Iron spider helmet designed to be worn by cavalrymen, French, c. 1600s. The 'spider-like' legs of this helmet protected the mounted soldier's face and head from slashing sword blows. [3400x2915]1yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Ancient Roman era carved faience 20-sided dice with Greek letters possibly used by an oracle, c. 2nd-3rd century CE.1yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/DungeonsAndDragons
Two photos of Union soldier Royal Ordway taken 44 years apart in 1862 and 1906. He served with Company B of the 13th Vermont Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War. More then and now portraits of his comrades in the comments. [1696x1244]6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Photo of Union soldier Francis Quinn while he was serving with the 40th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Civil War paired with another one of him taken 45 years later in 1906. [3853x2388]6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Ancient Roman surgical instruments found buried in a physician's home in Pompeii, Italy, 1897. [888x1042]8yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Redditor found this display in an antique shop. [x-post from /r/wtf]4yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/WTFgaragesale
Interior of the sealed black granite sarcophagus opened today containing three human skeletons and sewage water in Alexandria, Egypt, c. 323-30 BC. [1400x930]6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Redditor found this doll (which was originally discovered in an abandoned factory) on sale in an oddities store in Beacon, New York. [x-post from /r/creepy]4yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/WTFgaragesale
Photograph of US Marines dragging the body of 2nd Lt. Donald Jacques out of the underbrush near Khe Sanh during an ambush, South Vietnam, February 25, 1968.7yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/CombatFootage
The great grandfather of a Redditor's friend used to make these masks out of white tailed deer butts. [x-post from /r/wtf]3yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Brick stairway that is slowly being destroyed by erosion over the years. [3024x4032]4yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/DestructionPorn
Photo titled Tracer bullets from antiaircraft guns ashore and onboard ships, cut a pattern in the black night over Iwo as American forces set up a barrage to repel a Jap air attack on portions of the Island held by the Marines. 1945.7yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/CombatFootage
Black mirror (also known as Claude glass) in shark skin case believed to have been used for scrying by Anglo-Welsh mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and occult philosopher John Dee, c. 1550-1609.4yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/occult
Daguerreotype view of a man named Joseph Avery stranded on a log in the Niagara River after his boat sank, July 17, 1853. He held on for 18 hours during which a series of unsuccessful rescue attempts were launched, but he eventually was swept over Niagara Falls to his death.4yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Interior of the ancient sealed granite sarcophagus opened today containing three human skeletons and sewage water in Alexandria, Egypt.6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/WTF
The last photo taken by famed war photographer Robert Capa with his Nikon camera before he stepped on a landmine and died later in the day while covering the First Indochina War, 25 May 1954.4yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Human skeleton wearing leather boots recently excavated near the shore of the Thames in London, England, c. 1450-1550 CE. [1920x1152]5yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
An apothecary shop’s signboard with seven scenes of the owner attending to patients and a portrait of him from a shop in Dorset, England, 1623. [3060x3570]5yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
His Rifle Will Fire, Will Mine? Care of Arms is Care of Life. British WW2 poster, c. 1940's.6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/PropagandaPosters
Redditor found this nun painting at a thrift store. [x-post from /r/creepy]4yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/WTFgaragesale
A box of relics found on the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg battlefield including artillery shell fragments, Minie balls, and a bayonet presented to Union general Winfield Scott Hancock in 1885. [1630x1020]6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Kiowa buckskin with drawing showing Native Americans fighting US Army soldiers, c. 1879-1907. [2932x1772]6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Just found this concrete tombstone digging in the yard that seems to have a 1960s date. Very hard to read. Possibly for a pet?4yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Antique store clerk: “This is the most terrifying thing we have here” [x-post /r/antiques]4yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/WTFgaragesale
Photo of the execution by hanging of nine black Union soldiers who were convicted of the murder of civilian Minerva Cook near the end of the Civil War in Vicksburg, Mississippi, May 26, 1865.3yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Ivory memento showing a gradually decaying face of a dead person in three stages, c. 1500-1550. [1405x598]6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Article on a 1865 double murder-suicide in Dedham, Massachusetts, from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.3yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Redditor's grandfather, a gunner in the RAF, was shot down over Amsterdam and kept this shrapnel taken from his knee in a box labeled Present From Adolf. He spent the remainder of the war in a POW camp. [x-post from /r/ww2]4yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Ancient Egyptian painted wood funerary model of a woman milking a cow, Middle Empire, 12th Dynasty, c. 1990-1786 BCE. [5000x5000]5yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Redditor’s grandfather saw Mussolini and his followers’ bodies in Milan and acquired these photos while there in 1945. [x-post from /r/ww2]4yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Infantrymen of the 27th Infantry Regiment, near Heartbreak Ridge, take advantage of cover and concealment in tunnel positions, 40 yards from the Communists. Photo of American soldiers during the Korean War, August 10, 1952.6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/CombatFootage
