The Piprahwa Gems are a collection of over 300 sacred relics, discovered in an inscribed reliquary urn with the Shakya clan’s share of the remains of the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama. The gems, which date back to c. 240-200 BCE, were excavated at Piprahwa Stupa in India [3236×7242]May 4, 2025
The head of a life-sized lifelike doll made by the puppeteer Matsumoto Kisaburo in 1871, for his spectacle “the Miracles of Kannon at the 33 Temples of the Saikoku Pilgrimage Route”. Now housed at the Osaka Museum of History in Japan [1249×1538]May 4, 2025
Parigala is considered one of Azerbaijan’s lesser-known archeological treasures. The site, built between the 4th-8th centuries CE, consists of a limestone brick structure of 3 rooms with a window, built 300 m up the side of a cliff in the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains [2048×3478]May 4, 2025
Vietnamese, Champa culture.Head of Shiva made from gold-silver alloy ( 10th Century) MET New York[547×1361]May 4, 2025
Late Gothic net polychrome vaults of Marienkirche in Pirna, Saxony, 1502-1546 [2816 x 1880]May 4, 2025
How Watson Learned the Trick is a Sherlock Holmes story, handwritten by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle specially for Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House. Less than 4cm in height, it is one of over 170 handwritten manuscripts made for the Library, one of the Dolls’ House’s most remarkable rooms [1010×568]May 4, 2025
While preparing for construction of a housing development in Stuttgart, Germany, an ancient horse cemetery with more than 100 burials was discovered that was used by the Roman cavalry unit stationed nearby in the second century C.E. [900×600]May 4, 2025
Earthenware Dish with a composite head of penises, a Renaissance joke by Francesco Urbini. On the banderole (long scroll) are the words: ‘OGNI HOMO ME GUARDA COME FOSSE UNA TESTA DE CAZI’ (‘every man looks at me as I were a head of dicks’). c.1530-40 [1728×816]May 4, 2025
Tombstone from the Ambleside fort in England. There is an inscription saying that Flavius Romantus was killed in the camp. The object is dated to the turn of the second and third century CE. [763×900]May 4, 2025
Basalt sculptures made by the Chorotega people between 800 and 1350 CE, found at Zapatera archaeological site in Nicaragua [2560×5318]May 3, 2025
