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Daruma dolls are spherical dolls with red bodies and white faces without pupils. These are made of straw and wood, painted, and dressed in elaborate, many-layered textiles. During Hinamatsuri, the doll festival, hina dolls ( 雛人形, hina-ningyō) are displayed. By the eleventh century, dolls were used as playthings as well as for protection and in religious ceremonies. and Haniwa funerary figures (300–600 AD). There is a rich history of Japanese dolls dating back to the Dogū figures (8000–200 BCE). Japanese hina dolls, displayed during the Hinamatsuri festival

Roman rag dolls have been found dating back to 300 BC. Rag dolls are traditionally home-made from spare scraps of cloth material. In Greece and Rome, it was customary for boys to dedicate their toys to the gods when they reached puberty and for girls to dedicate their toys to the goddesses when they married. Like children today, the younger members of Roman civilization would have dressed their dolls according to the latest fashions. Dolls have been found in the graves of Roman children. In ancient Rome, dolls were made of clay, wood or ivory. Stories from ancient Greece around 100 AD show that dolls were used by little girls as playthings. Rag dolls and stuffed animals were probably also popular, but no known examples of these have survived to the present day. Archaeologists have discovered Greek dolls made of clay and articulated at the hips and shoulders. Dolls with movable limbs and removable clothing date back to at least 200 BC.

Wooden paddle dolls have been found in Egyptian tombs dating to as early as the 21st century BC. Archaeological evidence places dolls as the foremost candidate for the oldest known toy. The earliest dolls were made from available materials such as clay, stone, wood, bone, ivory, leather, or wax. The doll of Crepereia Tryphaena, from Rome, second century AD