Prostitutes performing acrobatics on a ladder. Print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi. Japan, Edo period, 1830-1835 [1250×2448]April 27, 2025
13 laurel leaf-shaped points from the Volgu cache, made from pale, translucent flint. These 20,000-year-old laurel-leaf points, found in France, rank among the most remarkable examples of skilled craftsmanship known from the Solutrean period of the Upper Palaeolithic. Musée Vivant Denon [1773×2560]April 27, 2025
3 gold signet rings from the Griffin Warrior tomb in Pylos, Greece. The tomb was that of a Mycenaean warrior, who died in his mid-30s around 1500 BCE. The gold rings depict very detailed scenes and iconography straight out of Minoan mythology [2457×4340]April 27, 2025
A 1st century CE Roman glass beaker with a pattern of colored spots, discovered in the summer of 2021 on Dunajska cesta in Ljubljana, Slovenia [1536×2048]April 27, 2025
A 12th century CE capital from the hermitage of Santa Cecilia in Palencia, Spain, depicting the Massacre of the Innocents, a biblical story in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children who are 2 years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem [960×1665]April 27, 2025
The gothic ribbed vault of the Holy Mary Chapel at Chaalis abbey, France, with frescoes by Francesco Primaticcio (1504-1570) painted between 1541 and 1544 [1800 x 1200]April 27, 2025
Aztec Carved Shell Ornament of Ehecatl. Mexico. Postclassic Period, ca. 1200–1521 AD. – Galeria Contici [3992×3992]April 27, 2025
Glazed earthenware tile featuring pictures of various people, Spanish, c. 1750-1850. [3243×4092]April 27, 2025
The Unique 2nd century CE Roman sarcophagus of Simpelveld, now housed at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in the Netherlands. The sarcophagus, which was made for a woman, was carved entirely in high relief on the inside in order to look like a room in a luxurious home crammed with furniture [2000×3979]April 27, 2025
The Urnes-style runestone U 887 in Skillsta, Sweden, showing a runic dragon (colored in red in the bottom picture) and a bipedal winged dragon (colored in blue). The 2.15 meters high runestone was erected by Joger, Fastger and Örik after their father Borgger. Viking age (800–1050 CE) [1657×4333]April 27, 2025
The Double Venus, also known as the Beauty and the Beast, is a carved serpentine pendant with a female representation back to back with that of an animal or a chimera. The illustration was made by Libor Balák in collaboration with the Czech Academy of Sciences. Italy, 22,000-17,000 BCE [2456×4744]April 27, 2025
