A well preserved 2200-year-old four layered silk coffin cover, unearthed in 2007 from tomb No. 1 in Xiejiaqiao in Hubei, China. Western Han Dynasty [1024×1313]March 26, 2025
An ancient cave painting from northern Australia, made between 20,000-25,000 years ago. The painting depicts 8 roosting fruit bats, also called flying foxes. They have features that do not match any Australian bats alive today, suggesting the art depicts a species that is now extinct [536×862]March 26, 2025
Photographs taken in 1891 of the west and east sides of the Altar T in Copán, Honduras, and wich commemorates the end of the first k’atun (a unit of time in the Maya calendar equal to 7200 days) after the accession to the throne of Yax Pasaj Chan Yoaat in 783 CE [3084×1920]March 26, 2025
Galtaji Temple, built 1726 by Diwan Rao Kriparam, a courtier of Sawai Jai Singh II, the ruler of Amber. The site consists of a series of temples built into a narrow crevice in the ring of hills that surrounds Jaipur, India.[1080×1350]March 26, 2025
Roman marble bust of a lovely 16-year-old girl named Minatia Polla. The object is dated around 40 CE. Located in the Baths of Diocletian, Rome. [700×920]March 26, 2025
The Vore Buffalo Jump, in Wyoming, is a sinkhole that was used between 1500-1800 CE by Native American hunters, and which was deep enough to cause the crippling or death of bison which were stampeded into it. The site is estimated to contain the remains of 20,000 buffalo [2128×1582]March 25, 2025
A cloak with colored, interlocking step triangles and embroidery ribbons. Canvas decorated with embroidery in dyed camelid wool. Initial Nasca period, 200 BCE–50 CE, now housed at the Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú [700×804]March 25, 2025
Anantashayana Vishnu is a large open air horizontal rock relief of the Hindu god Vishnu, carved during the early 9th century CE in Saranga village, India. It is the largest such exposed rock cut structure in the horizontal position in India, measuring 15.4 metres (51 ft) in length [1080×1080]March 25, 2025
Ships on a stormy sea, painted over a fragmentary portrait of a young man (c. 1655-1660 CE for the portrait, c. 1685-1690 CE for the seascape). The portrait is attributed to Isaak Luttichuys, while the seascape is attributed to Ludolf Backhuysen [1949×1530]March 25, 2025
