Culture or time period
- Old World (Africa, Asia and Europe)967 objects
- New World (the Americas and Oceania)709 objects
- South America605 objects
- Classical Civilizations589 objects
- Peruvian sequence521 objects
- Egypt364 objects
- Ancient Egyptian355 objects
- Dynastic Period, Egypt (ca. 3000–343 BC)307 objects
- Middle Horizon, ancient Peru (800–1100 AD)221 objects
- Ancient Greece215 objects
- 17th Dynasty of Egypt (ca. 1580–1550 BC)205 objects
- Second Intermediate Period (1650–1550 BC)205 objects
- East Asian cultures156 objects
- Japanese cultures154 objects
- Jōmon culture (ca. 14,000–ca. 300 BC)153 objects
- Neolithic134 objects
- Nasca NEEDS WORK132 objects
- Nazca culture (100 BC–800 AD)132 objects
- Early Horizon, ancient Peru (ca. 860–200 BC)126 objects
- Formative Period, ancient Peru (ca. 1800–200 BC)126 objects