Pendant of an ancestor within a fish. Reportedly found at Jaina Island, Campeche, Mexico; Maya civilization, 8th c AD. Spondylus shell with traces of red pigment. Yale University Art Gallery collection [8160×6120] [OC]March 14, 2026
Woodblock prints of the First Sino-Japanese War, made in 1894 CE by the Japanese artist Kobayashi Kiyochika, who employed a sense of light and shade called kōsen-ga inspired by Western art techniques [2669×1313]March 14, 2026
An Ancestral Puebloan shoe–socks, made of cotton, animal hair and yucca. Ca. 1100–1300 CE, now housed at the Arizona State Museum [2588×3293]March 14, 2026
A plaque of a princess eating a roasted duck, Amarna Period, reign of Akhenaten, ca. 1353-1336 BCE. Now housed at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo [937×1000]March 14, 2026
A floral still-life relief, carved in 1784 CE by the French sculptor Aubert Henri Joseph Parent from a single piece of soft lime wood. Now housed at the Metropolitan Museum [2690×3627]March 14, 2026
Health Inspection Card of prostitute Guadalupe Campos, age 21 in 1912. Registry of Prostitutes, Archivo Histórico de Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico.[1048×802]March 14, 2026
Memento Mori carved from ivory, hung from a rosary. Crafted in the 16th century. [500×586]March 14, 2026
Purser’s hull keys from the SS Central America, also known as the Ship Of Gold. She sank in a hurricane off the coast of South Carolina in 1857 [432×293]March 13, 2026
Death mask of Robert Smith, a young labourer from Eaglesfield. Smith was hanged at Dumfries on the 12th of May, 1868 for the murder of eleven year old Thomsina Scott. This was the last public execution to take place in Scotland. Dumfries Museum and Camera Obscura, Scotland[1045×1550]March 13, 2026
