Rejected Designs For The Eiffel Tower

Winged Victory of Samothrace. Parian marble, 180 BC. #LouvreMuseum. Photographer: Heruman on Flickr.

The Lascaux Caves are a complex of caves in southwestern France that is famous for its Paleolithic cave paintings. They contain 900 of the most perfect surviving examples of Upper Paleolithic art and are estimated to be 17.300 years old.

An image drawn 36000 years ago in Spain's Altamira Cave, probably drawn by Cro-Magnons, ancestor of modern humans. Because at that time, at least in European region, Cro magnon (European sapiens) lived. #archaeohistories

"Fortezza" (Dettaglio) 🎨 Sandro Botticelli, 1470 ©️ Gallerie degli Uffizi, Firenze, Toscana

A rare carved Pictish stone dating to the 5th or 6th century A.D. has been unearthed near the village of Aberlemno in eastern Scotland. archaeology.org/issues/482-220…

A 6 year old wrote what might be one of my favorite poems ever.

Modesty, 1749-52, by Antonio Corradini (1688-1752)

The Parthenon, Acropolis of Athens 📷d. tzankatian

Woman cutting her birthday cake in Iran 1973, 5 years before the Islamic Revolution