The so-called “Tlaloc Mask” is an Olmec-looking stone carved monument with no context, that was donated to Xalapa Museum in Mexico in 1985. No further information, nor who donated it, the approximate place of origin, nor the circumstances of its finding ever became clear [2192×2048]January 23, 2026
Bone harpoon tips and spoon shaped artifacts excavated from the Usu Moshiri ruins in Hokkaido, Japan. Post Jomon period (500 BCE-600 CE) [705×900]January 23, 2026
Seminary for more advanced dragon babies, an illustrated page from Margaret’s Book. 1892, [447×578]January 23, 2026
Sugar bowl. England, ca. 1765-1800. Cobalt lead glass, pattern-molded. Philadelphia Museum of Art collection [2992×2992] [OC]January 23, 2026
Beware the elephant! A rare tetradrachm of Antiochos III ‘the Great’ (from the collection of the Royal Library of Belgium) [4471×4000]January 23, 2026
Elizeum – underground rotunda serving as a garden pavilion, built in Na Książęcem Park in Warsaw, Poland for Kazimierz Poniatowski, brother of the last Polish king. Now ruined. [1500×1000]January 23, 2026
Alabaster statue of Ebih-Il, a votive sculpture from in ancient Mesopotamia, c. 2400 BC, Early Dynastic IIIB period. Ebih-Il was a high-ranking official of the city-state of Mari in modern-day eastern Syria. The statue, with its lapis lazuli eyes, exemplifies Pre-Akkadian artistry… [1280×853] [OC]January 23, 2026
Bronze wine container with bird patterns. China, Shang dynasty, 1250–1046 BC [5000×4600]January 23, 2026
An intricate white marble depiction of a Kalpavriksha, a wish-fulfilling divine tree in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, carved at the 15th century Ranakpur Jain temple in Rajasthan, India [1280×853]January 23, 2026
