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Islamic Art

Old Babylonian & Middle Bronze

2000 BCE–900 BCE

Unknown (Hammurabi stele sculptors)

Code of Hammurabi stele , c. 1755 BCE

Babylon. Active c. 1792–1750 BCE.

Fred Romero from Paris, FranceCC BY 2.0 Commons

Code of Hammurabi stele by Unknown (Hammurabi stele sculptors) — Fred Romero from Paris, FranceCC BY 2.0 Commons

World Art Timeline surveys 4 traditions, 26 major periods and 95 sub‑periods from 3500 BCE–Present, with 202 figures. Summaries are paraphrased from Wikipedia, not reproduced verbatim.

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