Crosses made for St Brigid’s day; Country Armagh, Ireland, early 20th century [2107×1643]February 2, 2025
Coin cabinet of Archduke Ferdinand II, made in Augsburg in ca. 1580 CE. Made of ebony, ivory, gilded bronze, rock crystal, pearls and glass. Now housed at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna [1080×1920]February 1, 2025
Bear bottles, made of salt-glazed stoneware. Ca. 1740–1750 CE, from Nottingham, England, now housed at the Metropolitan Museum in New York [3200×4724]February 1, 2025
A pietra dura table top from Rome. Made of hardstones, alabaster, and marble. Late 16th or early 17th century CE, now housed at the Metropolitan Museum [1924×3910]February 1, 2025
A mummy thought to be of a woman shaman, found with 3 layers of clothes and 2 leather cords surrounded her. Buried in 1728 CE at an estimated age of 19, she was found in the Grave of Kyys Ounouogha by a joint French-Russian team in Yakutia in northeastern Russia [1030×1575]February 1, 2025
The Lady of Elche, an ancient Iberian funerary urn dating to the 5th or 4th century B.C. [667×667]February 1, 2025
An emerald cameo of Goddess Minerva, set into a gold ring, with details in depth and profile. Rome, 1st century A.D. [3873×3099]February 1, 2025
Bronze face mask from a Roman parade helmet, late 1st century AD. Discovered at the fort of Trimontium along with two others in southern Scotland. [1123 x 670]February 1, 2025
Montefortino helmet still on its Samnite or Roman owner. Crecchio, Italy. 4th century BC (1078×972)February 1, 2025
A man from Thessaloniki found an statue of a woman wrapped up inside a black plastic bag next to a trash bin. He informed the local authorities, just to find out that the statue dates back to 323–31 BC, spannig from the death of Alexander the Great to the Roman conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt. [989×630]February 1, 2025
Greco-Roman ring depicting Hercules during one of his twelve deeds with a lion on his back and a club in his hand [3000×3000]February 1, 2025
4,000-year-old footprints near Pompeii show people fleeing Mount Vesuvius eruption thousands of years before the famous one in 79 CE [1280×960]February 1, 2025
