10000 best r/artefactporn images on Pholder | This is a cadaver stone, an Irish variant of the cadaver tomb,and represents Sir Edmond Goldyng and his wife Elizabeth Fleming. It is set into the wall of the churchyard of St. Peter's Church of Ireland in Drogheda,Ireland. It is estimated that this is from the early 16th century.[4000x6000]

This is a cadaver stone, an Irish variant of the cadaver tomb,and represents Sir Edmond Goldyng and his wife Elizabeth Fleming. It is set into the wall of the churchyard of St. Peter's Church of Ireland in Drogheda,Ireland. It is estimated that this is from the early 16th century.[4000x6000]

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The Head of St. Benedictus, at Muri Abbey in Switzerland: Another Catacomb Saint whose skull was exhumed from the Roman catacombs in 1681; it was then consecrated, decorated, and taken to Switzerland to be displayed as the relic of St. Benedictus [407x611]

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Egyptian / Phoenician Glass Dog Head Bead - 6th-4th Century BC [700 x 495]

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Ashley's Sack, a parting gift from a slave mother to her daughter: ...Rose/ mother of Ashley gave her this sack when/ she was sold at age 9 in South Carolina...Told her/ It be filled with my Love always/ she never saw her again. From 1850s, embroid

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Horse armour from the Roman garrison at the ancient city of Dura-Europos (Syria) and is one of only two known complete sets. It comprises iron scales on linen and dates to the 3rd century AD. [680x464]

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The Ammassalik wooden maps are carved, tactile maps of the Greenlandic coastlines, traded in 1885 by an Inuit hunter named Kunit to the Danish naval officer and Arctic explorer Gustav Holm. The maps were not designed for practical navigational use, but rather as storytelling aids [710x1163]

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Ring with figure of seated cat. 18th Dynasty, ca. 1390 BC. Egyptian faience. Art Institute of Chicago. X80 [2048x1844]

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Ceramic sculpture of a horse with amber glaze. China, Tang dynasty, 8th century AD [1180x1300]

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Marble female figure-This sculpture is one of the largest female figures of the folded arm type known. Early Cycladic, now the Cyclades of Greece. 132 cm tall. (ca. 2700–2300 BC)[2467x2992]

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Botticelli used actual gold to paint the hair in his “Birth of Venus,” before falling under the spell of a crazed monk and burning his own art (OC, Info in comments) [6000x4000]

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A 2,300 kg iron meteorite was found carefully wrapped in linen and buried alongside human remains in an ancient temple in Casas Grandes, an archaeological site in northern Mexico attributed to the Mogollon culture. National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. [1023x713]

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18th century iron Scold’s Bridle, The Tower of London’s collection. Formerly mistaken as an executioner’s mask. These heavy metal masks were common implements of torture and public humiliation used on women whose gossip or speech caused scandal or division in society. [600x726]

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An engraving of a horse looking over its shoulder, located at the Pair-non-Pair Cave in France. 37,000-32,000 years old [1435x1920]

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Scythian Golden Comb, ca. 400 B.C. [1080 x 1341]

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18th Century Diving Suit [1280 x 1600]

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From my personal coin collection: a Silver Denarius minted by the Roman Republic in 67 BC [900x450]

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The Kailasa temple in Maharashtra, India. Carved out of one single rock, it is notable for being the largest monolithic structure in the world. Also known as ‘Cave 16’ of the Ellora Caves, the temple was built in the 8th century during the reign of the Rashtrakuta king Krishna I [1108x1664]

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3.300-year-old chariot bridge that is still in use today. The Arkadiko Bridge in Greece was built between 1300 and 1190 BCE, making it one of the oldest still-used arch bridges still in existence. [2000x1800]

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Gilded medallion with dragon and five amethyst spheres. China, Qing dynasty, 1736-1795 [1370x1350]

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In 2020, workers discovered a huge underground city, in Midyat's old town in Turkey, after coming across a hidden access point during restoration work on a historic house. The complex may have been a refuge for 70,000 Jews and early Christians during Roman rule [4096x5463]

