Iranian cups with cameo decoration; green glass layered onto glass mixed with Nacre (mother of pearl). 9th century CE [4163×2792]March 10, 2025
[2294 x 1290] Hello! I have a question. After scroll artifacts like these are found, how do the people who look over them know where each little piece goes?March 10, 2025
Ceramic bottle in the form of a seated elderly man. Cupisnique style, North coast, Peru. Undated, but this corresponds to ca. 1500-500 BC. American Museum of Natural History collection [2252×4000]March 10, 2025
Sarcophagus cover for a young woman. The unusually exposed breasts evoke sexuality in the service of rebirth and allude to the form of the goddess Hathor, with whom the female deceased was associated in this period. 305 BCE, Manchester Museum [1589×2048]March 10, 2025
Ptolemaic hairnet with a central medallion repoussé bust of Aphrodite with Eros clinging to the drapery on her left shoulder. The Ptolemaic queens often presented themselves as descendants of Aphrodite, 225-175 BC, Getty Museum [1639×2048]March 10, 2025
Mummy portrait of a man with Hadrian style hair, 117-138 CE, Hawara, Manchester Museum [1365×2048]March 10, 2025
Shabtis were used by the Egyptians between c.1900 and 100 BC. They were figurines placed in tombs to represent the deceased, and were believed to ‘stand in’ for them should they be called to work in the afterlife. Manchester Museum [1280×1280]March 10, 2025
The National Museum of Iran inaugurates its Parthian Hall with some of the most important artifacts from the Parthian Empire (247 BC–224 AD), including the Shami statue, which is considered the main surviving work of Parthian art. [2413×814]March 10, 2025
Sher-Dor Madrasa (1619-36), Samarkand. The photo has been taken by the Russian pioneer of colored photo Sergey Prokudin-Gorski in the beginning of the XX century. [1000×917]March 10, 2025
Terracotta figure of Egyptian god Bes dressed as a Roman soldier, Ptolemaic Period (Egypt) (332 – 30 BC), h 8 in (21 cm), Ashmolean Museum [437×600]March 10, 2025
Soviet ration cards for bread given to the Poles deported to Siberia, USSR, 1943. From the collection of Historical Commission of the Association of Sybiraks in Kraków. [745×653]March 10, 2025
The jeweled body of “St. Felix,” Gars am Inn, Germany. One of the catacomb saints of the 16th-17th century [407×611]March 10, 2025
