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# ![@archaeologyart Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::765618069062422528.png) @archaeologyart Archaeology & Art

Archaeology & Art posts on X about metropolitan museum of art, hermitage museum, york, london the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1976286598841970850) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-09T14:00Z 721.9K followers, 102.7K engagements


"Firefighter Uniform. Culture: Japanese. Date: c. 18901900 AD. Medium: cotton. Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1974965355693920260) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-05T22:30Z 721.9K followers, 131.6K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1975557993237193113) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-07T13:45Z 721.9K followers, 20.1K engagements


"Boar Figurine. Culture: Roman Empire 1st2nd century AD. Medium: carved amber"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1975924220094759384) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-08T14:00Z 721.9K followers, 49.9K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1975961914673918372) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-08T16:30Z 721.9K followers, 101.6K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1976014773390029086) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-08T20:00Z 721.9K followers, 40.9K engagements


"Kawari kabuto (eccentric-shaped helmet) with animalhead crest and menp. Culture: Japan Edo period 19th century AD. Medium: iron core with lacquered superstructure silk lacing leather and fur; paired with a halfface mask (menp)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1976649044211405307) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-10T14:00Z 721.9K followers, 42.5K engagements


"Insect Vases. Artist: Stephanie Young (Calmwater Designs) USA. Date: 2014. Medium: handcarved and glazed porcelain. Art Nouveauinspired studio pottery with butterfly moth cicada and dragonfly motifs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1977464333622800595) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-12T20:00Z 721.9K followers, 36.2K engagements


"Corinth The Archaic Temple of Apollo. Photographer: Robert McCabe 1955"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1977842047970161020) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-13T21:01Z 721.9K followers, 43.5K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1978226846907916735) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-14T22:30Z 721.9K followers, 37.7K engagements


"Lucifer. Artist: Franz von Stuck. Date: 18901891 AD. Medium: Oil on canvas; XXX XXXXX cm. Currently on display at the National Gallery Sofia (Kvadrat 500)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1978476011147641114) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-15T15:00Z 721.9K followers, 24.1K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1970616692033089596) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-09-23T22:30Z 721.9K followers, 53.4K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1972353628494082388) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-09-28T17:32Z 721.9K followers, 31.5K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1973804440059617400) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-02T17:37Z 722K followers, 74.9K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1974202824876523751) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-03T20:00Z 721.9K followers, 24.4K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1974950245894148367) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-05T21:30Z 722K followers, 34.7K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1975327735451975808) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-06T22:30Z 722K followers, 30.1K engagements


"The Coliseum at Rome by Moonlight. Artist: Frederick Lee Bridell 1859. Medium: oil on canvas. Dimensions: XXX XXXXX cm. Collection: Southampton City Art Gallery"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1976301683106853346) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-09T15:00Z 722K followers, 19.9K engagements


"Romulus and Remus. Artist: Alexander Novoselov (b. 1980). Medium: oil on canvas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1976739563528740869) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-10T20:00Z 721.9K followers, 60.9K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1977403934470701210) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-12T16:00Z 722K followers, 33.6K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1977781439505568020) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-13T17:00Z 722K followers, 39.7K engagements


"The Last Judgment and the Mass of Saint Gregory (detail). Artist: Master of the Arts Family (active in Valencia; possibly Pere Cabanes). Place of origin: Valencia Spain. Date: c. 15001520 AD. Medium: Oil on panel; XXX XXX cm. Collection: Museu de Arte de So Paulo (MASP); inv. MASP.00428"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1978113592013488128) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-14T15:00Z 721.9K followers, 30.2K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1978136271122817163) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-14T16:30Z 722K followers, 23.3K engagements


"Meditating Skeleton Netsuke. Culture: Japan Meiji period. Date: late 19th century AD. Medium: silver set in stag antler; H. XXX cm; W. X cm. Collection: The British Museum London"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1978551496884064490) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-15T20:00Z 721.9K followers, 61.9K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1977449243624329236) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-12T19:00Z 721.9K followers, 30.8K engagements


"The Drowned (Utonul). Artist: Josef Mnes (Czech 18201871). Date: c. 1867. Medium: oil painting; dimensions c. XXXX XXXX cm. Painted at the chteau of echy pod Kosem and regarded as Mness final oil painting; exhibited there in 2022 (private collection on loan)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1979314006859948282) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-17T22:30Z 721.9K followers, 15.2K engagements


