Culture or time period
- Old World (Africa, Asia and Europe)1,034 objects
- Classical Civilizations1,000 objects
- Egypt878 objects
- Ancient Egyptian866 objects
- New World (the Americas and Oceania)856 objects
- South America680 objects
- Dynastic Period, Egypt (ca. 3000–343 BC)573 objects
- Peruvian sequence525 objects
- Predynastic Period, Egypt (ca. 5300–3000 BC)293 objects
- Middle to Late Predynastic Period, Egypt (4000–3000 BC)292 objects
- 17th Dynasty of Egypt (ca. 1580–1550 BC)214 objects
- Second Intermediate Period (1650–1550 BC)214 objects
- New Kingdom of Egypt (1550–1069 BC)208 objects
- Ramessid Period (1295–1069 BC)205 objects
- 19th Dynasty of Egypt (1295–1186 BC)204 objects
- 18th Dynasty of Egypt (1550–1295 BC)201 objects
- Early Intermediate Period, ancient Peru (60–650 AD)183 objects
- Nasca Phase 1 (Proto Nasca), ancient Peru (ca. 100 BC–1 AD)183 objects
- Nazca style183 objects
- Proto Nazca (100 BC–1 AD)183 objects