181* Petra, Jordan: Treasury and Great Temple
400 BCE - 100 CE

Roman
Nabataean Ptolemaic
Cut Rock
(discovered 1992)

181* Petra, Jordan: Great Temple
400 BCE - 100 CE

Roman
Nabataean Ptolemaic
Cut Rock
(discovered 1992)

182* Buddha
400 - 800 CE

Buddhism
Gandharan
Cut Rock / plaster / polypain
Bamiyan, Afghanistan

183* The Kaaba
631 - 632 CE
Rededicated by Muhammed
Islamic / Pre-Islamic Monumen
multiple renovations
Granite / silk curtain / call
Mecca, Saudi Arabia

184* Jowo, Rinpoche, enshrined in Jokhang Temple
641 CE ~ brought to
Yarlung Dynasty


GiltMetalsw/semistones/Pearl/
Lhasa, Tibet

185* Dome of the Rock ~ interior
691 - 692 CE
Umayyad Dynasty
Islamic
multiple renovations
StoneMasonryw/glazedtilemosai
Jerusalem, Palestine

186* Great Mosque (Masjid-e Jameh) ~ portal
700 CE w/restoratio
Seljuk/Il-Khanid/Timurid&Safa
Islamic
Persian
stone/brick/plaster/glazedtil
Isfahan, Iran

186* Great Mosque (Masjid-e Jameh) ~ Mihrab
700 CE w/restorati
Seljuk/Il-Khanid/Timurid&Saf
Islamic
Persian
stone/brick/plaster/glazedti
Isfahan, Iran

188* Basin (Baptistere de St. Louis)
1320 - 1340 CE
Muhammad ibn al-Zain
Islamic metalwork
with humans /animals~western
Brass inlaid w/gold & silver
used by French Royal Court

190* The Court of Gayumars ~ Folio
1522 - 1525 CE
Sultan Muhammad


Ink/watercolor/gold~on paper