12th century CE erotic sculptures from the Collegiate church of San Pedro de Cervatos in Campoo de Enmedio, Spain [1575×3457]July 2, 2025
10,000-year-old painted schist pebbles with red ochre, found at the Mas d’Azil cave in France [1766×2288]July 2, 2025
A historic discovery has been made in the Iranian city of Abdanan, where archaeologists have founded the lost region which Darius the Great called it in a inscription as “ABIRĀDŪŠ” (522–486 BC), an area with three mines dug into mountain where the stones of his palace in Susa came from. [1772×797]July 2, 2025
1513 Piri Reis Map full of European state secrets and snarky commentary. Approximately one third of the map survives housed at Topkapi Palace, Istanbul Turkey [960×1280]July 2, 2025
Dagger with double-edged watered steel blade and white nephrite jade pommel in the form of a horse’s head. India, mid 17th c. Loaned to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, from the Al-Sahah Collection, Kuwait [1305×3850] [OC]July 2, 2025
The “Ring Lady” of Herculaneum. Perished in 79 AD during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius [1000×500]July 2, 2025
Carved ivory netsuke mask depicting a man biting his lip, Japanese, c. 1800-1900. [2830×4000]July 2, 2025
The Vyne Ring (Ring of Silvianus), a 4th-century Roman gold ring inscribed with a Latin curse. Found in Hampshire, England in 1785. [450×301] [OS]July 1, 2025
A marginal drawing of a seated tonsured man with a sore on his penis. From Liber Medicinarum, c. 1400-1425 CE, Sloane 56, f. 85v, now housed at the British Library in London [860×1024]July 1, 2025
