Lapita Pottery Sherds
c. 1220 BCE-910 BCE
Avanton Gold Cone
1000 BCE-900 BCE
Canopic Jars
900 BCE
Harness Trapping in the Shape of a Horse
900 BCE
Iron Axe Head
900 BCE
Ritual grain server (Gui)
1000 BCE-900 BCE
Berlin Gold Hat
1000 BCE-800 BCE
Hut Urn
800 BCE
Master-of-Animals Standard
800 BCE
The Iliad
Homer, translated by Samuel Butler, 800 BCE
The Odyssey
Homer, 800 BCEThe Oldest Love Poem
800 BCE
Circular “pilgrim” Flask
750 BCE
Bronze Basin
c. 700 BCE
Pair of Hands
700 BCE
The Gilgamesh Flood Tablet
700 BCE
Gold Pectoral of Cerveteri
675 BCE
Large Wall Fibula
675 BCE
Aafenmut Canopic Jars
712 BCE-664 BCE
Kushite priest wearing leopard's head
712 BCE-664 BCE
Ram's-head Amulet
712 BCE-664 BCE
Falcon of Horus
663 BCE
Isis Nursing Horus
663 BCE
Pyxis and Lid with Sphinx-Shaped Handle
650 BCE
Chogha Zanbil
1250 BCE-640 BCE
Isis and Horus
640 BCE
Bronze Etruscan Woman
600 BCE
Canopic Urn
600 BCE
Olmec Head, La Venta Monument 1
1000 BCE-600 BCE
Phoenician-style ewer
600 BCEMan takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao.
Tao Te Ching
600 BCE
Moschophoros (calf-bearer)
560 BCE
Greek Drinking Vessel
550 BCE
Sphinx of Agost
550 BCE
Peplos Kore
530 BCE
Hochdorf Chieftain’s Grave
530 BCE
Vix Krater
530 BCE
Apollo of Veii
550 BCE-520 BCE
Bicha of Balazote
500 BCE
Bronze Statuette of a Bull
500 BCE
Etruscan Mirror
500 BCE
Mars de Todi
500 BCE
Warrior of Capestrano
500 BCE
Tetradrachm
499 BCE
Lady of Elche
499 BCEWonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man
Antigone, by Sophocles
442 BCE
Temple of Poseidon
444 BCE-440 BCE
Parthenon
Ictinus and Callicrates, 447 BCE-432 BCEA stormy sea of wrong and ruining.
Prometheus Bound, by Aeschylus
430 BCE
Terracotta column-krater
430 BCENext Century