II-I century BC Hellenistic era Macedonian coin featuring an attic/pilos boeotian helmet. [626×599]August 25, 2025
Pair of Tlaloc eyepieces. Maya, ca. 900-1200 AD. Mother-of-pearl. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston collection [1000×724]August 25, 2025
Posthumous painting depiciting Shah Abbas II and his court, Shiraz, circa 1780-1794[500×369]August 25, 2025
The Vimose coat is a 22-pound piece of chain armor thrown into a Danish bog as a victory offering after battle some 1,800 years ago. Made by hand from nearly 20,000 tiny iron rings, it is the oldest completely preserved chain mail from Northern Europe [831×1503]August 24, 2025
After she was publicly flogged and her daughters raped by Roman soldiers, Queen Boudica of the Iceni destroyed 3 entire cities. Londinium burned with such ferocity that a blackened scorch-layer still runs under modern London, named by archaeologists the ‘Boudican Destruction Horizon’ [2080×2810]August 24, 2025
The remains of a prehistoric house from the bronze age settlement of Akrotiri in Santorini, Greece. The settlement was destroyed in the Theran eruption sometime in the 16th century BCE and buried in volcanic ash [1080×1304]August 24, 2025
A Roman mosaic depicting a fish. 1st century CE, now housed at the State Historical Museum in Moscow [894×644]August 24, 2025
Passover letter from the Jewish military colony at Elephantine Ancient Egypt, circa 419 BCE [640 x 506]August 24, 2025
