This is Halloween! A crisp aureus of Septimius Severus with a terrifying gorgon on the reverse (from the collection of the Royal Library of Belgium) [4889×4000] [OC]October 31, 2025
Female fiber sculpture. Chancay culture, central coast, Peru, ca. 1100-1470. Cotton, camelid wool, reed, and pigment. Yale University Art Gallery collection [3123×5550] [OC]October 31, 2025
A drone photo of Fort 9, with the canal-lined Great Gorgan Wall visible on the right. Built in the 5th or 6th century CE by the Sasanian Empire in Iran, the wall is 195 km long and 6–10 m wide, and features over 30 fortresses spaced at intervals of between 10 and 50 km [1031×1466]October 31, 2025
Didrachm from Selinunte in Sicily, depicting on the obverse, Heracles about to strike the Cretan bull with a club, and on the reverse, a heron, a selinon leaf and the river-god Hypsas, holding branch and patera, and pouring libation over altar around which a serpent twines. 440 BCE [791×1574]October 31, 2025
An emerald, gold and enamel wine cup of the Mughal emperor Jahangir (reign 1605-1627 CE) [575×818]October 31, 2025
2000-year-old graves of nearly 600 cats and dogs at the Roman port of Berenice in Egypt may be world’s oldest pet cemetery. Many wore collars or other adornments, and they had been cared for through injury and old age, like today’s pets [800×903]October 31, 2025
Miss Britain III, a racing power boat designed and built in 1933, was the first boat to pass 100mph (161km/h) in salt water. Her hull was made of alclad aluminum sheet over an aluminum and wooden frame. She was powered by a single 1,350 hp (1,010 kW) Napier Lion VIID engine [1920×1280] [OC]October 31, 2025
Ivory figurines of four skeletons playing dominoes. Japan, Meiji period, 19th century [2600×2320]October 31, 2025
Exquisite Eastern Han (25–220) jade heng “Yan Nian” (延年珩) — dragons and character openwork from the Aurora Art Museum [4032×3024] [OC]October 31, 2025
