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Archaeology & Art posts on X about metropolitan museum of art, hermitage museum, london, st petersburg the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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"Perfume bottle; Culture: Sarmatian; Place of origin: Black Sea region; Date: 2nd century BC; Medium: gold with garnet cabochons; Collection: The State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-08-19T18:00Z 721.3K followers, 29.4K engagements
"Hare (Usagi) okimono with poem. Artist: Otagaki Rengetsu (17911875) Japan 19th century (late Edoearly Meiji). Medium: ceramic figure with brushwritten waka; H. XX cm. Signed Rengetsu. Photo courtesy Giuseppe Piwa Japanese Art"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-08T18:00Z 721.3K followers, 49.4K engagements
"Sphinx (Velika Sfinga) for the Temple of Kosovo (Vidovdan Temple) project. Artist: Ivan Metrovi. Date: 1909 AD. Exhibited in Rome in 1911. Medium: plaster. Collection: National Museum of Serbia Belgrade"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-14T22:30Z 721.3K followers, 33.8K engagements
"Death on the Lion. Locality: Middle Franconia Germany. Date: 1513 AD. Medium: limewood (linden) and iron with traces of paint; H. XXXXX cm. Collection: Bavarian National Museum Munich"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-09-27T19:41Z 721.3K followers, 69.6K engagements
"AngloSaxon gold rings (8th10th c.) Collection: British Museum"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-09-24T18:00Z 721.3K followers, 47.7K engagements
"Gold ring with a wolfs tooth. England or France. Made c. 12001300 AD; the blackletter inscription was likely added c. 13751425 AD. Gold with a heartshaped bezel holding a wolfs tooth; the inner hoop carries the words BURO + BERTO + BERNETO + CONSUMMATUM EST. Collection: Victoria and Albert Museum London (M.8161902). At first glance it reads like a love token: a heart framed in gold. Look closer and the gem is a wolfs tooth and the inner bandvisible in the photographspells out two timeworn charms. One is the toothache spell Buro + Berto + Berneto; the other is Consummatum est (It is finished)"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-15T18:00Z 721.3K followers, 33.9K engagements
"Stirrup Spout Bottle with Phallic Figure. Culture: Moche culture Peru 3rd6th century AD. Medium: Ceramic with slip H. XXXX cm. Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-09-15T19:30Z 721.3K followers, 58.3K engagements
"Gregor Erhart Saint Mary Magdalene (known historically as La Belle Allemande) c. 15151520. Polychromed limewood (tilleul) made in Augsburg; now on display at the Muse du Louvre Paris. Seen from the reverse the figure advances with a subtle contrapposto while an extraordinary cascade of wavy hair falls to midcalf. That hair mantle is not a flourish; it is the saints garment. Late medieval legend cast Mary Magdalene as an ascetic hermit in Provence whose clothing wore away in solitude hence her long unbound hair became the sign of penitencea cue artists used for centuries"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-09-17T14:00Z 721.3K followers, 100.4K engagements
"Heart Music (aka Happy Heart). Artist: Agnes Pelton (American 18811961). Date: sketched 1944; completed 194849. Medium: Oil on canvas. Exhibited at the Hilbert Museum of California Art Chapman University on loan from a private lender in 202021"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-11T22:30Z 721.3K followers, 47.8K engagements
"Turtle vessel ceramic with slip Colima culture (West Mexico) XXX BCAD XXX. Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-09-15T22:30Z 721.2K followers, 25.9K engagements
"Details from the Compendium Alchymist 1706. An illustrated manuscript from the early 18th century containing hand-painted depictions of symbolic vessels in alchemical practice"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-01-13T19:30Z 721.1K followers, 73K engagements
"Female sphinx amulet Middle KingdomSecond Intermediate Period ca. 19811550 BC. Medium: Amethyst; H. XXX L. X cm (9/16 3/8 in.). Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Art"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-09-04T12:30Z 721.3K followers, 25K engagements
"Untitled (Moon Face behind Branches). Artist: Aleksandra Waliszewska (Poland b. 1976). Medium: gouache on paper"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-02T22:00Z 721.2K followers, 44.1K engagements
"An Inuit girl is displaying her puppy (Canadian Inuit dog - qimmiq) from her hood usually reserved to carry babies the artiggi is carefully sewn with caribou sinew Near Coppermine Canada 1949. Photographer: Richard Harrington"
