✨ A Deer Hunt Under the Stars — A rare Mughal-era painting from the early 18th century captures a royal nighttime hunt. The glow of gold and color reflects the grandeur of the Mughal court, where art, nature, and nobility met under the moonlight. 🎨 Medium: Color & gold on paper 🏛️ Period: Mughal dynasty 📍 Collection: Freer Gallery of Art 🕯️ Credit: Gift of Charles Lang Freer #MughalArt #MughalPainting #MughalEmpire #IndianArt #MiniaturePainting #FreerGallery #MughalDynasty #HistoricalArt #Ro

The Quartz Writer Who Looked Alive — The Statue of Padiamunopet 🕯️ Inside the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, there’s a statue that feels almost alive. Every visitor who stops to look at it feels the same thing — as if the stone itself remembers the man it was carved for. This is Padiamunopet, a high priest and royal scribe who lived more than 2,600 years ago, during the reign of King Psamtek I of Egypt’s 26th Dynasty. The statue is carved entirely from pure quartz, one of the hardest stones on Earth