Mask. Malagana culture, Calima valley, Colombia, ca. 200 BC – 300 AD. Gold-copper alloy (tumbaga). Museum of Fine Arts, Houston collection [4000×3000] [OC]March 2, 2025
Stone guard outside the tomb of Emperor Jingzong. Shaanxi, China, Tang dynasty, around 827 AD [1500×1300]March 2, 2025
Roman fresco showing a tragic mask. Object discovered in Pompeii and dated to the 1st century BCE. The artifact is located in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. [1200×1212]March 2, 2025
Photo taken around 1988 at Shapur Cave in the Zagros Mountains of southern Iran, showing Persian soldiers armed with G3 battle rifles posing in front of the colossal and ancient statue of Shapur I, the Persian king who ruled the Sasanian Empire from 239 to 270 AD. [1080×1079]March 1, 2025
A Marble Torso of an Emperor, Roman Imperial, Julio-Claudian, 1st half of the 1st Century A.D. [620×720]March 1, 2025
A gilt-bronze-mounted ivory, polychrome stained horn and mother-of-pearl inlaid tortoiseshell and brass contre-partie boulle marquetry and ebony commode circa 1710 [944×660]March 1, 2025
A German parcel-gilt silver and enamelled cup and cover, Caspar Widman, Nuremberg, 1559 [435×582]March 1, 2025
