Cylinder seal impression of a Hittite prince featuring the Storm God battling winged beasts, discovered last year at the site of ancient Alalakh (Aççana Höyük, Hatay Province, Turkey), Late Bronze Age [1200×1600]January 16, 2026
In 1965, a young girl on a picnic found what she thought at first to be a small grinding stone. It turned out to be a 900-year-old pottery jar containing 1,212 beads, 240 pendants, all of turquoise, and 36 perforated glycimeris shells. Hohokam culture, Arizona State Museum [2001×1415]January 16, 2026
Discovery of a statue of Nero being crowned by his mother Agrippina, the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias, Turkey, 1979 [981×1200]January 16, 2026
A large bronze drum from Guangxi province in China, now housed at the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Tang dynasty or earlier (6th-early 8th century CE) [938×1000]January 16, 2026
A unique bone box was discovered in a late Roman grave of a young woman in Worcestershire, England. Archaeologists suspect it may have contained ointment for pain relief, as the woman’s remains show signs of lesions and joint inflammation [2000×2635]January 16, 2026
Gold pocket watch with key and chain once owned by influential English surgeon Joseph Lister, British, c. 1853. [1536×1151]January 16, 2026
The burial of man, who died at the age of 35–40, found at Noen U-Loke in Thailand. The man wore three bronze belts, 150 bangles, 67 finger rings and four toe rings. 250–600 CE [967×2280]January 16, 2026
“Svanestellet” coffee service, Pietro Krohn for Bing & Grøndahl, Denmark (1895); National Museum, Oslo [1200×887]January 16, 2026
A large necklace, from Susa in Iran, with ten rows of small limestone beads held by black schist loops: three appendages and a series of amulets or pendants are attached to it. 3800-3100 BCE, now housed at the Louvre Museum [1224×1500]January 16, 2026
Mycenaean Bull-Head Rhyton. Combining silver as primary body and gold decoration, it attests masterful metallurgical expertise. Dated to c. 1525 BC, it was found in Shaft Grave IV within Grave Circle A at Mycenae, the royal cemetery of Bronze Age Greece’s most powerful civilization… [1280×853][OC]January 16, 2026
The main stairway and Medusa (jellyfish) lamp of the Ryabouchinsky House in Moscow, built by the architect Fyodor Schechtel in 1900–1902 [5263×4000]January 16, 2026
Porcelain incense burner with flower motifs. Japan, Edo period, around 1800 [1320×2190]January 16, 2026
