The Herculaneum papyri are more than 1800 papyri that were carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius (79 CE), constituting the only surviving library from antiquity that exists in its entirety. Now using new x-ray technique, these scrolls are being read for the first time in millennia [3072x4352]
The Pine Trees screen is a pair of six-panel folding screens, by Hasegawa Tohaku, that depicts a view of Japanese pine trees in the mist, with parts of the trees visible and parts obscured. The screens, made in the late 16th century, were designated as a National Treasure of Japan in 1952 [1000x524]
Khara-Khoto is an abandoned city in Inner Mongolia, China. Built in 1032, the city thrived under the rule of the Western Xia dynasty. It has been identified as the city of Etzina which appears in The Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian explorer who travelled through Asia between 1271-1295 [1080x708]