Bearded Worshipper 24th-21st century BCE (Early Syrian) terracotta. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland [1284×2088]June 6, 2025
African Venus by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier (French, 1827-1905) 1852 in bronze and gold.Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland [1040×2175]June 6, 2025
Ivory plaque shows a griffin nibbling on a sacred tree. The griffin rests one forepaw on a papyrus blossom and the other on a branch of the .This would have adorned the outside of a box.Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland [1284×1338]June 6, 2025
Qajar-era photographs of the Tomb of Cyrus the Great reveals that the structure was once part of a larger complex. A gate and several columns can be seen, confirming that when it was built in 540 BC, there was an enclosed ceremonial area with a formal entrance path leading up to the tomb. [676×550]June 6, 2025
Ceramic biconical from a Neolithic site of the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture at modern-day Trypillia, Ukraine, c. 4500–4000 BCE. Also proof that black cats are good luck. [600×532]June 6, 2025
The Butcher’s Hall of Hildesheim, before its destruction in WWII. Germany, originally built in 1529 [1790×2493]June 6, 2025
Clothes iron. Late 19th c, probably American. Iron and wood. Newark Museum of Art collection [2992×2992] [OC]June 6, 2025
15 large thin-necked stone axes, made of light gray flint, all unused, were laid as a sacrificial offering at Hagelbjerggård in Zealand, Denmark, somewhere between 3000 and 4000 BCE. Now housed at the National Museum of Denmark [614×834]June 6, 2025
