The Diolkos was a 6-to-8.5-kilometre-long paved trackway near Corinth in Ancient Greece which enabled boats to be moved overland across the Isthmus of Corinth. The shortcut allowed ancient vessels to avoid the long and dangerous circumnavigation of the Peloponnese peninsula [1100×2163]September 24, 2024
An attic white ground lekythos depicting an Athenian woman sitting on a couch, bidding farewell to a young warrior who is standing in front of her. Made by the Achilles Painter, mid-5th century BCE, now housed at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens [1161×800]September 24, 2024
The Celtic hill fort of Otzenhausen is one of the biggest fortifications the Celts ever constructed. Built by Gauls of the Treveri tribe on top of the Dollberg in Germany, the only visible remains are 2 circular earth ramparts, covered with stones. 5th-1st century BCE [1120×1575]September 24, 2024
The Gandersheim Casket, an Eighth-Century Anglo-Saxon Whalebone Chrismatory [1660×1213]September 24, 2024
An Attic black-figure plate (520-500 BC) from the Etruscan city of Vulci in central Italy. The figure is an archer blowing the trumpet typically used in battles. British Museum [825×825]September 24, 2024
Wooden ritual dish depicting the spirit of an ancestor. Circa early 1800s, Fiji. [3000 x 4000]September 24, 2024
Ancient Roman Public Latrine with Dolphin Decoration in the Ruins of Timgad, Algeria [630 x 696]September 24, 2024
200-year-old message in a bottle left by archaeologist discovered in France [549 x 309]September 24, 2024
A silver hemidrachm from the ancient Greek city of Pantikapaion in Crimea, Ukraine, depicting on the obverse the head of a bearded satyr wearing an ivy wreath, and on the reverse a lion attacking a stag. Circa 370-355 BCE [980×1900]September 24, 2024
Silver denarius of the Roman senator L. Plautius Plancus (died in 43 BCE), depicting on the obverse the head of Medusa facing with dishevelled hair, and on the reverse Victory facing, holding palm branch in left hand and leading four horses [797×1478]September 24, 2024
A golden solidus from Constantinople, depicting on the reverse the emperor Constantine I, veiled and draped, standing in quadriga; the Hand of God reaching down to him. Circa 337-340 CE [796×1586]September 24, 2024
