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50 Very Old Human Creations That Still Surprise Us Today, As Shared In This Online Group
We love to emphasize human development. And for good reason, it's amazing how far we've come in the last centuries, decades, and even years. Science advances in leaps, introducing one groundbreaking invention after the other, fueling our minds with thoughts about the next big thing.
But that doesn't mean that we were clueless in the past. If we were to dig a little bit in history, it would reveal that people have always had the capacity to outdo themselves. Yes, the tools might have been different and not so sophisticated, but some of the artifacts that survived the test of time still surprise us to this day.
Here's a collection of man-made things shared on arguably the biggest online history catalog, Museum of Artifacts. They definitely didn't lose the "wow" factor!
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#1
An 8-mile long "canvas" filled with ice age drawings of extinct animals has been discovered in the Amazon rainforest.
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#2
Michelangelo's Moses is a marble sculpture made in 1513–15. One of the many details of this masterpiece is one very small muscle in the forearms that contracts only when lifting the pinky, otherwise it is invisible. Moses is lifting the pinky, therefore that tiny muscle is contracted.
#3
Wonderful 2000-year-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, thought depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.
#4
In 1965, excavations in Mezhyrich, Ukraine, revealed the presence of 4 huts, made up of a total of 149 mammoth bones. These dwellings, which are about 15,000 years old, are some of the oldest shelters known to have been constructed by pre-historic man.
#5
A newspaper ad from 1865 of an 18 year old man looking for a wife.
Oskar vanZandt 4 years ago
Hard worker... I like how he's non-specific about the kind of woman he's looking for. I think he might have done it. Hope he found himself a lovely "person of the female persuasion" to spend his life with.
Signe Manat Hansen 4 years ago
I think this boy is absolutely pure and adorable and I hope he found the love of his wife. His focus is on what he can contribute to a partnership and not on what a future wife can do for him. His honesty is inspiring.
K. Lange 4 years ago
Yes! And I think in those times it really was important to a woman to expect in a marriage and that the man is able to provide a good life.
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Metallic Geisha 4 years ago
I think he spoke quite well for himself, actually. I'm a nice, decent guy, good work ethics, & successful enough to support us. Healthy, & want to treat you well. Sign me up lol!
WatermelonTheDutchie 4 years ago
seems like a much nicer guy tgan "nice guys" today haha
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StormWolf 4 years ago
How crazy is it that just over 150 years ago, an EIGHTEEN year old could afford to own all of this?! If he lived now, he'd have to settle for a cramped studio with a charming kitchenette/toilet combo, above a laundromat
Lorraine R 4 years ago
Well, 150 yrs ago there was a lot of vacant land and a low population. Probably built the house and barn mostly by himself and may have gotten the livestock through his own labor or for barter. Clearly a hard worker (with good teeth).
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SykesDaMan 4 years ago
You don't need him! Buy one like this yourself! :p
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Not a Made up Name 4 years ago
The person says "I don't know how to do it". Still people are judging him in comment section.
lazy panda 4 years ago
This is how my grandpa found my grandma! He put out an ad in the local paper looking for a wife to help take care of his mom and help with chores on the farm! Grandma answered and they were together until grandpa passed at 95.
Natalia A 4 years ago
This is sad and heartwarming all at all. He wants to buy her hoop skirts and waterfalls:)
LH25 4 years ago
I'm guessing Andrew Johnson, 17th POTUS. He was in office from April 15, 1865 – March 4, 1869
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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago (edited)
This young lad sounds incredibly sweet and quite the catch. I hope that he found a lovely wife and they enjoyed butter and gazing at waterfalls together.
velocirrober 4 years ago
I wonder if he succeeded, and has descendants, and they know about this. They probably don't.
Goth mouse (they/them) 4 years ago
aww this is so pure and wholesome compared to what people write today! I hope he found someone to buy bread and butter for
Robert Martens 4 years ago
I don't want to brag, but I also have many fine, burlap chairs around my oak stump, I am book learned to a 2nd grade level, and please don't be picky, I wasn't.
