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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Sculpture of a snail rider, shell, silver, and gold coating, Nuremberg, Germany, ~1630 AD (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by PugJesus to c/historyartifacts

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

Low speed Shai-Hulud

[–] geogle 6 points 3 months ago

I'm just a little saddened that what appears to be a nautilus (a pelagic cephalopod) shell is being used for a snail (a benthic gastropod) shell.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The desire to live a borrower’s existence is one as old as time, or at least 1630.

[–] PugJesus 5 points 3 months ago

http://www.alaintruong.com/archives/2012/09/22/25157327.html

[–] CodexArcanum 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How interesting! Inspired this piece I've seen many times at the sculpture garden!

[–] PugJesus 2 points 3 months ago

lmao, that's fantastic

[–] tfw_no_toiletpaper 3 points 3 months ago

Bet it would love to consume minerals like Phosphophyllite