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A rare Japanese double-edged straight sword (ken). Kamakura Period, 13th century [3200x4500]

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Ivory rosary bead from the 15th century. [2210x1896]

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A 3500-year-old Minoan octopus vase from Palaikastro. Now on display at the Heraklion Archaeological Museum in Crete, Greece [1127x1280]

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Temari ball owned by the Zen priest Ryokan, who always kept it in his pocket so he could play with children at any time. Japan, Edo period, 1758-1831 [900x877]

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The Sword of Goujian, found in 1965. This sword is mainly made of bronze with blue crystals and turquoise decoration. The blade surprisingly didn't suffer from rust and tarnish, so it's still extremely sharp. Hubei, China, Spring and Autumn period (771–403 BC) [1200x800]

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A human hair wig that belonged to Merit, the wife of the foreman Kha who oversaw works under the reigns of pharaohs Amenhotep II, Thutmose IV, and Amenhotep III. From tomb TT8, Deir el-Medina, Egypt. Now in the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy, alongside the other artifacts from TT8. (4912x7360)

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Ruins of Choquequirao, one of the last Inca strongholds. Peru, 1536 [1400x2140]

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2,800-year-old pithos tombs, from the Kingdom of Urartu, found in 2015 in Van, eastern Turkey [1732x2310]

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Sculpture of a wild man. Germany, 14th century [1314x1750]

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The Sarcophagi of Carajia are colossal anthropomorphic sarcophagi (up to 2.5 meters tall) containing mummies and standing on the cliff side, referred to by local residents as the “ancient wise men”. Chachapoya culture, 15th century, Peru [1600x1200]

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Detail of the armor of Henry II, King of France. Made in 1555, now it's on display at the Metropolitan Museum [2632x3842]

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A large cutting from a Latin Bible, roughly dating from the late 10th to early 11th century. Thus far, the oldest manuscript fragment I have ever acquired in my career. [1536x2048]

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A few of the three hundred crocodile mummies discovered in the vicinity of the Temple of Kom Ombo in the Aswan Governorate. The temple was built during the Ptolemaic dynasty between 180–47 BC, and the crocodile mummies are now on display at the Crocodile Museum, Egypt [1600x1071]

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3,000-year-old helmet with abstract face pattern. Dayangzhou, China, around 1200 BC [900x1000]

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Great helm of Albert von Pranckh,14th century,showing the style often used by the Teutonic order.It is on display at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria.[2892x5844]

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Around 1420 CE, a cat peed on this manuscript and a Deventer scribe added illustrations of the event, by drawing hands pointing toward the stain and cursing the feline with a note. Historical Archive of the City of Cologne, Germany [1200x1397]

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Shoe worn by Marie Antoinette before her Execution on October 16, 1793. [4226x4676].

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Tianjing Pavilion, built in the middle of Lake Shi. Suzhou, China, Ming dynasty, 1612 [1080x1340]

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A well-preserved late Neolithic flint dagger found in Allensbach at the Lake Constance, southwest Germany, dating 2900-2800 BCE. The blade was made of flint from Monte Baldo in northern Italy. It was fastened with birch tar in a handle made of elderwood [1430x1431]

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Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell circa 500,000-300,000 years ago. From West Tofts, Norfolk. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge [1281x1785]

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A letter from a mother to her son, around 1900, written in Bosancica (Bosnian Cryllic), a script that survived until the early 20th century when it was replaced with Latin [870x546]

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Uniform blouse worn by Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria on the day of his assasination. Bloodstains and incisions from Doctors trying to operate him can be seen below the collar. [1120x811]

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Stela B in the Maya site of Copan, Honduras. Dedicated August 18, 731 CE or 9.15.0.0.0 4 Ahau 13 Yax, Maya longcount date: 18-Rabbit appears as the god Chac, associated with Venus as Evening Star[1531x1997]