Hey Ho neighbours 4 years ago
I'd really love to find someone who could trace this guy down somehow and find out if he found his person, and if they have descendants today. What a wonderful story of how your parents / grandparents / great grandparents met to be able to pass down the generations!
Moo Moo Futch 4 years ago
This fella sounds absolutely adorable!! I sincerely hope he got the gal he wanted to share those dreams with.
Luther von Wolfen 4 years ago
This is how marriage was then - a financial contract. This kid really had it together. At 18, he was prospering. I'm sure a few women replied to this ad.
Signe Manat Hansen 4 years ago
Yeah, he knows his classic 90's RnB and know we'll just go chase them otherwise.
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L Jennings 4 years ago
Eighteen years old and he's got his own land. Eighteen acres is a good size plot, which he cleared himself and planted by himself. He even bought his own livestock. Most eighteen year olds these days can't even make their own beds.
Geri Taran 4 years ago
I'D GO, IF I WERE A YOUNG LADY READING THAT AD, BACK THEN. WE'D FIGURE IT ALL OUT TOGETHER.
Catherine Brady 4 years ago
I love it. At the very least he is sincere and prepared, also articulate.
Martine Lawley Thouvenin 4 years ago
My goodness... he has done all this at 18! One heck of a good prospect!
Cybele Spanjaard 4 years ago
I would rush into his arms and say yes..it is the 'waterfalls' that got to me and his amazing success and ambitions at 18.
Cybele Spanjaard 4 years ago
Actually I wonder how many replies he received and did he find his bride?
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Cydney Golden 4 years ago
I assume Andy Johnson is the racist president who got the job after Lincoln was assassinated. He undid all the work and change the Civil War accomplished.
Susie Swearingen-Kamachi 4 years ago
I knew they had mail order brides but seeing this ad puts it in another dimension.
Curry on... 4 years ago
That's actually kind of romantic. I wonder how many 21st century 18 year olds have game like him.
Mystery Egg 4 years ago
I hope he found what he was looking for. Any man that wants to buy you a waterfall is a keeper.
Warloew Brinn 4 years ago
Back the instead of lying about your height and job to impress potential mates you instead lied about how much livestock you have on hand. "You're head over heals for Earl, sweetie, but that poppy only has 3 cattle, you can do better"
Jonathan C. Fenton 4 years ago
Aroostook County 150 years ago!? No wonder he put an ad in the paper. It's STILL all farms and potatoes and trees.
Chaotic-Pansexual (she/they) 4 years ago
This is quite adorable and he seemed like a good guy. I love how his focus was on making himself seem desirable by describing what he can provide and saying how he wants to treat the wife and he’s not specific in what kind of woman he wants. I hope he found a wonderful woman to marry
Mark Stewart 4 years ago
What a gem, I hope he found his lovely lady and they had a good life together.
Foxxy (Not Original) 4 years ago
He was the president that came after lincoln
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Effin Fred 4 years ago
A lot of millennials could learn from this guy's effort and hard work. He likely accomplished more at 18 than millennials will in their entire lives.
Rick 4 years ago (edited)
Nice judging someone from 1865 from your 2021 viewpoint. It’s almost like you had expected him to hop on Tinder and list his likes and dislikes.
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#6
The Veiled Christ, a 1753 marble sculpture by Giuseppe Sanmartino exhibited in the Cappella Sansevero in Naples. Due to its incredible detail, there was a legend that said that the statue was covered by real veil and slowly transformed over time into marble via chemical processes.
Supernatural 4 years ago
Is there a sculptor alive today that could create something like this? Using the same tools??..
#7
1,500-year-old Ceramic Maya Figurine with Removable Helmet, from El Perú-Waka', Petén, Guatemala.
#8
First ever drawings of the moon made by Galileo Galeili after observing it through his telescope in 1609.
#9
Prague's astrological clock is the oldest still functioning clock in the world, 1410.
