Between 2008 and 2014, scientists rappelled down cliffs, in southern Spain, to reach a dozen bearded vulture nests and begin analyzing what was inside them. They discovered a 750-year-old shoe, along with more than 200 other human artifacts [3072×2277]October 25, 2025
Scientists reconstruct the tattoos of a 2000-year-old Siberian ice mummy, now housed at the State Hermitage Museum in Russia, by using newly-available high-resolution near infrared photography, shedding light on the high-level of craftsmanship of Pazyryk tattoo artists [3456×6057]October 25, 2025
The Barber Cup and Crawford Cup, made in 50–100 CE, are the only 2 vessels carved from fluorite that are known to have survived intact from the Roman period. They were discovered during WWI by an Austro-Croatian officer who excavated a Roman tomb near the current Turkish–Syrian border [2144×3686]October 25, 2025
The moss-covered gravestone of the wine and textile merchant Antoine Michel Wemaer (1763-1837 CE), located in the central cemetery in Bruges, Belgium [3072×4080]October 25, 2025
Textile wall-hanging, Iran, c.1880-1920. Currently at the Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto. [1415×768]October 25, 2025
Rock art from Andriamamelo Cave in northwestern Madagascar depicting a mysterious animal (probably a now-extinct sloth lemur) and a hunting party; aprox. 1000-2000 yrs old. Info in comments. [1160×600]October 25, 2025
The Saltman, who was working in the Chehrabad salt mine 2,200 years ago during the Parthian Empire when the mine collapsed on him. His remains were discovered in 1993 and are now preserved at the National Museum of Iran. [1620×1080]October 25, 2025
Horse and rider. Mande culture, Djenne region, Mali, 12th-16th c. Terracotta and pigment. Nelson Atkins Museum of Art collection [3000×4000] [OC]October 25, 2025
Scenes of Hell from a copy of the Ojōyōshū, a 10th century text describing the Buddhist Hells and how to avoid ending up in them. Japan, Edo period, 1790 [4000×3930]October 25, 2025
