omgthatartifact:

Bit

Luristan, 1000-650 BC

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art

From modern-day western Iran.

theancientworld:

Comb with Scythians in Battle, Late 5th - early 4th century BCE Russia (now Ukraine)

The Hermitage Museum

Fantasia at Beni Drar in the region of Oujda, Morocco, region Oriental.

harvestheart:

Falconers/Horsemen of Mongolia

haruenishikawa:

The Pazyryk carpet is named for the Siberian valley in which it was found, in 1949, near Russia’s borders with Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and China. It is the oldest known knotted carpet, preserved in a Scythe tomb (kurgan) from the 4th -3th century B.C.

antonio-m:

Napoleon I as a Roman Emperor
Antoine-Louis Barye
Musée d’Orsay, Paris

chailatteplease:

Statue of Jeanne d’Arc by Emmanuel Frémiet in Paris, Rue de Rivoli, France.

lalitab:

Celestial Globe with Clockwork, dated 1579
Movement by Gerhard Emmoser (Austrian, active 1556, died 1584)
Made in Vienna, Austria
Case of silver, partly gilt, and gilt brass; movement of brass and steel

The silver globe, engraved with representations of the constellations, revolves to simulate the apparent movement of the stars, while the sun moves along the path of the ecliptic in accord with the sun’s apparent motion through the zodiac during the year. The small dial (a replacement) near the top of the meridian ring registers mean solar time, while a movable ring within the horizon circle functions as a calendar. Emmoser, who began his career in Heidelberg, Germany, was appointed clockmaker to two of the great imperial patrons of art and science in the sixteenth century, Maximilian II (r. 1564–76) and Rudolf II (r. 1576–1612).

lalitab:

Bridle, 15th–17th century
Tibetan
Iron, leather, and gold

deathsyndrome:

Pierre Puget

The Meeting of Alexander the Great and Diogenes