Culture or time period
- Old World (Africa, Asia and Europe)2,437 objects
- Classical Civilizations2,435 objects
- Egypt1,793 objects
- Ancient Egyptian1,785 objects
- Dynastic Period, Egypt (ca. 3000–343 BC)1,357 objects
- New Kingdom of Egypt (1550–1069 BC)978 objects
- Ramessid Period (1295–1069 BC)974 objects
- 18th Dynasty of Egypt (1550–1295 BC)918 objects
- 19th Dynasty of Egypt (1295–1186 BC)918 objects
- American cultures647 objects
- Ancient Greece627 objects
- North American cultures608 objects
- Cultures in the Ancient Greek sphere of influence602 objects
- Etruscan599 objects
- Italic people599 objects
- North American native cultures573 objects
- Middle to Late Predynastic Period, Egypt (4000–3000 BC)426 objects
- Predynastic Period, Egypt (ca. 5300–3000 BC)426 objects
- New World (the Americas and Oceania)400 objects
- South America398 objects