Covered jar. Jiangxi province, China. Ming dynasty, Jiajing era, 1522-1566. Porcelain painted with underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze enamels (Jingdezhen ware). Asia Society collection [6112×6112] [OC]April 16, 2025
Roman wooden target [dummy] & sword for practice. Carlisle, Cumbria, England, 72 – 83 CE. Housed at the Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery Trust [1542 x 2048]April 16, 2025
Venus of Brassempouy; an ivory female head, broken part of larger figure. An artifact of the Gravettian culture of the Upper Palaeolithic period. Discovered at the Grotte du Pape, Brassempouy, France, & dated to 25000 BP ca. Musée d’Archéologie Nationale [salle Piette], nr. MAN 47019 [750 x 700]April 16, 2025
Son & Dad 1900 years ago: “Dad, just sent you a basket of figs and 25 nice apples. I put a label with your name on the basket so you see it’s yours from me. Take care and write me back!” Papyrus 2104, from Egypt, now housed at the British Library [653×653]April 16, 2025
Portrait of a Roman made on glass. The find was discovered in Pompeii and is dated to 79 CE. [575×767]April 16, 2025
Square fabric table mat featuring a Japanese flag from the Japanese pavilion at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. Collected by Associated Press reporter George Cruser Hench. [3099×3522]April 16, 2025
Letter from the exorcist Adad-šumu-uṣur to the Assyrian king Esarhaddon about one of the king’s bouts of depression, ca. 670 BCE [1154×2030]April 16, 2025
