A temple is engulfed in flames during the Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert [3500x2494]9yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/FirePorn
Horse head, gilded silver, 4th century AD, Sassanid art. Found in Kerman, Iran [1660x1650]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
An ancient Roman bridge spans the Wadi al Murr in Mosul - Iraq [900x646]9yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Roman Silver Spork, 3rd Century AD. Decorated with a panther and a griffin (video in comment) [844x360]9yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Firefighter's French early masks, this pair of early rescue masks, shown above, dates from between the mid-1800s and World War I [466x516]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Viking sword, Piast dynasty helmet and spear head found in Lednica Lake (Poland). c. 9th century AD.9yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/pics
Moving of the Oseberg ship from the University garden to the Viking Ship Museum in 1926. (Source in comment) [900x675]6yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
“Portions of an Armor of Maximilian I of Austria, for use in the German joust of peace (Gestech),” c. 1494. Armor made by Lorenz Helmschmid, German [736x983]9yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
8,000-7,000 BCE The stone Tower built into the settlement walls of Jericho. [736x904]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Lichtenstein Castle is a castle situated on a cliff located near Honau on the Swabian Alb, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany [3888x2592]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/castles
A person stands in front of the lava flow and massive smoke plumes of the Holuhraun Fissure, near the Bardarbunga Volcano, Iceland on Sept. 2, 2014 [1440x960]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/FirePorn
This Persian gold daric originates from the ancient Persian Achaemenid Empire (550–330 BCE) [736x726]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Clay beaker with images of snakes; ca. 4000 B.C.; excavated at Susa, Mesopotamia; 30 cm high; Louvre, Paris, France. [500x580]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Howard Carter, an English archaeologist, examining the opened sarcophagus of King Tut [868x1393]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Clay grenades that were filled with Greek fire, surrounded by caltrops, 10th–12th century, National Historical Museum, Athens - Greece [1881x1590]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered a 100-million-year-old insect preserved in amber with a triangular head, almost-alien and “E.T.-like” appearance and features so unusual that it has been placed in its own scientific “order” – an incredibly rare event.7yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Helmet of Philip the Handsome. Workshop of Negroli. Milan, c. 1495-1500. Etched, gilt, and silvered steel; brass, gold, filigree. Real Armeria, Madrid. [727x699]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Complete 9,000-year-old frozen bison mummy from Siberia (more info in a comment) [736X490]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Archaeologists have found the outlines of a Viking ship buried not far from the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The 65-foot-long ship was covered over more than 1,000 years ago to serve as the final resting place of a prominent Viking king or queen. [670x670]6yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Pyrotechnics for a football game in Greece match between PAOK-Olympiakos 16/04/2014 [960x796]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/FirePorn
Stone lion's head, Neo-Assyrian, about 680-670 BC From Sippar, southern Iraq [600x600]9yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Wild horses of Shackleford Banks, Cape Lookout National Seashore, Carteret County, North Carolina [720x1080]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/AnimalPorn
Michał Mazur on skateboard photo place Nice, France 2008 by Wojtek Antonow [1000x666]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/AdrenalinePorn
Fokker Boneyard (1919): German planes on the scrapheap after WWI under Versailles Treaty terms [3264x2448]6yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
The Basilica Cistern is the largest of several hundred ancient cisterns that lie beneath the city of Istanbul, Turkey. The cistern, located 500 feet (150 m) southwest of the Hagia Sophia on the historical peninsula of Sarayburnu, was built in the 6th century. [1024x745]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
The Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in North America. The structure built by the Ancient Pueblo Peoples is located in Mesa Verde National Park in their former homeland region. Colorado, in the Southwestern United States. [6886x2478]9yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
