Researchers from Japan’s Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties have uncovered a 1,300-year-old wooden tablet that appears to be part of Japan’s oldest known multiplication table. [1166×1194]September 25, 2024
Guide for character posing in perspective for artists from “Unterweisung der Proportion und Stellung der Possen”, Nürnberg, 1538, by Erhard Schön [2400×1552]September 25, 2024
The largest known worked blocks of stone were found near Baalbek (in Lebanon). It is about the so-called trilitons, i.e. three boulders from the vicinity of the sanctuary from the period of Roman rule in this area. [1200×900]September 25, 2024
Block from a limestone frieze carved in high relief of Leda and the Swan, made from 400-500 AD, probably from a woman’s tomb at Oxyrhynchus, Egypt. It is now located in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, United Kingdom. (4032×3024) [OC]September 25, 2024
An archaic grave marker of a young Greek, which was made in the middle of the 6th century BCE. The original height of the grave monument is assumed to have been around 4.5 m. Now housed at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens [1932×4222]September 24, 2024
The Diolkos was a 6-to-8.5-kilometre-long paved trackway near Corinth in Ancient Greece which enabled boats to be moved overland across the Isthmus of Corinth. The shortcut allowed ancient vessels to avoid the long and dangerous circumnavigation of the Peloponnese peninsula [1100×2163]September 24, 2024
An attic white ground lekythos depicting an Athenian woman sitting on a couch, bidding farewell to a young warrior who is standing in front of her. Made by the Achilles Painter, mid-5th century BCE, now housed at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens [1161×800]September 24, 2024
The Celtic hill fort of Otzenhausen is one of the biggest fortifications the Celts ever constructed. Built by Gauls of the Treveri tribe on top of the Dollberg in Germany, the only visible remains are 2 circular earth ramparts, covered with stones. 5th-1st century BCE [1120×1575]September 24, 2024
