A flintlock rifle with a twisted barrel and heart shaped bore from 1765, formerly owned by George IV, now part of the Royal Collection Trust [2000×1612]March 1, 2026
A burial mound at Marathon, Greece, containing the ashes of 192 Athenians who fell during the Battle of Marathon in 490 BCE [984×1182]March 1, 2026
A Fisk iron coffin containing the body of a woman, named Sophia Catherine Nance, with a glass oval revealing her face. The woman died on January 1853 aged 28, and the coffin was found lying underneath the floorboards of Washington Street United Methodist Church in South Carolina [901×800]March 1, 2026
An 18th century CE ivory dildo complete with contrivance for simulating ejaculation and its own discreet cloth bag. The didlo was hidden in the seat of a Louis XV armchair found in a convent near Paris. Now housed at the Science Museum in London [720×1203]March 1, 2026
Porcelain pen box and cover with underglaze blue decoration and stylized Arabic calligraphy. Made in Jingdezhen, China, 1506-1521. [2500 x 1842]March 1, 2026
Executioner’s sword with inscription that reads “When I raise this sword, so I wish that this poor sinner will receive eternal life”, Germany, late 17th century [1200×900]March 1, 2026
Knickknack peddler approaching woman and children. China, Yuan or Ming dynasty, 13th-15th c, artist unidentified. Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on silk. Metropolitan Museum of Art collection [3849×3737] [zoom in]March 1, 2026
The “Cape of Charlemagne” is a large red silk cloak woven with gold on silver threads and adorned with 4 eagles, griffons and roses. The cope was probably made in 1204 CE, and was in fact the coronation mantle of Frederick II, King of Sicily and Holy Roman Emperor [1600×3077]March 1, 2026
The Coyote Man of Tacámbaro is a life-size basalt sculpture found in the state of Michoacán, Mexico. Purépecha Empire (c. 1300–1530 CE) [1379×2883]March 1, 2026
A gold, carnelian, lapis lazuli and feldspar bracelet of the High Priest of Amun, Pinedjem II, found on his mummy in the Royal Cache at Thebes, Egypt. 990-969 BCE, now housed at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo [1631×2447]March 1, 2026
A jade cat, Song to Ming Dynasty (960-1644 CE), now housed at the National Palace Museum in Taiwan [1710×2122]March 1, 2026
Corinthian Helmet — Bronze helmet found in Olympia, 23 cm high, dated to the 6th century BC, in the Greek antiquities collection of the Louvre Museum since 1832. (1280×704)March 1, 2026
