1. Indus Valley Art

2. Indus Valley Art I
The Indus Valley is one of the world's earliest urban civilizations, along with its contemporaries, Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt
Date: 3300 BCE to 1500 BC
Though it seems to have been a very well advanced society we know little about it because the script has not yet been deciphered (cannot be read)
So a lot of mystery about various facets of the civilization from its origin to extinction

3. Mohenjodaro excavated site

4. Art
Varied and extremely curious kinds of artifacts have been found from Indus valley sites
Sculptures, seals, pottery, gold jewelry, and anatomically detailed figurines in terracotta, bronze, and steatite (a kind of soapstone) have been found at excavation sites.

5. Seals
Steatite seals have images of animals, people (perhaps gods), and other types of inscriptions, including the yet un-deciphered writing system of the Indus Valley Civilization.
Some of the seals were used to stamp clay on trade goods and most probably had other uses as well.
Many of them preserved in National Museum, Delhi

8. Usually indentified as a Proto Shiva seal
Siva as Pasupati

9. The Pashupati Seal: This seal depicts what is probably the modern Hindu God, Shiv. Lord Shiv is surrounded by various animals like the rhino, the buffalo, the elephant and deer

10. tiger. He wears a crown of horns on his head
tiger. He wears a crown of horns on his head. He is believed to have been considered by the Indus Valley Civilization people as the lord of the animals.
The Unicorn Seal: This is based on a fictional animal that the Indus Valley Civilization people had conjured up. It is an example of early fictional art.

11. Sculpture
Sculpture appeared to have made great advancements based on the various artifacts that have been found.
The Indus Valley Civilization made sculptures mainly in stone, metal and terra-cotta.
The famous bust of the bearded man, and the male torso are examples of such work.

12. Bearded man excavated from Mohenjodaro
Authority
Stylized
Well developed sculptural style

14. The Indus Valley Civilization had also made great advances in metal sculptures using a fascinating technique to make sculptures out of bronze. The process was known as the lost wax process.
. A beautiful example of such work, is the naked dancing girl found at Mohenjo-Daro. She is covered with jewellery, wearing several necklaces and bangles.

16. The Indus Valley Civilization also made several sculptures out of terra-cotta, a fine example being a figure of the Mother Goddess.

19. Mesopotamian Art Another Ancient Civilization
It’s the land between river Tigris and Euphrates..somewhere around around present day Iraq and Iran
Meso= Between
Potamus= River

21. Main Empires (broadly)
Sumerians ( BC),
Akkadians ( BC),
Babylonians ( BC),
Hitties ( BC),
Assyrains ( BC) 
and the Persians ( BC).

22. The history of ancient Mesopotamia begins with the emergence of urban societies during the Ubaid period (ca BC)
Among the Mesopotamian architectural accomplishments are the development of urban planning, the courtyard house, and ziggurats,(step pyramid temples)

24. Reconstruction of a Ziggurat

25. Dating back to 3500 B.C.E., Mesopotamian art was intended to serve as a way to glorify powerful rulers and their connection to divinity. Art was made from natural resources such as stone, shells, alabaster and marble, and was often created as didactic pieces

26. Sumerian Art Standard of Ur Sumerian container depicting war and peace
This work is inlayed with shell, lapis lazuli and limestone. 
It served as a visual representation of a civilization’s conquest and the serenity of victory to follow. 

27. Standard of Ur

28. Akkadian Art Victory Stele of Naram-Sin
his work from Akkadian culture was the first work that depicted a man as synonymous to a god
Made from sandstone,
Naram-Sin is physically shown above all other figures in the piece, establishing him as the most important.  He is also wearing a horned crown and standing under stars that appear close enough for the ruler to touch them. Such imagery was meant to indicate his divinity.

30. Babylolian Art Ishtar gate Ishtar was the godess of beauty and love
This gate is made from blue-glazed brick with images of alternating bas-relief dragons and wild cattle
Commissioned by King Nebuchadnezzar II, this structure was once considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World

32. Hittite art Stele of Hammurabi, 1790 B.C.E:
This sculpture represents the set of laws that the sixth king Hammurabi enforced.
, Hammurabi ordered a sculpture that depicted the king in an animated dialogue with the divine, situated directly above the list of engraved laws.