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| c. 27,000 years ago |
| | | In the earlist known example of ceramics, humans at Dolni Vestonice model figures in burnt clay | |
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| c. 25,000 years ago |
| | | A Stone Age sculptor shapes a timeless image of female fecundity in the famous Willendorf Venus | |
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| c. 25,000 years ago |
| | | A Brassempouy, in France, a Venus figurine is carved which is the oldest known example to have facial features | |
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| c. 24,000 years ago |
| | | An unusually decorated female figurine is carved from limestone at Kostenky, in the river Don region of Russia | |
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| c. 23,000 years ago |
| | | Someone carves a figure of a flying bird, in mammoth ivory, in the Malta settlement in Siberia | |
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| c. 18,000 years ago |
| | | A bison figurine is carved in mammoth ivory in the region of Zaraysk, southeast of Moscow | |
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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. 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. 1340 BC |
| | | One of the regular sitters to the court sculptor Thutmose is the pharaoh's wife, Nefertiti | |
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