A Greek tetradrachm minted in Syracuse, Sicily by the master engraver Kimon. It is considered one of the most beautiful ancient coins. (Private collection) [1200×602]July 5, 2025
A limestone statue of Princess Doshfari, daughter of Sanatrug Il of Hatra, 138 A.D. now housed in the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. Hatra was an ancient Arabian city in Present day Northern Iraq. [1075×1260]July 4, 2025
Barrier Canyon Style rock painting in Utah. Tallest figure is ~7 inches (18cm) high. Someone tried to remove the figure on the right. c. 2000 BCE–500 CE [1620×1080] [OC]July 4, 2025
Shield with owl figure, silvered and gilded copper and five different and conjoined metal pieces; moving wings and head, Moche (Peru), 500–800 CE [3671×3711] [OC]July 4, 2025
Ancient Akkadian Obelisk: The Maništūšu Stele — A 4,200-year-old black basalt monument from Mesopotamia, covered in cuneiform inscriptions recording royal land grants by King Maništūšu, son of Sargon of Akkad. One of the earliest detailed records of property ownership. [4032×3024]July 4, 2025
A butterprint in the shape of an eye flanked by two hearts, Irish, 19th century [7600×5429]July 4, 2025
Two sancai-glazed(3 color glaze) horses and groom, c. 728, from the tomb of the General Liu Tingxun. British Museum, London.[1284×1419]July 4, 2025
One of the most important Irish religious artefacts is a bell reputed to have belonged to St. Patrick. Around 1100, a shrine was made for the bell, beautifully decorated to represent the bell’s importance. [3024×4032]July 4, 2025
The Arab Hall, Leighton House, 1877-1881. The building was the London home of painter Frederic Leighton, who commissioned the architect and designer George Aitchison to build him a combined home and studio [5464 x 8192]July 4, 2025
A large jade sculpture of a wild boar, with a total length of about 72 cm and a width of 32 cm, and weighs 88 kg. Lingjiatan culture (3800–3300 BCE), now housed at the Anhui Museum in China [2048×1363]July 4, 2025
The Colorful Phoenix Mingqi is a Luoxia-style guqin (a Chinese musical instrument) collected by the Zhejiang Provincial Museum in China. According to the inscription on the belly of the guqin, the maker was Lei Wei, a guqin maker from the Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE) [1285×1892]July 4, 2025
The Lord in Red is a seated figure, coated with cinnabar, whose body is represented by the root of a tree with a halo of feathers in place of his head. He sits on the ollin symbol, a glyph of movement associated with the earth. 650-900 CE, Xochicalco Site Museum, Mexico [1098×2398]July 4, 2025
