Four earthenware pigs with remains of slip and pigment, possibly burial offerings. China, Northern Wei dynasty, ca. 386-534 AD. Godwin-Ternbach Museum collection [5875×3306] [OC]August 17, 2025
Watercolour titled ‘I Fell in Love with a Lovely Kitten’ by English artist Louis Wain, Mid-20th Century [800×973]August 17, 2025
Detail of the Frieze of Lions, a decorative glazed-brick frieze from the first court of Darius I’s palace at Susa, Persian Empire, 500 BC. A declaration of royal power embodied in the king of beasts. Its iconography and composition was most markedly Mesopotamian… [1280×1152] [OC]August 17, 2025
Portion of Roman mosaic pavement [~AD 410 to AD 43] currently on display in the courtyard of St Vedast-Alias-Foster, just behind St Paul’s cathedral in London, UK. [500×500]August 17, 2025
Runestone (U 53) in the Old Town in Stockholm at the corner of streets Käkbrinken and Prästgatan. Swedish National Heritage Board.[1163×880]August 17, 2025
An Aureus of Roman Emporer Maxentius (307-312 AD), depicting the Emporer facing the holder of the coin. [1080×536]August 16, 2025
Pendant icon with Christ and the Virgin carved in lapis lazuli and framed in gold. Constantinople; c. 1100–1150 AD [3807×2942]August 16, 2025
Roman Mosaic Portrait of Oceanus, Titan of the Sea (2nd–4th Century CE) – Faro, Portugal [2265×1713]August 16, 2025
Ancient Cro-Magnon human skeleton wearing the remnants of a headdress discovered in the Balzi Rossi Caves in Liguria, Italy, in 1872. Other artifacts found around the skeleton can be seen in the cabinet below. [1118×1142]August 16, 2025
Ancient Assyrian relief of Eagle demon or protective spirit bearing a cone and bucket from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II. Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles, California[1095×1647]August 16, 2025
