10000 best r/artefactporn images on Pholder | Excuses from a 3,250-year-old tablet in ancient Egypt where workers' reasons for not coming to work are written: His mother is being mummified. Brewing beer. Bitten by a scorpion. His eyes are hurting. [720x900].

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Excuses from a 3,250-year-old tablet in ancient Egypt where workers' reasons for not coming to work are written: His mother is being mummified. Brewing beer. Bitten by a scorpion. His eyes are hurting. [720x900].

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Excuses from a 3,250-year-old tablet in ancient Egypt where workers' reasons for not coming to work are written: His mother is being mummified. Brewing beer. Bitten by a scorpion. His eyes are hurting. [720x900].

This 9000-year-old stone mask is the oldest mask in the world, and was found in the Judean Desert in Israel [3000x4000]

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Standing female nude, 1860, Nadar. One of the first nude photos in history [800x1176]

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Qasr Al-Farid meaning ‘the Lonely Castle’ is the largest rock-cut tomb at the archaeological site of Hegra, in Saudi Arabia. Nabataean Kingdom, 1st century CE [1080x1350] (there's a human for scale)

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The Punic cothon of Carthage, in modern-day Tunisia, as it would have appeared in the 3rd century BCE compared to today [1200x1690]

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History’s oldest failed test, 4000 years ago. Writing table of a student from the Egyptian Middle Kingdom, 1981-1802 B.C. The teacher corrected the spelling mistakes with red marks. [4000x2995].

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Hand carved griffin, in my parents house, 1892, Indianapolis, Indiana [1518 × 2270]

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A tiger tattoo on the shoulder of a Scythian male mummy found in 1949 in the Altai Mountains of Siberia. 3rd century BCE, Russia [1306x1385]

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A painting depicting a woman spying on two men having sex, Qing Dynasty, 18th century, China [709x599]

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One of the three Roman pools of Gafsa, in Tunisia, two of which are open. Built in the 2nd century BCE, they are about five meters deep and are fed by hot water springs [683x1024]

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A Chinese export porcelain crab tureen. 1736-1795 CE, now housed at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts [4192x2915]

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Leather coat that belonged to an Ojibwa captain. Ontario, Canada, Ojibwa culture, 1789 [900x1298]

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Workers excavating plastered bodies of victims at Pompeii who were killed by volcanic eruption. (1080x1080)

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The prison cell at Narni sotterranea, a series of underground rooms that were discovered at Narni, Italy, in 1979. Its walls are covered in coded writing, drawings and cryptic masonic symbols mainly left by Giuseppe Andrea Lombardini, an inquisition guard imprisoned for heresy in 1759 [1475x2111]

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A 1,700 year old Roman-era “Good Shepard” gold ring bearing an engraving of a boy holding a sheep on his shoulders, an image used by early Christians to symbolise Jesus. Found by archaeologists off Israel's Mediterranean coast in an ancient shipwreck. (900x477)

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Amidabashi and Koraibashi bridges in the old town of Nagasaki, built by a merchant. Japan, Edo period, 1690. Photo taken in 1865 [1680x1600]

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Grotesque depicting a figure of a woman showing her vagina, Saint Radegonda, Poitiers [1024 ×768]

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Ceramic water pipes found near Epang Palace. China, Warring States, 5th-3rd century BC [750x577]

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Ancient Roman helmet worn by the elite Roman cavalry [1439x1621]

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2000 year-old Roman face cream/lotion. Dating back to II AD. Object was found in the temple complex dedicated to Mars. It's world's oldest cosmetic face cream and it has finger marks in the lid. [1200x800]

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Chief Eli Mabel of the Dani tribe in Papua, Indonesia, holding the mummified remains of his ancestor Agat Mamete Mabel, who the tribe members claim he ruled approximately 250 years ago [1024x681].

