Extra links from Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History! Follow these if you would like to learn more!

The Origins of Writing

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/wrtg/hd_wrtg.htm

Art of the First Cities in the Third Millennium B.C.E.

The Achaemenid Persian Empire (550–330 B.C.E.)

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/acha/hd_acha.htm