The Ishtar Gate in its original location, built around 575 BC under King Nebuchadnezzar II as one of the grand entrances to Babylon. The Ottoman Empire granted excavation permits to German archaeologists in 1899, and the gate was later transported to the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. [1638×2048]November 11, 2025
Keeping Up With The…..Venus figurines from Nebra, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. heavily stylised female statuettes dating to the Late Palaeolithic (around 13.000 BCE) [1503×1232]November 11, 2025
The Lady with the Hood or Venus of Brassempouy (25k YBP), France. This 1,44″ high fragmentary ivory figurine from the Upper Paleolithic was carved from a mammoth tusk. It is one of the oldest busts ever found and one of the earliest known realistic representations of a human face… [1280×853]November 11, 2025
In the ruins of Pompeii – specifically in the area of region V, where street bars (the so-called thermopolium) were located – archaeologists have found an unusual object: a vase (situla), manufactured in Alexandria, Egypt, which is decorated with Egyptian-style hunting scenes.[1200×675]November 11, 2025
Roman mosaic showing Silenus and leopards, which are pulling Bacchus. Object is located in Kato Paphos (Cyprus) near the harbour. [566×677]November 11, 2025
sandstone wrist guard of the Bell Beaker Culture (2500-2050 BCE), discovered in 2010 in the grave of a man in Kleinpaschleben, Anhalt-Bitterfeld district, Central Germany. [1129×1232]November 10, 2025
Ship’s biscuit. 241 year old biscuit to be admired at the Royal Museums Greenwich. [1280×1195]November 10, 2025
The Burg Weiler Altar Triptych (Virgin and Child and Saints) oil on wood, German, ca. 1470 above Altar Predella and Socle of Archbishop Don Dalmau de Mur y Cervelló, alabaster sculpture, Spanish, ca. 1456–1458, with Reliquary busts of saints, South Netherlandish, ca. 1520–30, [15285×7532] [OC]November 10, 2025
Small box of hippopotamus ivory inscribed with the royal titulary of Merenre Nemtyemsaf, 23rd century BCE [1500×977]November 10, 2025
Lion Relief, grimacing lion trampling a serpentine dragon suggesting Christ vanquishing the devil and a play on the leonine name of Saint Leonard also depicted, soapstone, Spanish, ca. 1200 CE, at the Met Cloisters [6026×6098] [OC]November 10, 2025