"Still-life Roman mosaic depicting food items Roman Empire 1st century AD. Currently on display at the Vatican Museums"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1931455894845362200) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-06-07T20:59Z 721.9K followers, 69.6K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1933283205500514712) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-06-12T22:00Z 722K followers, 43K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1940130809660186770) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-07-01T19:30Z 722K followers, 111.1K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1945543976129331236) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-07-16T18:00Z 722K followers, 68.3K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1946902959729656217) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-07-20T12:00Z 722K followers, 153K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1949953047355879818) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-07-28T22:00Z 721.9K followers, 53.6K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1950662448844779903) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-07-30T20:59Z 721.9K followers, 51.7K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1951727225654354410) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-08-02T19:30Z 722K followers, 55.8K engagements


"Kimono (Kosode). Culture: Japan c. 18401860 AD. Medium: silk with handpainted motifs of skulls bones and pampas grass"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1970163713211498954) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-09-22T16:30Z 721.9K followers, 163.8K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1973115678228910131) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-09-30T20:00Z 721.9K followers, 202.9K engagements


"Amore e morte (Love and Death). Artist: Calcedonio Reina (Italian 18421911). Date: 1881 AD. Medium: Oil on canvas; XXX XXX cm. Collection: Museo Civico Castello Ursino Catania; inv. 7937"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1974920042371285377) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-05T19:30Z 722K followers, 30.4K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1977434186567807158) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-12T18:00Z 722K followers, 53.5K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1977486968905711935) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-12T21:30Z 721.9K followers, 31.3K engagements


"Thangka: Thousand Buddhas (Sahasrabuddha). Tradition: Tibetan Buddhist. Medium: mineral pigments and gold on cotton scroll"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1977736186903835014) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-13T14:00Z 721.9K followers, 104.6K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1977751212792430982) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-13T15:00Z 722K followers, 42.7K engagements


"Detail from the Bacchus and Ariadne. Artist: Eustache Le Sueur (French 16171655). Date: c. 1640. Medium: Oil on canvas; XXXXX XXXXX cm. Collection: Museum of Fine Arts Boston (inv. 68.764)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1977826711501766777) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-13T20:00Z 721.9K followers, 51.1K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1978513733052760549) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-15T17:30Z 721.9K followers, 59.1K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1978521315565842828) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-15T18:00Z 721.9K followers, 52.3K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1978596782750740521) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-15T23:00Z 721.9K followers, 29K engagements


"Green Man foliate head (mosaic fragment). Culture: Byzantine (Eastern Roman). Place of origin: Great Palace of Justinian Constantinople (modern Istanbul). Date: c. 6th century AD. Medium: stone and glass tesserae"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1978838657193623606) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-16T15:01Z 721.9K followers, 54.3K engagements


"A fabulous grotesque Burgonet for the armor of Guidobaldo della Rovvera Duke of Urbino attributed to Filippo Negroli Milan Italy ca. 1535. Collection: State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1978933998597333432) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-16T21:20Z 721.9K followers, 34.7K engagements


"Carnelian scarab intaglio with Hercle and serpent. Culture: Etruscan. Date: early 4th century BC. Medium: carved carnelian scarab; L. XXX cm. Formerly in the G. Sangiorgi collection; sold at Christies Antiquities: Ancient Engraved Gems (Lot 101)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1979230993891377331) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-17T17:00Z 721.9K followers, 21K engagements


"Ascent of the Blessed - Hieronymous Bosch c.1504"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1979268705306481104) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-17T19:30Z 721.9K followers, 80.3K engagements


"Memento mori finger-ring. Date: c. 15001650 AD. Medium: gold; hexagonal bezel with a reclining skeleton and the inscription memento mori. Findspot: Kent England"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1979563179928592758) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-18T15:00Z 721.9K followers, 30.2K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1964388174043435120) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-09-06T18:00Z 721.7K followers, 71.9K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1973447907362623778) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-01T18:00Z 721.7K followers, 30.4K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1975607569855946890) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-07T17:02Z 721.7K followers, 27.3K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1975622178910445796) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-07T18:00Z 721.7K followers, 46K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1976414901670236499) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-09T22:30Z 721.7K followers, 40K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1977011372450853334) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-11T14:00Z 721.7K followers, 24K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1691427042590375936) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2023-08-15T12:30Z 721.9K followers, 139.1K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1896900970413486144) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-03-04T12:30Z 721.9K followers, 33.8K engagements