#10
In the small village of Nashtifan, Iran, some of the oldest windmills in the world still spin. Made of natural clay, straw, and wood, the windmills have been milling grain for flour for an estimated 1,000 years.
#11
An early example of a successful cranioplasty (Peru, ca. 400 CE). The patient survived, as evidenced by the well-healed in situ cranioplasty made from a gold inlay. Now on display at the Gold Museum of Peru and Weapons of the World in Lima.
#12
A 17th-century Ottoman three-mast tent made of silk and gilded leather. Now on display at the Turkish Chamber in the Dresden Armoury.
#13
Detail of the Hercules armor of the Emperor Maximilian II of Austria. Made in 1555, it's now on display at the Kunsthistorisches museum in Vienna.
#14
Bowl with Fish, Iran, probably Kashan (late 13th–mid-14th century).
#15
2300 years old Scythian woman's boot preserved in the frozen ground of the Altai Mountains.
#16
A Viking era ring inscribed with the words 'for Allah', found in the grave of a woman who was buried 1200 years ago in Birka, 25 km west of modern-day Stockholm. The ring constitutes a unique material evidence of direct contact between the Vikings and the Abbasid Caliphate.
Burs 4 years ago
This is for the people who pretend to be educated while complaining about “diversity” in media or books set in the past. We used to travel much more than we think and while we weren’t as diverse as now, things were not as simple as old media portrays. For example there were black citizens in medieval- renaissance Europe, mostly ex slaves or their descendants from AlAndalus (Arabian country in the Iberian peninsula). Some quite successful, Like Juan de Pareja (Velazquez’s servant and later apprentice).
#17
Ancient ‘Beware of Dog’ Sign From 2,000 Years Ago. A mosaic in front of a Roman poet's house in Pompeii, 1st Century AD. "Cave Canem"/caveat canine/beware of dog.
#19
An ancient Egyptian gold ring with a carnelian bezel in form of a cat. From the Third Intermediate Period (1070–712 BC), it's now in the collection of the British Museum.
#20
2000-year-old Roman face cream/lotion. Dating back to II AD. Object was found in the temple complex dedicated to Mars. It's world's oldest cosmetic face cream and it has finger marks in the lid.
Ksenia M 4 years ago
Googled it: The researchers report in this week's Nature that the two major components, each making up about 40% of the total, were starch and animal fat, which probably came from the carcass of a cow or goat. They think the starch was added to reduce the greasy feeling of fat on the skin. It is still used for the same purpose today in body lotions and hand creams. The remaining ingredient was synthetic tin oxide (or cassiterite). Although it is greyish in its natural state, it would have coloured the cream white"
#23
"Ratto di Proserpina" is a large Baroque marble sculptural group by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, executed between 1621 and 1622. Bernini was only 23 years old at its completion. Now on display at the Galleria Borghese in Rome.
#24
Detail from the "unswept floor" mosaic made by Heraclitus, showing a mouse eating a walnut. 2nd century CE, now on display at the Vatican Museums.
#25
3400 yo painter's palette from ancient Egypt, Amenhotep III era.
Maddie Star ⭐ 4 years ago (edited)
as an artist, I love this... how amazing. Really is a treasure, it must have been worth a fortune in its time let alone now
#26
A Roman bathhouse still in use after 2,000 years in Khenchela, Algeria.
#27
Mourning clothes worn by count Magnus Brahe at the funeral of king Karl XIV Johan of Sweden in 1844.
#28
Elaborate Ottoman-era birdhouses resembling miniature palaces and mosques.
#29
Ivory carving of a skull and coiled snake with carnelian eyes. Japan, Edo period, 1860.
#30
A gun hidden within a bible, made for Francesco Morozini, Doge of Venice (1619-1694). The owner of the bible could pull the silk bookmark to shoot while the book was still closed. Now on display at the Museo Correr in Venice.
#31
Stockings, 1830, cotton/silk.
