A black and red cowhide boot worn by the Swedish King Karl XI (1655 - 1697), made around the year 1670, currently situated at Livrustkammaren in Stockholm - [2414 x 2953]

White-ground terracotta object, possibly bobbin or yo-yo, with painting attributed to the Penthesilea Painter, Attica, Greece, ca. 460-450 BC. One side: Nike offers band of victory to a youth [below]. Reverse: Eros and youth [above]. Profile view in comments. Metropolitan Museum [4000x6000] [OC]

Neolithic Sandals from Abunol, Spain, 5200 to 4800 BCE [800×425]

Statue of Hecate, 3rd century AD, Antalya Museum, Turkey. [3216x4288]

A green jasper Minoan seal with Cretan hieroglyphs, an undeciphered writing system used in early Bronze Age Crete during the Minoan era. 1800 BCE, now housed at the Heraklion Archaeological Museum in Greece [531x733]

Worn rock-hewn stairs dating back to the 11th century CE, leading to the Sperlinga Castle in Sicily, Italy [1080x1282]

A Fisk iron coffin containing the body of a woman, named Sophia Catherine Nance, with a glass oval revealing her face. The woman died on January 1853 aged 28, and the coffin was found lying underneath the floorboards of Washington Street United Methodist Church in South Carolina [901x800]

Roman Statue Showing A Baby And Lap Dog Raising The Paw To Get Food From The Slave Copying The Owner Doing it. [1060x1500]

Geometric compass designed by Galileo Galilei in 1597. It allowed to quickly perform more than forty different types of complex geometric and arithmetic operations: e.g. to calculate the ballistics of artillery fire, redraw a map on a different scale or carry out exchange operations [4000x3000]

Photo of the compass exhibited at the Castello Sforzesco Museum in Milan.

Terracotta model of a house. 1st century BCE. Found at Sonkh. Now on display at Government Museum, Mathura, India.[960×1280]

Side chair. American, 1660–1690 [2978 x 3722][OS]