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Olduvai stone chopping tool
Olduvai handaxe
Swimming reindeer
Clovis spear point
Bird-shaped pestle
Ain Sakhri lovers figurine
Maya maize god statue
Indus seal
Minoan Bull Leaper
Statue of Ramesses II
Lachish Reliefs
Chinese Zhou ritual bowl
Paracas textile
Gold coin of Croesus
Parthenon sculpture: Centaur and Lapith
Olmec stone mask
Chinese bronze bell
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26 North America 27 Mexico
4 Egyptian sculpture
11 Greece: Cycladic Islands 12 Greece: Minoans and Mycenaeans 13 Greece 1050-520 BC 14 Greek vases 15 Athens and Lycia 16 Greece: Bassae Sculptures 17 Nereid Monument 18 Greece: Parthenon 19 Greece: Athens 20 Greeks and Lycians 400-325 BC 21 Mausoleum of Halikarnassos 22 The world of Alexander 23 Greek and Roman sculpture
33 China, India, South Asia and Southeast Asia 33a India: Amaravati 33b Chinese jade 67 Korea 95 Chinese Ceramics
6 Assyrian sculpture & Balawat Gates 7-8 Assyria: Nimrud 9 Assyria: Nineveh 10 Assyria: Lion hunts, Siege of Lachish and Khorsabad 34 The Islamic world
1 Enlightenment 24 Living and Dying
2 The Changing Museum 3 Special exhibitions Reading Room
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