Woodblock carving of sea wormwood (left) used to print a page (right) of a botany book, European, c. 1560's. [6666x4992]6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Photo of two men standing in the midst of the bodies of soldiers who died fighting in a cemetery during the Battle of Melegnano during the Second Italian War of Independence in 1859. Probably the first photograph taken shortly after a battle of bodies of the dead on a battlefield.4yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Four German soldiers in bunk beds who had been woken up for a surprise photograph during World War 1, c. 1917. [1047x1633]10yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Photo taken from the periscope of an American submarine of a Japanese hospital ship during World War 2, March 1943.6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/CombatFootage
British A. A. guns illumine the desert wastes. Photo taken during an aerial Axis attack in Tobruk, Libya, c. 1941-1942.6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/CombatFootage
The Deserter's Fate. Photo of the aftermath of the execution of Union Army deserter William H. Johnson by firing squad in Virginia on December 13, 1861.4yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Daguerreotype photo of the ancient Native American mound known as Big Mound in St. Louis, Missouri, c. 1854. It was built by the Mississippian culture between 1000-1400 AD and its last remnants were leveled by a railroad company in 1869.9mo ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/Lost_Architecture
Group of life-size wax Amish figures that went on sale on Craigslist last year.4yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/WTFgaragesale
Photo of Japanese POWs standing in a landing craft after the surrender of the Japanese garrison in Rota in the Northern Mariana Islands, September 1945. Original color photograph taken by Halcyon Gardner Skinner. [x-post from /r/Historyporn]10mo ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/wwiipics
Alleged photo said to be taken of an aerial dogfight during WW1 titled An aerial combat at 15000 feet over the trenches.7yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/CombatFootage
Lyndon B. Johnson yelling at the pilots of a nearby plane to cut their engines so that John F. Kennedy could speak as Kennedy is seen trying to calm him down. Taken during the 1960 presidential campaign in Amarillo, Texas.10yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/pics
Photos of American troops in combat during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in 1918.6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/CombatFootage
Lyndon B. Johnson yelling at the pilots of a nearby plane to cut their engines so that John F. Kennedy could speak as Kennedy is seen trying to calm him down. Taken during the 1960 presidential campaign in Amarillo, Texas. [963x1280]10yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A piece of preserved skin with tattoos found with a mummy of the Pazyryk culture excavated in the Altay Mountains of Siberia, 3-4th century BC. [710x1070]7yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Declassified photo of a group of smiling German crewmen of the U-boat U-66 after their capture by the US Navy in May 1944. [6008x4784]6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Redditor found this doll at an antique store. [x-post from /r/oldschoolcreepy]4yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/WTFgaragesale
Two photographs of a Union artillery battery during the Siege of Petersburg in Virginia during the American Civil War, c. 1864-1865.7yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/CombatFootage
Wooden female and male anatomical figures, European, c. 1600-1700. [2882x3890]6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Carved wooden figures at a bar that I saw at an estate sale recently.2yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Maori Mokomokai preserved head on display in Kosice, Slovakia. [x-post from /r/wtf]4yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Aftermath of a collision between a streetcar and a C&O train in Lexington, Kentucky, 1907. [2157x1335]8yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
“Fill the Ships and We Shall Fill the Shops.” British WW2, c. 1939-1945.6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/PropagandaPosters
Two German oxygen canisters in wooden case believed to have been used by German military hospital or first aid post during World War 1, c. 1914-1918. [4256x2832]6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
A Valentin knife which was used for cutting slices of organs and soft tissues for microscopic examination, British, c. 1850-1870. [4256x2832]6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Human skull with two holes caused by sling-shot projectiles and a larger one caused by a mace. Found in Huacho, Peru, date unknown. [1613x2355]5yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Just found this concrete tombstone digging in the yard that seems to have a 1960s date.4yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/WTF
At the approaches to Leningrad, sappers of the Red Army are seen as they create strongly fortified zones which promise unpleasant surprises for German invaders. Photo taken in 1941.6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/CombatFootage
Painted leather fireman's helmet belonging to J.W. Stockey of Mound Fire Co. No. 9 in St. Louis, Missouri, c. 1852. [2735x2121]6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Retreat from Verdun. Anti-tank gun in action. Hill 510. 1918. Photo of German soldiers from IWM.6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/CombatFootage
Antelope horn with attached human jaw bone reported to have been used by a powerful medicine man in Nigeria, c. 1880-1910. [4819x3653]6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Ruins of an ancient Roman legionary camp built during the Siege of Masada in Israel, c. 73-74 CE. [4928x3264]5yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
