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- Lascaux Cave, France
- 15,000-13000 BCE
- Bison -realistic
- Bird Head Man -stylized
- Cave closed to visitors, replica made
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- Chauvet Cave, France
- 30,000 BCE
- Earliest examples of shading.
- horses are naturalistic.
- herd of aurochs
- rhinos fight
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- Stonehenge
- megaliths (large stones). Built roughly 2000 years ago. Most complete stone circle.
- Oriented to summer solstice. Stones came from 100 miles away.
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- Mountain shaped temple.
- No inside
- Most famous is Temple of Babyl.
- May have had soil.
- Priests only ones to go up to make offerings at top.
- Belief that gods lived up high.
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- Stele of Hammurabi:
- Best preserved law code
- Example of Talion Law
- Shows god Shamash giving authority to Hammurabi,
- then code written below.
- 7 feet tall.
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- Mankaure with Queen
- 4th pharoah
- built giza pyramids
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Kouros - greek statues of young men modelled after Apollo
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- Lion's Gate
- at ancient site Mycenae in Greece
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- Parthenon
- On Acropolis
- Dedicated to Athena
- Symbol of Democracy
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Spearbearer by Polyclitus
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- Capitolene wolf
- With Romulus and Remus
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- Muslim
- Dome of the Rock.
- Built same place as Temple of Hebrews.
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- Temple
- Created by Solomon for ancient Hebrew
- housed 10 commandments in ark of cov.
- destroyed, rebuilt, space left for 10 comm.
- destroyed again by Romans but one wall
- Holy physical structure in Judaism.
- People pray at the Wailing wall.
- Built on Temple Mount.
- Same place Temple of Mount built
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Calligraphy from the Qur'an
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- Bayeux Tapestry
- Shows up to and of Norman Invasion of England.
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