ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS

The 20 sources are:

• Photograph of ancient cuneiform writing in Ur, southern Iraq
• Photograph of excavated ruins of Mohenjo-daro
• Examples from Babylonian King Hammurabi’s Code
• Ancient Egyptian agricultural scene from the Tomb of Nakht, circa 1500 BCE
• Photograph of Mykonos vase; one of the earliest known depictions of the Trojan Horse that Greeks used to enter Troy during Trojan War 1194-1184 BCE
• Portion of marble relief of Assyrian King Ashurbanipal; depicts military campaigns against Elam between 668 and 627 BCE
• Statue of Siddhartha Gautama ("the Buddha"), 4th century BCE
• Photograph of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece
• Photograph of Great Wall of China at Jinshanling
• Carving from the Alexander Sarcophagus showing Alexander the Great fighting Persians at the Battle of Issus in 333 BCE
• Photograph of Terracotta Army
• Photograph of a Roman aqueduct built approximately 1st century CE in Segovia, Spain
• Sculpture from the Arch of Titus in Rome depicting items taken from the Jewish temple after the Siege of Jerusalem in 70 CE; arch built 82 CE
• Photograph of the Roman Colosseum
• Photograph of a stone ring representing a goal in the Maya Ball Court at Chichen Itza, Mexico, circa 600-900 CE
• Photograph of Machu Picchu, built approximately 1450
• Map of Tenochtitlan, created 1524
• Image of Aztecs seeding, tilling, and harvesting maize from the Florentine Codex, circa 1540
• Photograph of three men and a camel on the paw of the partially excavated Great Sphinx of Giza in Egypt, circa 1878
• Photograph of Egyptologist Howard Carter examining the tomb of King Tut, 1923