An engraving from “Monsters from all parts of the ancient and modern world” by Giovanni Battista de’ Cavalieri, corresponding to a depiction of Wewe Gombel, a vengeful ghost in Javanese mythology who kidnaps children and hides them under her breasts. 1585 CE, British Museum [1200×1643]June 29, 2025
Detail of a bas-relief of an Egyptian man, Saqqara, Egypt. The man, who would be seated, wears a wig with triangular sides, a shirt with pleated sleeves and a necklace. The carving has been dated around 1325 BC according to its style [1280×891] [OC]June 29, 2025
Discovered in a cave in southern Poland in the 1980s, this prehistoric boomerang was made from a mammoth tusk and estimated to be 18,000 years old. But new analysis has uncovered that the boomerang is between 39,000 to 42,000 years old, making it the oldest known boomerang in history. [900×758]June 29, 2025
Goddess Iris Roman personification of Rainbows. Gaetano Matteo Monti: Iris as goddess of the rainbow (1841, marble) at Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria.[1284×2229].June 29, 2025
Sword (tachi) engraved with images of Acala and dragon. Japan, Momoyama period, 1598 [2000×1787]June 29, 2025
Sandstone bust of a yakshi (tree spirit). India, Kushan Empire, 2nd century AD [1089×1200]June 29, 2025
Stenmaglefundet, a small box made of yew, a box found in Sjælland, Denmark, dating 160-375 AD, bearing the inscription ᚺ ᚨ ᚷ ᛁ ᚱ ᚨ ᛞ ᚨ ᛉ ᛁ ᛏ ᚨ ᚹ ᛁ ᛞ ᛖ (hagiradazitawide) meaning “Hagråd gjorde” (Hagråd did/done by Hagråd). (1200×795)June 29, 2025
Famed Samurai Minamoto no Tametomo chasing away smallpox demons in an 1890 print.[1129×1752]June 29, 2025
Goddess Iris Roman personification of Rainbows. Gaetano Matteo Monti: Iris as goddess of the rainbow (1841, marble) at the Kunsthistorisches in Museum in Vienna, Austria. [1284×2229]June 29, 2025
Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song-Book is the oldest extant anthology of English nursery rhymes, published in London in 1744. It contains the oldest printed texts of many well-known and popular rhymes, as well as several that eventually dropped out of the canon of rhymes for children [1485×3611]June 29, 2025
Detail of a miniature of Nature forging a baby. F. 140r from Harley MS 4425, which is an exquisite copy of the French book Roman de la Rose. The copy, which was made for Count Engelbert of Nassau (1451-1504 CE), is now housed at the British Library in London [1144×1299]June 29, 2025
