- Old World (Africa, Asia and Europe)1,314 objects
- Classical Civilizations1,302 objects
- Egypt1,184 objects
- Ancient Egyptian1,164 objects
- New World (the Americas and Oceania)816 objects
- South America814 objects
- Peruvian sequence792 objects
- Dynastic Period, Egypt (ca. 3000–343 BC)584 objects
- Predynastic Period, Egypt (ca. 5300–3000 BC)574 objects
- Middle to Late Predynastic Period, Egypt (4000–3000 BC)573 objects
- New Kingdom of Egypt (1550–1069 BC)350 objects
- Ramessid Period (1295–1069 BC)350 objects
- 19th Dynasty of Egypt (1295–1186 BC)342 objects
- 18th Dynasty of Egypt (1550–1295 BC)340 objects
- Middle Horizon, ancient Peru (800–1100 AD)272 objects
- Nasca NEEDS WORK253 objects
- Late Intermediate Period, ancient Peru (1000-1476 AD)250 objects
- Naqada III/'Dynasty 0' (ca. 3200–3000 BC)246 objects
- Naqada II a-d/ Gerzean (ca. 3500–3200 BC)232 objects
- Old Kingdom (2686–2160 BC)172 objects