Emmanuel Frémiet (1824-1910), ‘Saint George’, “Salon of 1900” Source

What an amazing sound - Women from the Rugova region in Kosovo are singing to the rhythms of tepsia (copper pan for preparing traditional food). This disappearing minimalistic style was a popular form of singing among communities throughout the Dinara mountain range. Filmed by Japanese ethnographers from the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka.

Gauntlets of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, Lorenz Helmschmid, Steel, 1490

Tokyo Stock Exchange 1985 . Archeofuturism in action

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

Sven Hedin, a Swedish explorer, documented Zoroastrian Towers of Silence (dakhmas) near Tehran, Iran, around 1898. These circular, raised structures were used for excarnation, where bodies were exposed to vultures and the elements to avoid contaminating the earth.

Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling: Problem II

1824, Louvre, Paris

Tsering Dhundup, with his yak, Tibet, 2021 - by Kin Coedel, Hong Kongese/Chinese

Lieve Verschuier (Dutch, 1627- 1686) - The Great Comet Over Rotterdam (ca. 1680)