Power figure of a dog. Vili, Yombe or Woyo peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo, late 19th c. Wood, paint, mirror, glass, leather, and reed. The Menil Collection [1001×1024]October 2, 2025
An aerial view of Zorats Karer, a site of unknown origins in Southern Armenia and thought to be over 6,000 years old. The site has over 200 standing stones, with a circular hole carved in about 80 of them. [OC] [2000×1300]October 2, 2025
Some of the carved-out stairs, water channels, and chambers the Nabateans used as homes, warehouses, temples, cisterns, etc. Little Petra, Jordan. Known as Siq al-Barid (the cold canyon), it was probably built during the height of Nabataean influence, in the 1st century C.E. [1920×1080] [OC]October 2, 2025
An ancient Egyptian alabastron inscribed to the Achaemenid King Xerxes (486–465 BCE) quadrilingually—in Old Persian, Elamite, Akkadian, and hieroglyphic Egyptian—and it includes an addendum in demotic Egyptian that gives the capacity of the vessel in a Persian unit of measurement [1247×2396]October 2, 2025
A Neo-Babylonian chalcedony seal depicting a mixed creature with human torso, pegasus body and scorpion tail pointing his bow and arrow at a creature with lion head and pegasus body. 626-539 BCE, now housed at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History [5100×6600]October 2, 2025
A tea table made by Carlo Bugatti in c. 1907. Inlaid wood (mahogany?), cast and gilded bronze mounts, inlays of ivory or bone, metal, and mother-of-pearl (marine mussels or pearl oysters). Now housed at the Cleveland Museum of Art [2720×3400]October 2, 2025
This clay tablet from Tell Qitar in Syria, is a legal document relating to an inheritance. The tablet was concealed within an envelope containing the same text, a practice where a judge would open it to compare the texts if an agreement was questioned. 1400-1200 BCE [502×375]October 2, 2025
“Where, o Death, is your sting?” – Burial monument of Sophie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, St. Lorenz Nuremberg [5325×6453]October 1, 2025
