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| c. 16,000 years ago |
| | | The walls of the complex of caves at Lascaux in France are covered, over the years, with a vast number of paintings of animals | |
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| c. 15,000 years ago |
| | | The walls of Altamira, an extensive cave in Spain, are decorated with paintings and engraved images of horses, deer and above all bison | |
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| c. 6500 BC |
| | | Pottery fragments of this date survive in the neolithic site of Catal Huyuk | |
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| c. 3100 BC |
| | | The Egyptians paint murals on the walls of tombs, designed to help the occupants in the next world | |
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| c. 3100 BC |
| | | The pharaoh Narmer celebrates a victory with a sculpted relief showing his personal dominance over the enemy | |
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| c. 3000 BC |
| | | The sculptors of the Cyclades produce stylized and formal figures, mainly female, in white marble | |
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| c. 2800 BC |
| | | The harp and the lyre are in use as musical instruments in Mesopotamia | |
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| c. 2500 BC |
| | | The treasures found in the royal cemetery at Ur include a depiction of soldiers in copper helmets, armed with battleaxes | |
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| c. 2500 BC |
| | | The largest sculpture of the ancient world, a sphinx with the face of the pharaoh Khufu, is carved in situ at Giza | |
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Photograph Josceline Dimbleby
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| c. 1850 BC |
| | | Wrestlers are painted on the walls of an Egyptian tomb, performing most of the holds and falls still in use today | |
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