"Photo courtesy of the Hermitage Museum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1946902991983857882) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-07-20T12:00Z 721.9K followers, 6496 engagements


"Ruth Schreiber** Against the Evil Eye (Neged Ayin Hara) 1974/2004 AD; bronze glass metal velvet; X XX XX cm. Ruth Schreiber states that the hand was cast from her sons hand and that the box eye and velvet are readymade elementschoices that steer the work toward memory domestic ritual and the language of keepsakes. Why a childs hand In many cultures infants and children are considered especially susceptible to harm from the evil eye so the pairing reads as both protective and unsettling. The evil eyeayin hara in Hebrewis a longstanding belief across the Mediterranean Middle East and far"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1963323635306741760) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-09-03T19:30Z 721.9K followers, 25.6K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1970503667527647458) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-09-23T15:00Z 721.9K followers, 27K engagements


"Animal and celestial motif relief tiles. Style: Art Nouveau revival. Date: modern 20th21st century. Medium: molded and glazed ceramic earthenware"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1971575580727328888) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-09-26T14:00Z 721.9K followers, 124.4K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1973402585768800389) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-01T15:00Z 721.9K followers, 24.2K engagements


"#faberge #stampmoistener"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1973402604450312445) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-01T15:00Z 721.9K followers, 9153 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1974112443904270825) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-03T14:00Z 721.9K followers, 29.4K engagements


"Kitty in a clown costume. Date: c. 1890s. Medium: studio photograph in the cabinetcard tradition. Photographer: unknown"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1974519917316644957) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-04T17:00Z 721.9K followers, 55.8K engagements


"Details from the Tomb of the Roaring Lions (Tomba dei Leoni Ruggenti). Culture: Etruscan Veii early 7th century BC (c. 700690 BC). Site: Grotta Gramiccia necropolis within Veio Regional Park Italy. The chamber discovered in 2006 after a repentant tombraider led authorities to the spot has been hailed as Europes oldest known frescoed burial chamber and the earliest painted tomb yet found in Etruria dating to the first decades of the 600s BC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1974565226092679493) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-04T20:00Z 721.9K followers, 29.7K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1975244700190642365) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-06T17:00Z 721.9K followers, 58.3K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1975259815090770048) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-06T18:00Z 721.9K followers, 22K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1975984656668393790) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-08T18:00Z 721.9K followers, 49.9K engagements


"Womans chopping knife (Ulu). Culture: Nuniwarmiut (Cupig) Nunivak Island Alaska c. 19201930 AD. Medium: walrus ivory and iron. Size: X X in. Collection: Minneapolis Institute of Art Minneapolis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1976686692170875405) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-10T16:30Z 721.9K followers, 43.3K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1977026470829539429) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-11T15:00Z 721.9K followers, 24.9K engagements


"Sleeping Tabby Cat. Artist: Chatchawarn Ruksa (Thai b. 1970). Date: 2018 AD. Medium: Watercolor on paper"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1977071736781758696) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-11T18:00Z 721.9K followers, 34K engagements


"Crab-shaped inkwell. Culture: Italian Padua. Date: early 16th century AD. Medium: cast bronze (natural cast). Collection: Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (Kunstkammer)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1977502064931446979) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-12T22:30Z 721.9K followers, 35.7K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1978498629791834466) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-15T16:30Z 721.9K followers, 19.8K engagements


"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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1957865238620971179) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-08-19T18:00Z 722K followers, 29.4K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1967672282551111685) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-09-15T19:30Z 721.9K followers, 58.7K engagements


"Turtle vessel ceramic with slip Colima culture (West Mexico) XXX BCAD XXX. Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1967717582242292014) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-09-15T22:30Z 721.9K followers, 25.9K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1968314020370276546) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-09-17T14:00Z 721.9K followers, 101K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1968804748800188423) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-09-18T22:30Z 721.9K followers, 27.2K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1977796566460010865) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-13T18:00Z 722K followers, 22.6K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1977864447008887128) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-13T22:30Z 721.9K followers, 24.7K engagements


"Black Sun. Artist: Arkadiusz Danovski (Polish b. 1976). Date: 2011. Medium: mixed technique on canvas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1978823333505339608) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-16T14:00Z 721.9K followers, 57.7K engagements


"Aphrodite and Eros Finger Ring. Culture: Greek. Period: Hellenistic. Date: 4th3rd century BC. Place of origin: Lower Italy in the provinces of the Kingdom of Naples from a tomb. Medium: Gold; H. XXX cm; W. XXX cm. Collection: Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (Antikensammlung)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1978883672452325424) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-16T18:00Z 721.9K followers, 24.7K engagements


