A bronze sculpture of a Bastet cat lying with her kitten. From Egypt, Ptolemaic Period (332-30 BCE), now housed at the Louvre Museum [758×517]April 19, 2025
A gauze with 14 figures, made of camelid fibres. 1000 CE, Chancay culture, from Peru [1680×3371]April 19, 2025
An Olmec jade statuette of a standing figure holding a were-jaguar baby. From Mexico, 900-300 BCE, now housed at the Kimbell Art Museum in Texas [581×1350]April 19, 2025
Cup of the Sassanian king Chosroes I (reign 531-579 CE), made of gold, rock crystal, red and green glass. Now housed at the Cabinet des Médailles in Paris [1000×1658]April 19, 2025
Monk’s staff from the Cirebon Shipwreck. Java, Indonesia, Srivijaya Empire, 907-960 AD [3700×3700]April 19, 2025
Jade plaque with two dragon heads. China, Warring States, 4th-3rd century BC [2160×2040]April 19, 2025
Egyptian Bone Game piece in the shape of a baboon, 332–30 B.C. Period: Ptolemaic Period, Metropolitan Museum of Art [1457×1941]April 19, 2025
Roman lead sling bullets found at Burnswark Hillfort in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. The image shows three distinct morphologies of lead bullets: lemon-shaped, acorn-shaped, and whistling sling bullets. Trimontium Museum [634×488]April 19, 2025
