Hedgehog Vessel from Greece, c.2800-2300 BCE: this vessel was created nearly 4,800 years ago, and it depicts a hedgehog resting on its haunches with a cup clasped in its paws [3996×4584]September 25, 2025
Painted felt fireman’s hat worn by Captain John Pauly who served with St. Louis Fire Company No. 4 in St. Louis, Missouri, c. 1841. [2967×2292]September 25, 2025
In 1864, a slave-turned-soldier named Spotswood Rice wrote the following letter to his former owner, Katherine Diggs, warning her that she would soon be seeing him again: he was returning to Missouri, together with an army of black soldiers, to rescue his still-enslaved children.[1223×2002]September 24, 2025
The Treasure Foot of Basel Cathedral, dating to 1450, is an extraordinary reliquary crafted from silver, copper, gold, pearl, enamel, precious stones, and glass. It contains the bones of a child’s foot, traditionally associated with the massacre in Bethlehem ordered by King Herod. [1256×839]September 24, 2025
An Old Copper Culture ‘I-D’-style Spearpoint Recovered from Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula. Although it resembles Eurasian-style spearpoints, these were cold-hammered and annealed, not smelted. This style is thought to date between 4000-1000 B.C.E. based on similar finds. [640 x 640]September 24, 2025
Terracotta kylix (drinking cup) with boy carrying a writing tablet. Greek, Attic, ca. 460 BC. Red figure decoration attributed to the Painter of Munich 2660. See museum link in comments for cup exterior showing boys holding papyrus scrolls. Metropolitan Museum of Art collection [3791×3792]September 24, 2025
For the first time, Greece, Iran and Egypt have issued a joint statement at the United Nations, calling on certain museums to repatriate all remaining “looted cultural property to their rightful owners.” [4589×1200]September 24, 2025
A sword with scabbard. Probably Roukai Tribe, Taiwan, 19th century. [857 x 1200] [OS]September 24, 2025
One of 42 currently known embroidered globes made by female students at the Quaker Westtown School in Pennsylvania, between 1804-1844. These globes were designed to teach mathematical geography and astronomy through the simultaneous process of sewing and mapmaking [1837×2048]September 24, 2025
