Chess pieces carved from walrus ivory. Franz Josef Land, Eskimo peoples, around 1885 [1800×980] by MunakataSennin
September 21, 2024In 2015, an 80-meter-long belyana that caught fire some 350 years ago and was abandoned by its crew, was found in the Vetluga river in Russia. Belyanas were among the largest wooden ships ever built, with the largest ones being up to 120 metres long with a load capacity up to 12,800 tons [1100×1470]
September 21, 2024Bronze busts from the Villa of the Papyri, depicting clockwise from top left: Dionysus or Plato, Pythagoras, Ptolemy Apion and Hesiod or Aristophanes. The Villa was considered to be one of the most luxurious houses in all of Herculaneum and in the Roman world [5030×7795]
MunakataSennin on September 21, 2024 1:38 am [Museum](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/199921)
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You don’t say Eskimo anymore.