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Historical Artifacts
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Just a community for everyone to share artifacts, reconstructions, or replicas for the historically-inclined to admire!
Generally, an artifact should be 100+ years old, but this is a flexible requirement if you find something rare and suitably linked to an era of history, not a strict rule. Anything over 100 is fair game regardless of rarity.
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Novelty drinking cup (the head comes off and there are wind-up wheels in the bottom), silver-gilt, Germany, 1617-1620 AD
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Reproduction Ancient Greek lion (with historically accurate paint) as seen at the Athens Archaeological Museum.
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Door with Cat Door, North Door of Exeter Cathedral, 14th century AD, UK, feat. Stapledon the Cathedral Cat.
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with thanks to Fiat_Lux
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Preserved Roman dolabra heads, used for cutting and digging in camp, Germany, ~1st century BCE/AD
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Roman mosaic depicting contemporary Hellenistic soldiers in Ptolemaic Egypt, mosaic found in Italy, ~100 BCE
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On display at the Stromness museum. Carved from whalebone and believed to be a child's doll.
Was discovered at the famous Skara Brae site, and then spent years forgotten in a box at the museum before being rediscovered.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-36526874
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