Drawings of horse armor from the Wujing Zongyao, a book of military devices. China, Song dynasty, 1044 AD [2040×1152]August 29, 2024
Gold ring with portraits of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus and his wife Julia Domna. Brahmi inscription, made in the Kushan Empire (modern Afghanistan/Pakistan, 3rd century AD) [746×459]August 29, 2024
Off the coast of Sicily, location of the ancient clash between Rome and Carthage, continue to yield their secrets. In the latest archaeological campaign conducted in August, a team of deep-sea explorers has recovered a bronze battering ram from the seabed, of Battle of the Aegates [1200×630]August 28, 2024
The Princess Puppet, from “Prinzessin und Wassermann,” Richard Teschner, 1913 [600 x 903]August 28, 2024
The Médulas is an outstanding Spanish landscape complex that came to be as a result of Roman gold mining works. The Romans mined the gold-rich soil with tunnels and shifts. Water was conducted through the tunnels acting as an explosive, resulting in the collapsing of the mountain [1280×2527]August 28, 2024
Lapedo child is a 24,500-year-old prehistorical skeleton found in Portugal, believed to be a hybrid that had a Neanderthal parent and an anatomically modern human parent. The 4-year-old child was buried with pierced shell, a young dead rabbit, the pelvises of 2 red deer and red ochre [1600×3050]August 28, 2024
Venice was built on a foundation of about 10,000,000 underwater wooden logs, 1200 years later, those same trunks still support almost all of central Venice. Before starting to build the palazzi that line the canals, the Venetians drove wooden piles into the ground to make it more solid [1024×1419]August 28, 2024
The Stoibadeion is a temple to Dionysus located on the Greek island of Delos. It contains two pillars, one on each side of the platform of the temple, each once supported a huge phallus, as a symbol of Dionysos. Ca. 300 BCE [5000×3611]August 28, 2024
The Utrecht Psalter — a Carolingian illuminated manuscript which improvised its frenetic illustrations based on the exact text of each psalm. Pictured is Psalm 81. 800s AD. [1081×752]August 28, 2024
Roman mosaic depicting a swastika, located in the remains of the imperial palace in the Gamzigrad – Felix Romuliana complex, around Zaječar in eastern Serbia. The object dates to the 3rd-4th century CE. [1200×870]August 28, 2024