Gin. No tonic 4 years ago
The left's on the right and the right's on the left. It hurts my brain!
#32
An amateur treasure hunter with a metal detector turned up a Medieval, gold ring that was set with a sapphire stone in Sherwood Forest—haunt of the legendary (or real) Robin Hood. Experts have examined the ring and believe it may date to the 14 th century.
#33
14000 years old bisons sculptures found in Le Tuc d'Audoubert cave. Ariege, France.
#34
Two books I picked up from the Goodwill where I work. The one on the left was printed in 1711 and is a collection of Pliny the Younger’s letters. The one on the right was printed in 1771 and is a school book about Greek Mythology.
#35
Abuna Yemata Guh is a monolithic church located in the Tigray Region, Ethiopia. It is situated at a height of 2,580 metres (its entrance is highlighted by a red circle) and has to be climbed on foot to reach. It is notable for its wall paintings dating back to the 5th century.
#36
An Inuit otter amulet. Engraved and pigmented ivory, c.1870-1880.
#38
Crystal spearhead found in a 5,000-year-old megalithic tomb in Spain. The tomb had the remains of 25 individuals, several of whom had consumed a poisonous substance.
#39
A Roman toddler's footprint in a red clay tile, imprinted as it was drying ~2000 years ago. Vaison-la-Romaine (ancient Vasio Vocontiorum).
#40
One of the 4000-year-old well-preserved wagons unearthed in the Lchashen village in the vicinity of Lake Sevan. Made of oak, they are the oldest known wagons in the world. Now on display at the History Museum of Armenia.
#41
Chand Baori, the largest and deepest stepwell in India. It consists of 3500 narrow steps over 13 stories and extends 30 m into the ground. The oldest parts of the stepwell date from the 8th century, while the upper stories with the columned arcade around it were built in the 18th century.
#42
The Da Vinci Globe, dated 1504, is the oldest known globe to show the New World. Engraved with immaculate detail on two conjoined lower halves of ostrich eggs.
#43
Thirteen-year-old Israeli goes foraging for mushrooms, stumbles upon a Byzantine burial inscription.
#44
The ceiling of the 2000 years old hypostyle hall of the temple of Hathor in Dendera, Egypt.
#45
(1528-29) German hunting knife that's also a gun, that's also a calendar.
#46
9000 year old cave painting in Tassili cave Algeria. Depicting a shaman during psychedelic mushroom use.
#47
Oldest surviving pair of Levis jeans, 1879.
Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
My thighs managed to rub friction holes into every pair of jeans I own, except for Levi´s and Mustang.
#48
A cabin on board the Aachen, a 19th-century steamship hit by a torpedo in July 1915. Now located at the bottom of the Baltic Sea.
#49
Breastplate Armor of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1549.
Tiina Wiik Yksityinen 4 years ago
Many interesting details that say something about the time, like Virgin Mary standing on a crest moon. This was in the time when Ottomans had spread their empire deep into Europe, but were eventually forced to retreat, so the battle of Christianity vs. Islam was a defining theme of the era.
#50
Curious Artefacts: Hitler's Telephone, one of the deadliest weapons of all times [1000x562]
#52
The buried bodies of the iconic Easter Island moai basalt statues, built by the Rapa Nui people between 1250-1500 CE, with petroglyphs carved on their back.
#53
A Mughal emerald and gold ring, 16-17th century CE, sold at Christie's in 2019.
#54
2,000-Year-Old Roman shoe found in a well.
#55
The Temple of Edfu an Egyptian located on the west bank of the Nile in Edfu, Upper Egypt 57 BC.
#56
Posy ring with pictogram inscription, ‘Two hands, one heart, Till death us part.’ England in the 17th century.
#57
Close detail of "The Green Man”, 1200's AD, Early Gothic, Bamberg Cathedral, Germany.
#58
The Ishtar Gate, built by the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II in Mesopotamia in 575 BC, using blue lapis lazuli and dense asphalt bricks. It's now preserved in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin. Detail pic in comment.
