Museum Timeline

  • 3100 BCE

    The Narmer Palette

    The Narmer Palette
  • Period: 3100 BCE to 2600 BCE

    Early Dynastic Period in Ancient Egypt

  • Period: 2900 BCE to 2000 BCE

    The Bronze Age-Early Aegean Cultures

  • 2600 BCE

    The Standard of Ur

    The Standard of Ur
  • Period: 2600 BCE to 2160 BCE

    Old Kingdom Period in Ancient Egypt

  • Period: 2500 BCE to 1100 BCE

    The Minoan Civilization

  • Period: 2160 BCE to 2040 BCE

    First Intermediate Period in Ancient Egypt

  • Period: 2040 BCE to 1700 BCE

    Middle Kingdom Period in Ancient Egypt

  • Period: 1700 BCE to 1570 BCE

    Second Intermediate Period in Ancient Egypt

  • Period: 1570 BCE to 1070 BCE

    New Kingdom Period in Ancient Egypt

  • 1353 BCE

    Akhenaten and His Family

    Akhenaten and His Family
  • 1200 BCE

    The Trojan War

  • Period: 1070 BCE to 600 BCE

    Third Intermediate Period in Ancient Egypt

  • Period: 1050 BCE to 750 BCE

    The Dark Ages of Greece-Fall of the Mycenaeans

  • Period: 850 BCE to 700 BCE

    Development of Greek Alphabet

  • 753 BCE

    Rome is Founded by Romulus

  • Period: 600 BCE to 332 BCE

    Late Period in Ancient Egypt

  • 509 BCE

    Rome becomes a Republic

  • 505 BCE

    Introduction of Democracy

  • Period: 500 BCE to 323 BCE

    The Greek Classical Period

  • Period: 461 BCE to 446 BCE

    The Peloponnesian Wars

  • 384 BCE

    Aristotle is Born

  • Period: 356 BCE to 323 BCE

    Alexander the Great

  • 333 BCE

    Battle of Issus

  • Period: 332 BCE to 395

    Greco-Roman Period

  • Period: 323 BCE to 31 BCE

    The Hellenistic Period

  • 165 BCE

    Marcus Aurelius

    Marcus Aurelius
  • 80 BCE

    The Battle of Issus

    The Battle of Issus
  • 44 BCE

    Julius Caesar is Assassinated

  • Period: 27 BCE to 476

    The Roman Empire

  • Period: 330 to 1453

    The Byzantine Empire

  • 380

    Christianity becomes the sole religion of the Roman Empire

  • 395

    Rome Splits in Two

  • 547

    Emperor Justinian and Attendants

    Emperor Justinian and Attendants
  • 547

    Empress Theodora and Attendants

    Empress Theodora and Attendants
  • Period: 1346 to 1353

    The Black Death

  • 1380

    Saint Catherine Disputing and Two Donors

    Saint Catherine Disputing and Two Donors
  • Period: 1400 to

    The Renaissance

  • 1518

    Portrait of Pope Leo

    Portrait of Pope Leo
  • Portrait of Sultan Ahmet

    Portrait of Sultan Ahmet
    (c. early 17th Century)
  • Period: to

    The Baroque Period

  • Marie Arrives at Marseilles

    Marie Arrives at Marseilles
  • Charles I at the Hunt

    Charles I at the Hunt
  • Ola with Animals

    Ola with Animals
    (c. 18th-19th century)
  • Period: to

    Peak of Romanticism

  • Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa

    Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa
  • Liberty Leading the People

    Liberty Leading the People
  • Washington Crossing the Delaware

    Washington Crossing the Delaware
  • Girl with Pitchfork

    Girl with Pitchfork
  • Seated Chief Playing thumb Piano (Mwanangana)

    Seated Chief Playing thumb Piano (Mwanangana)
  • Period: to

    Impressionism

  • Period: to

    Post Impressionism

  • Children Playing in the Snow under Plum Trees in Bloom

    Children Playing in the Snow under Plum Trees in Bloom
  • Period: to

    Fauvism

  • Period: to

    Cubism

  • I Want You for the U.S. Army

    I Want You for the U.S. Army
  • Be Patriotic

    Be Patriotic
  • Blue Devils on Fifth Avenue

    Blue Devils on Fifth Avenue
  • We Can Do It

    We Can Do It
  • Figure with Meat

    Figure with Meat