Historical Artifacts

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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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Glass perfume bottles in the shape of birds, Roman Empire, 1st century BCE/AD (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by PugJesus to c/historyartifacts

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[–] PugJesus 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Actually, you snap off the tail - it's a single use item!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh, what a gorgeous waste that is.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

It feels wasteful and luxurious, but glass is more or less indefinitely recyclable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And we'll never know what the perfumes smell like because they'll never be broken

[–] RestrictedAccount 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m not so sure. You could probably use spectroscopy to figure out what is in there now and then work out what form would have been in way back then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I'd definitely be curious to know