#59
Ancient Roman faucets from Pompeii, 1st century BCE-1st century CE.
Metallic Geisha 4 years ago
Idk... it's not covered in naughty bits. How do we Really know it's from Pompeii? 🤔😋 lol
#60
Chantilly Castle, wrought iron railing made in 1870 by the Moreau brothers on drawing of architect Honoré Daumet.
#61
The 3,200-year-old tomb of Queen Nefertari, also called the Sistine Chapel of Ancient Egypt. The paintings, which are found on almost every available surface in the tomb, are considered to be the best preserved and most eloquent decorations of any Egyptian burial site.
#62
Freshly excavated 2000 yr old Terracotta Warriors still showing original color before rapid deterioration. Picture taken in 1974.
#63
Ancient City of Sigiriya(Lion Rock Sinhala: සීගිරිය, Tamil: சிகிரியா / aசிங்ககிரி, pronounced see-gi-ri-yə) is an ancient rock fortress located in the northern Matale District near the town of Dambulla in the Central Province, Sri Lanka 477 – 495 AD .
#64
The giant two-handed sword that belonged to the Bavarian Prince-Elector Maximilian II, made from a sawfish snout, 1689.
#65
Pair burial of the Scythian Husband and Wife, found near Ternopil, Ukraine (c. 1000 BC).
#66
The oldest throne room in Europe, at the heart of the Bronze Age Minoan Palace of Knossos, Crete, 15th Century BC.
#67
The Arg-e Bam also known as Bam Citadel, located at the city of Bam, Kerman Province of Southeastern Iran, traced back to at least the Achaemenide Empire (sixth to fourth centuries BC).
#68
An 8,000-year-old marble figurine of a voluptuous woman was unearthed in 2016 in the Neolithic urban settlement of Çatalhöyük in central Turkey. The figurine is 17 centimeters long, 11 centimeters wide and weighs one kilo.
#69
The Sacred City of Caral in Peru. At almost 5000 years old, it's the oldest city in the Americas and predates even the great Pyramids of Egypt. It includes 6 pyramids, the largest of which measures 150x160 meters, 2 sunken ceremonial plazas, residential districts and an irrigation system.
#70
Nubian pyramids in Sudan, built from the 700s BC onwards, not as well known as Egypt's pyramids but still amazing.
#71
Scroll written in gold ink on dark blue paper. Japan, Heian Period, 9th century AD.
#73
The Ancient wooden Orthodox Church, built in 1655 at Krasnaya Lyaga, Russia.
#74
Roman gold ring with a cameo bust of Minerva made from chrome chalcedony, ca. 1st century CE.
#75
These stunning mosaics have just been unearthed under a vineyard in Italy, in the province of Verona, near the town of Negrar. They have been dated from 3rd to 4th Century.
#76
1000 years ago some Viking craftsman lost all his equipment in the lake Mästermyr on the island of Gotland. In 1936 the wooden chest containing all the tools were found at the bottom of the former lake, which now had turned into a bog. Now on display at the Swedish History Museum.
Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
I can just see the poor Viking groaning and shaking his fist in frustration as his tools went straight to the bottom. "By Odin, that was my only set! My wife is going to kill me!"
#77
A 2000-year-old giant cat geoglyph was discovered amid Peru's famous Nazca Lines, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
#78
Charles V's Nemean Lion Parade burgonet. Made by Filippo Negroli in Milan c. 1541.
#79
Inside the colorful and perfectly preserved 3225-year-old tomb of the sculptor Nakhtamun (TT 335) located in Deir el-Medina, part of the Theban Necropolis, on the west bank of the Nile, opposite to Luxor.
#81
The Sword of Goujian, found in 1965. This sword is mainly made of bronze with blue crystals and turquoise decoration. The blade surprisingly didn't suffer from rust and tarnish, so it's still extremely sharp. Hubei, China, Spring and Autumn period (771–403 BC).
