“Pregnancy pain is overrated and nothing compared to getting hit in the balls”

Horseman, Pazyryk felt artefact (carpet detail), 5th or 4th century BC. From the Pazyryk burial mounds, a series of Iron Age kurgans in the Altai Mountains, Siberia. [418x360]

The bronze helmet of the murmillo – type gladiator. The object dates to the 2nd century CE. The artefact is located in the Neues Museum in Berlin. [480x600]

Gold armlet and earrings. Bukit Larangan, Singapore, Majapahit Empire, 14th century AD [1386x1001]

Tianjing Pavilion, built in the middle of Lake Shi. Suzhou, China, Ming dynasty, 1612 [1080x1340]

Bread stamp from Tell Atrib carrying a figure of Dionysos-Sabazius. Possibly from 1st-3rd century AD. [1154x952]

Limestone relief of dromedary camel rider. Decorative element from facade of 10th c BC palace of Kapara, ruler of neo-Hittite city state of Guzana (present-day Tell Halaf, Syria). Walters Art Museum [1202x1799]

Tláloc ceramic pot, offering from Templo Mayor, Mexico City; 1440-1467. [783x900].

The Crossing Sweeper by Seymour Joseph Guy American, ca. 1860 [1956 x 2923][OS]

Two more 10th century idols looted from Lokhari Village in Uttar Pradesh, India found in a garden in UK. Yogi Goumukhi and Chamunda (right). Will be returned to India.[1869×1776]

Bust statue of Gordian III, Roman, 242-44 CE [1125 x 1500]