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Pentagram of hearts, Templar hermitage of Saint Bartholomew. Rio Lobos Canyon, Soria, Spain.The pentagram is formed by the inter-crossing of five big hearts that create five small ones as well as the five pointed star and a pentagon, all of them full of... (follows in comments) [1080x1069] [OC]

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Buried fourteen feet under a cellar in the seventeenth century and discovered a century ago, the Cheapside Hoard consists of some five-hundred pieces including a four-hundred year old watch encased in solid emerald. [1401x787]

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Inspecting a crack in the concrete dome of the 1900-year-old Pantheon in Rome, 1925 [1241x1676]

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Goofy Europeans, 1760, Mewar, India [3072x2243]

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Terra Cotta bust of Maximilien Robespierre, France, 1791 [3744 x 5616]

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In a villa in Stabiae (central Italy), a fragment of the Roman water supply system was discovered, which consisted of a decorated reservoir and lead pipes. This system was used to regulate the flow of water and distribute it to various rooms of the house and fountains. [1200x900]

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18th century ceremonial sword from Mongolia or Tibet, made with a steel blade, a jade handle, a silver sheath inlaid with coral and turquoise, and a silk tassel[1179 x 2100]

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Samurai helmet (kabuko) shaped like an octopus. 1700s, Japan. [1024x1177]

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The remains of a Zoroastrian fire temple in Iran. Its believed to have dated to the time of the Sassanian Empire (which lasted from 224 - 651AD). [5184 x 3456]

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Fly whisk made of yak tail hair, with gem-encrusted handle. Nepal, around 1800 [2270x2080]

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A 5200-year-old pottery bowl from Shahr-e Sukhteh bearing what could possibly be the world's oldest example of animation. It shows 5 images of a wild goat leaping, and if you put them in a sequence (like a flip book), the wild goat leaps to nip leaves off a tree. Museum of Ancient Iran [2384x2014]

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Johann Sebastian Bach's handwritten personal copy of his Mass in B minor, held by the Berlin State Library, and added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Register. The Mass in B minor (completed in 1749) is widely regarded as one of the supreme achievements of classical music [1200x900]

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Carving of a wasp's nest. Japan, Edo period, 1800-1850 [1120x980]

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Three headed dragon wall painting from an Etruscan tomb at the necropolis of Pianacce, dated to the 4th century BC. [1280x1205]

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Ancient Roman Tomb For A Dog (Tomb remained Intact until 16th Century and other piece were missing but registration was preserved) - Translation on the comment [1060x1500]

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A death mask belonging to a high-ranking official at the end of the 18th dynasty, Egypt, 1331 – 1292 BC. (3547x1641)

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A marble statue from Hadrian’s Villa depicting Venus, the goddess of love, crouching at her bath. The statue is modelled after the Crouching Aphrodite type, attributed to the 3rd century BC sculptor Doidalsas of Bithynia. Now housed at the National Roman Museum in Rome [750x1133]

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The outrageously complex late C15th Astwerk (branchwork) vault in the Chapel of the Brewer's Guild at the Minster Church of Our Lady in Ingolstadt, Bavaria. Flying ribs galore! [640x854]

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Nestled in the Sahara of Mauritania, the old city of Chinguetti, which was a medieval trading center, has five important libraries that contain thousands of scientific and Qur'anic manuscripts and books dating back to the 12th and 13th century CE [2048x2901]

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The Lycurgus cup is an ancient Roman cage cup showing the mythical King Lycurgus. It changes color depending on the light that shines on it. It is the only complete Roman object made from this type of glass. It dates from the 4th century A.D. [1000x666]

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8000-year-old rock engravings depicting fighting felines, giraffes, an elephant and a rhinoceros. Located at the prehistoric archaeological site of Wadi Mathendous in Libya, back when the Sahara was green, pocked with lakes, rivers, grasslands and even forests [3056x2289]

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A Maya jade pectoral with the representation of a toad, and decorated with a fragment of amber. Now housed at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City [1080x1080]