The alignments of Carnac, the largest collection of megaliths in the world, demonstrate the organisation of Neolithic culture in Brittany [2983x1223]8yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Spherical Astrolabe, Museum of the History of Science, 1480 - 1481. This astrolabe is made of brass with the inscriptions, hour-lines, meridians and circles of altitude in silver; the rotating star map is made of brass, laminated with silver on the ecliptic and equatorial circles [965x956]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Spiral stairs of the Vatican Museums, designed by Giuseppe Momo in 1932. [2749x1829]11yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/DesignPorn
Patera of Rennes - Gold. Early 3rd century CE. Diameter 25 cm, weight 1375 g. Found in Rennes (Brittany) in 1774. [1190x1200]9yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
This bird shoe was found in Haarlem, Neetherland, and is dated ca 1300-1350. [800X1200]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Helmet. Greek, South Italian. 525-500 BC. Saint Louis Art Museum [451x600]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Celestial Planetarium, ca. 1820-1830, France - National Maritime Museum [736x1024]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
6 5/8 inch Megalodon tooth, 3 1/8 inch fossil Great White and 1 1/2 inch modern day Great White tooth. [720x960]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Carved amber pendant-figurine found in Novi Pazar, c. VI-V BCE, Sandjak, Serbia [726x960]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Willow Sculpture Stag, Kirkcudbright Stewarty Museum, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland5yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/BeAmazed
A soldier who lost both his legs in the first World War, playing a game of billiards, 1915. [1200x1654]8yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Indian sword hilt, extensive carvings of flowers and leaves, the raised surfaces applied with gold, the guard is in the form of a tiger rearing up with the pommel in the shape of an elephant whose trunk is wrapped around the attacking tiger below[536x879]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
The Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex) also known as whalehead or shoe-billed stork (shot from ZOO)6yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Mummy of a man. At the department of Egyptian Antiquities - The Louvre, Paris. [530x810]9yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
An extremely scarce flintlock-latern pistol by Regnier. provenance: France dating: circa 1800 [500x1854]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Narwhals in sea ice, shot from an ultralight plane on floats in the Arctic Bay of Baffin Island. By Paul Nicklen10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/pics
Queen Elizabeth I’s Ring. Gold, mother-of-pearl, rubies, and enamel, c.1560 [809x1248]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Sarcophagus of a woman named Artemidora, Roman Egypt, 90-100 A.D. [534x679]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
HR Giger weapon. Giger has recently finished casting a 500lb aluminium cast sculpted version of his famous Birthmachine painting. This massive work measures 2 meters high. The sculpture is exhibited now in front of the H.R. Giger Museum. [3072x2304]11yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/DesignPorn
Soviet tank T-34-85, crashed into the entrance of the metro station at Alexanderplatz in Berlin. 1945 [1500x1390]8yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/DestroyedTanks
Ottoman helmets, Military Museum near Taksim Square, Istanbul Turkey. [420x630]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Gold Handled Flint Knife- Egypt Predynastic Period, Naqada II (3500-3100 BC) [506X415]9yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Paratrooper dummy Rupert used during the D-day. From the Merville Bunker museum in France6yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
The Body of Princess Ukok, who died aged 25, had several tattoos on her body, including a deer with a griffon's beak and a Capricorn's antlers. The tattoos have been perfectly preserved for 2,500 years (source and more info in comment)7yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
The lower bridge is the original bridge from 300 years ago. The higher one was built one hundred years later. Perth and Kinross, Scotland10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/pics
A plumb, a square, and a square level from the tomb of Senedjem at Deir el-Medineh. Cairo, Egypt (Source and more info in comment) [411X493]8yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Europen riveted mail coif and hauberk, from a mass grave, battle of Visby, fought in July 1361 on the Swedish Baltic island of Gotland [1576x1407]7yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Ancient Roman scale armor ( Lorica Squamata ) Vindonissa. This fragment has the significant distinction of having preserved its original leather holder. This discovery makes it possible to retrieve the time of installation. First-second century AD. [583x716]9yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Indian War Elephant armor, 17th century, made of sheet iron panels [683X1024]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
One of the first watches, made around 1510, attributed to Nuremberg clockmaker Peter Henlein, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg. Clock-watches (Taschenuhr) like these, worn as pendants or attached to clothing, were the first timepieces worn on the body. [800X593]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
