Aquamanile in the form of a horseman. English or Scandinavian, 13th c. Bronze. National Gallery of Art collection [4000×3000] [OC]May 22, 2025
Mahishasura – the ‘buffalo demon’ who waged war against the gods, wooden sculpture from 15th century CE Kerala(Kulathupuzha), Napier Museum Thiruvananthapuram [768X1152]May 22, 2025
Silver Napkin ring from silver on Santa Anna’s Saddle C 1836 Courtesy San Jacinto Museum of History, La Porte[1284×1255]May 22, 2025
Burial 10 at the 3000-year-old Teouma Lapita cemetery, in Vanuatu (an island country located in the South Pacific Ocean), and which contained the headless skeleton of an old man with 3 skulls placed on his chest (the middle one is that of a woman, while the other 2 belonged to 2 men) [1713×2202]May 22, 2025
The Ingá Stone, in Brazil, is a large rock famous for its mysterious petroglyphs, carved into its surface. The carvings cover an area of 46 m long and 3.8 m high, featuring representations of animals, fruits, and astronomical features like the constellation Orion and the Milky Way [3008×4028]May 22, 2025
One of the greatest works of Chinese art is the blue-green landscape painting titled “A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains” by Wang Ximeng. Wang made the painting in 1113 CE at the age of 18, using azurite and malachite colours. Now housed at the Palace Museum in Beijing [2200×2807]May 22, 2025
The Snettisham Jeweller’s Hoard is a collection of Romano-British jewellery and raw materials, found during the construction of a house in the Norfolk village of Snettisham in 1985. The hoard is thought to be the working stock of a jeweller, buried in a single clay pot around 155 CE [2500×5048]May 22, 2025
Reconstruction of a fragment of a Roman relief showing a sandal (caliga) with a sock rolled up. It is located in the Vatican Museums. It is the proposed colour reconstruction from the book “Die Prätorianer – Folterknechte oder Elitetruppe”. [654×402]May 22, 2025
