September 28, 2024Marble sculpture of a Moufflon (a wild goat). Indus Valley civilization, circa 2600–1900 BCE, Pakistan. [4000 x 3024]
September 28, 2024Plaque with a tiger made from soapstone, greenstone, and goldfoil. Oxus Civilization, circa late 3rd–early 2nd millennium BCE, Eastern Iran. [1200 x 822]
September 28, 2024The Stockholm Codex Aureus, an Eighth-Century Anglo-Saxon Manuscript. The handwriting, added later during the Viking Age, reads “I, Ealdorman Alfred and Wærburh my wife obtained these books from the heathen army…. for the love of God and for the benefit of our souls.” [1977 x 2411]
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[Source.](https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1936.352)