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Document granting tax exemption status, with Cleopatra VII's signature and note ("Make it happen"), Ptolemaic Egypt, 33 BCE
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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.
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Re-enactors in full kit showing use of a 1st-2nd century AD Roman Testudo formation to allow troops to mount a wall
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Replica of a Roman military pan with a folding handle, original found in Germany, 3rd century AD
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Decorative axe-head, Bactria (modern-day Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan), 3rd millennium BCE
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From the National Museum in Krakow: Things, mostly loot, associated with the siege of Vienna.
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Text from the display: People across Colonial America used ox and cow horns to store gunpowder. The curved, pointed, lightweight, water-tight, hollow horns were ideal for loading muskets to fire, and carrying slung tight to the waist. Also, the smooth, blank surfaces became canvases for carving personal stories, artwork, and maps. The large, ornate etching on this powder horn is Great Britain's Coat of Arms. Also carved are routes through the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys in New York, as well as the "MONONaHALaH" and "ALegaNy" rivers merging with the "OHIO" in western Pennsylvania. The main route depicted is the Forbes Road from "PHeLIDeLPHIA" to "PIttSBURg". This was the passage General Forbes' army built in 1758. His campaign aimed to take Fort Duquesne from the French and secure the British western frontier at Fort Pitt. Towns, landmarks and forts shown along the road include "LaNCaSteR", "SHiPiNSBURg", "LItLetoN", "CROSINgS" (uniata River), "SIDLINgHILL", "BEDFORD", "ALegaNy MOuNt", "LORaLHILL", and "LagoNOR" (Fort Ligonier).
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Replica of the Skåne lockbow, a crossbow of unique design used by the Norse, 10th-16th centuries AD
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