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West and central Asia

500 B.C.E.-1980 C.E.

This course contains 16 segments:

Petra: The rose red city of the Nabataeans

Petra: Rock-cut façades

Petra: urban metropolis

Petra: UNESCO Siq Project

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This course contains 16 segments:

Petra: The rose red city of the Nabataeans

Petra: Rock-cut façades

Petra: urban metropolis

Petra: UNESCO Siq Project

The Siq is one of Petra’s most endangered areas, in which natural environmental risks pose a major threat to the cultural heritage and the visitors. Thus, systematic identification and monitoring of its potentially unstable areas is needed. The Jordanian government made a request in 2011 for assistance in this regard, and subsequently a rapid assessment of the Siq was carried out by UNESCO to identify the unstable blocks and map risk zones in the Siq. Read more here.

Bamiyan Buddhas

Essay by Dr. Melody Rod-ari

Bamiyan: Ten years on

The Kaaba

Jowo Rinpoche, Jokhang Temple, Tibet

by Dr. Melody Rod-Ari

The Dome of the Rock (Qubbat al-Sakhra)

The Great Mosque (or Masjid-e Jameh) of Isfahan

Folio from a Qur'an

Basin (Baptistère de Saint Louis)

Mohammed ibn al-Zain, Basin (Baptistère de Saint Louis), c. 1320-40, brass inlaid with silver and gold, 22.2 x 50.2 cm, Egypt or Syria (Musée du Louvre, Paris) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker

The Court of Gayumars

by Dr. Nancy Demerdash

Bahram Gur Fights the Karg (Horned Wolf)

by Jayne Yantz

Introduction to the court carpets of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires

The Ardabil Carpet

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This course belongs to a collection called AP®︎ Art History. It's comprised of 13 courses:
  1. Start here
  2. Introduction to cultures and religions for the study of AP Art History
  3. Global prehistory: 30,000-500 B.C.E.
  4. Ancient Mediterranean: 3500 B.C.E.-300 C.E.
  5. Early Europe and Colonial Americas: 200-1750 C.E.
  6. Later Europe and Americas: 1750-1980 C.E.
  7. Indigenous Americas
  8. Africa: 1100-1980 C.E.
  9. West and central Asia: 500 B.C.E.-1980 C.E. (viewing)
  10. South, East, and Southeast Asia: 300 B.C.E. - 1980 C.E.
  11. The Pacific
  12. Global contemporary: 1980-present
  13. West and Central Asia
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