An ancient Egyptian faience bead shaped like a curled up hedgehog, c. 1985-1615 BCE, now housed at the National Museum of Scotland [1369×1500]June 28, 2025
The grave of the musician and actor Fernand Arbelot, who wished to look at the face of his wife forever after his death in 1942. The tomb is located at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris [960×1280]June 28, 2025
Roman Goddess Iris the personification of Rainbows 🌈 Gaetano Matteo Monti, Iris as goddess of the rainbow (1841, marble) at Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria.[1284×2778]June 28, 2025
Incantation Bowl from Mesopotamia, c.300-700 CE: this bowl is lined with an Aramaic incantation and a drawing that shows two demons wrapped in chains; bowls like this were often buried beneath houses in an effort to capture and subdue malevolent spirits [3622×4826]June 28, 2025
Facial reconstruction of Surena by the National Museum of Iran, the Parthian general whose battle with Rome in 53 BC led to one of the most crushing defeats in Roman history; killing the Roman general Crassus with his son Publius, killing 20,000 soldiers and taking 10,000 as captives. [724×396]June 28, 2025
This is the roof tile (tegula) of the Roman legion in Hispania, coming from the Castra Legionis of Legio VII Gemina in the city of León. [1200 x 1600]June 28, 2025
Skeleton in a shroud, seated on a tomb with hourglass, France, Ivory, 1547 [1080 x 1061]June 28, 2025
A bronze furnace at the Zoroastrian temple Yazd Atash Behram in Yazd, Iran, contains the longest-burning manmade fire, said to have been set in 470 CE by Sasanian Shahanshah Peroz I (r. 459–84). Atar (holy fire) is regarded as the physical manifestation of Ahura Mazda in Zoroastrianism. [2736×3648]June 28, 2025
A 5th century BCE silver tetradrachm from the ancient Greek city of Messana in modern day Italy. Now housed at the BnF Museum in Paris [1373×2695]June 28, 2025
A trapped miner, named Jacob Vowell, wrote this letter in his notebook to his wife and mother to their 6 children before dying in the Fraterville Mine Disaster in Tennessee in 1902. Vowell’s 14-year-old son Elbert was also trapped within the mine beside him [851×1247]June 28, 2025
