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Unit: Ancient Mediterranean: 3500 B.C.E.-300 C.E.

Ancient Near East

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Introduction to the Ancient Near East
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White Temple and ziggurat, Uruk
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Standing Male Worshipper from Tell Asmar
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The Standard of Ur
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Standard of Ur and other objects from the Royal Graves
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The Law Code Stele of King Hammurabi
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Hammurabi: The king who made the four quarters of the earth obedient
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Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II
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Persian art, an introduction
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Persepolis: The Audience Hall of Darius and Xerxes
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Capital of a column from the audience hall of the palace of Darius I, Susa
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Ancient Egypt

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Ancient Egypt, an introduction
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Ancient Egyptian art
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Palette of King Narmer
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Seated Scribe
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The Great Pyramids of Giza
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Pyramid of Khufu
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Pyramid of Khafre and the Great Sphinx
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Pyramid of Menkaure
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King Menkaure (Mycerinus) and queen
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Temple of Amun-Re and the Hypostyle Hall, Karnak
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Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut and Large Kneeling Statue, New Kingdom, Egypt
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Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis (UNESCO/TBS)
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Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and Three Daughters
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Tutankhamun’s tomb (innermost coffin and death mask)
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Last Judgement of Hunefer, from his tomb
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Hunefer, Book of the Dead
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Ancient Greece

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The classical orders
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The Athenian Agora and the experiment in democracy
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Anavysos Kouros
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Peplos Kore from the Acropolis
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Making Greek vases
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Niobid Painter, Niobid Krater
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Polykleitos, Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)
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Polykleitos, Doryphoros (Spear-Bearer)
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Parthenon (Acropolis)
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The Parthenon
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Who owns the Parthenon sculptures?
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Phidias, Parthenon sculptures (pediments, metopes and frieze)
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"Plaque of the Ergastines" fragment from the frieze on the east side of the Parthenon
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Victory (Nike) Adjusting Her Sandal, Temple of Athena Nike (Acropolis)
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Grave Stele of Hegeso
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Winged Victory (Nike) of Samothrace
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Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon
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Alexander Mosaic from the House of the Faun, Pompeii
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Apollonius, Seated Boxer
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Ancient Etruria

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The Etruscans, an introduction
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Sarcophagus of the Spouses (Rome)
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Sarcophagus of the Spouses (Rome)
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Temple of Minerva and the sculpture of Apollo (Veii)
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Apulu (Apollo of Veii)
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Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia (from UNESCO/NHK)
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Tomb of the Triclinium
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Ancient Rome

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Visualizing Imperial Rome
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Digging through time
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Pompeii: House of the Vettii
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Veristic Male Portrait
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Head of a Roman Patrician
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Augustus of Primaporta
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Augustus of Primaporta
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Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater)
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Imperial fora
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Forum and Markets of Trajan
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The Forum of Trajan
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Markets of Trajan
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Column of Trajan
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The Pantheon
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The Pantheon
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Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus
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About this unit

Travel back in time to today's Mediterranean and Middle East to learn how ancient cultures, including Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome, created art that reflected their complex societies. Explore how timeless artifacts, including pyramids, vases, and palaces can help us learn how people of this era lived, worked, and shared ideas.

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Unit: Ancient Mediterranean: 3500 B.C.E.-300 C.E.

Unit: Ancient Mediterranean: 3500 B.C.E.-300 C.E.

Ancient Near East

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Ancient Egypt

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Ancient Greece

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Ancient Etruria

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Ancient Rome

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