- Old World (Africa, Asia and Europe)6,092 objects
- Classical Civilizations5,981 objects
- Egypt5,339 objects
- Ancient Egyptian5,229 objects
- New World (the Americas and Oceania)3,444 objects
- South America3,361 objects
- Peruvian sequence3,162 objects
- Dynastic Period, Egypt (ca. 3000–343 BC)2,954 objects
- Predynastic Period, Egypt (ca. 5300–3000 BC)2,268 objects
- Middle to Late Predynastic Period, Egypt (4000–3000 BC)2,258 objects
- American cultures1,706 objects
- North American cultures1,579 objects
- North American native cultures1,542 objects
- Old Kingdom (2686–2160 BC)1,368 objects
- Naqada III/'Dynasty 0' (ca. 3200–3000 BC)1,110 objects
- Early Dynastic Period of Egypt (ca. 3000–2686 BC)1,109 objects
- Southwest North American cultures1,085 objects
- Southwestern Native American1,077 objects
- Late Intermediate Period, ancient Peru (1000-1476 AD)1,064 objects
- New Kingdom of Egypt (1550–1069 BC)1,015 objects