Disc 1. Lecture 1. Where do we come from? --
Lecture 2. Ancient cave art, Chauvet, France --
Lecture 3. The Uruk vase, vision of an ordered world --
Lecture 4. The standard of Ur, role of the king --
Lecture 5. "Ram caught in a thicket" --
Lecture 6. Great Ziggurat at Ur, ancient architecture --
Disc 2. Lecture 7. Victory Stela of Naram-Sin of Akkad --
Lecture 8. Neo-Assyrian palace reliefs --
Lecture 9. "Queen of the night", Babylonian goddess --
Lecture 10. Ishtar gate and processional way --
Lecture 11. The ancient city of Persepolis --
Lecture 12. Palette of Narmer, the conquering king --
Disc 3. Lecture 13. Statue of Khafre, rebirth of a king --
Lecture 14. Tutankhamen's mask --
Lecture 15. Tomb painting of Nefertari --
Lecture 16. Kritios boy, idealized athletic youth --
Lecture 17. Discobolus, motion in sculpture --
Lecture 18. Parthenon marbles, metopes and frieze --
Disc 4. Lecture 19. Greek vase painting, "Death of Sarpedon" --
Lecture 20. Aphrodite of Knidos --
Lecture 21. Laocoön, three-dimensional narrative --
Lecture 22. Column of Trajan --
Lecture 23. Bronzes of ancient China --
Lecture 24. Great Stupa at Sanchi --
Disc 5. Lecture 25. Borobudur, ancient Buddhist Stupa --
Lecture 26. Colossal Olmec heads --
Lecture 27. Sarcophagus cover of Pakal at Palenque --
Lecture 28. Carved stone lintels of Yaxchilán --
Lecture 29. Teotihuacán, temple of the feathered serpent --
Lecture 30. Colossal stone statue of coatlicue --
Disc 6. Lecture 31. Aztec calendar stone --
Lecture 32. Moche earspools, miniature masterpieces --
Lecture 33. Ancient Andean ceramics --
Lecture 34. Ancient Andean textiles --
Lecture 35. What can we learn from ancient art? --
Lecture 36. How ancient art reverberates.