X Link @archaeologyart 2023-08-15T12:30Z 721.2K followers, 139.1K engagements
"Armour and Intimacy four plates from a Gladiatoria fight book. Region: Upper German (Bavaria/Austria). Date: c. 1450 AD. Medium: ink and color on parchment (illustrated fencing manual). Folios: 46v 16r 47r 57v. Collection: Biblioteka Jagielloska Krakw (Ms. Berol. germ. quart. 16)"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-13T18:00Z 721.3K followers, 22.2K engagements
"Bronze okimono of a toad. Japan Edo period (18th19th century AD). Medium: cast bronze with dark patina"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-09-23T20:00Z 721.3K followers, 64.9K engagements
"Memento mori marginal doodle of a skeleton holding an hourglass at the foot of fol. 189r in Engelberg Stiftsbibliothek Cod. XXX (The Nikolaus Schulmeister Passion Tract). Date: 1396 AD. Place: Lucerne Germanspeaking Switzerland. Medium: ink drawing on paper within a devotional manuscript (21.5 XX cm). Collection: Stiftsbibliothek Engelberg (Abbey Library of Engelberg)"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-06T17:00Z 721.3K followers, 58K engagements
"Palette Depicting a Pair of Mud Turtles. Period: Predynastic early Naqada II c. 36503500 BC. Medium: greywacke (stone) H. XXXX cm; W. XX cm; Th. XXX cm. Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York. Accession no. 10.176.78"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-06T22:30Z 721.3K followers, 29.9K engagements
"Czech Art Deco perfume bottle. Date: c. 1930. Medium: black cut glass with applied silver-metal overlay; faceted clear glass stopper; filigree collar; front with spider-web appliqu set with a red cabochon and a pearl-like accent"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-03T22:30Z 721.3K followers, 43.5K engagements
"Corinth The Archaic Temple of Apollo. Photographer: Robert McCabe 1955"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-13T21:01Z 721.3K followers, 42.1K engagements
"Watch in the form of a beetle. Culture: Swiss. Date: ca. 185060 AD. Medium: case of gold enamel and jewels; jeweled movement with cylinder escapement. Dimensions: X 1/8 X 1/8 in. (5.4 XXX cm). Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art European Sculpture and Decorative Arts New York"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-09-18T22:30Z 721.2K followers, 27.2K engagements
"Stamp Moistener (fruit-shaped). House of Faberg St. Petersburg c. 18951915. Medium: nephrite (jade) diamonds gold. Size: XXX XXX cm. Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art India Early Minshall Collection (acc. no. 1966.478)"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-01T15:00Z 721.2K followers, 24.2K engagements
"Mans wooden headgear discovered in Burial Mound X at Pazyryk Altai Mountains southern Siberia dating to the late 4thearly 3rd century BC. Currently housed in The State Hermitage Museum St Petersburg"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-08-02T19:30Z 721.3K followers, 55.7K engagements
"Kimono (Kosode). Culture: Japan c. 18401860 AD. Medium: silk with handpainted motifs of skulls bones and pampas grass"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-09-22T16:30Z 721.3K followers, 163.1K engagements
"Inscribed iconographic finger-ring (Coventry Ring). Culture: Late Medieval England late 15th century AD. Medium: engraved gold originally accented with black and red enamel. Collection: The British Museum London"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-09-23T18:00Z 721.3K followers, 31.5K engagements
"Calanais (Callanish) Standing Stones Isle of Lewis Scotland. Neolithic stone circle and avenues c. 29002600 BC. Material: local Lewisian gneiss; tallest monolith c. XXX m. Photograph: Richard Demarco archives Edinburgh Arts journey X August 1975"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-04T16:15Z 721.2K followers, 16.8K engagements
"Statuette (figure) Lumpfish. Artist: Erik Nielsen. Date: c. 18961897 AD. Medium: porcelain. Manufacturer: Royal Danish Porcelain Factory Copenhagen. Collection: Museum of Applied Arts Budapest"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-03T16:30Z 721.2K followers, 45.7K engagements
"Moai statues at Rano Raraku Easter Island circa 1934. The Moai were crafted by the Rapa Nui people the indigenous Polynesian inhabitants of Easter Island. These monolithic stone sculptures known as Moai were carved from volcanic tuff and positioned at Rano Raraku on Easter Island (Rapa Nui) approximately dating to the period between 1250 and 1500 AD. The Moai statues of Rano Raraku are among the most iconic monuments of Easter Island carved directly from the volcanic stone quarry. These statues depict elongated heads with prominent brows noses and pursed lips typically portrayed without"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-06-18T18:00Z 721.2K followers, 30.6K engagements