The Sword of Goujian is an archaeological artifact of the Spring and Autumn period (771 to 403BC) found in 1965 in Hubei, China. [3722x780]9yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Extraordinary gold damascened Astra 300 pistol with pearl grips. [1600x1107]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/GunPorn
Qudshu Gold Pendant. 1300 BCE. From Uluburun Shipwreck, Southwestern Turkey [600X979]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
American soldiers carry rescued paintings down the steps of Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, which was used by the Nazis to store thousands of treasures stolen from French collectors, including the Rothschilds - 1945 [1240x775]8yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Presentation sword (jian) China, Ming dynasty, Yongle period, 1402–1424 [544x725]9yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
3,000 year old Golden Torc from the Ulster Museum in Belfast. [628x422]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Ciaran Heurteau sledyaking on the White Salmon River. Photo by Ben Marr [960x720]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/AdrenalinePorn
The Obelisk of Axum is a 1,700-year-old, 24-metre-tall (79-foot) granite stele/obelisk, weighing 160 tonnes, in the city of Axum in Ethiopia. [2592x3456]9yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
A suit of bone armor dating to the Bronze Age has been discovered in Siberia [720x541]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Hair of Mary Tudor, Queen of France, clipped from her head at the opening of her tomb in 1784 encased in a locket. The famous Tudor red hair [600x1038]9yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Silver cup, from the Boscoreale treasure (early 1st century AD) [3600x2400]8yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Stout Scarab 1932 - automobile designed by William Bushnell Stout and produced in small numbers by Stout Engineering Laboratories and later by Stout Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan [1920x1200]11yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/DesignPorn
Ottoman Empire armor belonging to Sultan Mustafa III, decorated with gold and encrusted with jewels, 18th century, exhibited in the Imperial Treasury of Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, Turkey10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Female figure, made of gypsum, with a gold mask that stood at a temple altar in Nippur, c. 2700 bce. Courtesy of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad [578x780]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Stunts on flyboardach during the world championships in windsurfing at the National Stadium in Warsaw, 2014 [3888x2592]8yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/AdrenalinePorn
An ancient Roman floor mosaic in Pompeii's House of Doves portraying a lion, symbol of strength, and more. [1024x964]9yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Civil War Heavy Bullion General Shoulder Boards in original tin [523x600]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Campana relief with Hercules fighting the Nemean lion. Roman, 50 BC-50 [557x700]8yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
The Pettibone Bros. Mfg. Co. Revolving Disc 'Sciopticon' (Cincinnati, Ohio), c. 1896. [500x593]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Aqueduct of Segovia is one of the most important and best preserved relics of the Roman presence in the Iberian Peninsula - Spain [3456x2304]11yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/InfrastructurePorn
Florian Ebner walking the line in Lienzer Dolomiten, Austria [683x1024]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/AdrenalinePorn
A fragment from the world's oldest-known ax. The rock flake found in Australia is believed to be from the world’s oldest known ax and likely dates from just after humans arrived in the country around 50,000 years ago[2409x2800]8yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Michał Mazur on skateboard photo place Nice, France 2008 by Wojtek Antonow [1000x666]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/skateboarding
Board game pieces - From the Viking town Birka, Sweden. (8th-10th century) [800x533]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Longest navigable aqueduct in the world: Magdeburg Water Bridge (Magdeburg, Germany) [750X975]10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/InfrastructurePorn
1757 leatherbound case for miniature books, National Library of the Netherlands9yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/pics
A tornado south of Parker, Colorado, 2009. Photo by Zachary Caron [800x1200]9yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/WeatherPorn
The Circus Games Mosaic is a 2nd-century Roman mosaic depicting a chariot race in quadrigas. It was discovered in 1806 in the Ainay district of Lyon (ancient Lugdunum) and is now on display in the Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon. [4585x3189]8yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
The “Macedonian Treasures” [675x1385] (more info and photos in comment)10yr ⋅ bigmeat ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