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Statue of Akhenaten (r. 1353–1336 BC) with wide hips and breasts. According to Yale University physician Dr. Irwin Braverman, Akhenaten feminine features were due to a genetic mutation that caused the pharaoh's body to convert more male hormones to female hormones than needed [1500x2846]

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4,700-year-old ball of yarn found near Lake Bienne. Luscherz, Switzerland, around 2700 BC [900x782]

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The remains of the Egtved girl, a Nordic Bronze age teenager (c. 1370 BC). Her body is gone, but her hair, top, skirt and bronze belt buckle has survived [400x1061]

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The Codex Argenteus is a 5th-century illuminated manuscript, originally containing part of the 4th-century translation of the Christian Bible into the Gothic language. It was written in silver and gold letters on purple vellum, and is now housed at the Uppsala University Library in Sweden [1153x894]

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A naval boarding sword with saw-like edge. Italy, 1500–1525 [2000x1300]

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The costume Gustav III of Sweden wore during the masquerade ball where he was shot and fatally wounded in 1792. Now kept at the Royal Armoury in Stockholm [3328x4992]

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A Roman bronze whistle. 1st-3rd century CE [3853x3103]

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Only taxidermied blue whale in the world. Gothenburg, Sweden 1865 [1200x798]

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A 4,500 y/o dress was unearthed in Giza, and this is what it looks like after reconstruction. While the original strings disintegrated- the beads were left in place (2048X1514)

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Santa Cristina sacred well in Sardinia, Italy, built between the 9th and 11th century BCE. The well is oriented so that sunlight shines upon the water on the equinoxes, and moonlight shines upon the water at the maximum declination of the moon, which occurs every 18 years and 6 months [2586x4861]

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Sword made of coins, for protecting a newborn baby from harmful spirits. China, Qing dynasty, 18th century [1470x1100]

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Door at St Helen's Church, Stillingfleet, Yorkshire, with Viking motifs on the reinforcing ironwork. The church was built around 1145 but the door may be 10th century - up to 200 years older. The door was in use until 1990, but was replaced and is now on display inside the church [736x981]

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The Belogradchik Fortress is an ancient fortress and Roman stronghold, constructed within the Belogradchik Formation on the slopes of the Balkan Mountains in Bulgaria. Constructed by the Romans in the 3rd century CE, It was last used in warfare during the Serbo-Bulgarian War in 1885 [990x990]

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Pair of moccasins with ornamental beads. Alberta, Canada, Blackfoot culture, around 1900 [1740x1622]

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Gavrillo Princip’s FN-Browning M1910 pistol used to assassinate Archiduke Franz Ferdinand [1024x683]

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The will of an ancient Egyptian lady named Naunakhte, in which she distributes her property amongst 5 of her 8 children. It records her decision to disinherit the other 3 because they failed to support her sufficiently in her old age. 1142 BCE, now housed at the Ashmolean Museum [1015x1200]

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Helmet with red iron mask. Japan, Edo period, 1615-1650 [900x1070]

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Part of the National Museums of Scotland collection these are 3 of many leather Roman shoes found at Trimontium in the Scottish Borders. The soil conditions mean they were found in an amazing condition of preservation. These shoes were worn over 1,800 years ago. [960x720]

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An archeologist showing a golden ring dating from the 4th century BCE, found in a Thracian king's tomb near Zlatinitsa - Malomirovo in Yambol region, Bulgaria [1200x707]

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An aerial photo of the ancient Punic city of Kerkouane in Tunisia. The city was probably abandoned during the First Punic War (c. 250 BCE) and was not rebuilt by the Romans, and its remains constitute the only example of a Phoenicio-Punic city to have survived [638x720]

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The oldest known Roman wine is dating back to the 4th century CE. The 1.5-liter bottle was found in the tomb of the Roman nobleman in present-day Germany. [600x600]

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The Roman temple of Bacchus at Baalbek, Lebanon [2326X1536] is one of the largest and most intact temples left of the Roman Levant (2nd century CE)

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The incredibly realistic 2320 years old bronze head of the Thracian king Seuthes III, now housed at the National Museum of Archeology in Sofia, Bulgaria [1339x2000]

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An Egyptian necklace made of gold flies, and glass inlays, in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden. 1550 - 1070 B.C. (1200X797)

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Roman mosaic of two women playing a ball game, part of a larger mosaic depicting women competing in athletic activities. From the Villa Romana del Casale, early 4th century AD. [2000x1556]

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Napoleon’s Hat, sold for $2.1 Million at Auction in France. 19th-century. [976x549].

