Archaeologists have found new evidence that the submerged Roman bathhouse first discovered in 2023 at Baiae, could be part of the villa of Marcus Tullius Cicero, the famous Roman orator, statesman and philosopher. [1200×900]August 18, 2025
Winged genie fertilizing a date tree, from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II in Nimrud. Assyrian, 884-860 BC. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. [3024×4032]August 17, 2025
Handmade bespoke button boots from the late 1800s. Swedish or German origin, designer unknown. Bata Shoe Museum. [1744 x 2048]August 17, 2025
Roman mosaic from the 2nd century AD found under a street in a Croatian town. [650×812]August 17, 2025
Bronze plate depicting Hercules defeating the giant Antaeus, discovered in a 2nd Century BCE Kapitan Petko Voivoda, Bulgaria Thracian Warrior Grave.[1270×836]August 17, 2025
A gold necklace discovered in Hepu Han Dynasty cemetery. 206 BCE-220 CE, now housed at the Hepu Han Dynasty Cultural Museum in China [2804×2304]August 17, 2025
Measuring 2.55 m in length, 1.3 m in width and 1.8 m in height, the oldest and best-preserved lacquered bed was found in 2000 in a tomb complex in Chengdu, China. It took 17 years for archeologists to restore the “dragon bed”, which is believed to have been used 2,500 years ago by a king [1024×1264]August 17, 2025
A celadon water vessel (Kundika) with 9 dragons design, excavated from Gangjin-gun in South Korea. Goryeo Dynasty, 12th century CE. Now housed at the Yamato Bunkakan Museum in Japan [671×1461]August 17, 2025
Stuccoed and painted freize on the wall outside the destrictarium of the Stabian Baths. The destrictarium is where the Pompeiians scraped the oils and dirt from their skin using strigils. Below is a possible color reconstruction of the freize from the 1859. Pompeii, Italy. (Ca. 62-79)[2460×3300]August 17, 2025
Architectural illustrations drawn with reference to ancient Chinese Han Dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE) pottery buildings [1080×2048]August 17, 2025
Apocalytic Madonna, illumination by the ”Master of Rohan”, Horae ad usum Parisiensem (Hours of René d’Anjou), ca. 1410-1420, Bibliothèque Nationale Ms Latin 1156 A, fol. 18v. [795 x 1219]August 17, 2025
