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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Wood statue of a man with rock crystal for the eyes, Egypt, ~2500 BCE (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by PugJesus to c/historyartifacts

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's really impressive, for a couple seconds I thought it was body paint

[–] PugJesus 15 points 3 months ago

It really is fantastic, I thought it was a re-enactor or the like from the thumbnail. I don't think I've ever seen any ancient statue like it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Lack of hair makes it more realistic. Hair has always been difficult to recreate in art.

Notice how there are no eyebrows or eyelashes either.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Those black ridges over the eyes kind of give the illusion of eyelashes with eyeliner though