An aerial view of Iraj Castle, a Sasanian fortification built in the 4th-5th century CE in Iran. The monument is known for its peculiar design: large defensive walls with embedded rooms and arches, with towers at regular intervals, enclosing a vast empty interior of 190 hectares [1230×778]December 17, 2025
The personal bowl of Xerxes the Great (Achaemenid Empire | 486–465 BC), inscribed in Old Persian with “I am Xerxes, the Great King.” Housed at the National Museum of Iran. [1080×1350]December 17, 2025
My newest acquisition: a late 14th century book of hours, France, with a miniature likely attributable to either Jacquemart de Hesdin or Pseudo Jacquemart. Curiously, the text is incomplete, but it seems as though it was never finished in the first place. [3024×4032]December 17, 2025
Relief with the Crucifixion of Christ, by Peter Dell the Elder. Germany, 1528 [3817×3033]December 17, 2025
Stone stupas with engraved incantations. China, Northern Liang dynasty, 426-436 AD [4530×3000]December 17, 2025
A 500-year old continuously operating soup kitchen for the poor, 1552 AD, Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine [667×896]December 17, 2025
A coin issued in 68-69CE during the Great Jewish Revolt. Hebrew inscription on the right says: “Holy Jerusalem”, on the left: “Shekel Israel, Year 3” [526×1079]December 16, 2025
Flint mace-head, found beneath the eastern chamber of the passage tomb at Knowth in the Boyne Valley, Ireland, c. 3300-2800 BC [1200×1200]December 16, 2025
During underwater excavations at a 17th-century Ottoman shipwreck off the coast of Datça district in Muğla, 36 rifles, more than 50 hand grenades (humbara), thousands of bullets, swords and daggers, along with Chinese porcelains, a seal, a chess set, pipes were discovered. [2200×1280]December 16, 2025
