Surviving fox head decal on a 120-year-old Fox Typewriter Co. No. 23 [6000×4000] [OC]December 3, 2025
Medieval castles featured simple latrines, often referred to as garderobes, as their primary toilet facilities. These were essentially vertical chutes built into the thickness of the castle walls, emptying directly into the moat or outside the castle base. [1080×1077]December 3, 2025
“Luohan Laundering” by Lin Tinggui. Ink and color on silk. From an original set of one hundred hanging scrolls depicting five hundred luohan, or Buddhist saints, commissioned by an abbot in 1175 and completed 1178, Southern Song dynasty China. National Museum of Asian Art collection [4036×8400]December 3, 2025
Gospel with silver cover. Armenia, 13th century manuscript, cover made in 1691 [2400×2924]December 3, 2025
Portraits of two Manchu generals. Anonymous artists. China, Qing dynasty, around 1760 [2316×2050]December 3, 2025
Three statues at the Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence, there since the 1500s. The Abduction of the Sabine Women and Hercules and Nessus, were both carved by Giambologna, each from a single piece of marble. The one at the bottom called Sabina, is a Roman original from the 2nd Century AD… [1280×853] [OC]December 3, 2025
A donkey in a 2k yo Nabatean tomb, any given day, Petra. The capital of the Nabateans, was abandoned and “forgotten” around 900AD. However, the Bedouls, the local Bedouins, have inhabited the caves from the early 19th century… until they got in the path of tourism. Since 1985… [1280×853] [OC]December 3, 2025
The Sword of William Wallace, a Scottish knight who led the resistance during the First War of Scottish Independence. It is said to have been used by him at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297 and the Battle of Falkirk in 1298. [1024×577]December 2, 2025
Sir Isaac Newton’s tooth turned into a ring in 1816. It was sold in London for $3,633, equivalent to $35,700 in today’s money. [1631×1371]December 2, 2025
Golden necklace of three Swastikas, dates back to first millennium B.C. Found near Rudbar, gilan province, Iran.[879×659]December 2, 2025
