Roman fresco from Herculaneum. The original yellow color, under the influence of high temperature caused by the Vesuvius eruption in 79 CE, changed its color to red-orange. [800×533]September 24, 2024
A wooden tablet propped underground on a stalagmite in a cave on the Indian Ocean island of Socotra. Dated July 258 A.D, the text asks for blessings in ancient Palmyrene and politely requests that future visitors leave the tablet undisturbed. Photographed in situ in the 21st century [855×1051]September 24, 2024
Censer stand with the head of a supernatural being with a Kan cross. Mexico, Maya civilization, 690-720 AD [1700×2070]September 24, 2024
The Stele of Aristion dates from around 510 BCE. It was created by sculptor Aristokles out of Pentelic marble and shows traces of polychrome. The 2.02 m high funerary stele was found at Velanideza near Marathon, and is now housed at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens [1017×3475]September 24, 2024
A gold figurine of a wild boar found in the Khomyna Mohyla kurgan. 4th century BCE, Treasury of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine [2480×1686]September 24, 2024
The Aphrodite Sosandra is a Greek sculpture from 460 BC, made by the sculptor Calamis in bronze. Very famous in antiquity, it is known today only from marble copies from the Roman period, the one in the picture is at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, dated to the 2nd cent. CE [933×1968]September 23, 2024
The bronze lid of an Etruscan cinerary urn depicting a reclining youth. From Italy, mid-4th century BCE, now housed at the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia [1731×1200]September 23, 2024
The 4000-year-old skeletons of a mother who was trying to shield her child from a massive earthquake that struck China in 2000 BC, and triggered massive floods, in an event that is sometimes referred to as ‘China’s Pompeii’.Lajia Ruins Museum, China.[917×738]September 23, 2024
The only surviving example of Arian art – St John baptizing Jesus in the Jordan river; Arian Baptistery. Built during the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Theodoric. [4533×3400]September 23, 2024
A Dogū figurine excavated from the Ebisuda site, Japan. Jōmon period, circa 1000–400 BC. [1200×1701]September 23, 2024