“The German Invasion”. A poor British family watching a mob of newly-arrived German workers, 1884. By Tom Merry.6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/PropagandaPosters
Mississippian Culture flared flint hoe blade found in a hollow tree trunk in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1820. Carved c. 1000-1400 CE. [4096x6144]5yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Residents of Gibraltar and Spanish refugees watch the bombardment of Algeciras. Spanish Civil War, August 10, 1936.6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/CombatFootage
An elderly man sits on the pile of rubble which was once his home, following a V1 Flying Bomb strike in Upper Norwood, London, July 1944. He had been out for a walk as his wife prepared the Sunday lunch, and returned to find that his house had been destroyed and his wife killed. [1772x1856]6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Redditor spotted what looks like Pinocchio hidden in the back of the group of the photo at the end of Kubrick’s The Shining. [x-post from /r/kubrick]3yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Meerschaum cigar holder carved in commemoration of the coronation of King Ludwig II of Bavaria, German, c. 1864-1867. [4087x2832]6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Sailor posing with a fish stunned by the explosion of depth charge in Harwich, Essex on 15th April 1918. [3508x2767]6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Redditor's father got his high school yearbook signed by Jeffrey Epstein back in the day. [x-post from /r/epstein]4yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Photo looking down Pennsylvania Avenue taken from the US Capitol by photographer William England, c. 1859. Source: Library of Congress.1yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/washingtondc
The German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee in flames after being scuttled off Montevideo, Uruguay, after the Battle of the River Plate, 17 December 1939. IWM photo.6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/CombatFootage
Human teeth found in the wall of a building formerly used by a dentist in the early 1900s. [x-post from /r/wtf]4yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Green glass 'poison' shop round for morphine, European, c. 1803-1900. [2736x4184]6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Frank Sinatra stepping off of a helicopter with a drink in his hand, by Yul Brynner, 1964. [500x700]11yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Half man half skeleton memento mori figure, c. 1800-1820. [1960x3008]6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Redditor bought this for $2.99 at Goodwill. [x-post /r/thriftstorehauls]5yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/WTFgaragesale
A large crowd of mostly African Americans mourning the death of President Abraham Lincoln in front of the Warren County Courthouse in Vicksburg, Mississippi, April 1865. [1616x966]10yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The bodies of two British soldiers killed by poison gas near Kemmel, Belgium, 1918.5yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
An ancient Native American mummy discovered in Utah before and after being restored with caustic potash in the early 1900s.6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/WTF
Brass knuckles carried by one of Abraham Lincoln's bodyguards during his train ride through Baltimore, Maryland, on February 23, 1861. [3552x2680]6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Redditor found this Michael Jackson lamp at a thrift store. [x-post from /r/wtf]3yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Ancient Egyptian papyrus contract: “The wet-nurse Shepenese agrees to suckle the steward Panese's son with both breasts, if health permits, to wean and rear him and tend him for three years, against board and lodging and annual payments of oil and silver.” 223 BC. [3909x2698]6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Variety of pills used to break people’s addiction to opium in China, c. 1904-1905. [1634x1252]6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
The mummified head of English philosopher Jeremy Bentham who died in 1832.5yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Photo of a Japanese Kamikaze plane diving towards the HMS Illustrious, June 1945. “The airplane scraped the bridge with its wing and crashed in the sea. It dived out of the clouds on the port bow and from the time it emerged from the clouds until the time it hit the water was only 11 seconds.“5yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/CombatFootage
WW1 photo titled American sharp shooters picking off Boche rear guard. Their particular prey were the German machine gunners.7yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/CombatFootage
Photo of mountaineers posing with the dead bodies of three fellow climbers they had retrieved on Mont Blanc, August 18, 1895.4yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Handley Page Halifaxes of No. 35 Squadron RAF bombing the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in dry-dock at Brest, 18 December 1941. IWM photo.5yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/CombatFootage
Original color photograph captioned USS Idaho (BB-42) Fires the 14/50 guns of Turret Three at nearly point-blank range, during the bombardment of Okinawa, 1 April 1945. Photographed from USS West Virginia (BB-48).6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/CombatFootage
President Clinton's cat Socks on the Press Secretary's podium in the press briefing room at the White House, 1993. [3150x2145]10yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Front and back view of an iron breastplate taken from a dead Confederate officer after the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863.5yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
The war of the future - from a German point of view, c. 1900. By Arth. Thiel.8yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/PropagandaPosters
