Ruins of Nalanda Mahavihara, a Buddhist university. Bihar, India, Gupta Empire, 427 AD [1828×1176]September 1, 2025
A historical house in Isfahan, Iran, built around 1606 AD during the Safavid Empire, now serving as a café. [1350×1080]September 1, 2025
Gold bee. Greek, 3rd-2nd c BC. Yale University Art Gallery collection [6112×6112] [OC]September 1, 2025
A porcelain figure of a dog. China, Tang Dynasty, currently in Kaifang City Museum [2560 x 1707]September 1, 2025
Packet of mercurous chloride tablets (calomel) used for treating venereal diseases and also used as an antiseptic and laxative during WWI, German, c. 1914-1918. The mercury content would slowly poison the drugs users over time. [2832×4256]September 1, 2025
The first ever photograph of a woman taken in 1839, of Dorothy Catherine Draper. Her daguerreotype portrait is the only surviving contemporary photograph of someone wearing the 1830s poke bonnet, a pre Victorian hat. [558×700]August 31, 2025
A postcard from the Golestan Palace royal archives (1870), featuring two children holding a small dog surrounded by flowers—yet a skull appears within the composition, serving as a memento mori (“remember you must die”). [1305×930]August 31, 2025
Salam Hall at the Golestan Palace in Tehran, where the two Persian royal thrones still remain in the positions first set by the fourth king of Qajar Empire in 1876. [1350×1080]August 31, 2025
