Beauty of OLDness

Interior of <n>Grundtvig's Church</n> in Copenhagen. Photo by <n>Alexander Schlosser</n>.

<n>Sedimentary rocks</n> (1977) by photographer <n>William A. Garnett</n>.

A limestone <n>Relief plaque of cobra on a neb basket</n> from Egypt, ca. 400–30 B.C.

Photograph by <n>Karim Amr</n> for the cover of <n>Penelope Lively</n>'s novel, <n>Moon Tiger</n>.

Marble sculpture <n>Undine Rising from the Waters</n> (1880) by artist <n>Chauncey Bradley Ives</n>.

Consecrated sword given to <n>King John III Sobieski</n> by <n>Pope Innocent XI</n> in 1684. Housed at <n>Wawel Royal Castle</n>.

Wooden statue of the <n>Anubis Shrine</n> from the tomb of Horemheb, photographed by <n>Harry Burton</n> in 1912.

Photograph by <n>Elliott Erwitt</n> taken at the <n>Metropolitan Museum</n> in New York City, 1988.