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Bat costumes were a popular choice of Halloween attire in the early 1900s. The lack of specialist costume shops during this period often resulted in these wonderful homemade designs.

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Recreated Roman Barracks, National Roman Legion Museum, Caerleon, nr. Newport and Cardiff, Wales

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Jurgen Lehl + Babaghuri Aoyama 2/18(Sat)-26(Sun) Exhibition of ancient art and antique collected by “kami hito kemono”. Instagram@kami_hito_kemono www.kamihitokemono.jp

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Yoshida Tōshi  Sacred Grove  1941

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A knitted belt from the Byzantine Empire, c.420-600 CE.

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Pottery bowls once belonging to a fresco painter. Romano-Egypt. 1st Century.

Pottery bowls containing paint remnants. 

Blue - Egyptian blue - copper calcium silicate. Yellow - jarosite. Pink - the plant dye madder mixed with gypsum. White - gypsum. Vermilion - minium, or red lead. Dark Red - Hematite.

Excavated at Hawara.

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2,300-Year-Old Plush Bird from the Altai Mountains of Siberia (c.400-300 BCE): crafted with a felt body and reindeer-fur stuffing, all of which remains intact

This artifact was sealed within the frozen barrows of Pazyryk, Siberia, for more than two millennia, where a unique microclimate enabled it to be preserved. The permafrost ice lense formation that runs below the barrows provided an insulating layer, preventing the soil from heating during the summer and allowing it to quickly freeze during the winter; these conditions produced a separate microclimate within the stone walls of the barrows themselves, thereby aiding in the preservation of the artifacts inside.

This is just one of the many well-preserved artifacts that have been found at Pazyryk. These artifacts are attributed to the Scythian/Altaic cultures.

Currently housed at the Hermitage Museum.

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Glades Culture Deer Head, ca 800 CE

One of the artifacts excavated at the Key Marco site in Collier County, Florida by Frank Hamilton Cushing during the Pepper-Hearst Expedition with the Smithsonian Institute in 1896 was a life-like figurehead of a deer.  Originally painted blue, black and white with inlaid eyes of tortoise shell, its ears were attached with a cord.  Several holes around the edge of the face suggest it may have been worn on the top of the head and attached to a deerskin or some other material which covered the wearer, perhaps a dancer. Originally brightly colored when it was discovered, the pigments have disintegrated on exposure to air. On the right is a modern reconstruction based on photographs taken when it was freshly excavated.

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Owl and Bat, Hōraku (Japan, active early to mid-19th century)

Japan, early to mid-19th century, Ebony with inlays

LACMA Collections

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Hittite carved crystal hedgehog, Anatolia, c. 1,500 BCE. (my dad has weird things in his house)

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You need to look up red cornetfish

OUUGUGUGGUHHHHHH YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME

TRUMPET GUY

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Mir Dreams - June 3rd, 1996.

"This dream-like image of Mir was recorded by astronauts as the Space Shuttle Atlantis approached the Russian Space Station prior to docking during the STS-76 mission. Sporting spindly appendages and solar panels, Mir resembled a whimsical flying insect as it orbited above New Zealand's South Island, near the Cook Strait. Atlantis shuttled astronaut Shannon W. Lucid to Mir for a 140 day visit, increasing the Mir's occupancy from two to three. It would return to pick Lucid up and drop off astronaut John Blaha during the STS-79 mission, which was scheduled for launch on July 31st, 1996."

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Syd Mead, space station concept art, c. 1970s.

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Attila Hejja cover art for “The Sixth Omni Book of Science Fiction,” edited by Ellen Datlow, 1989

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Bronze incense burner in the form of a peacock, Seljuk Empire, 12th-13th century

from The Brooklyn Museum of Art

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Nishimura Yūsuke 西村裕介 

PHOTOS du 30 juillet 2012, du sanctuaire Meiji pour célébrer le 100ème anniversaire de l'empereur Meiji. 

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One of the massive atlases from the temple of Zeus (480s BCE), the largest Doric temple ever constructed, although it was never completed and now lies in ruins in Agrigento, Sicily. There were 38 such figures incorporated into the architecture of the building and each stood 7.5 m tall

More: https://artifactsmuseumhistory.blogspot.com/?m=1