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Cave paintings at Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc
Ardèche region of southern France | Artists of the Aurignacian culture
Read Morec. 32000-30000 BCEVenus of Willendorf
A new concept of showing content in your web page with more interactive way.c. 28,000-25,000 BCEEpic of Gilgamesh
Sumer/Babylonia (Iraq, Kuwait) | Sîn-lēqi-unninni and unknown Sumerian & Babyloninan poets
Read Morec. 2150 - 1400 BCEThe Code of Hammurabi
Sumer, Aakkad, Babylonia | Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan, Syria | Hriammurabi
Read Morec. 1770 BCEBabylonian Creation Story: Enuma Elish
Mesopotamia | Iraq, SE Turkey, E Syria | Unknown Mesopotamian poet(s}
c. 1000-300 BCENavajo Night Chant
Canyon de Chelly |now eastern Arizona in the Navajo Nation | The Navajo
Read Morec. 1000 BCE to PresentSappho’s Poetry (fragments)
Greek island of Lesbos or possibly Sicily (where she may have been exiled for some time) | Sappho
c. 630-570 BCEAgesander, et al’s Laocoön and His Sons
Rome, Italy | Agesander, Athenodoros, and Polydorus
c. 40–30 BCEPont du Gard, near Nîmes, France
Nimes, France | maybe Marcus Ulpsanius Agrippa (Augustus' son-in-law)
c. 19 BCEJosephus’ The Jewish War
Roman Empire--events described happened in Jerusalem, Judea (then part of Roman Empire) | Josephus
c. 75 CE