"Octopus Frontlet. Culture: Moche culture Peru 300600 AD. Medium: gold sheet with chrysocolla and shell inlay. Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-09-23T22:30Z 721.3K followers, 53.3K engagements
"Dance of the Sabbath (La Danse du Sabbat). Artist: mile-Antoine Bayard. Date: 1870. Illustration for Paul Christians Histoire de la magie (Paris: Furne Jouvet et Cie)"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-09T16:30Z 721.2K followers, 20.5K engagements
"Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod. Japan early 19th century (Edo period). Carved wood. Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-09-02T12:30Z 721.3K followers, 2.4M engagements
"Lancome Conqute perfume bottle (Nativit Christmas edition). House: Lancme. Designer: Georges Delhomme. Date: 1945. Medium: pressed and frosted glass with gilt decoration. Height: XXXX cm"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-14T16:30Z 721.3K followers, 22.4K engagements
"Gold wedding ring set with an emerald and a garnet Byzantine Empire 10th century AD. Collection: The State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-07-30T20:59Z 721.3K followers, 51.7K engagements
"Bronze Statuette of a Veiled and Masked Dancer. Period: Hellenistic 3rd2nd century BC. Culture: Greek. Medium: bronze H. XXXX cm. Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-09-28T17:32Z 721.2K followers, 31.4K engagements
"Eagle and the Snake. Culture: Byzantine (Eastern Roman Empire). Date: c. 6th century AD. Medium: floor mosaic of stone tesserae. Findspot: the Great Palace of Constantinople Istanbul. Photo credit: Neil Harrison / Stock. This dramatic vignette once lay in the peristyle court of Constantinoples Great Palace a vast colonnaded courtyard entirely paved with mosaics and excavated beneath todays Arasta Bazaar between 193538 and 195154. The courts mosaic carpet originally covered roughly 1900 square meters; only a small portion is visible today. The Great Palace floor is famous for avoiding overtly"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-11T14:00Z 721.2K followers, 23.8K engagements
"Owl Fan. Date: early 20th century AD. Medium: wood cotton metal sequins. Collection: Peabody Essex Museum Salem"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-09-26T22:30Z 721.2K followers, 60.6K engagements
"Incense Burner in Shape of a Peacock. Period: Seljuk Iran 12th13th century AD. Medium: copper alloy pierced and engraved. Dimensions: XXXX XXXX cm. Collection: Brooklyn Museum Arts of the Islamic World; now on view"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-05T20:30Z 721.3K followers, 28K engagements
"Crab-shaped inkwell. Culture: Italian Padua. Date: early 16th century AD. Medium: cast bronze (natural cast). Collection: Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (Kunstkammer)"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-12T22:30Z 721.3K followers, 35.2K engagements
"Memento mori book-shaped ring. Culture: probably Flemish (France/Belgium) 15251575 AD. Medium: gold with enamel and gemstones (sapphire ruby emerald diamond). Dimensions: bezel closed H. XXXX cm; open H. XXXX cm; total L. XXXX cm; Wt. XXXXX g. Collection: Waddesdon Bequest British Museum London (reg. no. WB.199)"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-04T22:30Z 721.3K followers, 44.6K engagements
"RenJules Lalique Nadica 1930 glass; Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York (Purchase Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift 1936)"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-09-11T22:00Z 721.3K followers, 21.3K engagements
"Kitty in a clown costume. Date: c. 1890s. Medium: studio photograph in the cabinetcard tradition. Photographer: unknown"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-04T17:00Z 721.3K followers, 55.4K engagements
"Bronze Brazier with Demon Face Decoration. Korea Goryeo dynasty 11th12th century AD. Medium: cast bronze with openwork and incised ornament. Collection: National Museum of Korea Seoul. Designation: National Treasure No. 145"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-12T19:00Z 721.3K followers, 30.3K engagements
"The Black Cat. Artist: Lionel Lindsay. Date: 1922. Medium: wood engraving printed in black ink on Japanese paper. Image size: XXXX XXXX cm. Collection: National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-12T18:00Z 721.3K followers, 51.9K engagements
