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paleolithicfrom Las Caux
15000-13000 BC Created as a hunting or fertility magic to ensure a good hunt they were made of art pigments mixed with animal spit and bloodpigments blown through a hole or reed onto the cave believed to be a ritual. |
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paleolithicfrom Las Caux
15000-13000 BC Created as a hunting or fertility magic to ensure a good hunt they were made of art pigments mixed with animal spit and bloodpigments blown through a hole or reed onto the cave believed to be a ritual. |
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paleolithic venus of willendorf called her venus because they feel this sculpture was a fertility sculpture the large abdomen and breast suggest ferility one of the oldest sculptures ever found |
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aboriginal Wandjinas aboriginal wall painting discovered 1837 symbols of benevolent spirits large eyes and mouths |
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aboriginal rainbow serpent a common deity, often a creator god, in the mythology and a common motif in the art of Aboriginal Australia |
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neolithic stonehenge 9000-4000 BC Post and Lentil construction system made of stone many uses: Calender, sundial, place of worship few buried there but it is not a grave. |
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sumerian worshiping figures male wear only skirts while women are fully dressed huge eyes, which sumerians believed were windows to the soul heiarchal proportions (the biggest one is the most important) |
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sumerian ziggurat sumerian temples at Ur made of brick with a man made mountain on top |
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sumerian harp put in sumerian tombs where many musical instruments for the dead were found made of wood and gold leaf stories carved on the front of the hard |
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Sumero Akkadian victory stele marker for after a battle tells of nouram sins victory hierarchical sizes (most important is the biggest) relief carving. |
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babylonian law code of hammurabi marker inscribed with law code top is a picture of hammurabi recieving a law from god laws maintained class, higher class got lighter punishments alot of punishments were eye for an eye |
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assyrian lamassu human head with body of a lion or bull with wings on the gateway of sargen II palace. made of limestone known as gaurdians of the king. |
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neo assyrian dying lioness described their activity of caging lions and then releasing and killing them the animals show very vivid emotions and pain the humans are very serious and show little emotion |
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babylonian ishtar gate It was the eighth gate of the city of Babylon (in present day Iraq) and was the main entrance into the city |
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Egyptian palette of narmer made of slate 3000BCE tells story of the unification of upper and lower Egypt the servants are signifigantly smaller than the most important people |
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egyptian pyramid of dsojer made of limestone 27th century bce |
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egyprtians the great pyramids made of limestone 480 ft high built for three old kingdom pharaohs |
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Egyptian sphinx 26th century BCE located in Giza made of limestone |
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Egyptian weighing of the heart ceremony Egyptian hieroglyphs that described the steps after death includes weighing of the heart |
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Egyptian Rosetta stone contains ancient Greek and ancient Egyptian text of the same story |
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Egyptian seated scribe made of limestone scribes were among the most educated people having to study law, mathematics, etc. recorded events |
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egyptian queen Hatsheput woman that took over the throne wore all of the men pharaoh symbols including kilt and false beard. |
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mortuary temple of nebamun |
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egyptian akhanaten ushers in new free flowing style and naturalism declared his belief in only one god (the sundisc) moved the capital to armarner |
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Egyptian king tut and coffins young pharaoh tomb found completely undisturbed coffin inside a coffin inside a coffin |
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egyptian temple of ramesses II 4 seated colossalramesses II with small figures between his legs moved to save it from the water after building of aswan dam |
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cycladic marble female statue interpreted as representations of the deceased, substitute concubines, servants, ancestors or even substitutes for human sacrifices |
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minoan pilgrim flask with an octopus described the islands of the agean made of yellow clay |
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minoan snake goddess named manasa (of the mind) is a diety of snakes and fertility |
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palace of minos colonnade of the great stairway 16th-15th century BCE located in crete |
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queens megaron interior of place of minos |
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minoan wrestling girls wall painting |
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Mycenaean cyclopian blocks the lions gate at mycenae said to be built by cyclops, ancient one eyed creatures |
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mask of Agamemnon not sure if this is Agamemnon, most likely random mans face made of gold |
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gold cup with bull at work |
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shamanism |
medicine men |
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mimi |
australian spirits that taught men how to cook, hunt and paint |
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post and lintel construction |
a building system where strong horizontal elements are held up by strong vertical elements with large spaces between them.
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load bearing construction |
a wall that bears the weight of the house above said wall, resting upon it by conducting its weight to a foundation structure.
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cylinder seals |
a small, barrel-shaped stone object with a hole down the center and an incised design or cuneiform inscription |
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cunieform |
wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit,
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gilgamesh |
He is the hero of the Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh, which recounts his exploits in an ultimately unsuccessful quest for immortality.
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cartouche |
a carved tablet or drawing representing a scroll with rolled-up ends
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rosetta stone |
a rock stele, found in 1799, inscribed with a decree in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three scripts:Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, Demotic script, Ancient Greek.
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books of the dead |
A collection of ancient Egyptian funerary texts from various periods, containing prayers, magic formulas, and hymns
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papyrus |
a material prepared in ancient Egypt from the pithy stem of a water plant, used in sheets throughout the ancient Mediterranean world for writing or painting
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toreador fresco |
laying hold of the bull, practiced in Minoan crete
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the legend of agamemnon |
a king of Mycenae, a son of Atreus and brother of Menelaus. He led the Greeks in the Trojan War and was murdered by Clytemnestra, his wife, upon his return from Troy.
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corbelled construction |
a structural piece of stone, wood or metal jutting from a wall to carry a superincumbent weight, a type of bracket.
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