Where do we come from? -- Ancient cave art, Chauvet, France -- The Uruk vase, vision of an ordered world -- The standard of Ur, role of the king -- "Ram caught in a thicket" -- Great Ziggurat at Ur, ancient architecture -- Victory Stela of Naram-Sin of Akkad -- Neo-Assyrian palace reliefs -- "Queen of the night", Babylonian goddess -- Ishtar gate and processional way -- The ancient city of Persepolis -- Palette of Narmer, the conquering king -- Statue of Khafre, rebirth of a king -- Tomb painting of Nefertari -- Kritios boy, idealized athletic youth -- Discobolus, motion in sculpture -- Parthenon marbles, metopes and frieze -- Greek vase painting, "Death of Sarpedon" -- Aphrodite of Knidos -- Laocoön, three-dimensional narrative -- Column of Trajan -- Bronzes of ancient China -- Great Stupa at Sanchi -- Borobudur, ancient Buddhist Stupa -- Colossal Olmec heads -- Sarcophagus cover of Pakal at Palenque -- Carved stone lintels of Yaxchilán -- Teotihuacán, temple of the feathered serpent -- Colossal stone statue of coatlicue -- Aztec calendar stone -- Moche earspools, miniature masterpieces -- Ancient Andean ceramics -- Ancient Andean textiles -- What can we learn from ancient art? -- How ancient art reverberates.
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