Offering bowl full of copal incense and jade beads, found at the bottom of the Sacred Cenote in Chichen Itza. Mexico, Maya civilization, 1300-1450 AD [1800×1780]April 20, 2025
A roll of wafter-thin silver foil found in a 3rd century grave in Frankfurt, Germany, is the earliest archaeological evidence of Christianity north of the Alps. The tightly-rolled scroll just 3.5 cm long is a phylactery, a protective amulet, worn on a string or ribbon around the neck [3167×4845]April 20, 2025
Roman carbonised wooden furniture from Herculaneum, which was buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE. Among them a cradle discovered with the remains of a small baby wrapped in blankets still inside it, a stool, a table and a little night stand [4267×5048]April 20, 2025
Colossal statues of metallic-green Bekhen stone (an especially prized sandstone from Egypt) representing Hercules and Bacchus, found in Rome on the Palatine Hill. The sculptures stood 3,5 metres tall in Domitian’s audience chamber in the Flavian Palace. 1st century CE [3227×5284]April 20, 2025
Roman bronze kitchen utensils from Pompeii, Italy, 1st century BCE-1st century CE [4594×4674]April 20, 2025
This egg was the Tsar Nicholas’s gift to Tsarina Alexandra for Easter 1910 and cost 11,600 rubles. The enduring love between the Tsar and Tsarina is represented by the pair of doves; their 4 daughters, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia by the 4 cherubs and Tsarevich Alexei by the cupid [375×500]April 19, 2025
Old Testament – The First day of Creation, Salerno medieval ivories: ivory panel from the cathedral of Salerno, ca. 1084. [1965×939]April 19, 2025
An early example of bimetallic coinage. A bronze coin with gold inlay from the Kingdom of Aksum, around 310-325 AD. [1080×550]April 19, 2025
A phenomenally enameled silver Swept-hilt Rapier, Germany, ca. 1606, housed at the Staaliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. [540×779]April 19, 2025