Vintage anti drunk driving poster by the Ontario Department of Transport, c. 1950's/1960's.6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/PropagandaPosters
Two metal buttons showing an enema treatment, German, c. 1700s. [5336x4000]6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
An undercover police officer apprehends a mugger on the New York City Subway, 1980. [800x500]11yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
People on a street outside Independence Hall examining a new map of Europe shortly before the end of World War I, Philadelphia, October 1918. [1488x994]10yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/MapPorn
Human skeleton wearing leather boots recently excavated near the shore of the Thames in London, England, c. 1450-1550 CE.5yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Ivory model of a snake wrapped around the top of a skull, probably a memento mori, European, date unknown. [3773x5033]6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Maintenance crewmen repairing the Graf Zeppelin in mid-air over the South Atlantic after it was damaged during a storm, by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1934. [1600x1092]11yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev eating a hot dog in Des Moines, Iowa, on which he commented: It's excellent... we make good sausages but yours are better, 1959. [1245x1600]10yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Photo of DC taken from Arlington showing the Capitol Building and unfinished Washington Monument, c. 1860s/1870s.6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/washingtondc
A piece of Queen Victoria’s 300 lbs wedding cake from February 1840. [748x493]8yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell confronting Martin Luther King, Jr. in front of the Dallas County Courthouse during a voter registration drive led by King, Alabama, 1965. [1282x1034]11yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Homeopathic medicine chest from Northamptonshire, England, c. 1800. [2832x4256]6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Color photo taken during the formal surrender of Japanese forces to US Marines on the island of Rota, September 1945. (x-post from /r/historyporn)7yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/CombatFootage
The diary of John Wilkes Booth found on his body after he was killed by a Union soldier in Virginia in April 1865.5yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Spanish ceramic jug showing the administration of an enema on it from the 1600s.5yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/WTF
A carved wooden head of an unidentified Christian martyr, Europe, c. 1500-1600. [4256x2832]7yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Skull found by the friend of a Redditor in a clay pot in a golf course lake in Florida 5 years ago. Police launched a homicide investigation, but there have been no updates from authorities since then. [x-post /r/wtf]5yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
The deteriorated condition of this painted photo or painting of a WW1-era American soldier makes it look very creepy. [x-post /r/antiques]5yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
Dutch resistance members celebrate at the moment they heard of Adolf Hitler's death over the radio, May 1945.7yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Robert F. Kennedy sleeps on the floor of a plane during his 1968 presidential campaign. [1024x675]11yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Bombs explode on Ywataung-Myitkyina railway line near the Irrawaddy River in Burma, during a raid by Bristol Blenheims of No. 167 Wing RAF operating from airfields in India. IWM WW2 photo.6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/CombatFootage
Salvador Dali kisses 25-year-old Raquel Welch's hand in front of his abstract portrait of her, 1965. [1300x1003]11yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Japanese print comparing the their good treatment of wounded Russian soldiers in a hospital with Russian soldiers beating civilians during the Russo-Japanese War, 1904.7yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/PropagandaPosters
Map of an underground city carved on a stone wall near its entrance during World War 1. It is close to the former front line, located beneath a farm near Soissons, France. [1280x1280]7yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
American Civil War veterans being shown modern machine guns and rifles on Veterans Day at the Minnesota State Fair, Saint Paul, Minnesota, c. 1940's. [2732x2168]10yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Photo of American soldiers of the US Army's finance office in Malinta Tunnel during the Siege of Corregidor in Manila Bay, the Philippines, March/April 1942.6yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/CombatFootage
The mummified head of English philosopher Jeremy Bentham who died in 1832.5yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Skull found by the friend of a Redditor in a clay pot in a golf course lake in Florida 5 years ago. Police launched a homicide investigation, but there have been no updates from authorities since then. [x-post /r/wtf]5yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/Jessicamshannon
Recently got a few locked “secure case” rental DVD cases. How do I open this without breaking it?4yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/WhatsInThisThing
Photos of the face and left hand of the well-preserved 700-year-old medieval knight known as St Bees Man who was discovered buried on the grounds of St Bees Priory in England in 1981.5yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/oldschoolcreepy
A woman hitting a skinhead with her handbag, Sweden, 1985. The woman was reportedly a concentration camp survivor. [1024x768]12yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
ID cards forged by the Dutch resistance for use in German-occupied Netherlands during World War 2, c. 1940's. [3800x3144]7yr ⋅ chubachus ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
![Iron spider helmet designed to be worn by cavalrymen, French, c. 1600s. The 'spider-like' legs of this helmet protected the mounted soldier's face and head from slashing sword blows. [3400x2915]](https://i.redd.it/l3wibxhgy3s91.jpg)
