Illustrations of history

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This magazine is for sharing artwork of historical events, places, personages, etc. Scale models and the like also welcome!

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Byzantine sailors operating a ship-mounted hand-pumped fire-thrower (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by PugJesus to c/historyillustrations

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[–] felixwhynot 5 points 4 days ago

That’s cool as hell

[–] DarkCloud 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Very cool, I wonder what they're called?

[–] PugJesus 3 points 3 days ago

A Siphon for Greek Fire

[–] aeronmelon 2 points 3 days ago

Metal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Just put of curiosity, where do you source these from? They tend to have a very similar style between each piece, like they are done by the same artist.

[–] PugJesus 1 points 4 days ago

Pinterest and Q-Files, mostly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Greek Fire! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_fire