Roman mosaic showing a man carrying water dishes. The object marked the entrance to the caldarium (hot water pool) at Menander’s House in Pompeii. [1200×1185]June 1, 2025
Byzantine vase adorned with Ancient Greek mythological figures, looted during the sack of Constantinople, 11th century. [828 x 479]May 31, 2025
A two-foot-tall cotton figure known as a Zemi, a depiction of a divine or ancestral spirit made by the Indigenous Taíno people who lived in the Caribbean late 14th or early 15th century.Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography Turin[1284×2130]May 31, 2025
1857 vs 2025: Italian photographer and colonel Luigi Pesce, who traveled to Iran during the Qajar Empire, took what is now considered the oldest known photograph from the 2,500-year-old Persepolis. [928×600]May 31, 2025
Orders and decorations of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which he was wearing when he was assassinated on 28 June 1914. Some of the ribbons still show bloodstains. [1200×1200]May 31, 2025
The Vie Cave, in Italy, is an ancient Etruscan road network which connects various settlements and necropolises in the area between Sovana, Sorano and Pitigliano, and which consist of trenches excavated as nearly vertical cliffs in different types of bedrock, sometimes over 20 m high [1500×2820]May 31, 2025
According to a new study, ancient footprints and drag marks at White Sands National Park in New Mexico suggest the earliest known North Americans used wooden travois-like “vehicles” to transport goods, and possibly even people, 22,000 years ago [3014×3627]May 31, 2025
Guyaju Caves are the ruins of a cave complex, in China, that may have served as dwellings for a fortified community, probably between 1000 and 2000 years ago. The origins of the community are mysterious due to uncertainty about the founding people and later disappearance of the community [3097×4147]May 31, 2025
Naupa Iglesia is an Inca huaca shrine, in Peru, that was constructed in a cave whose flat stone surfaces form an inverted “V”. On a rock wall of the cave there is an extremely precise “false door” which leads nowhere, and in front of the cave stands an abstract sculpture of black granite [2000×2677]May 31, 2025
1800’s large gold cup set with diamonds, emeralds, rubies, pearls, sardonyx, and glass. European. [1540×1608].May 31, 2025
Dish with peonies and dragonfly. China, Qing dynasty, Qianlong mark and period (1736-1795). Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels. Metropolitan Museum of Art collection [4000×3001]May 31, 2025
