Form
This object is charcoal on quartzite
What are the Apollo 11 Stones?
Made of concentric rings of stones, this structure was likely used in rituals celebrating the summer and winter solstices.
What is Stonehenge?
This work is considered one of the oldest depictions of the human form as the central focus
What is the Running Horned Woman?
This object's red clay surface is decorated using a technique of repeated incising marks.
What is the Terra Cotta Fragment
Although its exact function is unknown, the nature of decomposition suggests that this object had shamanistic connections to death/afterlife.
What is the Camelid Sacrum in Shape of a Canine?
The Palette of King Narmer features carved relief images representing the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt into what material?
What is Greywacke?
As agriculture allowed cultures to flourish and organize throughout the Fertile Crescent, structures like this one began to take form as centers of both government and the gods.
What is the White Temple and its Ziggurat?
This two-faced figure represents the duality of life and death.
What is the Tlatilco Female Figurine?
In addition to drawing and incising directly on the surface, this work's creators also used their hands as stencils while blowing pigment over top.
What is the Great Hall of the Bulls?
What is the Last Judgment of Hu-Nefer?
The Seated Scribe uses these materials in order to achieve a more natural representation of the human figure compared to other Egyptian styles.
What is painted limestone, wooden dowels, and inlaid crystals?
Of the three Great Pyramids of Giza, only this one still displays its original exterior of limestone casing.
What is the Pyramid of Khafre?
With hands clasped, standing upright, and eyes turned toward the Heavens, this object's figures embody the conventions of representation.
What is the Statue of Votive Figures, from the Temple of Eshnunna?
Stonehenge's creators achieved its signature trilithon-forms using posts and lintels along with this construction technique.
What is a mortise and tenon joint technique?
Found in burial sites, the interlocking design of square and cylindrical forms of these objects is speculated to represent a connection between different physical and spiritual realms.
What is the Jade Cong?
This free-standing object was likely used as a gravemarker, carved from sandstone, and the earliest example of a stele.
What is the Anthropomorphic Stele?
This structural design of columns supporting a roof, as seen in the Temple of Amun-Re, allowed light to enter the temple convey a feeling of the creation of the world rising from a sea.
What is the Hypostyle Hall?
This object depicts a divine ruler in composite view, a style that would go on to exist for millenia.
What is The Palette of King Narmer?
This object incorporated elements of mosaic, wood inlaid with shells, lapis lazuli, red limestone, and was held together using Bitumen as an adhesive.
What is The Standard of Ur?
Like the temple carved directly into the surrounding rock, the statue of Hatshepsut from the Mortuary Temple conveys her permanence of rule and connection to the gods by being made of this material.
What is red granite?
Carved of greywacke, this ritualized object was also used a pestle.
What is the Ambum Stone?
In addition to the depiction of its subject states, the sculptural program here also included symbols of power as seen in eagle, lion, and bull motifs on its columns.
What is the Audience Hall (Apadana) of Darius and Xerxes?
Marking a stylistic shift coinciding with monotheism, the elongated and curvilinear forms of figures during the Amarna period are found in this object.
What is Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and Three Daughters?
With more than half of its form extending beyond its material surface, the decorative carving of the Lamassu is an example of what technique?
The Death Mask and sarcophagus of this object was used to protect and guide its owner into the afterlife.
What is Tutankhamun's Tomb (innermost coffin)?