Alexander the Great becoming pharaoh of Egypt, as shown here praying to Amun at the Luxor Temple [OC] [1335×2000]June 10, 2025
Swedish runestone from around 1000 A.D, discovered in Stockholm 1865, then it got lost, then found again in a landfill 1921. The runes reads: Anund and Torgils had the stone erected after Asgöt. [1844×2929]June 10, 2025
Greek Terracotta depicting shoemaker cutting out a leather sole around the foot of a customer. made in Athens, found at Rhodes, 500–470 BC. Now housed at the Ashmolean Museum [1728×816]June 10, 2025
Pendant with a Memento Mori, second half of the 16th century, gilded enamel. Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire [800×767]June 10, 2025
Charles Dickens (1812–1870) likely drafted part of his novel Hard Times (1854) while seated in this cane-bottom chair, and he may have written chapters of Great Expectations (1860–1861) at this small mahogany writing desk while bathed in the light of this oil lamp [960×1280]June 10, 2025
A pair of Egyptian woven reed and papyrus open shoes, ca. 1550BC- 1070BC. VAM [1400×1050]June 10, 2025
Wooden chair with 12 steel blades, China, 1701-1900 Science Museum Group Collection.[1226×2082]June 10, 2025
“I would rather be a dog’s or a pig’s wife than yours!”. A letter written by a Sogdian woman named Miwnay to her husband. Miwnay was abandoned by her husband in Dunhuang for 3 years and forced to be a servant with her daughter Shayn in a Chinese household. 313-314 CE, British Library [1937×1203]June 10, 2025
Recipe for oshizushi (pressed sushi), made of rice mixed with shiitake mushrooms, topped with egg, eel, kuruma shrimp, sea bream, then pressed in a box. From the Kunisada Mankō, an encyclopedia by Kitagawa Kunisada. Japan, Edo period, 1837 [1700×2040]June 10, 2025