#82
Corinthian helmet from the Battle of Marathon (490 BC) found with the warrior's skull inside.
#83
The ancient Roman city of Timgad in the Aurès Mountains of Algeria. It was founded by the Emperor Trajan around 100 CE, and its ruins are noteworthy for representing one of the best extant examples of the grid plan as used in Roman town planning.
#85
A beautiful Mesolithic amber figure of a bear. It washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. 12500-3900 BC, now on display at the National Museum of Denmark.
#86
One of only two authentic old Jolly Rogers known in the world. The red background meant that she ship flying the flag would take no prisoners if their opponents put up a fight. The 18th century pirate flag is now on display at the National Museum of the Royal Navy.
#87
Only taxidermied blue whale in the world. Gothenburg, Sweden 1865.
Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
Is this the one where people could go inside, but that was later forbidden after a couple was busted having sex inside it?
#88
One of Stalin’s pipes, depicting him and FDR playing chess. It was given to him in 1945 by the visiting US chess team.
#89
Top hat worn by Abraham Lincoln the night he was shot. Now on display at the National Museum of American History.
#90
A 3770 year old Babylonian clay tablet written in Akkadian, containing the oldest known cooking recipes. The tablet includes 25 recipes for stews, 21 meat stews and 4 vegetable stews. Now part of the collection of the Yale University Library.
#92
A new chapter of the Epic of Gilgamesh is revealed when the fragment of Tablet V was finally recovered. It was written in Standard Babylonian and dates back to the Neo-Babylonian period (626-538 BC), according to researchers.
#93
Formal outfit worn by one of the last daimyōs. Japan, Edo Period, around 1830.
#94
Armored Gauntlets owned by the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, from 1508 until his death in 1519. (Metropolitan Museum of Art).
#95
Before and after the excavation and restoration of the Great Ziggurat of Ur, built approximately 4000 years ago by King Ur-Nammu of the Neo-Sumerian Empire, in dedication to the Moon God, Nanna.
#96
A backside view of the Great Sphinx of Giza that features its giant tail. Old Kingdom, c. 2558–2532 BC.
#97
Mountaineer's axe with heart-shaped holes and bronze reinforced shaft. Japan, Muromachi period, 14th century.
#98
Bronze Phrygian Helmet, Greek, Late Classical to Early Hellenistic, c. 350-300.
#99
One of the fake heads used as a decoy during the 1962 escape of 3 prisoners from Alcatraz. Made with soap, toilet paper, toothpaste, and concrete dust.
#100
9.4 inch mortar shaped like a sitting tiger. India, 1770-1799.
#101
This Viking sword was found by reindeer hunters at high altitude in the Mountains of Oppland County. It may have belonged to a Viking who lost his way and died here 1100 years ago. (more info in comment).
Victor Botha 4 years ago
Paul C, you probably would not be here if your forebears had not eaten what they hunted and foraged. Not only did they use the meat for protein, but skin was used for shoes xnd body covering/clothing, bone was fashioned into utensils and weapons etc. Stop being so judgmental about ancient civilizations who treated their world with more reverence and respect thxn any of us so called modern civilized humans.
#102
Hieroglyphics writing in the wall of The Temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu in the West Bank of Luxor in Egypt 1186-1156 BC.
#103
Ancient Greek Helmets from Classical Period, Olympia Museum.
#104
A book of magic, with spells and occult diagrams involving the 99 names of God. Middle East, 1425.
#105
A 5000-year-old Sumerian alabaster statuette of a priest-king, found inside a pottery vessel in the ancient city of Uruk in 1929/30. Now on display at the Iraq Museum in Baghdad.
#106
The Kiss of Death is a marble sculpture made in 1930 and found in Poblenou Cemetery in Barcelona. It depicts death, in the form of a winged skeleton, planting a kiss on the forehead of a young man.
#107
A Gold Bar with mint marks, recovered from the Spanish treasure ship 'Atocha' which sank in 1622.
