Multiplication table sampler by Margaret Logan Laight, American, 1799. Silk embroidery on wool foundation. [3000×2718]October 17, 2024
Manteño Stone Seat circa 500–1500 AD. Cerro Jaboncillo, Manabí Province, Ecuador – Galeria Contici [1000×1113]October 16, 2024
A reconstruction of the ancient city of Huaca Rajada, also known as Sipán, in northern Peru as it may have appeared in its heyday, compared to its remaining ruins today. The city of Sipán is dated from 50–700 CE, the same time as the Moche Period [1418×1772]October 16, 2024
The 875 m long Vespasianus Titus Tunnel is a Roman 2,000-year-old engineering marvel, a massive tunnel dug through a mountain using manpower only, built to divert the floodwaters threatening the harbor near the ancient city of Seleuceia Pieria in what is now Turkey [1440×1796]October 16, 2024
Close-up of an Anthropomorphic Jar Burial Lid, Maitum, Mindanao, Philippines, ca. 190 BC – 500 AD. Used as an ossuary for secondary burial (640 x 933)October 16, 2024
“Table with a Mosaic Top” from the Peterhof Imperial Lapidary Works, Imperial Russia, Early 19th century. Material: jasper, “сonjoint stone” (grey granite with quartz), porphyry, quartz, аmazonite, pegmatite, jasper-agate, serpentine, flint (quartz and chalcedony), mahogany, bronze [3591×3120]October 16, 2024
Joseph Apoux’s *Alphabet Érotique* (circa 1880) is a series of lithographs featuring erotic imagery corresponding to each letter of the alphabet. The link to the rest of the letters can be found in the comments, it’s very NSFW though. (1547×1697)October 16, 2024
