Wooden brush pot in the shape of a tree trunk. China, 1641. Loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art [6032×6032] [OC]November 19, 2025
Hidden beneath a vineyard in Negrar di Valpolicella, lies one of northern Italy’s most impressive Roman mosaics. [1231×1641]November 19, 2025
Aerial view of Hodota Hachimanzuka Burial Mound. Gunma, Japan, Kofun period, 5th-6th century AD [1370×1680]November 19, 2025
Belt hook with monster face pendant, carved from a single piece of jade. China, Warring States period, 475–221 BC [1610×1300]November 19, 2025
Knife with animal head handle. Alaska, United States, Tlingit peoples, 1850-1860 [1550×1577]November 19, 2025
Augustus of Prima Porta, 20 BC. At over 6ft high, this statue was a complex statement of the ideas and merits he wanted to convey. It depicts the emperor addressing his soldiers, wearing a cuirass and a cloak. Augustus was both the first Roman Emperor and the one who ruled longest… [1280×720] [OC]November 19, 2025
Madonna and child sculpture of limestone, Holdhus church in Hordaland, Norway, c. 1450. [1200×926]November 19, 2025
Bamboo mug, made by American internee in Santo Tomas Internment Camp, Manila, during the Japanese occupation, World War II. [1920 x 1879]November 19, 2025
8,000 year old prehistoric obsidian mirrors found in the ruins of the Neolithic settlement known as Çatalhöyük, Turkey, and were made c. 6400 BCE. These are the oldest manufactured mirrors in the world; the convex carving suggest they were also used to light up dark spaces during the day [1042×1562]November 18, 2025
