Parthenon Frieze — Cavalcade, Block XLII (North Frieze). Medium: Pentelic marble relief. British Museum, London (Elgin Collection). Photographer: Twospoonfulls [3000 X 2008] by Handicapped-007
October 15, 2025An 8th-century Quran manuscript being restored in Egypt. Considered one of the oldest surviving Quran manuscripts, it has 1087 leaves weighting around 80kg, each made of one entire animal’s skin. [1179×789]
October 15, 2025Closer look of one of the chamber portals behind the columns with Corinthian capitals of the Treasury in Petra, Nabatean Kingdom, 1st c. AD. Jordan. 2,000 years after it was shaped, much of the exquisite detail of the carvings that adorn both the capitals and the portal survives. [1280×408] [OC]
October 15, 2025Map of Juan de la Cosa, 1500 AD. Drawn on two joined sheets of parchment, this is the earliest known representation of the Americas and the first depiction of the equator and the Tropic of Cancer on a nautical chart. The strategical relevance of cartography in the Age of Discoveries… [1920×1080]
