Large Buddha inside Grotto 13 at the Yungang Caves. Northern Wei dynasty, 5th century AD [4690×3500]December 18, 2025
Wood from Titanic’s A La Carte Restaurant located on the After-end on the ships B-Deck. This Wood measures 5 inches tall, 4 inches wide, 1 1/2 inches thick. [972×740]December 18, 2025
Hanukkah lamp made in 1946 at a children’s home in France by Maurice Farhi, a 14 or 15-year old who had been orphaned in the Holocaust, surviving in hiding. Carved wood and ink. See inscription detail in comments. The Jewish Museum collection [1080×1080]December 18, 2025
Muhammad leading Jesus, Moses, and Abraham in prayer. Miniature from a medieval Persian book created in Shiraz, housed at the National Museum of Iran. [1073×680]December 18, 2025
The Blaschka glass sea creatures are a world-renowned collection of at least 10,000 of scientifically accurate and highly detailed glass models of marine invertebrates created by father and son Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, in Dresden between 1863 and 1880 CE [5438×6981]December 18, 2025
In one of the most important discoveries of 2025, archaeologists have uncovered in Belize, the tomb of the founder of the Caracol dynasty, Teʼ Kʼab Chaak. The most remarkable object from the tomb, was a jade-and-shell mosaic death mask that once covered the face of the Maya king. 349 CE [2304×5313]December 17, 2025
The earliest extant repeating crossbow, a double-shot repeating crossbow excavated from a tomb of the State of Chu, 4th century BCE, China [1500×2561]December 17, 2025
An aerial view of Iraj Castle, a Sasanian fortification built in the 4th-5th century CE in Iran. The monument is known for its peculiar design: large defensive walls with embedded rooms and arches, with towers at regular intervals, enclosing a vast empty interior of 190 hectares [1230×778]December 17, 2025
The personal bowl of Xerxes the Great (Achaemenid Empire | 486–465 BC), inscribed in Old Persian with “I am Xerxes, the Great King.” Housed at the National Museum of Iran. [1080×1350]December 17, 2025
My newest acquisition: a late 14th century book of hours, France, with a miniature likely attributable to either Jacquemart de Hesdin or Pseudo Jacquemart. Curiously, the text is incomplete, but it seems as though it was never finished in the first place. [3024×4032]December 17, 2025