#108
The skeleton of a 16th century soldier, complete with his sword, boots, belt and other items, was discovered last year during an underwater bridge inspection at the bottom of Lake Asveja in Lithuania.
#109
The chinese submerged city of Shi Cheng ("Lion City"), located 130 ft beneath Qiandao Lake. Built during the Eastern Han Dynasty (25–200 CE), the city was flooded in 1959 to create the lake for the Xin'an River Dam project.
#110
Medieval ax with a preserved wooden handle discovered on the island of Ledniczka in Poland.
#111
My picture of the burial chamber in the Tomb of Seti I on the West Bank of Luxor, circa 1279 BCE.
Rose the Cook 4 years ago
This picture doesn't do it justice, the ceiling of this tomb is magnificent.
#112
Roman chariot unearthed 'almost intact' near Pompeii.
Mat O'Dowd 4 years ago
For sale, Sport chariot. Ran when parked, I know what I got, no chariot wheel kickers, 3 gold coins. Call Caius Smithus
#113
A silver brooch I found metal detecting, finally being worn again after 400 years in the ground.
#114
The uniform worn by King Charles XII of Sweden when he was killed by a stray shot during the Siege of Fredriksten on 30th November 1718, now in the collections of The Royal Armoury in Stockholm, Sweden.
#115
The bullet that killed the president Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
KatHat 4 years ago
This bullet probably changed the course of American history. If Lincoln had stayed alive, Johnson wouldn't have been able to let the traitors from the south back into congress and pretend everything was fine. There would have been consequences for their attempt to break up the union and betray their oaths. Instead, there were no consequences, and they went on being racist utter assholes until the present day.
#116
Silk vest worn by King Charles I of England during his beheading on charges of treason in 1649.
Otter 4 years ago
In those days, the executioner got to keep whatever the person being executed was wearing, and an aristocrat's outfit could be worth a lot of money. In fact, some extremely courteous aristocrats would remove their expensive outer garments before getting the chop, so they wouldn't be ruined by all the blood.
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Debbie 4 years ago
Starting counting years BC and AC feels wrong now. It really shows that some thought that the center of creation, but there was so much more before that. Beautiful civilizations with art, respect for women, engineers. We aren't that different, they weren't dirty people with rags. We haven't progressed that much from them. Maybe even deteriorated, with the amount of waste and pollution we create. in 1000 years what will they find of us? Heaps of garbage? Dirty diapers in piles? Plastic rubbish? We call the industrial age a dark/dirty time, but it still continues. It's not black coal smoke now, but brightly coloured plastic.
Chich 4 years ago
We should agree on a start from the beginning of the Holocene, which would make this 11021 or so.
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Monika Lachova 4 years ago
Now, that was cool stuff! More of such articles on BP rather than social issues please.
Zoe's Mom 4 years ago (edited)
Everything was made with such pride and beauty and one stands in awe. I espeically love the silver items made.
Thundercuss 4 years ago
Mass production has really deadened people's appreciation of artistry and craftsmanship.
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bubbles 4 years ago
This was one of the more beautiful posts I have seen in a while. It's so easy for me to forget or ignore how much man is capable of and has accomplished, and this post slapped some appreciation into me! Time is a wondrous thing but the ability to withstand it is something that one can only admire in awe.
Thundercuss 4 years ago
This is the most fascinating collection of items I have ever seen. I'm simply floored.
Juan-Carlos Saez 4 years ago
Long time no seeing a wonderful thread. All pieces are incredible important culturally aesthetically and of great curiosity, congratulations!
Maria Batsouri 4 years ago
The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient Greek hand-powered orrery, described as the oldest example of an analogue computer used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in advance. It is estimated that it was created 87 B.C.
Akash Pujari 4 years ago
this is something i like to know ,its good to know somrthing new once in a while
Becky Samuel 4 years ago
Look around at the amazing quantity of art, music, literature, poetry, etc that is now available for almost every living person to appreciate. These works were produced for the elites in a time when most people woupd never travel more than a few miles from their birthplace, and none of this would have been accessible to the common man. We just don't appreciate how spoiled we truly are.
