Overview: 281 objects, dating from Stone Age 6000 B.C. to 20th-century Ottoman work, included sculpture, bronzes, pottery, jewelry, glass, textiles, and weapons (282 entries were in the catalogue--the famous marble portrait head of Alexander the Great from Pergamon did not come). After years of negotiations with the Turkish government, the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service arranged this exhibition as a survey of Turkish history. The artifacts reflected conquerors representing such cultures as the Hittites, Phrygians, Lydians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans, succeeded by the Christian empire of Constantine, followed by the Seldjuk and the Ottoman Turks. Many of the loans were from the Topkapi Museum.

Other Venues:

• Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• University Museum, Philadelphia
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
• William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
• Seattle Art Museum
• M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco
• Milwaukee Art Center
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York