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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Sumerian -> Akkadian Dictionary (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Triangular stylus go brrrrr

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[–] lemerchand 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yea! I've skimmed through a cuneiform dictionary and saw so many words that made me wonder how anyone could possibly sight-read it without accidentally mistaking things haha.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

And now I wonder if it was sight read? Considering how sensitive our fingertips are, maybe reading it like braille would've made sense...