The “Princess of Khok Phanom Di” is the name given to a woman who was found buried at Khok Phanom Di in Thailand. The woman, who died 3600 years ago, was interred with over 120,000 beads, an anvil, burnishing stones, clay preforms, and pottery with exotic trace-element composition [4262×4150]May 18, 2025
All of the 17 known Olmec colossal heads discovered so far. The heads date from at least 900 BCE, and it is thought that they represent portraits of powerful individual Olmec rulers. The head, in the 1st picture, is the largest of them all, measuring 3.4 m in height and weighs 40 tons [2205×2538]May 18, 2025
An ancient Egyptian curved diorite gneiss bowl with five in-turned rim sections. Found in tomb 1024 at Giza Necropolis, Fourth Dynasty (ca. 2613–2494 BCE) or earlier, now housed at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology in California [1504×1937]May 18, 2025
In 62 BCE, King Antiochus I of Commagene built on top of the 2,134-metre-high Mount Nemrut, in Turkey, a 50 m high funerary mound of stone chips flanked by huge statues 8–9-metre high of himself, 2 lions, 2 eagles, and various composite Greek and Iranian gods [1600×3113]May 18, 2025
Su Hanchen, Children Playing on a Winter Day, 12th century, National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan. [1284×1358]May 18, 2025
An Interior section of the 15th century Ranakpur Jain Temple, also called the Chaturmukh Temple, Rajasthan, India [919×1024]May 18, 2025
Otagi Nenbutsu-ji is a Buddhist temple located in the hillside of the Arashiyama neighborhood of Kyoto, Japan. It is known for the 1200 arhat statues that cover the hillside around the temple grounds and was originally founded by Empress Shōtoku around Kyoto’s Gion district in 766 [1100×1468]May 18, 2025
Horse mask (bamen), Late Edo period, 19th century. Leather, lacquer, horsehair; 24 x 22 x 8 in. (60.96 x 55.88 x 20.32 cm) [2848×3914]May 18, 2025
An enamelled gold diamond and pearl perfume holder by Indian enameler Hira Singh 1875. The tray is decorated with eight oval medallions containing hunting scenes, floral patterns and depictions of two famous palaces in Jaipur – the Chandra Mahal and Amber Fort. [602×500]May 18, 2025
A stone relief of four figures, found at the archaeological site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey. 6000-5500 BCE, now housed at the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara [1676×2000]May 17, 2025
