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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Roman gemstone portrait, 1st century AD (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyartifacts@lemmy.world

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[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

This is fantastic. Very lifelike.

[–] Theonetheycall1845@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Her name is Amber. /s

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 2 days ago

I've Heard of her

[–] CheeryLBottom@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Wow, wonderful detail

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

https://imperiumromanum.pl/en/curiosities/roman-gemstone-with-portrait-of-woman/

[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 5 points 2 days ago

I wonder how it's kept to preserve such details over the millennia

[–] Mysticpickle@lemmy.cafe 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This looks like urinal cake art

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Haha I was thinking it looked like a cough drop