Antiquities Exhibits

Ancient Greek, Roman, Asian, American and Mesopotamian Art at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. The ancient collection of the Kimbell Art Museum spans the period from 3200 BCE to 1000 CE and includes sculpture, mosaics, utilitarian objects , funerary art and religious works that span the globe. The Kimbell's select holdings of antiquities range from the Egyptian Old Kingdom of the third millennium B.C.E, through ancie nt Assyria, Greece, and Rome, and to the Early Christian Church in the fifth century. Ancient American art is represented by Maya works in ceramic, stone, shell, and jade and includes Olmec, Zapotec, and Aztec sculpture as well as pieces from the Conte and Wari cultures. Ancient works from China, Korea, Japan, India, Nepal, Tibet, Cambodia, and Thailand comprise the ancient Asian art on view including sculptures, paintings, bronzes, ceramics, and works of decorative art. Image: Head of a Ewe 3200 BCE probably from a full sculpture of a sheep ...

Ancient Art of the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Ongoing. At the Fowler Museum on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles. - The Fowler’s collections comprise more than 120,000 art and ethnographic and 600,000 archaeological objects representing ancient, traditional, and contemporary cultures of Africa, Native and Latin America, and Asia and the Pacific.  The Fowler’s collections comprise more than 120,000 art and ethnographic and 600,000 archaeological objects representing ancient, traditional, and contemporary cultures of Africa, Native and Latin America, and Asia and the Pacific. From Yoruba beaded arts of Southern Nigeria, to pre-Columbian ceramic vessels of Peru. Read even more!