Warsaw Fotoplastikon, a stereoscopic theatre based on the Kaiserpanorama system of rotating stereoscopic images located in Hoser Tenement House in Warsaw, Poland. Constructed c.1901. [1920×1545]March 31, 2025
Enameled porcelain chess piece in the form of a farm worker with a sickle and wheat sheaf, Russian, 1922. [1662×1524]March 30, 2025
Thought to belong to Assyrian kings and surviving to the present day, the king’s tombs, located on the shores of the Dicle Dam Lake in Eğil, Turkey, were carved into the main rock and shaped like cupolae [1280×1583]March 30, 2025
The skeleton of a kneeling warrior in a sacrificial pit next to the palace foundation of Yinxu, a Chinese archeological site corresponding to Yin which served as the capital during the Late Shang period (1250-1046 BCE). China [1080×1439]March 30, 2025
An embroidered mythological figure, Paracas Necropolis Style. 800-100 BCE, now housed at the Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú [981×1433]March 30, 2025
The granite core (UC16036) or CORE 7, was found by the archaeologist Petrie in Giza, Egypt, and was made by the ancient Egyptians using a tubular drill. 4th Dynasty (2613–2494 BCE), now housed at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology in London [1200×1839]March 30, 2025
Gallagh Man was discovered in a bog in County Galway, Ireland, in 1821. The remnants of the rope used to strangle him over 2000 years ago were still around his neck. [OC] [3024×4032]March 30, 2025
N.Machiavelli’s work notes(transcribed from the autograph by his grandson) discovered by chance in 2020. His work involved providing the government with intel reports, so he would take notes of major political events as they happened but this is the only extant piece of his draft notes[568×477]March 30, 2025
Terracotta piggy bank. Java, Majapahit dynasty, 14th-15th c. Cleveland Museum of Art collection [5312×3919]March 30, 2025
4200 year old Swastika from Early Bronze Age Cyprus drawn on a “tulip bowl” [6801×4662]March 30, 2025
Paintings from the Horse Period (2000-50 BCE) in Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria, showing two women with long flowing dresses and young warriors in short skirts.These figures originally would have had white ‘stick’ heads which have now disappeared [3220×6079]March 30, 2025
A 1 meter high pagoda, unearthed from the Chaoyang North Tower in China, and made of tens of thousands of crystal beads strung together. The pagoda is also inlaid with gold, silver, agate, amber, coral, pearls, glass, jade, shells and other materials. Liao Dynasty (916-1125 CE) [887×1365]March 30, 2025
