Chimu — Thousand Year Old Pots and Pans

Chimu, a still life of pre-Columbian pottery of the Moche people of Trujillo, Peru, captures a sense of time and place.

Agatha Christie, in her 1951 novel, They Came to Baghdad, described life being made up of ordinary things, used by ordinary people. “This,” she wrote, “is what mattered.”

Spoken by a genius writer married to an archaeologist.