"The Fall of Icarus (La Chute dIcare). Date: before 1910 AD. Medium: marble; H. XXXX cm; W. XXXX cm; D. XXXX cm. Collection: Muse Rodin Paris"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-02T19:00Z 721.3K followers, 23K engagements
"Firefighter Uniform. Culture: Japanese. Date: c. 18901900 AD. Medium: cotton. Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-05T22:30Z 721.3K followers, 130.4K engagements
"Rock crystal statuette of Bastet as a sacred cat. Culture: Ancient Egypt. Date: c. 7th4th century BC (Late Period). Medium: rock crystal (quartz)"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-14T18:00Z 721.3K followers, 40.4K engagements
"Rooster (Alektryon) from Stichoi peri zn idiottos (Verses on the Properties of Animals). Scribe: Angelos Vergikios. Place of production: Paris France. Date: 1565 AD. Medium: ink and colors on paper; illuminated manuscript leaf. Collection: Houghton Library Harvard University MS Typ 222"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-15T16:30Z 721.3K followers, 14.5K engagements
"Cat Statuette intended to contain a mummified cat. Origin: Egypt. Date: 33230 BC (Ptolemaic Period). Medium: leaded bronze. Size: H XX cm with tangs; W XXXX cm; D XXXX cm. Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-03T20:00Z 721.3K followers, 24.3K engagements
"Bowl with mice decoration Nazca culture dating from 100500 AD. Currently housed in the collection of The Princeton University Art Museum"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-07-22T12:30Z 721.3K followers, 1.4M engagements
"Storage room with salvaged effigies and sculptures after the Arno River flood. Florence Italy 1966. Photograph: Balthazar Korab. In this stark room rows of battered saints lean against the wall while a carpet of detached arms and legs waits on the floorfragments of polychrome wood and plaster gathered from flooded churches and depots across Florence. On X November 1966 the Arno burst its banks and rushed through the historic center; galleries sacristies and store rooms filled with a slurry of mud and heating oil. Thirtyfive people died but the city also faced an artheritage emergency on an"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-08T16:30Z 721.3K followers, 100.4K engagements
"Medieval Suns and Moons (illuminated manuscripts). Date: c. 12501475 AD. Medium: tempera colors gold leaf watercolor and ink on parchment. Collection: The J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles. Why did medieval artists give the heavens such human expressions Because in the Middle Ages the cosmos was alive with meaning. The sun and moon were not just lights overhead; they were characters in a story that bound creation timekeeping medicine and fate into one readable picture language. #medievalart #illuminatedmanuscripts #gettymuseum #sunandmoon #arthistory #iconography #astrologyhistory"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-09T14:00Z 721.3K followers, 101.6K engagements
"Athna. Artist: Ert (Romain de Tirtoff) 20th century AD. Medium: drawing for print on paper (motif later issued as an embossed serigraph in 1986). Martin Lawrence Galleries"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-09-23T15:00Z 721.2K followers, 26.9K engagements
"Still-life Roman mosaic depicting food items Roman Empire 1st century AD. Currently on display at the Vatican Museums"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-06-07T20:59Z 721.2K followers, 69.6K engagements
"Words Are All We Have. Artist: Lisa Ivory (British b. 1966). Date: 2023 AD. Medium: Oil on panel. Size: X X in (approx. XX XX cm)"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-07T17:02Z 721.3K followers, 27.1K engagements
"A woodcut showing the aftermath of the 1509 earthquake of Constantinople. Source: Ambraseys N.N. and C.F. Finkel. 'The Marmara Sea Earthquake of 1509.' IN: Terra Nova 2:2 (1990) pp. 167-174"
X Link @archaeologyart 2023-02-20T03:37Z 721.2K followers, 127.5K engagements
"Satan in Eden. Artist: Gustave Dor. Date: 1866 AD. Medium: wood engraving on paper; illustration for John Miltons Paradise Lost (Book IV). Publisher: Cassell Petter & Galpin London and New York"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-13T15:00Z 721.3K followers, 41.7K engagements
"Selfportrait holding his medical diploma aloft captioned in his own hand Licensed to kill. Artist: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Date: 1881. Medium: ink drawing on paper"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-05T18:16Z 721.2K followers, 50.9K engagements
"Perseus and Andromeda oil on canvas by David Teniers the Younger circa 17th century. Currently housed in the Hermitage Museum Saint Petersburg"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-03-04T12:30Z 721.3K followers, 33.8K engagements