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‘Slug’ by Nagasawa Rosetsu (1754-1799 CE), who was a Japanese painter of the Maruyama school. Ink on paper, Edo Period [1992x2048]

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An ivory Japanese Netsuke (miniature sculpture) of a cluster of rats. (4 cm in diameter, 19th century) [640x549]

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Ancient Egypt lasted ~3300 years. ~170 Pharaohs. Most buried with solid gold masks. Only 2 survive — from kings who reigned 322 years apart ... discovered within 14 years of each other. Left: Tutankhamun (d. 1323 BC). Right: Psusennes (d. 1001 BC). [3500x2516]

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History's first recorded unsolicited nude, Beauty Revealed. In 1828, American artist Sarah Goodridge sent this self-portrait miniature to Senator Daniel Webster, not long after his wife died. It may have been meant as a marriage proposal. He later married someone else. [3855 X 3285]

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You And I Are Earth”, 1661. Creator unknown. Found in a London sewer. Tin-glazed earthenware plate. Collection of the Museum of London. (799x600)

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A ceramic jar filled with thousands of bronze coins unearthed at the site of a 15th-century samurai’s residence just north of Tokyo, Japan. (4096x2713)

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The Palmyra Castle in the province of Homs, Syria, thought to have been built by the Mamluks in the 13th century on a high hill overlooking the historic site of Palmyra [1125x1131]

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A submerged Buddha revealed in 2017, when the water level was lowered by a construction project. Carved into a riverside cliff, it was meant to protect travelers. Fuzhou, China, Ming dynasty, around 1400 [1110x1295]

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Drawings by a 7-year-old boy named Onfim, from 13th century Russia (1000x600)

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An erotic Roman fresco depicting two men and a woman making love, found in the changing room of the Suburban Baths in Pompeii. 1st century CE, Italy [1000x1000]

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Head of a man with tight, curly hair. Egypt, 2nd century BC [1110x1380]

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Roman “hologram” effect ring found in the grave of 1st century AD noblewoman, Aebutia Quarta. Thought to depict her son, Titus Carvilius Gemello, who died at age 18. Found at the Grottaferrata necropolis near Rome [2457x3072]

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One of the 4000-year-old well-preserved wagons unearthed in the Lchashen village in the vicinity of Lake Sevan. Made of oak, they are the oldest known wagons in the world. Now on display at the History Museum of Armenia [1600x1067]

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The armour of Ned Kelly, with his Snider-Enfield rifle and one of his boots. Ned Kelly was a famous bushranger who fought the law and became a hero to many of Australia's rural poor. The armour was made from plough mouldboards, and shaped by blacksmiths in makeshift forges in the bush. [800x1272]

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Depiction of Jesus Christ raising Lazarus from the dead. (Note Jesus’s appearance, and what he is holding - seems to be a wand of sorts.) Callistus Catacombs, Rome, 3rd Century CE (1242x854)

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(NSFW) Many images of Victorian erotica still survive today. Here's one with a little humor. (1079x1284)

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A Mughal emerald and gold ring, 16-17th century CE, sold at Christie's in 2019 [700x680]

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4,800-year-old skeleton of a mother holding her six-month old child. She is believed to be an ancestor of the Austronesian peoples that spread across the Pacific. Taichung, Taiwan, Dapenkeng culture, 2800 BC [1536x2308]

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Mycenaean Greek ornate agate sword, 1400 BC [1537x2048]

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The mooning gargoyle of Freiburg minster, Cathedral of Breisgau, southwest Germany. It's said that an unhappy stonemason created this gargoyle ca. 1230, and aimed it at the city council building, after not being paid for his work. (1200x640)

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A 17th century ottoman three-mast tent made of silk and gilded leather. Now on display at the Turkish Chamber in the Dresden Armoury [959x637]

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Statue of Nymph emerges from the waters. 2nd century AD. Found in recent excavations at the Gymnasium of Amastris (modern Amasra) in Turkey. [1200x1600]

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An aerial view of the Dunlough Castle, which is perched at the top of 100m cliffs above the Atlantic Ocean and next to a fresh water lake on the northern tip of Mizen Peninsula. Founded in 1207 by Donagh O’Mahony, Dunlough is one of the oldest castles in southern Ireland [1080x1351]

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A bagh nakh (tiger claw weapon) with curved blade. India, 19th century [1450x1470]

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Hawaiian hand weapon made from wood and shark teeth, circa 1778 [2100x1569]

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A 2,000-year-old sandal lost by a Roman well-cleaner. Discovered during excavations at Lucus Asturum (Lugo de Llanera) in Asturias, northern Spain. [1200x900].

