“Where, o Death, is your sting?” – Burial monument of Sophie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, St. Lorenz Nuremberg [5325×6453]October 1, 2025
A 6th century BCE terracotta sculpture of a butcher and a piglet. From Greece, now housed at the Louvre Museum [726×1500]October 1, 2025
A relief fragment depicting an Assyrian soldier conducting captives across the water. In the lower part of the panel, the pole used to propel the boat appears to hit a dead body in the water. Neo-Assyrian period, ca. 668–627 BCE, from Iraq, now housed at the Metropolitan Museum [3675×4000]October 1, 2025
Scroll decorated with gold and silver flakes, containing chapter 11 of the Lotus Sutra. Japan, 13th century [1740×1400]October 1, 2025
Garuda sitting in royal ease pose. Tamil Nadu, India, Pandya dynasty, 8th-9th century AD [2500×2960]October 1, 2025
One of the Ain Ghazal statues, large-scale lime plaster and reed statues discovered near Amman, Jordan, made between 7200 and 6250 BCE. Pre-Pottery Neolithic C period. The statues are among the earliest large-scale representations of the human form. Their purpose remains uncertain…[1280×720] [OC]October 1, 2025
An etching of a samurai armor with a Persian shield and the last surviving authentic Macuahuitl (an Aztec wooden blade with obsidian shards along its edge). The Macuahuitl along with the armor and the shield were destroyed in the 1884 fire that ravaged the Royal Armory of Madrid [595×1264]September 30, 2025
A proverb tablet, dated to the Old Babylonian Period (ca. 1900-1600 BCE), which says: “The dog understands: ‘Take it!’ It does not understand: ‘Put it down!'”. From Iraq, now housed at the British Museum [2549×4172]September 30, 2025
A Kimono decorated with skeletons, from Japan, 1840-1860 CE, now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London [1875×2500]September 30, 2025
The Canadian Ice Man is a naturally mummified body of a young man, found in British Columbia in 1999 with a well-preserved and woven hat, an iron knife with a wooden handle and a coat made of 100 small pelts of the arctic squirrel with sinew from a moose. C. 1450–1700 CE [2696×1948]September 30, 2025
