The US has returned more than 1,000 Achaemenid tablets to Iran, the sixth such handover of its kind. Dating to the time of Darius the Great (522-486 BCE), a large portion of the ancient tablets were returned in three batches between 1948 and 2004, with over 3,500 were repatriated in 2023. [700×532]September 27, 2024
Bowl with chrysanthemum blossoms by Namikawa Sosuke (enameler). Japan, Meiji period, made for the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle. Silver, enamel. Walters Art Museum collection [4000×3000] [OC]September 27, 2024
“Beast (Cat Woman)” located at the State Hermitage Museum, Russian Federation, 1999. Material: smoky quartz, opals, gold, silver [2256×2700]September 27, 2024
Somebody recently posted on the medieval, 3-way bridge at Crowland, Lincolnshire, England. The parish church at Crowland is also unusual and interesting as it was built inside the ruins of Crowland Abbey, demolished in the 1540s [760 × 1024]September 27, 2024
Roman tombstone of Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera, a soldier of Semitic origin, who was an archer and ensign in the 1st Sagittariorum cohort. [1200×1802]September 27, 2024
Koike Mound, in the forests near Kasaoka City. Japan, Kofun period, 6th century AD [4000×5230]September 27, 2024
‘Judea Capta’ sestertii of Vespasian, struck in 71 CE to celebrate the victory in the Jewish Revolt. The inscription on the reverse says: IVDEA CAPTA, “Judaea conquered” [1132×1092]September 26, 2024
A Colchian silver didrachm depicting a lying hermaphrodite lion on the obverse, and a kneeling figure with a bull’s head on the reverse. Georgia, 6th-5th century BCE [672×1393]September 26, 2024