"Boar Figurine. Culture: Roman Empire 1st2nd century AD. Medium: carved amber"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-08T14:00Z 721.3K followers, 49.5K engagements
"Snakehead with Fry (netsukeojime set). Artist: Katakura Kenta Japan 2022 AD. Medium: stabilized maple with amber and mineral pigments (netsuke); deer antler (ojime). Dimensions: netsuke XXX XXX XXX cm. Ojime XXX XXX XXX cm"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-11T15:00Z 721.2K followers, 24.7K engagements
"Animal and celestial motif relief tiles. Style: Art Nouveau revival. Date: modern 20th21st century. Medium: molded and glazed ceramic earthenware"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-09-26T14:00Z 721.3K followers, 124K engagements
"Terracotta rattle in the shape of a pig. Culture: Greek (likely Cypriot) 6th3rd century BC. Medium: terracotta; hollow-bodied with an internal rattle; pierced vents on top and base. Possibly from Cyprus"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-04T18:00Z 721.3K followers, 55.4K engagements
"Modelbuch aller Art Nehens vn Stickens (animals page p. 13v). Publisher: Christian Egenolff. Frankfurt am Main 1535 AD. Medium: woodcut on paper. Dimensions: c. XXXX XXXX cm. Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-05T21:30Z 721.3K followers, 34.6K engagements
"FourTiger DemonSlaying Sword (Sainchamsegeom). Korea Joseon dynasty 17th19th century AD. Iron with gold and silver inlay; L. XXX cm. Collection: National Museum of Korea Seoul"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-12T15:00Z 721.3K followers, 127.6K engagements
"Shell Pendant in the Form of a Skull. Date: 12001500 AD. Place of origin: Veracruz Mexico. Medium: carved shell. Dimensions: XXX XXXX XXX cm. Collection: Bowers Museum Santa Ana"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-09-30T22:00Z 721.2K followers, 90.7K engagements
"Backplate (ryggharnesk) from a tournament harness. Sweden Arboga 1617 AD. Medium: painted steel with leather fittings. Collection: The Royal Armoury (Livrustkammaren) Stockholm"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-04T15:37Z 721.3K followers, 57.1K engagements
"Kulah Khud* helmet steel and gold with intricate decorative motifs Iran (Persia) 17th century AD. Collection: Hermitage Museum. *The Kulah Khud helmet is representative of the Safavid period (15011736) a significant era in Iranian history noted for advancements in metallurgy and weapon craftsmanship"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-05-16T20:59Z 721.3K followers, 26.2K engagements
"Coiled snake pendant with chain by Ren Jules Lalique crafted from gold pearls and champlev enamel Paris 1898-1899. Collection: State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg Russia"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-07-28T22:00Z 721.3K followers, 53.6K engagements
"Pair of gold earrings shaped as figures of Nike mid-4th century BC originating from the Pavlovsky Barrow near Kerch Crimea. Collection: Hermitage Museum"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-07-01T19:30Z 721.3K followers, 111.1K engagements
"Shrapnel Earrings. Denmark. Date: after 1644 AD. Medium: enamelled gold with mounted battle fragmentsone from an exploded cannon the other a Swedish bullet. Now on display at Rosenborg Castle Copenhagen. Collection: The Royal Danish Collection"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-13T22:30Z 721.3K followers, 24.1K engagements
"Eboshi-shaped kabuto (helmet) with a maedate in the form of a praying mantis; Edo period 17th century AD; iron lacquer cord silk wood gold and papier-mch; private collection exhibited in Art of the Samurai at The Metropolitan Museum of Art"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-09-06T18:00Z 721.2K followers, 71.8K engagements
"Forecourt of a Gothic Cathedral by Moonlight. Artist: Carl Gustav Carus (German 17891869). Date: 19th century AD (undated). Medium: Watercolor on paper XX XX cm. Provenance: North German private collection; sold at Lempertz Cologne XX Nov 2020; earlier on loan to the Museum Behnhaus Drgerhaus Lbeck"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-06T18:00Z 721.3K followers, 21.8K engagements
"Le Vampire (ou La ChauveSouris). Artist: Agathon Lonard (French 18411923). Date: c. 1903 AD. Medium: gilt and patinated bronze with traces of polychromy. Height: approx. XX cm (33 in.). Credit & Collection: Christie's"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-01T18:00Z 721.2K followers, 30.3K engagements
