Not an art major but with a general interest in (and a high school semester of) the humanities and the evolution of art...
Greek sculpture is very idealistic. The perfect form and face, everything very graceful.
Guessing a bit here but I'd imagine the ancient Egyptian probably needed to sync with the religion. I mean, they pretty much all look alike. If it's Ra, you freaking well know it's Ra. Not much artistic freedom, I don't think. You just followed form. All the Pharaohs look like the other Pharaohs pretty much too. But that's just a hunch, honestly.
I don't really know about the really ancient ones. If you'd selected Roman, I would know that was very realistic - warts and all. The ancient near east, from what I can come up with in my head, are stiff figures in formal, perhaps religious, poses, but they do have some of that later Roman realism. They are individuals, but they all have to have those long, curly beards (I'm mostly thinking Assyria because I read an historical fiction book about that once and it made me watch videos of the history). Might be wrong there because there are only a few I can think of w/o that arduous research your student mentioned (like google images, lol).
How'd I do? I've never taken an art history course, FWIW. And I did not go to google images.
It's OK if I flunked. I am retired and will not be taking my results to a job interview or anything. But do post or DU mail me the correct answers if I failed!
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