Last photo of Dom Pedro II in Brazil, hours after the Proclamation of the Republic on November 15, 1889. We do not know why Pedro did not resist the coup, the most accepted being that he was tired and did not want a civil war. [530×579]October 9, 2024
The silver bull of Delphi is the first large-scale statue made all from forged metal – a bull made of sheets of silver. The sixty silver leaves that were found crumbled and damaged in a depository of the Delphic Sanctuary [984×624]October 9, 2024
The Hallaton Helmet is a unique early Roman cavalry helmet discovered by the Hallaton Fieldwork Group and University of Leicester Archaeological Services in 2001 during an excavation of an Iron Age site. [1024×1024]October 9, 2024
Archaeologists at George Washington’s home in Virginia, Mount Vernon, have discovered two glass bottles filled with a cherry liquid buried beneath a brick floor laid in the 1770s [1024×684]October 9, 2024
Body armor and helmet from the Warring States period (ca. 300 B.C.E) Photo: Hubei Provincial Museum and Asian Art Museum. [683×1024]October 9, 2024
Korina Kilian of Leipzig Municipal Libraries holding the newly discovered music manuscript by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Photo: Sebastian Willnowc [1024×683]October 9, 2024
Enamelled Aftaba (Spouted Ewer), made of Silver, 17th Century CE, From Kashmir. On display at National Museum, New Delhi, India.[1493×1800]October 9, 2024
Ancient marble gravestone for a dog named Parthenope, shown on the memorial relaxing on a fine couch. The epitaph tells us that: ‘Here an owner has buried his playful dog, Parthenope, in gratitude for the happiness and mutual love that she brought him.’ 3rd century CE, Mytilene, Greece [2048×1365]October 9, 2024
Mummy of Yuya, a powerful ancient Egyptian courtier during the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt (circa 1390 BCE). Now housed at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo [587×755]October 9, 2024
The English word ‘paradise’ comes from the Proto-Iranian ‘parādaiĵah’ meaning “walled enclosure”. The 5.5 hectares Shazdeh Mahan Garden in Iran, looks like paradise compared to the surrounding desert. 1850-1873 CE [1559×2366]October 9, 2024
Fort Tolukko is a small fortification on the east coast of Ternate, Indonesia, that has been variously occupied by the Portuguese, the native Ternate Sultanate, the Dutch, the British and the Spanish. Built in 1522, it’s phallic shape is more likely a function of the immediate topography [1080×1604]October 9, 2024
