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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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[–] PugJesus 19 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It's actually a touch fascinating, because panel doors like this wouldn't re-emerge in Europe for centuries after Rome's fall. Panel doors resist warping better than doors made just out of straight boards.

Yet it just looks like a normal door to us. Strange how pieces of the past can seem so modern, and how many things we take as normal are innovations of one sort or another.

[–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Other than the wear and tear it's pretty much the same as the doors in my 1900s home, which is pretty wild.

[–] robolemmy 4 points 3 months ago

It’s nice to see a Roman ogee in its natural habitat

[–] jqubed 3 points 3 months ago

I’m really surprised by the trim detail; it looks very contemporary!