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| c. 1400 BC |
| | | China produces superb bronzes, in the ritual vessels for sacrifices to the ancestors | |
|  | Shang bronze
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| c. 1340 BC |
| | | One of the regular sitters to the court sculptor Thutmose is the pharaoh's wife, Nefertiti | |
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| c. 1000 BC |
| | | Massive stone heads carved by the Olmecs provide a dramatic beginning to the story of American sculpture | |
|  | La Venta, giant head
Photograph Beryl Pethick
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| c. -850 BC |
| | | The technique of glazing pottery is discovered in Mesopotamia, though used at this stage only for decorative purposes | |
|  | Glazed Babylonian tiles
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| c. 645 BC |
| | | Ashurbanipal commissions a magnificent relief of a lion hunt for his new palace at Nineveh | |
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| c. 600 BC |
| | | The choros, originally danced in a circle by temple virgins, is the centrepiece of the developing Greek theatre | |
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| c. 600 BC |
| | | An Olmec sculptor creates the piece known today as the Wrestler | |
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| c. 600 BC |
| | | Frenzied dances, in honour of the god Dionysus, become part of Greek theatre - deriving probably from the northeast, in Thrace | |
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| c. 600 BC |
| | | The swirling decorative lines of Celtic metalwork at Hallstatt begin a tradition which lives on in illuminated manuscripts and stone Celtic crosses | |
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| c. 580 BC |
| | | Nebuchadnezzar builds the hanging gardens of Babylon, supposedly to comfort a homesick wife | |
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