world history timeline by Evan Martinez

around 17000 years ago, Lascaux cave painting, by an anonymous human, made using charcoal and ocher, it could have been made in a religous or superstitous manner to have luck for a succesful hunt.

evanm390 — 2024-01-15 18:14:46 UTC

Statue of Itur-Shamagen, King of Mari. 2800 -2300

evanm390 — 2024-01-24 18:16:41 UTC

Terrecotta statue of Itur-Shamagen, King of Mari

The Ishtar gate

evanm390 — 2024-01-24 18:18:00 UTC

The Ishtar Gate sat at the end of the Processional Way, a beautiful street paved with bricks that stretched over half a mile leading toward the city. The great Babylonian King, Nebuchadnezzar II, built the gate in 575 B.C. to welcome visitors to the magnificent city.

king Solomon's second temple.

evanm390 — 2024-01-29 17:36:20 UTC

The Second Temple (Hebrew: בֵּית־הַמִּקְדָּשׁ‎ הַשֵּׁנִי‎, Bēṯ hamMīqdāš hašŠēnī, transl. 'Second House of the Sanctum'), later known as Herod's Temple, was the reconstructed Temple in Jerusalem between c. 516 BCE and 70 CE. It stood as a pivotal symbol of Jewish faith and identity during the Second Temple period. The Second Temple served as the central place of Jewish worship, ritual sacrifice, and communal gathering for Jews, attracting Jewish pilgrims from distant lands during the three pilgrimage festivals: Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot.

Hatshepsuts mortuary temple

evanm390 — 2024-02-01 17:45:14 UTC

The mortuary temple of Hatshepsut (Egyptian: Ḏsr-ḏsrw meaning "Holy of Holies") is a mortuary temple built during the reign of Pharaoh Hatshepsut of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt.[b] Located opposite the city of Luxor, it is considered to be a masterpiece of ancient architecture.[c] Its three massive terraces rise above the desert floor and into the cliffs of Deir el-Bahari. Her tomb, KV20, lies inside the same massif capped by El Qurn, a pyramid for her mortuary complex. At the edge of the desert, 1 km (0.62 mi) east, connected to the complex by a causeway lies the accompanying valley temple. Across the river Nile, the whole structure points towards the monumental Eighth Pylon, Hatshepsut's most recognizable addition to the Temple of Karnak and the site from which the procession of the Beautiful Festival of the Valley departed. The temple's twin functions are identified by its axes: its main east-west axis served to receive the barque of Amun-Re at the climax of the festival, while its north-south axis represented the life cycle of the pharaoh from coronation to rebirth.

Nefertiti

evanm390 — 2024-02-01 17:46:50 UTC

Nefertiti was a queen of Egypt and wife of King Akhenaton, who played a prominent role in changing Egypt's traditional polytheistic religion to one that was monotheistic, worshipping the sun god known as Aton. An elegant portrait bust of Nefertiti now in Berlin is perhaps one of the most well-known ancient sculptures.

The Great Bath

evanm390 — 2024-02-05 17:42:37 UTC

The Great Bath is part of a large citadel complex that was found in the 1920s during excavations of Mohenjo-daro, one of the main centres of the Indus civilization. The bath is built of fine brickwork and measures 897 square feet (83 square metres). It is 8 feet (2.5 metres) lower than the surrounding pavement.

Minoan: Toreador Fresco

evanm390 — 2024-02-29 17:37:18 UTC

This painting represents a Minoan ceremony of bull-leaping

Mycenaean mask of Agamemnon

evanm390 — 2024-02-29 17:39:16 UTC

The quantities of gold and carefully worked artifacts of the mask of Agamemnon indicate honor, wealth and status.

Amphora

evanm390 — 2024-03-04 17:27:26 UTC

an amphora is a two-handled storage jar that held oil, wine, milk, or grain. Amphora was also the term for a unit of measure. Amphoras were sometimes used as grave markers or as containers for funeral offerings or human remains.

kroisos kouros

evanm390 — 2024-03-04 17:32:12 UTC

The Kroisos Kouros is central to two ongoing archeological debates: first, whether kouroi represent specific young men or are generic representations of idealised archetypes, which may not actually resemble a specific individual commemorated, and thus represent a symbolic embodyiment of the ideal male warriors promachoi (πρόμᾰχοι) who fought in the front line of battles; and second, the authenticity of the Getty kouros, which bears a falsified provenance and displays a suspicious similarity to the Kroisos kouros.

Discobolus

evanm390 — 2024-03-19 16:40:28 UTC

The Discobolus by Myron ("discus thrower", Greek: Δισκοβόλος, Diskobólos) is an ancient Greek sculpture completed at the start of the Classical period in around 460–450 BC that depicts an ancient Greek athlete throwing a discus. Its Greek original in bronze lost, the work is known through numerous Roman copies, both full-scale ones in marble, which is cheaper than bronze,[1] such as the Palombara Discobolus, the first to be recovered, and smaller scaled versions in bronze.

The Acropolis

evanm390 — 2024-03-19 16:42:18 UTC

Located on a limestone hill high above Athens, Greece, the Acropolis has been inhabited since prehistoric times. Over the centuries, the Acropolis was many things: a home to kings, a citadel, a mythical home of the gods, a religious center and a tourist attraction.

Pantheon

evanm390 — 2024-03-27 16:24:08 UTC

In the aftermath of the Battle of Actium (31 BC), Marcus Agrippa started an impressive building program. The Pantheon was a part of the complex created by him on his own property in the Campus Martius in 29–19 BC, which included three buildings aligned from south to north: the Baths of Agrippa, the Basilica of Neptune, and the Pantheon.[15] It seems likely that the Pantheon and the Basilica of Neptune were Agrippa's sacra privata, not aedes publicae (public temples).[16] The former would help explain how the building could have so easily lost its original name and purpose (Ziolkowski contends that it was originally the Temple of Mars in Campo)[17] in such a relatively short period of time.[18

Laocoon

evanm390 — 2024-03-27 16:25:15 UTC

a priest of Apollo at Troy who warned the Trojans against the wooden horse left by the Greeks; killed with his twin sons by two sea serpents.