"Armet with Mask Visor in the Form of a Rooster. Culture: German probably Augsburg. Date: c. 1530 AD. Medium: Steel. Dimensions: H. XXXX cm. W. XXXX cm. D. XXXX cm. Weight: XXXXX kg. Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-15T23:00Z 721.3K followers, 12.2K engagements
"Cicadashaped perfume bottle (flacon). Maker: Molinard Grasse France. Date: c. 1900 AD. Medium: clear glass enclosed in a silver mount with a headshaped cover and a cloverform pendant inscribed TOUTE LA PROVENCE MOLINARD JEUNE GRASSEFRANCE. H. c. XXX cm"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-09-25T16:30Z 721.3K followers, 31.3K engagements
"Photo courtesy of the Hermitage Museum"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-07-20T12:00Z 721.3K followers, 6491 engagements
"Details from the Augsburg Book of Miracles (Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch). Date: c. 15451552 AD. Medium: illuminations in gouache and watercolor on paper; a nearcomplete album of about XXX largeformat pages some heightened with gold. Collection: private collection (Mickey Cartin)"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-09-29T15:00Z 721.3K followers, 30.3K engagements
"Herwebenkhet drinking before Geb as a crocodile. Egypt Third Intermediate Period 21st Dynasty c. 1069945 BC. Medium: papyrus with ink and pigments. Now in the Egyptian Museum Cairo (SR 19325). This vignette from Herwebenkhets Book of the Dead shows the Chantress of Amun prostrating to the earthgod Gebhere embodied as a crocodilewhile she sips the cool water that secures her place among the gods"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-09T22:30Z 721.3K followers, 39.9K engagements
"Gold Oak Leaf and Acorn Wreath. Culture: Greek. Period: Late Classical or Early Hellenistic 4th century BC. Medium: Gold. Collection: Museum of Fine Arts Boston"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-01T20:00Z 721.2K followers, 33.3K engagements
"The Louvre Paris 1957. Photographer: John Gutmann (American born Germany 19051998). Medium: blackandwhite gelatin silver print. Background artwork: Paolo Veronese The Wedding Feast at Cana 1563. Collection: Muse du Louvre Paris"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-06T15:34Z 721.2K followers, 16.7K engagements
"Helmet with Mask. Culture: Iran (Safavid). Date: 16th century AD. Medium: steel with forging engraving and traces of gilding. Dimensions: diameter XXXX cm; weight XXX kg. Collection: Moscow Kremlin Museums (Armoury Chamber); currently on display"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-13T17:00Z 721.3K followers, 38.4K engagements
"Gold ornament in the form of a bee. Culture: Minoan Crete. Date: c. 17001600 BC. Medium: gold with filigree and granulation L. XXX cm. Collection: The British Museum London"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-03T14:00Z 721.3K followers, 29.2K engagements
"Colima Seated Dog. Culture: Colima West Mexico (ShaftTomb tradition) Protoclassic c. XXX BCAD XXX. Medium: burnished ceramic with redbrown slip; hollow effigy vessel with a small spout on the crown"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-08T20:00Z 721.3K followers, 40.3K engagements
"Three Barn Owls at a quatrefoil church window. Photographer: Richard Brooks. Date: July 2009. Shot at a local church in North Norfolk England"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-07T19:00Z 721.3K followers, 233.1K engagements
"Medusa Head Mosaic. Roman North Africa Hadrumetum (modern Sousse) second half of the 2nd century AD. Medium: polychrome floor mosaic of stone/glass tesserae from the tepidarium of the Dar Zmela baths. Collection: Sousse Archaeological Museum Tunisia / Stock Photo"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-12T21:30Z 721.3K followers, 30.9K engagements
"Hagia Sophia. The current structure was built by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I as the Christian cathedral of Constantinople between 532537 and was designed by the Greek geometers Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles. It was formally called the Temple of God's Holy Wisdom the third church of the same name to occupy the site as the prior one had been destroyed in the Nika riots. As the episcopal see of the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople it remained the world's largest cathedral for nearly a thousand years until the Seville Cathedral was completed in 1520. When Hagia Sophia"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-02T17:37Z 721.3K followers, 74.7K engagements
"Whale. Culture: Chumash California 16th17th century AD. Medium: steatite with bone and shell details. Dimensions: XXXX XXXX XX cm. Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-12T16:00Z 721.3K followers, 33.1K engagements
