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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Ivory carving of a skull and snake, with carnelian eyes, Japan, mid-19th century AD (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by PugJesus to c/historyartifacts

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What's wild to me is the sutures. That's a detail I didn't expect on a carving of a skull, and it makes me wonder how many real skulls the artist held in his hand to compare. I'm 99% sure it's all ivory, the area above the teeth looks just a little too smooth for it to be a actual skull, but good GOD is that detailed and amazing

[–] Valmond 6 points 1 month ago

When you were out partying, I studied the skull.