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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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[–] simplymath 6 points 4 months ago

Yeah. Many pigments were hard to access or otherwise very expensive. Tyrian purple, for example, was made by boiling a massive amount of rare snails, which is why deep purples were reserved for only the wealthiest of people. In the 1800s, ground up mummies were a fairly common way to make brown pigment.

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Kinda reminds me of painted mesoamerican sculptures

[–] simplymath 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can't just mention that and not share!

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean the general style that they did their colored art with, similar pigments and pallets and such

[–] simplymath 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] el_hache 2 points 4 months ago

Not the original person, but here's something mesoamerican that reminds me of the sculpture you shared:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/jaguar-ocelotl-cuauhxicalli

[–] VubDapple 3 points 4 months ago

That's a pretty psychedelic color scheme.