Culture or time period
- Old World (Africa, Asia and Europe)2,010 objects
- Paleolithic and Mesolithic1,756 objects
- Acheulean1,083 objects
- Mousterian917 objects
- Classical Civilizations162 objects
- Egypt162 objects
- Ancient Egyptian161 objects
- Magosian157 objects
- Howieson's Poort152 objects
- Dynastic Period, Egypt (ca. 3000–343 BC)142 objects
- Neolithic88 objects
- Upper Acheulean85 objects
- New World (the Americas and Oceania)81 objects
- Old Kingdom (2686–2160 BC)70 objects
- 6th Dynasty of Egypt (2345–2181 BC)65 objects
- 18th Dynasty of Egypt (1550–1295 BC)64 objects
- 19th Dynasty of Egypt (1295–1186 BC)64 objects
- New Kingdom of Egypt (1550–1069 BC)64 objects
- Peruvian sequence64 objects
- Ramessid Period (1295–1069 BC)64 objects