Close up of the Flora Farnese – National Archeological Museum of Naples, II century A.D. [682x637]

Recently discovered nose ornament made of human bone, Palenque. INAH archeologists excavated the complex built by king Pakal the Great. Made with a human distal tibia, engraved with a scene of communication with deities and ancestors. July 27, 615 - August 26, 683 A.D.[1000x810].

Loaves of bread from the Great Tomb (approximately 2400 BCE), 5th Dynasty Egypt [800×595]

Little jade cup. China, Song-Ming dynasties 960-1644 AD [1750x1950]

Portable shrine with tantric deities. Tibet, around 1500 [4000x5300]

A 16th century German 'oath skull' (a human skull on which defendants swore their oath in Vehmic courts) engraved with the 'magical' Roman 'Sator square', mysterious palindromic word-squares found across the Roman world, comprising the words SATOR, AREPO, TENET, OPERA, ROTAS [1185x913]

A head of a man made of lumachella orientale marble filled with fossilised shells. The main ancient quarries for lumachella orientale are located near Thuburbo Majus in modern day Tunisia. Greek or Roman, late Hellenistic or early Imperial, 1st century BCE-1st century CE [2583x3672]

Detail of a lararium (small shrine for the household gods) from the House of the Wooden Shrine in Herculaneum, Italy,1st century CE [2864x2811]

Vespasiano I Gonzaga's pendant recognising his membership of the Chivalrous Order of the Golden Fleece (1585, Sabbioneta) [4160 x 6240]

Ancient Baoli at Brahmani. Maharashtra, India. Possibly 10th-12th cent. CE. [1635x1963]

The ruins of the Castro of Santa Trega [or Santa Tecla]. A Galician [Castro-Roman] fort during the Romanization period, but with main elements of the Castro culture; with characteristic circular dwellings. A Guarda, Galicia, NW Spain, mainly 1st c. BCE - 1st c. CE [1600 x 900]