Spoked-wheel amulet found at Mehrgarh, Pakistan. It was created using the lost-wax technique and was dated to around 6000 BCE [1200×1196]February 12, 2025
Day dress and capelet. United States, 1860s. Silk taffeta. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston collection [3060×4080] [OC]February 12, 2025
The Coat worn by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Yalta Conference in February 1945 (3024×4032)February 12, 2025
The bronze tip of a cult staff used in ritual ceremonies. 6th-5th century BCE, now housed at the State Historical Museum in Moscow [1271×2134]February 12, 2025
This 16th-century statue of Saint Bartholomew, a Christian martyr allegedly skinned alive, depicts him holding not a robe, but his own skin. [2331×4944]February 12, 2025
The Royal Armoury in Stockholm, Sweden, contains a horse harness embroidered with gold, made in the 1670s for the marriage of Charles XI and Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark [1336×1000]February 12, 2025
A 6th century CE dress made of linen and silk. Now housed at the Ambras Castle in Innsbruck, Austria [1080×1824]February 12, 2025
A sardonyx jug made in Paris around 1630/1640 CE. Now housed at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna [1080×2400]February 12, 2025
The Styrian Armoury in Graz is the world’s largest historic armoury, holding 32,000 pieces of weaponry, tools and suits of armor. Built between 1642-1645, the armoury stood on the front lines for Austria’s battles with the Ottoman Empire and Hungarian rebels for the next few centuries [2362×4744]February 12, 2025
A lorica segmentata discovered in 2018 in Kalkriese, Germany, at the site of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, where 3 legions were wiped out by Germanic tribesmen in 9 CE. Between 16,000 and 20,000 Romans were killed, and the survivors were sacrificed to the gods or enslaved [1500×3701]February 12, 2025
Bone fragment from Skara Brae(3200-2800BC Orkney). Inscribed with mysterious symbols. [169×871]February 12, 2025
