The Gandersheim Casket, an Eighth-Century Anglo-Saxon Whalebone Chrismatory [1660×1213]September 24, 2024
An Attic black-figure plate (520-500 BC) from the Etruscan city of Vulci in central Italy. The figure is an archer blowing the trumpet typically used in battles. British Museum [825×825]September 24, 2024
Wooden ritual dish depicting the spirit of an ancestor. Circa early 1800s, Fiji. [3000 x 4000]September 24, 2024
Ancient Roman Public Latrine with Dolphin Decoration in the Ruins of Timgad, Algeria [630 x 696]September 24, 2024
200-year-old message in a bottle left by archaeologist discovered in France [549 x 309]September 24, 2024
A silver hemidrachm from the ancient Greek city of Pantikapaion in Crimea, Ukraine, depicting on the obverse the head of a bearded satyr wearing an ivy wreath, and on the reverse a lion attacking a stag. Circa 370-355 BCE [980×1900]September 24, 2024
Silver denarius of the Roman senator L. Plautius Plancus (died in 43 BCE), depicting on the obverse the head of Medusa facing with dishevelled hair, and on the reverse Victory facing, holding palm branch in left hand and leading four horses [797×1478]September 24, 2024
A golden solidus from Constantinople, depicting on the reverse the emperor Constantine I, veiled and draped, standing in quadriga; the Hand of God reaching down to him. Circa 337-340 CE [796×1586]September 24, 2024
3 ancient silver tetradrachms from the Greek island of Rhodes, depicting the head of Helios on the obverse, and a rose with bud on the reverse. Circa 404-385 BCE [800×1352]September 24, 2024
“The Three Dead”, a miniature illuminated illustration from a pocket-sized Bible, Medieval England, circa 1290-1300. [1146 x 1799].September 24, 2024
A protective amulet of a lioness goddess (probably Sehkmet) made from faience. Third Intermediate Period, Egypt, 1070–664 B.C. [2978 x 3722]September 24, 2024