Roman mosaic showing the domina in the company of Germanic slaves with long blond hair and servants carrying boxes and tools for massage oils. [1200×900]November 22, 2025
Carved ivory Netsuke figure of Shen Nung, a Chinese god of medicine, Chinese, c. 1700-1800. [1536×1389]November 21, 2025
12,000-year-old rock paintings at Serrania de la Lindosa, in Colombia, may depict extinct megafauna of the ice age including a giant ground sloth, a macraucheniid, a proboscidean and a horse [3932×5953]November 21, 2025
Tokugawa Ieyasu’s golden fan battle standard, made of 10 black lacquered bamboo ribs, each 231 cm long, with a gold-foil covered washi paper fan blade that was fitted atop a 5.73 m tall pole. It was used to command troop movements from the strategic campsites. 1543-1616 CE, Japan [677×536]November 21, 2025
The oldest paved road you can walk in Europe is the Minoan Royal Road in Crete, Greece, which is over 3.500 years old. The road included side drains to handle water runoff, a feature that helped preserve its structure by preventing water damage [603×920]November 21, 2025
The leather cuirass of the pharaoh Tutankhamun (c. 1341-1323 BCE). Painstakingly restored and now on display at the Grand Egyptian Museum, it is the only complete piece of body armor to survive from Ancient Egypt [960×934]November 21, 2025
Statue of St. Ludmila, sculpted by Matthias Braun, c. 1730. Originally mounted on the Charles Bridge, Prague. [OC] [3024×4032]November 21, 2025
Mourning clothes worn by Count Magnus Brahe at the funeral of King Karl XIV Jonah Of Sweden in 1844 [1200×900]November 21, 2025
Panel with loaf of bread from a large floor mosaic for a residence, 2nd c AD. Excavated in Rome in 1823. Stone and mortar. Art Institute of Chicago collection [2612×2206]November 21, 2025
Archaeologist Friedrich Krefter standing at the Gate of All Nations in 1930—the entrance to Persepolis, dating to 550–330 BC, Iran. [1223×1524]November 21, 2025
