"The Kiss", a 12,000-year-old rock painting at Pedra Furada in Brazil

forgot to post this on Easter or Good Friday but everyone should see the Alexamenos graffiti from Rome

it is competing with this gem for the earliest depiction of the Crucifixion of Jesus. and its got him as a donkey because it is understood to be mocking Alexamenos for "worshipping his god" The graffiti dates from between the 1st and 3rd century CE. The gem dates from the 2nd-3rd cen CE. Both are hard to date conclusively so we'll probably never know which is older.

Gauntlet from a Tournament Garniture of a Hapsburg Prince

Germany, 1571 CE

Mosaic from Pompeii; circa 100 BC.

Pair of hands from a group statue of Akhenaten and Nefertiti or two princesses, 18th Dynasty of Egypt, approximately 1350 BCE from Amarna (Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany)

this is actual ancient Roman graffiti! It is from the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii

Portrait of Cleopatra VII (c. 40-30 BCE)

Possibly discovered on the Via Appia between Ariccia and Genzano (Italy), marble

Altes Museum, Berlin (Germany)

Augustus of Prima Porta (20-17 BCE)

marble, from the villa of Livia at Prima Porta

Musei Vaticani (Vatican City), acquired in 1863

Colossal sarcophagus with scenes of battle between Romans and Barbarians (the so-called Great Ludovisi Sarcophagus)

Proconnesian marble, c. mid 2nd century- early 3rd century CE

On display at Palazzo Altemps (Rome, Italy), acquired by the Boncampagni Ludovisi Collection in 1621

Ancient glass objects on display at Palazzo Altemps (Rome, Italy)

Emblem with Fish (c. late 2nd- early 3rd century CE), provenance unknown

Museo Nazionale Romano Palazzo Massimo (Rome, Italy)

Inlaid panel of glass tiles with racemes and griphon (c. 2nd century CE)

possibly from the villa of Lucius Verus in Acquatraversa, on display at Museo Nazionale Romano Palazzo Massimo (Rome, Italy)

Wall panel in Opus sectile with Consul on a chariot and four hoursemen (c. first half of the fourth century CE, Rome)

On display at Museo Nazionale Romano Palazzo Massimo (Rome, Italy)

Opus sectile panel with the head of Sol (c. early 3rd century CE, Rome)

On display at Museo Nazionale Romano Palazzo Massimo (Rome, Italy)

Geometric floor mosaic with a seasonal bust in the central panel (c. 3rd century CE, Rome)

On display at Museo Nazionale Romano Palazzo Massimo (Rome, Italy)