The Great Law of Peace

Iroquis Nation, North America | Dekianawidah, Iroquois Nation

Baptistere de Saint Louis

Iran | Mohammed ibn al Zain

The Great Relief at Mamallapuram

India | Pallava Dynasty

Haniwa Warrior of Iizuka-machi

Japan | Unknown

Tor-Tor Dance

North Sumatra | Batak Tribe

T’nalak Weaving

South Cotabato, Philippines |  The T'boli people in communities around Lake Sebu

Christ Pantocrator

Sinai, Egypt | Unknown

Shwedagon Pagoda

Singuttara Hill, Yangon, Myanmar (Burma) | Mon people

Hagia Sophia

Istanbul, Turkey

Princess Le-Chang

China (Late Six Dynasties period)

Islamic Call to Prayer

Mecca | Abdullah ibn Zayd

Historic Monuments Ancient Kyoto

Japan | Unknown

Ballplayer

Veracruz, Mexico | Nopiloa

Qu'Ran

Mecca, Saudi Arabia

Dome of the Rock

Jeruselum | Umayyad caliph ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān

Wang Chang-Ling

China (Tang Dynasty) | Taiyuan (present-day Shanxi province) or Jianging (present-day Nanjing), scholarship varies

Shantideva’s Way of the Bodhisattva

Nālandā Monastic University in India

Borobudur Temple

Java, Indonesia | Syailendra Dynasty

Li Bai

China (Tang Dynasty) | Suyab (present-day Kyrgyzstan)/ later moved to Jiangyou (modern-day Chengdu, Sichuan)

Du Fu

China (Tang Dynasty) | Chang'an (present-day Xi'an)

Shield Jaguar and Lady Xok

Yaxchilan, in modern Chiapas, Mexico | Maya Civilization

The Book of Kells (Manuscript Illumination)

Currently in Dublin, Ireland | Monks from St. Columbus's Order of Iona, Scotland

Hrotsvitha Dulcitius

Germany | Hrotsvitha

Shiva Nataraja

India | Unknown

Mosque at Djenne, Mali

Rebuilt 1907 | Djenne, southern Mali, south of Timbuktu | Ismaila Traoré (1907)

Du Mu

China (Tang Dynasty) | Chang'an (present-day Xi'an)/later sent to Yangzhou

Nammalvar

Northern India | Nammalvar

Khajuraho Temple, India

Madhya Pradesh, India | Artists of the Chandela dynasty

al-Isfahani Great Book of Songs

Bagdad | Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani

Beowulf

Anglo-Saxon Europe | Unknown

Zimbabwe Soapstone Birds

Zimbabwe | People of greater Zimbawe

Avicenna’s The Canon of Medicine

Rayy, Iran | Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Sīnā

Summer Mountains, Song Dynasty

China | Attributed to Qu Ding

San Isidoro Crypt

Leon, Spain | originally built on ancient Roman ruins

The Bayeux Tapestry

Canterbury, England | commissioned by Bishop Odo (William the Conqueror's half brother)

Le-Ching Jau

China (Southern Sung period)

Hildegard of Bingen

Bingen, Germany | Hildegard of Bingen

Along the River During the Qingming Festival

China | Zhang Zeduan

Song of Roland

unsure, but written in Anglo-Norman French | likely Turold, Norman poet

Angkor Wat

Cambodia | Khmer King Suryavarman II

Mesa Verde Cliff Dwellings

Colorado | Ancestral Pueblo People 

Serimpi Dance

Royal palace of Yogyakarta | Pakubuwono IV

Streams and Mountains Without End Jin Dynasty

China | Zhao Zuo

Averroes Commentaries on Aristotle and Plato

Spain | Ibn Rushd (Averroes)

Last Judgment

Autun Cathedral, France

Notre Dame

Paris, France | Unknown

Jayadeva’s Gita Govinda

India

Mua stone pyramids

Tonga, on the eastern part of the island of Tongatapu | Tuʻitātui

The Mandé Creation Myth

West Africa | Unknown

Golden Buddha (Wat Traimit)

