The ancient Near East, a region extending from the eastern ... a level of sophistication unknown elsewhere at the time. Few museums of Asian art boast a collection of Near Eastern Art as rich as that ...

Including the pyramids of ancient Egypt, the ziggurats of Mesopotamia ... examples of Bronze Age architecture from the Near East and Aegean. Egypt has some of the world’s most enduring architecture.

Covers prehistoric Aegean through the fourth century B.C.E., considering ... Topics vary; they may include ancient wall painting, Greek sculpture, artists and patrons, the ancient Near East, Egyptian ...