Indonesia showcases returned artifacts it had sought for decades from Netherlands. The collection is part of more than 800 historical artifacts that were returned under a Repatriation agreement signed in 2022. [1024×682]February 10, 2025
The Battersea Shield, a late Iron Age (2200+ years old) Celtic shield discovered in the River Thames during the construction of Chelsea Bridge in Victorian times. [728 x 1000]February 10, 2025
Terracotta seal showing a ship. 1st century BCE, Chandraketugarh – State Archaeological Museum- Kolkata, India.[3452×3452]February 10, 2025
An Ivory wheel from Sungir, Russia, possibly originally mounted on a spear. It may have had feathers or other decorations attached using the beautifully carved holes in the disk. 30,500-30,000 BCE [1010×960]February 10, 2025
The “Circus Horse” is a 15,000-year-old charcoal painting of a horse found at the Cave of Le Portel in France [970×1600]February 10, 2025
Two well-preserved and major relics from the Achaemenid Empire, a column and a mastiff statue, both related to the time of Darius the Great (522–486 BC) and are kept alongside each other at National Museum of Iran. [1179×613]February 10, 2025
The Sudarium of Saint Veronica is an engraving made by the French artist Claude Mellan in 1649 CE, created from a single spiralling unbroken line that starts at the tip of Jesus’s nose. Claude Mellan’s tour de force is one of the great achievements of printmaking [1966×1438]February 10, 2025