Temple of Wat Traimit, Bangkok, Thailand | By the people of the Sukhothai period

Rock-hewn Churches Lalibela

Ethiopia | King Laibela

Magna Carta

Runnymeade, England |  John, Kind of England; his barons; Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury

Rumi

Konya, Turkey | Rumi

Sundiata

West Africa

Alhambra

Granada, Spain | Nasrid Dynasty

The Lancet Windows of Sainte Chapelle

Palias de la Cite, Sainte Chapelle, Paris | commissioned by King Louis IX

Mo’ai Heads

Easter Island

Durga as Slayer of the Buffalo Demon Mahishasura

Nepal | Unknown

Petrarch

Italy | Petrarch

Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy

Ravenna, Italy | Dante Alighieri

Lorenzetti’s​ ​​The​ ​Allegory​ ​of​ ​Good​ ​Government

Sala della Pace (Hall of Peace), Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy | Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Boccaccio’s Decameron

Tuscany, Italy | Giovanni Boccaccio

Mihrab Mosaic (Isfahan Iran)

Iran | Unknown

The Rihla

Near East, Asia and Africa | Ibn Battuta

Christine de Pisan

Venice, Italy | Cristina da Pizzano

Guillaume de Machaut’s Messe de Nostre Dame (Mass of Our Lady)

France | Guillaume de Machaut

Incan Quipu

Peru | The Incas

Ghiberti’s “Gates of Paradise”

Florence, Italy | Ghiberti

Alberti’s On the Family

Italy | Leon Batista Alberti

Rice Terraces of Phillipine Cordilleras

Philippines | Ifugao ethnic group

Changdeokgung Palace

Korea | The King Taejong

Kabir

India | Kabir

Dufay’s​ ​Missa​ ​L’homme​ ​armé

Cambrai, Northern France | Guillaume Du Fay

Guglielmo Ebreo’s On the Practice or Art of Dancing

Italy | Guglielmo Ebreo

Mirabai

Northern India | Mirabai

Michelangelo’s Pietà

Vatican City | Michelangelo

Aztec Codex Boturini

Northern Mexico | the Tlacuilo

Star Ushak Rug

Turkey | Ottoman Artist

Bosch’s​ ​​Garden​ ​of​ ​Earthly​ ​Delights

The Netherlands (currently held in Spain) | Bosch

Tomb of Askia

Goa, Mali | Askia Mohamed

Benin Bronzes

Benin | Specialist guilds working for the royal court of the Oba (king) in Benin City

Sultan Muhammad’s The Court of Kayumars

Iran | Safvid Master Sultan Msuhammad

Queen Mother Benin Ivory Masks

Benin | Edo Peoples

Adumu Dance

Tanzania and Kenya | Maasi Ancestral Dance

Raphael’s​ ​​The​ ​School​ ​of​ ​Athens

Vatican City | Raphael

Queen Elizabeth I

London, England | Queen Elizabeth I of England

Arbidal Carpet

Ardabil | The people in the town of Ardabil in north-west Iran. But does has a signature of Maqsud Kashani

St. John of The Cross

Spain | St. John of The Cross

Popol Vuh

Guatemala

Marinella’s The Nobility and Excellence of Women

Venice, Italy | Lucrezia Marinella

Le Balet Comique de la Royme by Balthazar de Beaujoyeulx

France | Balthazar de Beaujoyeulx

The Holy Family with Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Italy | Lavinia Fontana

Marlowe's Doctor Faustus

England | Christopher Marlowe

"Alexander Visits the Sage Plato in his Mountain Cave"

Patiyali, India | Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

Ksar Ait Ben Haddou

Ouarzazate Province, Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco | People of Morcocco

Cervantes’ Don Quixote

Spain | Miguel de Cervantes

Taj Mahal

Uttar Pradesh, India | Mumtaz Mahal