Culture or time period
- Old World (Africa, Asia and Europe)2,488 objects
- Classical Civilizations2,486 objects
- Egypt1,821 objects
- Ancient Egyptian1,813 objects
- Dynastic Period, Egypt (ca. 3000–343 BC)1,376 objects
- New Kingdom of Egypt (1550–1069 BC)980 objects
- Ramessid Period (1295–1069 BC)976 objects
- 18th Dynasty of Egypt (1550–1295 BC)920 objects
- 19th Dynasty of Egypt (1295–1186 BC)920 objects
- American cultures699 objects
- North American cultures658 objects
- Ancient Greece650 objects
- Cultures in the Ancient Greek sphere of influence614 objects
- Italic people611 objects
- Etruscan609 objects
- North American native cultures578 objects
- Middle to Late Predynastic Period, Egypt (4000–3000 BC)433 objects
- Predynastic Period, Egypt (ca. 5300–3000 BC)433 objects
- New World (the Americas and Oceania)420 objects
- South America418 objects