Vicars’ Close is a mid-14th century CE dead end street in Wells, Somerset, that is reportedly Europe’s oldest residential street with the original buildings still intact [5862×8213]October 28, 2025
A 5 meters tall sculpture depicting the Tree of Jesse which illustrates the double genealogy of Christ, spiritual and historical, inspired by a prophecy of Isaiah. 15th century CE, located at the Hospice Saint-Roch Museum in France [1925×3200]October 28, 2025
The Vix Krater is an imported Greek wine-mixing vessel found in the Celtic grave of the “Lady of Vix” in northern Burgundy, France. Made of bronze and dating back to ca. 500 BC, the Vix krater is the largest known metal vessel from Western classical antiquity, being 1.63 m in height [1259×1666]October 28, 2025
Sphinx, Petra, Nabatean Kingdom, c. 30 AD. Carved from a limestone block, it depicts a Greek sphinx with the head of a woman, body of a lioness, and wings of an eagle. This combination of the strongest females of land and sky might symbolize the city, or the warrior goddess al-Lat. [1280×853] [OC]October 28, 2025
German propaganda leaflet addressed to the inhabitants of the besieged Lwów, Poland (now Ukraine) urging them to surrender the city. 17-20 September 1939. [1316×1900]October 28, 2025
Palace Tomb, Petra, Jordan, 40-70 AD. One of the four “Royal Tombs”, monumental sepulchers carved into the pink sandstone cliff overlooking the city center. Its heavily weathered facade was supposedly designed following the Roman palace design popularized by Nero’s Golden House… [1640×1280] [OC]October 28, 2025
The Capitol is one of the best preserved Roman temples in North Africa, built in the 2nd century, it is found in modern day Tunisia. [3008 x 2000]October 28, 2025
The Arjan Bowl is a bronze bowl dated to 800-525 B.C. found in the tomb of elamite king “Kidin-Hutran” , Behbahan, Iran.(3286×3095)October 28, 2025
White marble statue of Asita, the hermit who foretold the Buddha’s enlightenment (Ming dynasty, 1368–1644) – Lüshun Museum [3024×4032] [OC]October 28, 2025
Nördlingen is a medieval town in Germany, that was built in an impact crater 15 million years old and 25 km in diameter—the Nördlinger Ries—of a meteorite which hit with an estimated speed of 70,000 km/h, and left the area riddled with an estimated 72,000 tons of micro-diamonds [1200×900]October 27, 2025
The Langstrup Belt Plate is a 3400-year-old bronze belt plate with a diameter of 28 cm, which was found in 1879 in a bog in North Zealand, Denmark. Now housed at the National Museum in Copenhagen [3379×5986]October 27, 2025
The tomb of Thomas Sayers (1826-1865), who was an English bare-knuckle prize fighter, located in Highgate Cemetery in London. His tomb is guarded by a sculpture of his pet dog, Lion, who was chief mourner at his funeral [2048×2048]October 27, 2025
