A painting by the Japanese artist Ito Jakuchu, depicting two gibbons reaching for the moon. C. 1770 CE, now housed at the Kimbell Art Museum in Texas [600×1449]December 24, 2025
A Roman mosaic from Antioch, now housed at the Louvre Museum, 475-500 CE. The center of the mosaic panel, surrounded by a border decorated with winged mountain goats, depicts a phoenix on a bed of rosebuds [2036×3400]December 24, 2025
A four-cornered hat made from camelid fibers. 7th–9th century CE, Tiwanaku culture, probably from Bolivia, now housed at the Metropolitan Museum in New York [1500×1404]December 24, 2025
The Ulm Münster Book Covers, made of gilded silver for the books of the Gospels and Epistles. Ulm, Germany, 1506 [3320×2500]December 24, 2025
Painting of Madonna and Child, bearing the mark of Tang Yin. China, possibly 15th-16th century [1200×2618]December 24, 2025
One of the 64 panels with names on the 16 blocks that support the arch of the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, Thiepval, France, 1932. A WWI memorial with the names of +70,000 missing British soldiers who died in the Somme 1915 and 1918 and vanished in no man’s land… [1280×853] [OC]December 24, 2025
A 3770 year old Babylonian clay tablet written in Akkadian, containing the oldest known cooking recipes. The tablet includes 25 recipes for stews, 21 meat stews and 4 vegetable stews [1200×900]December 24, 2025
Roman fresco from Herculaneum showing two young women, where one of them holds a wax tablet and a stylus for writing. Object dated to the 1st century CE. The artifact is in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples. [1200×1130]December 24, 2025
The Abizar stele (Amanay n Ubizar in Berber), one of the finest examples of Numidian equestrian iconography from pre-Roman north Africa. [1280×1707].December 24, 2025
