One of 42 currently known embroidered globes made by female students at the Quaker Westtown School in Pennsylvania, between 1804-1844. These globes were designed to teach mathematical geography and astronomy through the simultaneous process of sewing and mapmaking [1837×2048]September 24, 2025
A silk hairnet made in the 2nd half of the 14th century CE, now housed at the Museum Kunstpalast in Germany [2944×2908]September 24, 2025
A 1st century CE Roman gold catena loop-in-loop chain from Pompeii in Italy [1229×1740]September 24, 2025
Stemming from Jiangyong, in China, a small group of women in the 19th and 20th centuries practiced this special script, called Nüshu, that no man could read or write. The writing system allowed these women to keep autobiographies, write poetry and stories, and communicate with each other [2550×2383]September 24, 2025
This paperweight, made of Haematite carved in the shape of a grasshopper, looks pretty modern. But it was hand-carved between 1800-1700 BC, in ancient Babylonia (in modern-day Iraq) British Museum [736 X 736]September 24, 2025
Silver sacrificial figurine, with a little wool cloak and colorful feather headdress. Peru, Inca civilization, 1450-1533 AD [2282×3200]September 24, 2025
Erosion hides the lesser known fact that, before digging out the Treasury, the Nabateans chiseled the mountainside flat. The Treasury could have been centered on that huge vertical surface, but they placed it exactly so travelers would see it when arriving through the gorge. And awe. [1280×853] [OC]September 24, 2025
The Pendulum Clock of the Creation of the World, made in 1754 for the French king Louis XV. Made from wood, iron, glass, gilt copper and silvered/patinated bronze, this astronomical clock presents Earth as a rotating sphere alongside celestial bodies and lunar phases [2578×4666]September 24, 2025
The Net Cylinder of the king Entemena which describes the beginning of a war between the city-states of LagaÅ¡ and Umma during the Early Dynastic III period, one of the earliest border conflicts recorded. 2400 BCE, from Iraq, now at the Yale Babylonian Collection [5159×10802]September 24, 2025
A fan-parasol (closed and open) made in the United States of America in c. 1854 CE. Now housed at the FIDM Museum in Los Angeles [1490×943]September 24, 2025