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Rani Ki Vav is a stepwell, located in the town of Patan in India, that is designed as an inverted temple highlighting the sanctity of water. Its construction is attributed to Udayamati, the spouse of the 11th-century Chaulukya king Bhima I. Silted over, it was rediscovered in the 1940s [678x1387]

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A gun hidden within a bible, made for Francesco Morozini, Doge of Venice (1619-1694). The owner of the bible could pull the silk bookmark to shoot while the book was still closed. Now on display at the Museo Correr in Venice [811x705]

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A cabin on board the Aachen, a 19th-century steamship hit by a torpedo in July 1915. Now located at the bottom of the Baltic Sea [2250x1500]

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In 1985, a 5000-year-old untouched burial was found in Karakol village, Russia. The fantastical images, found on the stone slabs used as walls of the burial, were made in 3 colours, white, red and black, the first case of polychrome rock paintings ever found in Siberia [719x864]

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A bronze Roman dodecahedron, unearthed summer of 2023 during an amateur dig in a farmer's field near the Lincolnshire Footage of Norton Disney; roughly 1,700 years In the ground. [5250x3880].

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The dress uniform of the National Librarian of Madrid, 1836. [1200 X 1600]

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Fossilized Human Footprints. White Sands, New Mexico. ~23,000 years old. [650x827]

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800 years ago at All Saints Church in Hereford, England, a skillful carpenter carved this gentleman high up in the dark roof where nobody could see him. Five years ago they built an extra floor with bright lights for a restaurant. [1023x838]

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The 17th century Shah Jahan Mosque in Pakistan, notable for its geometric brick work [1365x2048]

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Windcatchers in the skyline of the Old City of Yazd in Iran. Thought to have originated from Persia thousands of years ago, windcatchers are tall chimney-like structures whose purpose is to cool the interior of the building by harnessing the cool breezes and redirecting them downwards [1777x2003]

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Two baby boys, whose bodies were covered in red ochre and buried under a mammoth bone about 31,000 years ago in what is now northeastern Austria, are the earliest known identical twins [1440x1798]

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The earliest known manufactured mirrors (approximately 8000 years old), found at the Neolithic site of Catalhoyuk in Turkey. These mirrors were made from obsidian (volcanic glass), and had a convex surface and remarkably good optical quality [1599x2323]

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The ceiling of the 2000 years old hypostyle hall of the temple of Hathor in Dendera, Egypt [1536x2048]

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The tenshu (keep) of Nagoya Castle, before it was destroyed by American air raids in WWII. Japan, Edo period, completed in 1612 with later repairs. Photo taken in 1877. Shachihoko removed. [1550x1303]

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A new chapter of the Epic of Gilgamesh is revealed when the fragment of Tablet V was finally recovered. It was written in Standard Babylonian and dates back to the Neo-Babylonian period (626-538 BC), according to researchers. [6016 x 4016] (more info in comment)

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Remains of a 2000 years old tortoise and its egg were just discovered in Pompeii [1070x803]

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Helmet with gilded inscriptions and chain mail curtain. Iran, 17th-18th century [1200x1748]

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On the left: a Minoan fresco from the House of the Ladies in Akrotiri on the Aegean island of Santorini, Greece, c. 17th century BCE. And on the right: a modern reconstruction of the fresco [6839x5408]

