‘Theotokos of Kursk, Found Among the Roots’. Kursk, Kievan Rus, c. 13th century. [1020×1200]September 25, 2024
Jar with chrysanthemums. Korea, Joseon dynasty, 15th c. Stoneware with stamped rope-curtain pattern and inlaid white slip (Buncheong ware). Yale University Art Gallery collection [2249×3000]September 25, 2024
113 burial jars found in Huanghua City, mostly containing children. Hebei, China, Han dynasty, 2nd-1st century BC [2730×3330]September 25, 2024
Researchers from Japan’s Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties have uncovered a 1,300-year-old wooden tablet that appears to be part of Japan’s oldest known multiplication table. [1166×1194]September 25, 2024
Guide for character posing in perspective for artists from “Unterweisung der Proportion und Stellung der Possen”, Nürnberg, 1538, by Erhard Schön [2400×1552]September 25, 2024
The largest known worked blocks of stone were found near Baalbek (in Lebanon). It is about the so-called trilitons, i.e. three boulders from the vicinity of the sanctuary from the period of Roman rule in this area. [1200×900]September 25, 2024
Block from a limestone frieze carved in high relief of Leda and the Swan, made from 400-500 AD, probably from a woman’s tomb at Oxyrhynchus, Egypt. It is now located in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, United Kingdom. (4032×3024) [OC]September 25, 2024
An archaic grave marker of a young Greek, which was made in the middle of the 6th century BCE. The original height of the grave monument is assumed to have been around 4.5 m. Now housed at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens [1932×4222]September 24, 2024
