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Pre 500 BCE

Cave paintings at Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc

Cave paintings at Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc

Ardèche region of southern France | Artists of the Aurignacian culture

Read Morec. 32,000-30,000 BCE

Venus of Willendorf

Venus of Willendorf

Willendorf, Austria

Read Morec. 28,000-25,000 BCE

Shigir Idol

Shigir Idol

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

Read More14,000 BCE

makeda

Makeda

Egypt

Read Morec. 10th century BCE

Song of Songs

Song of Songs

Israel

Read More10th century BCE

Twyfelfontein Engravings

Twyfelfontein Engravings

Namibia | local hunter-gatherer people

Read More@10,000 BC-1000 BCE

The Great Hunt Petroglyph of Nine Mile Island

The Great Hunt Petroglyph of Nine Mile Island

Utah | Fremont culture, Utes

Read More8000-700 BCE

Watson Brake Mound

Watson Brake Mound

Louisiana | Evans Culture

Read More6000-2000 BCE
budj bim
 

Aquaculture at Budj Bim cultural landscape

Mount Eccles, Austrailia | Gunditjmara Aboriginal people

Read More4600 BCE

Palette of Narmer

Palette of Narmer

The Temple of Horus, Nekhen, Egypt | Ottoman Artist

Read More3100-3000 BCE

Bighorn Medicine Wheel

Bighorn Medicine Wheel

Wyoming | Plains Culture

Read More3000 BCE

Nok TerracottasNok Terracottas, Africa

West Africa | Various Nok Artists

Read More1500 BCE-500 CE

Great Pyramid of Giza

Pyramids of Giza

Egypt | King Djoser's architect, Imhotep

Read More2000-3000 BCE

Sacred City of Caral-Supe (Peru)

Sacred City of Caral-Supe

Peru | Norte Chico Civilization of Supe

Read More3000-1800 BCE

Menkaure and His Queen

Menkaure and his Wife

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

Read More2548-2530 BCE

Pashupati Seal

Pashupati Seal

Mohenjodaro, Sindh, Pakistan | Krishna Rao

Read More2350-2000 BCE

Temple Hymns of Enheduanna

Enheduanna’s Temple Hymns

Iraq/Mesopotamia | Enheduanna

Read More2300 BCE

Ziggurat at Ur

Ziggurat at Ur

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

Read Morec. 2100 BCE

Epic of Gilgamesh

Epic of Gilgamesh

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

Read Morec. 2150-1400 BCE

Stonehenge

Stonehenge

Wiltshire, England | Neolithic Culture, Druids

Read More2000-1000 BCE

The Code of Hammurabi

The Code of Hammurabi

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

Read Morec. 1770 BCE

Bronze Bells, Shang-Zhong Dynasty

Bronze Bells, Shang-Zhong Dynasty

China | Various Shang and Zhou Artists

Read More1600-256 BCE

Mask of Agamemnon

Mask of Agamemnon

Mycenae, Greece | Unknown Artist

Read More1550–1500 BCE

rig veda

Rig Veda

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

Read Morec. 1500-1000 BCE

Hatshepsut

Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

Deir el-Bahri, Egypt | Senenmut

Read Morec. 1479-1458 BCE

Raimondi Stele

Raimondi Stele

Andes Mountains, Peru | Chavín Culture

Read More1500-300 BCE

Stone Circles of Senegambia

Stone Circles of Senegambia

Gambia & Senegal | Tribe in Senegambia

Read More1500-200 BCE

Zoroaster’s Avesta (Zend-Avesta)

Zoroaster’s Avesta (Zend-Avesta)

Western Iran | Ahura Mazda

Read More1500-100 BCE

Egyptian Book of the Dead

Egyptian Book of the Dead

Egypt

Read Morec. 1500-30 BCE

The Great Hymn to the Aten

The Great Hymn to the Aten

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

Read More1360 BCE

Lion Gate at Mycenae

Lion Gate at Mycenae

Argolis, Greece | Mycenaen Artists

Read More1250 BCE

homer

Homer

coast of Asia Minor | modern Turkey 

Read More1200-800 BCE

Book of Psalms

Book of Psalms

Israel

Read More1000-500 BCE

Enuma Elish

Babylonian Creation Story: Enuma Elish

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

Read Morec. 1000-300 BCE

Book of Songs (Shi jing)

Book of Songs (Shi jing)

China | Compiled by Kungfuzi

Read More1000 to 2 BCE

Navajo Night Chant

Navajo Night Chant

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

Read Morec. 1000 BCE to Present

Solomon's Temple

Solomon's Temple

Jerusalem | Hiram Abiff - Chief Architect

Read More990–931 BCE

Neolithic archaeological site Gobekli Tep

Gobekli Tepe Temple Mounds

Anatolia region of Turkey | Hunter-gathers of area

Read More950 BCE

Olmec Heads

Olmec Heads, Mexico

San Lorenzo, Mexico | Various Olmec Artists

Read More900 BCE

The Upanishads

The Upanishads

India | Vyasa

Read More700-500 BCE

Sappho

Sappho’s Poetry (fragments)

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

Read Morec. 630-570 BCE

The Dao De Jing

The Dao De Jing

China | Laozi & others?

Read More600-late 400 BCE

Book of Genesis

Book of Genesis

Egypt, Israel, Jordan

Read More600-500 BCE

Australian Aboriginal Bark Etchings

Australian Aboriginal Bark Etchings

Australia | Yolunge people

Read MorePre 500 BCE

Nasca Lines of Peru

Nasca Lines of Peru

Nasca Desert, Peru | Nasca people

Read Morec. 500 BCE-500 CE