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In 2006, a massive monolith of the earth goddess Tlaltecuhtli was discovered in an excavation at the Templo Mayor in Mexico City. The monolith, which still retains its original polychromy, measures 4.17 by 3.62 m and weighs 12 tons, making it the largest Aztec sculpture ever discovered [3007x5320]

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In 1987, a 6500-year-old tomb was found at the site of Xishuipo in China. The tomb contained the body of a tall adult male flanked by 2 clamshell mosaics, a tiger design to the right and a dragon design to the left. The burial was accompanied by the bodies of 3 young children [998x1774]

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The Nanhai One is a Chinese merchant ship with over 60,000 items on board, which sank into the South China Sea in the 12th century. Discovered in 1987, the ship was raised in 2007 and placed in a custom-made saltwater tank where archaeologists continue to study and excavate the wreck [1190x1562]

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Atlit Yam is a 9000-year-old submerged Neolithic village off the coast of Atlit, in the Levantine sea. Underwater excavations have uncovered houses, a well, a stone semicircle containing seven 600 kg megaliths and skeletons that have revealed the earliest known cases of tuberculosis [1676x2089]

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Oldest surviving pair of Levis jeans, 1879. [1200x675]

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Then we will fight in the shade - actual arrowheads from the Battle of Thermopylae [3024 x 4032]

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The 1900-year-old Pantheon which features the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome. At noon on 21 April (traditional date of birth of Rome), the sun’s ray through the oculus would strike the entrance doorway so that the Emperor entering the building would be bathed in the sunlight [2483x3677]

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Skeleton praying, detail from the marble floor of Cornaro Chapel at the Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome. Italy, 17th century CE [697x990]

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1,500-year-old Ceramic Maya Figurine with Removable Helmet, from El Peru-Waka', Peten, Guatemala [2048x2048]

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The 2,300-year-old Grand Theatre of Ephesus, in Turkey, before and after excavation [1200x1500]

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Stele of Thonis-Heracleion being raised from the waters of Aboukir Bay near Alexandria, Egypt. It was ordered made by Pharaoh Nectanebo I (378-362 BC) and describes trade and taxation agreements. (934x1400)

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The crushed skull of a male guard wearing a metal helmet, from the tomb of the Sumerian Queen Puabi at the “Great Death Pit,” a mass burial place of royal retainers flattened under the tombs of later burials. From Ur in Iraq, 2600 BCE, now housed at the Penn Museum in Pennsylvania [1000x1054]

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The remains of a prehistoric house from the bronze age settlement of Akrotiri in Santorini, Greece. The settlement was destroyed in the Theran eruption sometime in the 16th century BCE and buried in volcanic ash [1080x1304]

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Large-eyed figures carved into a stone block, on the remote Pacific island of Nuku Hiva, possibly depicting deities or ancestors. Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, 11th century AD [1220x823]

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Golden leaf of the crown used for the coronation of Napoleon 1st, the only one remaining in the world, 1804 [1200x900]

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The shoe of a Roman legionnaire, found during the excavations of a military camp near the German city of Saalburg. Ca. 100 BC - 100 AD. (800x544)

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The bejeweled remains of Saint Coronatus, one of many martyred christian saints exhumed from the roman catacombs and ornately decorated - 1676, Heiligkreuztal, Germany [1024x683]

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A steel spike, clad in silver and crowned with gold, used in ceremony to join the tracks completing the North American transcontinental railroad at Promontory Point, Utah on 10 May, 1869. (785x515)

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First Disappointment, a marble sculpture by Erastus Dow Palmer. It depicts his young daughter's sadness when the birds she raised flew away. United States, 1861 [1800x1560]

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One of the 2 silver jugs commissioned by Maharaja Sawai Singh II of Jaipur in 1902. 345 kgs of silver was used. Used to carry 9000 litres of Ganges water to London as he attended Edward VII’s coronation, he did not consider European water suitable for his drinking. Now at Jaipur palace.[768×768]

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This German-made 12th century blade, adorned in Sweden, was discovered in 1975 buried under a tree in Siberia, Russia. It's theorized that it could have belonged to Ivan the Terrible, and came from the royal armoury as a gift at the time of the conquest of Siberia [719x1581]

