A nose ornament made of gold ans silver. Tolita-Tumaco artist(s), 500 BCE–300 CE, from Colombia or Ecuador, now housed at the Metropolitan Museum [4000×2787]August 12, 2025
Lintel 25 (current state vs false color), Maya bas-relief carved in limestone during the reign of king Itzamnaaj B’alam II, (Shield Jaguar II), Yaxchilan, Mexico, c. 770 CE. It shows Lady Xook during a bloodletting ritual in which she has invoked the vision of a Teotihuacan serpent…[1660×1280] [OC]August 12, 2025
Marble statue of an ancient African found 40 km south of modern Tunis. Shown with the Nemean lion skin of Hercules, a bouquet of wheat and poppies, and Cerberus. This suggests that he had been initiated into various mystery cults. 3rd century AD, Bardo Museum. [750×1024]August 12, 2025
The death mask of Napoleon Bonaparte, French Emperor. This is the most authentic depiction of his features we possess. [843×1055]August 12, 2025
Basket with small medicine containers, possibly for a home pharmacy. Afghanistan, around 1200 AD [3700×2350]August 12, 2025
Painting of a peddler selling birds, by Ji Sheng. China, Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 [3000×4100]August 12, 2025
Sculpture fragment of a hand holding a water pot. Gandhara, Pakistan, 3rd-4th century AD [670×840]August 12, 2025
Texas Treaty Stone from 1850 Peace Negotiations between the United States and Texas Native peoples.Bob Bullock History Museum.[1284×2778]August 11, 2025
The funeral effigy of Robert, Marquis of Normanby(1711-1715) at Westminster Abbey Via Zenzie Tinker Conservation.[1284×1283]August 11, 2025
The Bashiri mummy, also known as “The Untouchable”, Ancient Egypt 305-30 BC. [1366×768]August 11, 2025
