Walters Art Museum
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The Walters Art Museum is a public art museum located in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. Founded and opened in 1934, it holds collections from the mid-19th century that were amas
Museum entrance, North Charles Street, Baltimore
Phoenician metal bowls
Sumerian male worshiper, c. 2300 BC
Padiiset's Statue, illustrates Canaan - Ancient Egypt trade, c. 1700 B.C. (inscription c. 900 B.C.)
Ancient art
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Ancient art refers to the many types of art produced by the advanced cultures of ancient societies with different forms of writing, such as those of China, India, Mesopotamia, Persia, Egypt, Greece, a
Greek mosaic at the Archaeological Museum of Pella depicting Alexander the Great (left; identified by his kausia) and his friend Craterus fighting an Asiatic lion, late 4th century BC
Pre-Islamic Arabian art in the British Museum (London)
Stele of a male wearing a baldric; 4th millennium BC; sandstone; height: 92 cm; from Al-'Ula (Saudi Arabia); in a temporary exhibition in the National Museum of Korea (Seoul), named Roads of Arabia: Archaeological Treasures of Saudi Arabia
Standing female figure wearing a strap and a necklace; 3rd–2nd millennium BC; sandstone and quartzite; height: 27.5 cm, width: 14.3 cm, depth: 14.3 cm; from Mareb (Yemen); Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City)