Prehistoric to Rome

Paleolithic Era

35,000 BCE

35,000 BCE. Stone age.

Venus of Willendorf

28,000 BCE

Vienna, Austria. c. 28,000-21,000 BCE. Limestone

Apollo 11 Stones

25,500 BCE

Nambia. c. 25,500-25,300 BCE. Charcoal on Stone

Humans in the Americas

25,000 BCE

Neolithic Era in Near East

6000 BCE

6,000 Bronze age

Beaker with Ibex Motifs

4200 BCE

Susa, Iran. c.4,200-3,500 BCE. Painted Terra Cotta

Anthropomorphic Stele

4000 BCE

Arabian Peninsula, c.Fourth Millemmium BCE, Sandstone

Neolithic Era in Europe

4000 BCE

Bronze age

White Temple and its Ziggurat

3500 BCE

Uruk (modern Warka, Iraq), Sumerian, c. 3500-3000 BCE, Mudbrick

Palette of King Narmer

3000 BCE

Predynastic Egypt, c.3000-2920 BCE. Greywacke

Old Kingdom Egypt

2649 BCE

2649-2150 BCE. Strong central government, prosperous economy, pyramids were built

Seated Scribe

2620 BCE

Saqqara Egypt. Old Kingdom Fourth Dynasty. c.2620-2500. Painted Limestone.

Standard of Ur

2600 BCE

From Royal Tombs of Ur (Modern Tell El- Muquyyar), Sumerian, c. 2600-2400 BCE. Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli​ and red limestone.

Great Pyramids

2550 BCE

Giza, Egypt. Old Kingdom Fourth Dynasty. c.2490-2472 BCE. Cut limestone

Stonehenge

2500 BCE

Wiltshire, UK. Neolithic Europe c. 2500-1600 BCE. Sandstone

Probable date of the first iron objects

2500 BCE

The Code of Hammurabi

1792 BCE

Babylon (Modern Iran) Susian c.1792-1750 BCE. Basalt

New Kingdom Egypt

1570 BCE

1570 -1070 BCE. The golden age of the civilization of Ancient Egypt, the time of wealth, prosperity, and power.

Ambum Stone

1500 BCE

Ambum Valley, Enga Province​, Papua New Guinea. 1500 BCE. Greywacke

Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

1473 BCE

Near Luxor, Egypt. New Kingdom Fourth Dynasty. c.1473-1458 BCE. Sandstone, Partially carved into rock cliff and red granite.

Amarna

1353 BCE

1353- 1336 BCE. Akhenaton becomes ruler, religion becomes monotheistic, the capital moves from Thebes.

Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and Three Daughters

1353 BCE

New Kingdom (Amarna) 18th Dynasty. c. 1353-1335 BCE. Limestone

The fall of Troy

1200 BCE

Tlatilco Female Figurine

1200 BCE

Central Mexico, Site of Tlatilco. c. 1,200-900 BCE. Ceramic

First Olympic games

776 BCE

Rome founded

753 BCE

Lamassu

720 BCE

From Citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharukin (modern Khorsabaa, Iraq), Neo-Assyrian, c. 720-705 BCE, Alabaster

Athenian Agora

600 BCE

Archaic - Hellenistic Greek. c.600-150 BCE. Marble

Anavysos Koros

530 BCE

Archaic Greek c. 530 BCE. marble with remnants of paint

Peplos Kore

530 BCE

Archaic Greek. c. 530 BCE. Marble. Painted details

Audience Hall (Apadana) of Darius and Xerxes

520 BCE

Persepolis, Iran. Persian. c. 520-465 BCE. Limestone

Republic Rome

509 BCE

509–27 BCE. Rome's decisions were decided by the people, the Senate made decisions, was ruled by rich families.

Classical Greek

500 BCE

500-323 Had a powerful influence on the Roman Empire and on the foundations of western civilization, politics, artistic thought, scientific thought, theatre, literature, and philosophy derives from this period.

Persian Wars

490 BCE

449- 479 BCE

Doryphoros

450 BCE

Polykleitos (sculptor), original Greek​ bronze (450-440 BCE) Roman bronze copy (120-50 BCE)

Acropolis

447 BCE

Athens, Greece. 447-410 BCE. Marble

Hellenistic Greek

323 BCE

323-146 BCE. Greek cultural influence and power was at its peak in Europe, North Africa and Western Asia

Alexander the Great Dies

323 BCE

Seated Boxer

100 BCE

Hellenistic Greek. c. 100 BCE. Bronze

Alexander Mosaic from House of Faun, Pompeii

100 BCE

Republican Rome. c. 100 BCE. Mosaic

Assassination of Julius Caesar

44 BCE

Imperial Rome

50

50- 479 CE. Agustus took power as emperor, took over a lot of territories- controlled land from Middle East to Western Europe

Augustus of Prima Porta

50

Imperial Roman, Early First century CE, Marble

Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater)

70

Rome, Italy. Imperial Roman. 70-80 CE. Stone and Concrete

Pantheon

118

Imperial Roman. 118-125 CE. Concrete with stone facing.

Western Rome falls

476