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Two baby boys, whose bodies were covered in red ochre and buried under a mammoth bone about 31,000 years ago in what is now northeastern Austria, are the earliest known identical twins [710x886]

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Chateau de Chenonceau, probably the most peculiar and beautiful castle of the Loire. It was devised and protected by women. Diane de Poitiers commissioned the building of the bridge and gardens in 1555. It was later modified and owned by Catherine de Medici and Louise de Lorraine... [1920x1889] [OC]

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Rujm el-Hiri is an ancient megalithic monument made up of more than 42,000 basalt rocks arranged in concentric circles with a 4.6 m tall tumulus at its center. The monument was built between 3000 and 2700 BCE on the Golan Heights, Syria [1964x1458]

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A secret passage connecting the first and third floors of Bran Castle (Dracula's castle) that was discovered during restoration work.(1944x2592)

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[2874x4000] 3400 yo painter's palette from ancient Egypt, Amenhotep III era.

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A Victorian archery outfit belonging to Mrs Fanny Giveen. C. 1855, now part of the collection of the Museum of London [823x1062]

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The skull of a crowned athlete with a gold wreath in the shape of a laurel branch still attached to it. The flesh disintegrated after 2,500 years, but the wreath stuck and remained on the skull. Found in Agios Nikolaos, Crete. (2432x2304)

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In 1602, Queen Elizabeth I wrote a letter to the Emperor Wanli of Ming seeking trade with China, intending for the letter to be delivered that same year. The letter never made it to China until 1984. (full letter in modern English in the comments) [750x630]

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A Roman villa that was found 10 metres under the church of Santa Maria Assunta at Positano, Italy, in 2004 and opened to the public in 2018. The Villa, hidden for centuries, was buried under the ashes and mud of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE [1536x2048]

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1000 years ago some Viking craftsman lost all his equipment in the lake Mastermyr on the island of Gotland. In 1936 the wooden chest containing all the tools were found at the bottom of the former lake, which now had turned into a bog. Now on display at the Swedish History Museum [1322x1172]

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A 6,000-year-old Stone Age burial of a woman with a baby cradled in her arm discovered in 2015 in the central Netherlands city of Nieuwegein. It is the oldest infant burial ever found in the Netherlands [2117x1922]

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A Fisk iron coffin containing the body of a woman, named Sophia Catherine Nance, with a glass oval revealing her face. The woman died on January 1853 aged 28, and the coffin was found lying underneath the floorboards of Washington Street United Methodist Church in South Carolina [901x800]

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A centuries-old wooden statue was recently discovered by a group of Dutch shrimp fishermen off the coast of Texel. A municipal archaeologist for that region believes that the statue came from a warship, possibly during the 80 Years' War, which stretched from the mid-1500s to mid-1600s [1536x3007]

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Michelangelo's Moses is a marble sculpture made in 1513–15. One of the many details of this masterpiece is one very small muscle in the forearms that contracts only when lifting the pinky, otherwise it is invisible. Moses is lifting the pinky, therefore that tiny muscle is contracted [6293x4127]

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1800 year-old grave marker that warns Jacob the convert swears upon himself that any who open this grave will be cursed. in red paint, recently discovered in Galilee, Israel. Dating to Roman or Byzantine times. (1154x675)

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In the small village of Nashtifan, Iran, some of the oldest windmills in the world still spin. Made of natural clay, straw, and wood, the windmills have been milling grain for flour for an estimated 1,000 years [800x476]

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First European map of Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec Empire, made in 1524, and a mural of the city made by Diego Rivera in 1945. The city, which was built on an island in what was then Lake Texcoco, left Hernan Cortes' men in awe and many of them wondered if they were dreaming [1878x2634]

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The earliest swords so far known in the world, found at Arslantepe Mound in Turkey. The swords, which are dated back to between 3300 and 3000 BCE, are composed of arsenic-copper alloy and among them, three swords were beautifully inlaid with silver [980x980]

