print email comment close Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus URL: http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={9B8FB8E8-AE97-11D6-945F-00902786BF44} Description: This site is an online companion to the landmark exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art which "surveys the flourishing of the world’s earliest civilizations in Mesopotamia and surrounding regions — stretching from the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean across Iran and Central Asia to the Indus Valley" 5,000 years ago. Viewers select themes such as death and burial, or clothing and personal adornment, to see annotated images of items. Also includes an essay and audio samples. Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Extra Keywords Mohenjo-daro, Troy, Nippur, Uruk, Ur, Caucasus, Anatolia, Syria, Sumeria Library of Congress Subject Headings: Archaeology and art Art, Ancient Cities and towns, Ancient LII Database Information: Record 3245 created by Sybil Finemel on 07/12/2003 Last modification on 07/29/2003 Published: 07/12/2003   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/3245