Cave paintings at Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc

Ardèche region of southern France | Artists of the Aurignacian culture

Venus of Willendorf

Willendorf, Austria

Shigir Idol

Russia’s Ural Mountain Range | pre-historic hunter-gatherers

Makeda

Egypt

Song of Songs

Israel

Twyfelfontein Engravings

Namibia | local hunter-gatherer people

The Great Hunt Petroglyph of Nine Mile Island

Utah | Fremont culture, Utes

Watson Brake Mound

Louisiana | Evans Culture

Aquaculture at Budj Bim cultural landscape

Mount Eccles, Austrailia | Gunditjmara Aboriginal people

Palette of Narmer

The Temple of Horus, Nekhen, Egypt | Ottoman Artist

Bighorn Medicine Wheel

Wyoming | Plains Culture

Nok Terracottas, Africa

West Africa | Various Nok Artists

Pyramids of Giza

Egypt | King Djoser's architect, Imhotep

Sacred City of Caral-Supe

Peru | Norte Chico Civilization of Supe

Menkaure and his Wife

In the pyramid of Menkaure, Giza, Egypt | Unknown Artist

Pashupati Seal

Mohenjodaro, Sindh, Pakistan | Krishna Rao

Enheduanna’s Temple Hymns

Iraq/Mesopotamia | Enheduanna

Ziggurat at Ur

Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq (near Nasiriyah) | King Ur-Nammu

Epic of Gilgamesh

Sumer/Babylonia (Iraq, Kuwait) | Sîn-lēqi-unninni and unknown Sumerian & Babyloninan poets

Stonehenge

Wiltshire, England | Neolithic Culture, Druids

The Code of Hammurabi

Sumer, Aakkad, Babylonia | Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan, Syria | Hriammurabi

Bronze Bells, Shang-Zhong Dynasty

China | Various Shang and Zhou Artists

Mask of Agamemnon

Mycenae, Greece | Unknown Artist

Rig Veda

Indian Sub-continent | Compiled by several generations of Indo-Aryan priests/philosophers

Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

Deir el-Bahri, Egypt | Senenmut

Raimondi Stele

Andes Mountains, Peru | Chavín Culture

Stone Circles of Senegambia

Gambia & Senegal | Tribe in Senegambia

Zoroaster’s Avesta (Zend-Avesta)

Western Iran | Ahura Mazda

Egyptian Book of the Dead

Egypt

The Great Hymn to the Aten

Egypt | Amenhotep IV, was written by him as the king

Lion Gate at Mycenae

Argolis, Greece | Mycenaen Artists

Homer

coast of Asia Minor | modern Turkey 

Book of Psalms

Israel

Babylonian Creation Story: Enuma Elish

Mesopotamia | Iraq, SE Turkey, E Syria | Unknown Mesopotamian poet(s}

Book of Songs (Shi jing)

China | Compiled by Kungfuzi

Navajo Night Chant

Canyon de Chelly |now eastern Arizona in the Navajo Nation | The Navajo

Solomon's Temple

Jerusalem | Hiram Abiff - Chief Architect

Gobekli Tepe Temple Mounds

Anatolia region of Turkey | Hunter-gathers of area

Olmec Heads, Mexico

San Lorenzo, Mexico | Various Olmec Artists

The Upanishads

India | Vyasa

Sappho’s Poetry (fragments)

Greek island of Lesbos or possibly Sicily (where she may have been exiled for some time) | Sappho

The Dao De Jing

China | Laozi & others?

Book of Genesis

Egypt, Israel, Jordan

Australian Aboriginal Bark Etchings

Australia | Yolunge people

Nasca Lines of Peru

Nasca Desert, Peru | Nasca people