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An 18th century Chinese shoe for a bound foot. Foot-binding was a painful practice first carried out on young girls 1000 years ago in China to make their feet as small as possible, which were considered a status symbol and a mark of feminine beauty. The practice was banned in 1912 [2400x3646]

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The ring of Titus Carvilius Gemello. Quartz and gold, first century AD. Found at the Grottaferrata necropolis near Rome. [1564x1564]

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A Roman mosaic depicting a fish. 1st century CE, now housed at the State Historical Museum in Moscow [894x644]

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A newspaper ad from 1865 of an 18 year old man looking for a wife [605x1341]

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A rose quartz covered incense burner. Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Reign (1736-1796 CE), now housed at the Nanjing Museum in China [973x851]

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An English Regency Ear Trumpet, dating to the 1820s. (1280x967)

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Henry VIII’s insanely vast hammerbeam ceiling for his Great Hall at Hampton Court Palace. Built from 1532 onward using the skills of his shipbuilders. A work of the highest craftsmanship and engineering genius. [3024x4032].

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The surviving parts of the Colossus of Constantine, an early-4th-century statue depicting Constantine the Great, which originally occupied the west apse of the Basilica of Maxentius in Rome. The Colossus has been reconstructed to its full 12-metre height in Milan's Fondazione Prada [1409x2374]

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Some of the hundreds of rock carvings etched into the stone of hilltops in the western part of India's Maharashtra state. The petroglyphs may date back to 10,000 BCE, and they come from the hands of people who belonged to an as-yet-unknown civilization [1024x1450]

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A house plan made by Sumerians 5000 years ago. Ground plan of a residence in Umma with central courtyard, Ur III period. Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin [1125x1057]

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The 3,200-year-old tomb of Queen Nefertari, also called the Sistine Chapel of Ancient Egypt. The paintings, which are found on almost every available surface in the tomb, are considered to be the best preserved and most eloquent decorations of any Egyptian burial site [1080x1144]

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1100 years ago a young and bored Viking carved the outline of his right foot on the floorboards of the Gokstadt ship, which was discovered in 1880 in Norway [1024x1258]

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The Maya Codex of Mexico is one of only 4 known extant Maya codices, and the only one that still resides in the Americas. Made between 1021 and 1154 CE, the manuscript charts the movements of the planet Venus and is the oldest known surviving book of the Americas [1279x1953]

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Leather jacket decorated with glass beads. Great Plains, Lakota peoples, 19th century [2685x3276]

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Ionic Temple of Garni, Armenia, 1st century AD. (1080x1350)

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Tollense valley battlefield in northern Germany is considered Europe’s oldest battlefield site. 3300 years ago, some 4000 warriors from Central Europe fought in a battle on the site leaving behind thousands of bone fragments, bronze, wooden and flint weapons, and gold and bronze objects [3070x7579]

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Pocket watch retrieved from The Titanic and sold at an auction for $57500 (1200x1626)

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In 2008 a female skeleton, which is believed to date back to between 1550-1250 BC, was discovered in Oechlitz, Germany, while construction was underway to build a new rail track. The Middle Bronze Age woman had been buried wearing an elaborate headband made up of tiny bronze spirals [634x904]

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The sorceress kit, a bizzare collection of about 100 trinkets found buried inside a box, in the garden of a house in Pompeii, believed to be a fortune teller's tool kit[1126x759]

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a woman looking up at the Farnese Hercules, a Roman sculpture from the early third century A.D. based on an earlier Greek sculpture. (788x1200)

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Grotesque male character performing auto-fellatio under the statue of the Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden, City Hall of Cologne (Germany), circa 1406 [1000×1024]

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A hoard of Roman nails found at Inchtuthil, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, c87 AD. After the Roman army abandoned their forward fortification on the site they buried 875,400 iron nails on the site to prevent the enemy Caledonian tribes reforging the iron for weapons [2048x1405]

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