The largest animal rock petroglyphs in the world; known as Dabous Giraffes, located in Air Massif, Niger

Dated 12000-7000 BC; was known as Neolithic Subpluvial, a time when Sahara was a much wetter savannah that stretched thousands of miles and could sustain animal and human life.

Decorative Shell Pendant; from

Mexico, 1200-1500 years.

In pre-Columbian cultures, shells were used to make everyday objects; spoons, harpoons, buttons and jewelry. They were used to make instruments, horns, used in religious ceremonies and everyday games.

Bowers Museum

A gorgeous image from the sunken city of Heracleion near the coast of Alexandria in Egypt.

Dryburgh Abbey was one of the great medieval monasteries of Scotland. Substantial ruins of the 12th-century Premonstratensian abbey stand in a beautiful secluded setting on the River Tweed.

BOYS WATCHING A MATCH FROM OUTSIDE Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL, July 14, 1932.

A group of young boys sit perched in a tree trying to catch a glimpse of Cubs pitcher Guy Bush shutting down the Brooklyn Dodgers in a 4-1 win. 

(Fantastic colorization by Imbued with Hues)

 

This remarkable 12th-century monument, the Tower of Toghrul, is located in the city of Rey in Iran. It once bore a conical roof, which is thought to have been destroyed by an earthquake. Its uses have been widely disputed. Some say it was a form of sundial, by which the time could be read according to where the sunlight fell on its exterior. Others that it was a lighthouse, guiding Silk-Road travellers on foggy nights, or, perhaps, that it served as a mausoleum. What is undeniable, however, is its structural beauty, evidenced in this colourised version of a photograph believed to have been taken by Luigi Pesce in the 1860s.

Bedroom  

Nelly Agassi

2005