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Jar in the form of an erotic scene. Peru, Chimu-Inca, 1200-1470 AD [1899x1660]

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The mysterious architectural stone models at the archaeological site of Awkimarka in Peru. They measure between 40 and 50 cm. Date and purpose unknown [1637x2070]

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Watchman's clock stopped at 9:04 found in the aftermath of the Halifax Explosion on December 6th 1917 [1500x1950]

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A Tang dynasty green-splashed cup with 3-dimensional fish at the bottom, recovered from the Belitung shipwreck, which is the the wreck of an Arabian dhow which sank around 830 CE on its return from China. Now on display at the Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore [800x696]

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Jamadhar, punching dagger with two flintlock pistols built on the handle. Made of Damascus Steel and some parts are damascened in gold in a floral and foliate design. Late 17th Century. Mughal. On display at National Museum, New Delhi, India.[1800×1757]

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St. Bartholomew Flayed, by Marco d'Agrate. Stands at the Duomo di Milano. [1578 x 2355] [OC]

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Short sword with gilded surface. China, Warring States period, 475–221 BC [1850x2440]

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Ascension of Mary Magdalene, by Tilman Riemenschneider, from the Magdalena Altarpiece, Munnerstadt (1490–1492), limewood,Bayerisches National Museum Munich.[1400x1819]

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1st century Tefillin (Jewish ritual gear) from caves in the Judean desert compared to modern ones [1134x835]

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A Roman paved road leading out of Ambrussum, a roadside town in Gaul, is still visible along with the traces of Roman chariot tracks [4928x3264]

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The Polish Pyramids are a group of megalithic tombs that have been discovered in Wietrzychowice, Poland. They are elongated mounds with a length of up to 150 m and a height of 2–3 m, probably belonging to Funnelbeaker culture, 4000 years BC [800x1044]

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Livia’s Villa, wife of Octavian Augustus, was discovered in 1863 at Prima Porta, north of Rome. It was quite a sensation to find an underground room, the walls of which were entirely decorated with an amazing fresco of the summer garden. [1200x584]

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A seat in Woolsey Hall at Yale University custom designed to accommodate the 27th President of the United States, William Howard Taft [645x963]

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The Masuda no iwafune is an 800 ton stone structure approximately 11 meters in length, 8 meters in width, and 4.7 meters in height, located on top of a hill in Asuka, Japan. How or why this colossal stone was carved remains a mystery [800x529]

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Kamishimo (formal outfit) belonging to lord Tokugawa Yoshikatsu. Japan, Edo period, around 1850 [1550x2120]

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Mummy portrait of a young man from Roman Egypt who lived in the mid 2nd century AD. (2493X4096)

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Queen Marie Josee Royal Ruby Ring - 19th century - was the ring of the last Queen of Italy, who only ruled for a month. It was given to her as a wedding gift to the crown prince and features an 8.48 carat Pigeon Blood Ruby, considered to be one of the most valued qualities of Ruby [710x663]

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The fan vaults on the ceiling of Bath Abbey, 1500's. (3612x5418)

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Pomander carved from spinach green jade. China, Qing Dynasty, 1736 [1000x744]

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A Hellenistic mosaic glass bowl. Late 3rd-2nd century BC, sold at Bonhams in 2004 [640x872]

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Golden scroll written and intricately illustrated with gold paint on dyed paper. Japan, Edo Period, 1636 [2000x1109]

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Sword of king Marduk-shapik-zeri, with inscription that says King of the World. Babylon, Iraq, 1081-1069 BC [3024x3950]

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