"Witches Sabbath with Dancing Cats (detail). Artist: Follower of Jan Mandijn (Flanders). Date: c. 15501560 AD. Medium: Oil on panel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1979548074226651380) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-18T14:00Z 721.9K followers, 57.9K engagements


"Bowl with mice decoration Nazca culture dating from 100500 AD. Currently housed in the collection of The Princeton University Art Museum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1947635266128064880) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-07-22T12:30Z 722K followers, 1.4M 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1962855572484624401) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-09-02T12:30Z 722K followers, 2.4M 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1973145891595747716) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-09-30T22:00Z 722K followers, 91.1K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1974149983440974084) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-03T16:30Z 721.9K followers, 46.2K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1974499015875010960) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-04T15:37Z 721.9K followers, 57.4K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1974535021273694272) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-04T18:00Z 722K followers, 56K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1975637281605046497) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-07T19:00Z 722K followers, 235.8K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1976377167224226278) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-09T20:00Z 721.9K followers, 44.6K engagements


"Mosaic floor panel with the head of Dionysos. Culture: Roman Corinth (Greece) late 2ndearly 3rd century AD. Medium: stone tesserae. Collection: Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth inv. A XXX / MOS 253"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1976777293423837519) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-10T22:30Z 721.9K followers, 34.3K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1977139679041310843) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-11T22:30Z 721.9K followers, 49K engagements


"Cat/Skull. Artist: JeanLuc Moulne (French b. 1955). Date: 2016. Medium: concrete. Exhibited: Larvae & Ghosts Thomas Dane Gallery London"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1977373713847792019) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-12T14:00Z 721.9K followers, 58.7K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1977388847613772138) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-12T15:00Z 721.9K followers, 141.7K 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](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1978158898948264274) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-14T18:00Z 721.9K followers, 42.3K engagements


"3D reconsturction of Terrace Houses Residential Unit X (Terrace House 2) Ephesus Turkey. Work by Adam Nemeth / virtualreconstruction Behind the famous Curetes Street the Terrace Houses are a cluster of elite townhomes built into the slope of Blblda. Terrace House X forms a ca. 4000 m residential blockan insulacomprising seven dwellings arranged on three stepped terraces their rooms looking inward to lightfilled courts. Peristyle houses in Ephesus were designed so that rooms opened onto an opentothesky court for air and lightexactly the effect the reconstruction captures. The fresco programs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1978861036733079708) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-16T16:30Z 721.9K followers, 95.8K engagements


"Clay Pig Figurine. Culture: Ancient Shu (Sanxingdui cultural sphere). Place of origin: Lianhe Ruins near Sanxingdui Guanghan Sichuan China. Date: Western Zhou period c. 1046771 BC (approx. 3000 years old). Medium: handmodelled earthenware. Now on display at the Sanxingdui Museum Guanghan. @ZhaiXiang5 A round snout punctured by three dots button eyes set in shallow rings and a neat curved mouththis little clay pig reads like a character sketch. The sculptor pared the animal down to a few decisive lines. That economy of form explains why so many people see a modern cartoon face here: once the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1979200900599108085) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-17T15:00Z 721.9K followers, 40.7K engagements


"Johan Georg Otto von Rosen (18431923) The Colossus of Memnon (Stone statue of Amenhotep III in Luxor Egypt) 1869; Watercolour on paper"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1979283808378650679) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-17T20:30Z 722K followers, 17.9K engagements


"Tiger Attacking a Calf (opus sectile panel). Culture: Roman Empire Late Antique. Date: c. 4th century AD. Medium: opus sectile in polychrome marbles and stones. Collection: Capitoline Museums Rome. Photographer: William Perry Dreamstime"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1979613220022214756) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-18T18:19Z 721.9K followers, 61.3K engagements


"Gouache Study of Ancient Animal Artifacts. Artist: Karroana (Johanna) Date: 2025. Medium: gouache. Animals were not decorative extras in the ancient world; they were the carriers of function and meaning. A dog can guard a tomb. A frog can call the rains while pouring a libation. A fish can become a flask; a bronze cat can secure a belt; a ram can stand for strength in a palm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/archaeologyart/status/1979895345510314326) [@archaeologyart](/creator/x/archaeologyart) 2025-10-19T13:00Z 721.9K followers, 78.8K engagements