Bowl from Sāmarrā, Iraq, circa 5000 BCE. I assume this is a photo of a […]
The valley’s rice paddies are scattered with mysterious ancient megaliths. Locals call this one “Palindo”—”the ..
Scythian art, from the Republic of Adygea, Russia. Photo taken at Hungarian National Museum by […]
The Heaven’s Gate, Tianmen Mountain. Slightly edited from a photo uploaded by Mohammad Shoaib via […]
Manydjarri Ganambarr in Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia at Harvard’s ..
Gerzeh palette (‘Hathor’, Cow-head palette). © Alain Guilleux. Cairo Mus. 34173 Gerzeh tomb ..
“Circe Invidiosa” by John William Waterhouse, 1892. Oil on canvas 180.7 × 87.4 cm (71.1 ..
“The Face in the Abyss” by Virgil Finlay, 1940. Wiki says: Virgil Finlay (July 23, […]
“The Last Judgement” by Hans Memling, between circa 1466 and circa 1473. Distemper, oil on […]
Selknam, Hain Ceremony, Tierra Del Fuego By Martin Gusinde, 1923 Body painting for the Hain […]
Funerary mask, 1000 B.C.–A.D. 100. Made in: Eastern Cordillera, Colombia. Ceramic. h. 21.0 cm., w. […]
The artefacts are on the National Museum in Belgrade. The text on their website reads: […]
Guishan Guanyin of the Thousand Hands and Eyes in Changsha, China. CC BY-SA by Alexandre […]
Winnemucca Lake petroglyphs. Credit: Benson, Larry V. and Hattori, E.M. and Southon, J. and Aleck, […]
Tumbaga Object. 0 – 550 d.C. El Dragón, Calarcá, Quindío 23,4 x 25,7 cm. © […]
Transcript: By combining computer modelling and radiocarbon dating, his team have been able to reconstruct ..
Gold pectoral, 0 – 550 A.D., Tolima, Colombia. 16 × 8.6 cm. © Museo del […]
Body Mask (Det), mid-20th century. Asmat people, Ambisu village, New Guinea, Papua (Irian Jaya) Province, ..
Patterned body anthropomorphic figures. All images are from the article: I’ll attach the most relevant ..
Symbol in a Sami shaman drum. While I don’t really know where this particular one […]
This relief appears over the internet constantly being referred as depicting Gilgamesh. Since it appears ..
Archangel Michael’s victory over the Devil, sculpture above the main entrance at St. Michaelis Church, ..
Shakōki-dogū (遮光器土偶) (1000–400 BCE), “goggle-eyed type” figurine from the late ..
Petroglyphs, Ometepe island, Nicaragua. CC-BY Poutine via Wikimedia Commons. Note the similarity with ..
The Sun-Holder, Found somewhere in Denmark. The Sun was worshipped in the danish Bronze-age. The […]
Dream Boats and Other Stories written and illustrated by Dugald Stewart Walker, 1920. Public Domain. ..
Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, oil on oak panels, 220 × 389 cm, […]
Another “celestial barge”, this one from the final scene of Excalibur (1981). © Orion Pictures ..
A 1493 woodcut by German physician and cartographer Hartmann Schedel, depicting the seventh day, or […]
Bearded man. Southern Egypt, Gebelein. Ca. 3800-3500 BCE. Medium: Black shale. Current location: Musée ..