Etruscan Period: Sarcophagus of the spouses

evanm390 — 2024-04-02 16:43:47 UTC

The Sarcophagus of the Spouses is an anthropoid (human-shaped), painted terracotta sarcophagus found in the ancient Etruscan city of Caere (now Cerveteri, Italy). The sarcophagus, which would have originally contained cremated human remains, was discovered during the course of archaeological excavations in the Banditaccia necropolis of ancient Caere during the nineteenth century and is now in Rome. The sarcophagus is quite similar to another terracotta sarcophagus from Caere depicting a man and woman that is presently housed in the Louvre Museum in Paris; these two sarcophagi are contemporary to one another and are perhaps the products of the same artistic workshop.

Roman Empire Period:Augustus of Prima Porta

evanm390 — 2024-04-04 16:30:31 UTC

The Augustus of Primaporta is one of the ways that the ancients used art for propagandistic purposes. Overall, this statue is not simply a portrait of the emperor, it expresses Augustus' connection to the past, his role as a military victor, his connection to the gods, and his role as the bringer of the Roman Peace.

The Colosseum

evanm390 — 2024-04-10 16:23:06 UTC

The Colosseum was the scene of thousands of hand-to-hand combats between gladiators, of contests between men and animals, and of many larger combats, including mock naval engagements

Byzantine empire

evanm390 — 2024-04-18 16:25:56 UTC

Built between 532 and 537, Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom, Ayasofya) represents a brilliant moment in Byzantine architecture and art. It was the principal church of the Byzantine Empire in its capital, Constantinople (later Istanbul), and a mosque after the Ottoman Empire conquered the city in 1453.

byzantine empire

evanm390 — 2024-04-18 16:27:20 UTC

This mosaic thus establishes the central position of the Emperor between the power of the church and the power of the imperial administration and military. Like the Roman Emperors of the past, Justinian has religious, administrative, and military authority.

Moorish Spain

evanm390 — 2024-04-19 16:39:47 UTC

The Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba[1][2] (Spanish: Mezquita-Catedral de Córdoba), officially known by its ecclesiastical name of Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption (Spanish: Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción),[3] is the cathedral of the Diocese of Córdoba dedicated to the Assumption of Mary and located in the Spanish region of Andalusia.[4] Due to its status as a former mosque, it is also known as the Mezquita (pronounced [meθˈkita]; 'mosque' in Spanish)[5][6] and as the Great Mosque of Córdoba.[7][2][8]

Palatine Chapel

evanm390 — 2024-04-25 17:20:34 UTC

Charlemagne's body was interred in the Palatine Chapel after his death in 814. The building would continue to be used for coronation ceremonies for another 700 years—well into the sixteenth century.

The dome of the rock

evanm390 — 2024-04-26 17:00:04 UTC

At the center of the Dome of the Rock sits a large rock, which is believed to be the location where Abraham was prepared to sacrifice his son Ismail (Isaac in the Judeo/Christian tradition). Today, Muslims believe that the Rock commemorates the night journey of Muhammad.

The Kaaba

evanm390 — 2024-04-26 17:00:38 UTC

It states that the Kaaba was the first House of Worship for mankind, and that it was built by Ibrahim and Ismail on Allah's instructions. Verily, the first House (of worship) appointed for mankind was that at Bakkah (Makkah), full of blessing, and a guidance for mankind.

The Taj Mahal

evanm390 — 2024-04-26 17:01:37 UTC

The Taj Mahal is considered to be the greatest architectural achievement in the whole range of Indo-Islamic architecture. Its recognised architectonic beauty has a rhythmic combination of solids and voids, concave and convex and light shadow; such as arches and domes further increases the aesthetic aspect.

nike of samothracy

evanm390 — 2024-04-30 17:37:37 UTC

The statue depicts the Roman goddess Nike, a figure that represents victory and is often associated with both Zeus and Athena. She is standing on the prow of a trireme, a Roman ship, with one foot as if she is landing upon the deck after descending from the sky.Aug 25, 2023

Notre Dame de paros

evanm390 — 2024-05-03 19:54:03 UTC

The cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris also houses numerous significant religious and historical artifacts, such as the Crown of Thorns, believed to have been worn by Jesus Christ during his crucifixion. Every year, millions of tourists from across the globe flock to this architectural marvel.

code of hammurabi

evanm390 — 2024-05-06 16:40:52 UTC

The Code of Hammurabi is a Babylonian legal text composed during 1755–1750 BC. It is the longest, best-organized, and best-preserved legal text from the ancient Near East. It is written in the Old Babylonian dialect of Akkadian, purportedly by Hammurabi, sixth king of the First Dynasty of Babylon.

Parthenon

evanm390 — 2024-05-06 16:43:16 UTC

The Parthenon is a temple, dedicated to Athena, goddess of wisdom and war, and it stands as a monument to democracy that has withstood the trials and tribulations of history. The Parthenon is a massive place of worship with complex intricacies; it was built and decorated so rapidly it amazed even the ancients.

Rucellai Madonna

evanm390 — 2024-05-06 16:47:08 UTC

The significance of the frame and the medallions is therefore not solely ornamental but conveys the commissioners' desire for self-proclamation: the Dominican brotherhood was to be visualized as a lay group championing the cult of the Virgin. [1] Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.