Petrified Roman bread from 79 CE. On the bread, there is an inscription: owned by Celer, slave of Q. Granius Verus. The find comes from Herculaneum (near Pompeii) and dates back to the 1st century CE. What is worth emphasizing, the basic ingredient of Roman’s dinner was bread. [1200×885]September 29, 2024
Dangling bronze ornaments for a horse. Japan, Kofun period, 6th century AD [1540×1330]September 29, 2024
[736×930] The Temple of Dendur, on the banks of the Nile River in Egypt around 1870, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2023.September 28, 2024
An ancient silver coin from Populonia in Etruria, Italy, depicting a crested Corinthian helmet. Late 5th-4th centuries BCE [1242×1231]September 28, 2024
Silver stater of Aegina, from Greece, depicting a tortoise on the obverse. 480-457 BCE [671×1559]September 28, 2024
Silver tetradrachm of Eumenes I, the ruler of the city of Pergamon, depicting the head of Philetaerus (the founder of the Attalid dynasty) on the obverse and seated Athena, Greek goddess of war and wisdom, on the reverse. 263-241 BCE [702×1389]September 28, 2024
Marble sculpture of a Moufflon (a wild goat). Indus Valley civilization, circa 2600–1900 BCE, Pakistan. [4000 x 3024]September 28, 2024
Plaque with a tiger made from soapstone, greenstone, and goldfoil. Oxus Civilization, circa late 3rd–early 2nd millennium BCE, Eastern Iran. [1200 x 822]September 28, 2024
The Stockholm Codex Aureus, an Eighth-Century Anglo-Saxon Manuscript. The handwriting, added later during the Viking Age, reads “I, Ealdorman Alfred and Wærburh my wife obtained these books from the heathen army…. for the love of God and for the benefit of our souls.” [1977 x 2411]September 28, 2024
