoros
Fang peoples (southern Cameroon); c. 19th to 20th century CE; wood; 58.4 cm high
What is Reliquary figure
They were probably carved to commemorate important ancestors and were made from around 1000 C.E. until the second half of the seventeenth century.
What is Moai on platform
It is often assumed that images that include human and animal figures, as seen in the detail of this piece, are forbidden in Islam.
What is The Court of Gayumars