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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.

Generally speaking, ruins should go to !historyruins@lemmy.world

Illustrations of the past should go to !historyillustrations@lemmy.world

Photos of the past should go to !HistoryPorn@lemmy.world

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[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What's that kajigger on the left dude's face?

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not entirely sure, I'm guessing something to measure vital signs since they were checking how viable it was for someone to fight all-day-long in the panoply.

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 months ago

Yeah that'd be my guess too, looks like it could be something to measure oxygen consumption

[–] teft@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But where are its little fingies?!

[–] teft@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Modern design favors minimalism.

[–] ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

TIL oxygen masks date back to the 15th century.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

BCE no less

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

Oh, so that's why they kept losing wars at the end.