Katsukawa Shun’ei (1762 -1819), The Sumo Wrestlers Kajihama and Jinmaku, 1790, color woodblock print, Tokyo National Museum.[1163×1702]February 17, 2026
The Stele of Tabi is a Maya sculpture depicting two hunters carrying a bound deer. Classic Period (c. 250–900 CE), now housed at the Palacio Cantón Museum in Mexico [1332×3495]February 17, 2026
A piece of Napoleon’s coffin, which ended up in the possession of the novelist Charlotte Brontë, gifted to her from her Belgian tutor, Constantin Hégerfell [1200×900]February 17, 2026
2 of the 30 International Meter Prototypes made for countries which signed the 1875 Meter convention. These were literally the definition of a meter. If they changed the meter changed. A few survive in national vaults, not all are accounted for. [4232×2781]February 17, 2026
Photographs taken in 1868 of Phineas Gage’s skull and the tamping rod that was blasted through his head, twelve years before his death [1284X2218].February 17, 2026
The Tabi Stele is a Maya sculpture depicting two hunters carrying a bound deer. Classic Period (c. 250–900 CE), now housed at the Palacio Cantón Museum in Mexico [1332×3495]February 17, 2026
Black pigment layer found on the teeth of an ancient skull from Dong Xa, suggests that cosmetic tooth blackening dates back 2,000 years in Vietnam [1280×3096]February 17, 2026
Bust of a horse. Villanovan [i.e. early or proto-Etruscan] culture, Italy, 8th c BC. Terracotta. Cleveland Museum of Art collection [3882×4202]February 17, 2026
This gold head of the falcon god Horus, lord of the sun and patron deity of kingship, was discovered beneath the floor of the main chamber of his temple in Hierakonpolis, Egypt. The eyes are inlaid with obsidian. Old Kingdom, ca. 2345-2181 BCE, now housed at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo [514×954]February 17, 2026
A illumination from Ms. Bodley 264, depicting a monk and his cat reading together. The 14th century CE manuscript was produced in Tournai, Belgium, and is now housed at the Bodleian Library in Oxford [450×450]February 17, 2026
Glazed ceramic statue of a Ferghana horse. China, Tang dynasty, 618–907 AD [2960×2960]February 17, 2026
