Found in Thuburbo Majus, this mosaic depicts two naked boxers wearing gloves fighting while the older, defensive-looking boxer on the left is bleeding from his head. The younger boxer on the right is about to finish him off. late 3rd century AD, Bardo Museum [1280×960]June 23, 2025
This cosmetic spoon depicts a swimming woman holding a container shaped like an antelope in front of her. The top of the container was originally attached with a peg that allowed it to swing open. The compartment inside would have held some sort of cosmetic. circa 1390–1352 B.C., MET [2560×2048]June 23, 2025
This nephrite hei-tiki was given to Captain James Cook by Maori at Queen Charlotte Sound in South Island in 1769 during his first voyage to the Pacific. Now housed in the British Museum [1478×2000]June 23, 2025
Inscribed marble votive stele from the Epidauros Asklepeion. Marcus Iulius Apellas from Karia, who suffered from indigestion, expresses his gratitude to Asklepios and recounts the healing proces he underwent in the healing sanctuary at Epidauros. 150-200 AD [2560×1703]June 23, 2025
A wig-like headgear consisting of a cap of natural brown camelid yarn worked in looping, from which falls long human-hair braids, the lower 10 inches of which are wrapped with dyed camelid yarns to form a pattern of stepped triangles. Southern coast of Peru, 500-900 AD [526×994]June 23, 2025
“The Rising Squall” by JMW Turner, which had been lost for 150 years before it was rediscovered last year. [976 x 548]June 23, 2025
Roman mosaic showing the mysterious figure of a man with the head of a rooster. The object comes from Brading Villa on the Isle of Wight in England. [1200×800]June 23, 2025
A specimen of a giant locust eating a mouse, as displayed at the Hintze Hall Balconies, in the Blue Zone of the Natural History Museum, London. [1080×1350]June 22, 2025
Head of a tomb figure of a Sogdian or Central Asian traveler, Tang dynasty, c. 700–c. 750, ceramic and paint, China, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.[1284×1996]June 22, 2025
An 8,000-year-old marble figurine of an obese woman was unearthed in 2016 in the Neolithic urban settlement of Çatalhöyük in central Turkey. The figurine is 17 centimeters long, 11 centimeters wide and weighs one kilo [1200×695]June 22, 2025