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Allen Lavine 4 years ago
Just think of all the history we never discover yet all the inventions we haven't invented yet we are nothing more than a footnote in history. Because yesterday I heard Dave Chapelle say something about Emmett Till. He said the lady that said till complemented her said on her death bed that she lied. But that lie cause a person to lose there life, but that death really helped the civil rights movement what I'm saying even doe we are only a footnote I. History sometimes a footnote can leave a foot print
Juds Conne 4 years ago
This is the best article to date... pun intended. I have read about many of these items, dates and histories, but seeing them together is wonderful.
eric smith 4 years ago
wow such beautiful and wonderful artifacts so much patience and persaverica and care in their work... it's so amazing what our past has left us to admire O.O
Unwelcomed Guest 4 years ago
I’m going to inscribe twitters most popular post into stone just so future generations will know of the real difference we made at this time
Debbie 4 years ago
Starting counting years BC and AC feels wrong now. It really shows that some thought that the center of creation, but there was so much more before that. Beautiful civilizations with art, respect for women, engineers. We aren't that different, they weren't dirty people with rags. We haven't progressed that much from them. Maybe even deteriorated, with the amount of waste and pollution we create. in 1000 years what will they find of us? Heaps of garbage? Dirty diapers in piles? Plastic rubbish? We call the industrial age a dark/dirty time, but it still continues. It's not black coal smoke now, but brightly coloured plastic.
Chich 4 years ago
We should agree on a start from the beginning of the Holocene, which would make this 11021 or so.
Load More Replies... Monika Lachova 4 years ago
Now, that was cool stuff! More of such articles on BP rather than social issues please.
Zoe's Mom 4 years ago (edited)
Everything was made with such pride and beauty and one stands in awe. I espeically love the silver items made.
Thundercuss 4 years ago
Mass production has really deadened people's appreciation of artistry and craftsmanship.
Load More Replies... bubbles 4 years ago
This was one of the more beautiful posts I have seen in a while. It's so easy for me to forget or ignore how much man is capable of and has accomplished, and this post slapped some appreciation into me! Time is a wondrous thing but the ability to withstand it is something that one can only admire in awe.
Thundercuss 4 years ago
This is the most fascinating collection of items I have ever seen. I'm simply floored.
Juan-Carlos Saez 4 years ago
Long time no seeing a wonderful thread. All pieces are incredible important culturally aesthetically and of great curiosity, congratulations!
Maria Batsouri 4 years ago
The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient Greek hand-powered orrery, described as the oldest example of an analogue computer used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in advance. It is estimated that it was created 87 B.C.
Akash Pujari 4 years ago
this is something i like to know ,its good to know somrthing new once in a while
Becky Samuel 4 years ago
Look around at the amazing quantity of art, music, literature, poetry, etc that is now available for almost every living person to appreciate. These works were produced for the elites in a time when most people woupd never travel more than a few miles from their birthplace, and none of this would have been accessible to the common man. We just don't appreciate how spoiled we truly are.
Load More Replies... Allen Lavine 4 years ago
Just think of all the history we never discover yet all the inventions we haven't invented yet we are nothing more than a footnote in history. Because yesterday I heard Dave Chapelle say something about Emmett Till. He said the lady that said till complemented her said on her death bed that she lied. But that lie cause a person to lose there life, but that death really helped the civil rights movement what I'm saying even doe we are only a footnote I. History sometimes a footnote can leave a foot print
Juds Conne 4 years ago
This is the best article to date... pun intended. I have read about many of these items, dates and histories, but seeing them together is wonderful.
eric smith 4 years ago
wow such beautiful and wonderful artifacts so much patience and persaverica and care in their work... it's so amazing what our past has left us to admire O.O
Unwelcomed Guest 4 years ago
I’m going to inscribe twitters most popular post into stone just so future generations will know of the real difference we made at this time
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