"Gold perfume bottle decorated with garnets originating from the Black Sea Region Sarmatian culture 2nd century BC. Currently part of the collection at the State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-06-12T22:00Z 721.3K followers, 43K engagements
"#faberge #stampmoistener"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-01T15:00Z 721.2K followers, 9122 engagements
"Dolphin. Greece XXX BCAD XXX. Medium: bronze; length XXXX cm (13 5/16 in.). Collection: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) gift of Varya and Hans Cohn inv. AC1992.152.16. Why did Greeks and Romans fill their homes coins and fountains with dolphins Because the animal swam through their stories. Herodotus tells how the virtuoso singer Arion leapt overboard to escape murderous sailors and was carried to shore on a dolphins backa tale every schoolchild in antiquity knew. Another myth says a devoted helper named Delphin persuaded the seanymph Amphitrite to marry Poseidon; as a reward the"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-01T22:30Z 721.2K followers, 37.1K engagements
"Armet The Horned Helmet. Maker: Konrad Seusenhofer Innsbruck Austria. Date: 15121514 AD. Medium: steel with etched and gilded decoration; sheetiron rams horns; copperalloy spectacles; leather and paint. Collection: Royal Armouries Museum Leeds. Now on display in the Tournament Gallery"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-09-30T20:00Z 721.3K followers, 202.4K engagements
"Scarabeoid Intaglio depicting a Griffin and Astragal originating from Ionia dating to the 5th century BC. Medium: Rock crystal and gold. Currently in the collection of the Hermitage Museum Saint Petersburg"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-07-16T18:00Z 721.3K followers, 68.3K engagements
"Seraph (detail from the apse mural). Date: late 12th century AD. Medium: fresco transferred to canvas. Collection: Museu Nacional dArt de Catalunya Barcelona"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-07T18:00Z 721.3K followers, 45.6K engagements
"Scythian Tattoos from Kurgan II Pazyryk Altai. Depiction of animal and hybrid creature tattoos preserved on the upper right arm and various parts of the body of a Scythian male dating to the 5th century BC. Original skin fragment (left) detailed outline and general body placement drawing according to S.I. Rudenko (right). Photo courtesy of the Hermitage Museum"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-07-20T12:00Z 721.3K followers, 152.9K engagements
"Guennol Grasshopper (cosmetic vessel). Culture: Ancient Egypt Late 18th Dynasty c. 13501340 BC. Medium: painted ivory and wood; L. XXX cm. Formerly in the Guennol Collection with earlier ownership recorded for Joseph Brummer and Howard Carter; later in the Prince Collection. Sold at Apollo Art Auctions London on XX July 2025"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-07T13:45Z 721.3K followers, 19.6K engagements
"Kylix with Achilles wrapped in a himation (tondo). Culture: Greek Attic late Archaicearly Classical c. 490480 BC. Medium: terracotta redfigure; H. XXX cm; rim XXXX cm. Collection: Nationalmuseum Stockholm. Now on display at Medelhavsmuseet (Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities) Stockholm"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-05T17:38Z 721.3K followers, 32.8K engagements
"Memento mori skull watch known as the Mary Queen of Scots watch. Place of origin: Blois France. Date: c. 17801850 AD; movement signed Moysant Blois. Medium: engraved and pierced silver; the jaw lifts to reveal the dial. Collection: The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers. Now on display at the Clockmakers Museum Science Museum London"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-15T17:30Z 721.3K followers, 30.5K engagements
"Terracotta statuette of Nike (Victory) East Greek; Hellenistic Period 2nd century BC; made at Myrina Aeolis Asia Minor. Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-09-08T20:59Z 721.2K followers, 54.2K engagements
"Detail Incostanza (An Allegory of Fickleness). Artist: Abraham Janssens (Flemish 15751632). Date: c. 16151618. Medium: Oil on canvas; XXXXX XXXXX cm. Collection: Statens Museum for Kunst Copenhagen"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-09T20:00Z 721.3K followers, 44.2K engagements
"Roman marble gravestone for a dog named Aminnaracus (AMINNARACVS) . Culture: Roman Empire early Imperial period commonly dated 1st2nd century AD. Medium: marble relief with Latin inscription; H. XX cm; W. XX cm; D. X cm. Collection: Amgueddfa Cymru Museum Wales National Museum Cardiff (inv. 19.203/6)"
X Link @archaeologyart 2025-10-06T16:05Z 721.2K followers, 29.8K engagements