- Old World (Africa, Asia and Europe)9,132 objects
- Classical Civilizations9,131 objects
- Egypt7,261 objects
- Ancient Egyptian7,112 objects
- Dynastic Period, Egypt (ca. 3000–343 BC)4,245 objects
- Predynastic Period, Egypt (ca. 5300–3000 BC)2,859 objects
- Middle to Late Predynastic Period, Egypt (4000–3000 BC)2,848 objects
- New World (the Americas and Oceania)2,567 objects
- South America2,566 objects
- Peruvian sequence2,498 objects
- New Kingdom of Egypt (1550–1069 BC)2,132 objects
- Ramessid Period (1295–1069 BC)2,120 objects
- 19th Dynasty of Egypt (1295–1186 BC)2,071 objects
- 18th Dynasty of Egypt (1550–1295 BC)2,068 objects
- Ancient Greece1,831 objects
- Cultures in the Ancient Greek sphere of influence1,776 objects
- Etruscan1,775 objects
- Italic people1,775 objects
- Old Kingdom (2686–2160 BC)1,591 objects
- Naqada III/'Dynasty 0' (ca. 3200–3000 BC)1,341 objects