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30 Masterpieces of the Ancient World
2013
Features
Diana McDonald Ph.D.
In This Series

Episode 1
Where Do We Come From?

Episode 2
Ancient Cave Art—Chauvet, France

Episode 3
The Uruk Vase—Vision of an Ordered World

Episode 4
The Standard of Ur—Role of the King

Episode 5
“Ram Caught in a Thicket”

Episode 6
Great Ziggurat at Ur—Ancient Architecture

Episode 7
Victory Stela of Naram-Sin of Akkad

Episode 8
Neo-Assyrian Palace Reliefs

Episode 9
“Queen of the Night”—Babylonian Goddess

Episode 10
Ishtar Gate and Processional Way

Episode 11
The Ancient City of Persepolis

Episode 12
Palette of Narmer—The Conquering King

Episode 13
Statue of Khafre—Rebirth of a King

Episode 14
Tutankhamun’s Mask

Episode 15
Tomb Painting of Nefertari

Episode 16
Kritios Boy—Idealized Athletic Youth

Episode 17
Discobolus—Motion in Sculpture

Episode 18
Parthenon Marbles—Metopes and Frieze

Episode 19
Greek Vase Painting—“Death of Sarpedon”

Episode 20
Aphrodite of Knidos

Episode 21
Laocoön—Three-Dimensional Narrative

Episode 22
Column of Trajan

Episode 23
Bronzes of Ancient China

Episode 24
Great Stupa at Sanchi

Episode 25
Borobudur—Ancient Buddhist Stupa

Episode 26
Colossal Olmec Heads

Episode 27
Sarcophagus Cover of Pakal at Palenque

Episode 28
Carved Stone Lintels of Yaxchilán

Episode 29
Teotihuacán—Temple of the Feathered Serpent

Episode 30
Colossal Stone Statue of Coatlicue

Episode 31
Aztec Calendar Stone

Episode 32
Moche Earspools—Miniature Masterpieces

Episode 33
Ancient Andean Ceramics

Episode 34
Ancient Andean Textiles

Episode 35
What Can We Learn from Ancient Art?

Episode 36
How Ancient Art Reverberates