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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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An 8-mile long "canvas" filled with ice age drawings of extinct animals has been discovered in the Amazon rainforest.

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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.

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Wonderful 2000-year-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, thought depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.

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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.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

...I need time to process ALL those facts. Mammoth, mammoth bones, 149 mammoth bones, 15000 years old, constructed by pre-historic men. Okay, just processing it.

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A newspaper ad from 1865 of an 18 year old man looking for a wife.

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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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is there a sculptor alive today that could create something like this? Using the same tools??..

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1,500-year-old Ceramic Maya Figurine with Removable Helmet, from El Perú-Waka', Petén, Guatemala.

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First ever drawings of the moon made by Galileo Galeili after observing it through his telescope in 1609.

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Prague's astrological clock is the oldest still functioning clock in the world, 1410.

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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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Makes me feel puny.... I mean, build something good, with natural materials, with a simple good function, and it outlives many...

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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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They were experts at skull surgery, lots of successful trepanning examples as well (well-healed edges to the hole in the skull, proving that the patient lived long after the procedure).

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A 17th-century Ottoman three-mast tent made of silk and gilded leather. Now on display at the Turkish Chamber in the Dresden Armoury.

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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.

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Bowl with Fish, Iran, probably Kashan (late 13th–mid-14th century).

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2300 years old Scythian woman's boot preserved in the frozen ground of the Altai Mountains.

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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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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).

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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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cerberus est canis @the house of the tragic poet, one of the many amazing mosaics at that home.

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Samurai helmet (kabuko) shaped like an octopus. 1700s, Japan. 

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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.

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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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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"

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Incan Wall, a fine example of master Stonemasonry. Cuzco, 1400's. 

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Small sculpture of death with a bow made in 1520 Germany.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is the sassiest skeleton I have ever seen. It’s giving me full on Nightmare Before Christmas fabulousness.

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"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.

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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.

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3400 yo painter's palette from ancient Egypt, Amenhotep III era.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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A Roman bathhouse still in use after 2,000 years in Khenchela, Algeria.

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Mourning clothes worn by count Magnus Brahe at the funeral of king Karl XIV Johan of Sweden in 1844.

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Elaborate Ottoman-era birdhouses resembling miniature palaces and mosques.

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Ivory carving of a skull and coiled snake with carnelian eyes. Japan, Edo period, 1860.

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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.

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Stockings, 1830, cotton/silk.

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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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Genuine question, but how can they “tell” if a ring is from that century (if it doesn’t have the year engraved on it)?

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14000 years old bisons sculptures found in Le Tuc d'Audoubert cave. Ariege, France.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These are astonishing in their detail. To see such realistic depictions from so long ago highlights how our presumption of 'primitive' art before classical Greece is so often wrong

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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.

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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.

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An Inuit otter amulet. Engraved and pigmented ivory, c.1870-1880.

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2000 year-old glass mosaics, from the ancient city of Zeugma in Turkey.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Imagine how excited the people excavating that must have been. To chip away at the rock little by little to unveil that beauty.

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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.

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A Roman toddler's footprint in a red clay tile, imprinted as it was drying ~2000 years ago. Vaison-la-Romaine (ancient Vasio Vocontiorum).

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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.

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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.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For everyone thinking its only to gather water because of the word "well", it wasn't... At the bottom the air is 5-6°C cooler... So in intense heat waves people would gather here.... And yes ceremonial and religious rituals were done here as well

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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.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This one is intriguing too: There have long been theories that Portuguese sailors reached northern Australia between 1521 and 1524, before their Dutch and English counterparts arrived on the continent. They found canons.

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Thirteen-year-old Israeli goes foraging for mushrooms, stumbles upon a Byzantine burial inscription.

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The ceiling of the 2000 years old hypostyle hall of the temple of Hathor in Dendera, Egypt.

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(1528-29) German hunting knife that's also a gun, that's also a calendar.

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9000 year old cave painting in Tassili cave Algeria. Depicting a shaman during psychedelic mushroom use.

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Oldest surviving pair of Levis jeans, 1879.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My thighs managed to rub friction holes into every pair of jeans I own, except for Levi´s and Mustang.

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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.

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Breastplate Armor of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1549.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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Curious Artefacts: Hitler's Telephone, one of the deadliest weapons of all times [1000x562]

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This was given to a British Brigadier by the Russians as a souvenir- he was the first British soldier to enter the Fuhrerbunker. It remained unknown for decades because looting was punishable by court-marshall and he was the Brigadier responsible for enforcing the rules!

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Victorian Prosthetic Arm, Europe, 1850-1910.

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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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The meaning: "Noro's fish burgers are the best of the Island! Ask about our Sunday special!"

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A Mughal emerald and gold ring, 16-17th century CE, sold at Christie's in 2019.

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The Temple of Edfu an Egyptian located on the west bank of the Nile in Edfu, Upper Egypt 57 BC.

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Posy ring with pictogram inscription, ‘Two hands, one heart, Till death us part.’ England in the 17th century.

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Close detail of "The Green Man”, 1200's AD, Early Gothic, Bamberg Cathedral, Germany.

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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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Gate is mesmerizing. Cant wait to visit it at the end of the month.

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Ancient Roman faucets from Pompeii, 1st century BCE-1st century CE.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Idk... it's not covered in naughty bits. How do we Really know it's from Pompeii? 🤔😋 lol

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Chantilly Castle, wrought iron railing made in 1870 by the Moreau brothers on drawing of architect Honoré Daumet.

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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.

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Freshly excavated 2000 yr old Terracotta Warriors still showing original color before rapid deterioration. Picture taken in 1974.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Like the Roman statues, you never think of them having a colour!

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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 .

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've dreamed about places like that, I had a recurring dream about a pool cut into a high rock like that for years.

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The giant two-handed sword that belonged to the Bavarian Prince-Elector Maximilian II, made from a sawfish snout, 1689.

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Pair burial of the Scythian Husband and Wife, found near Ternopil, Ukraine (c. 1000 BC).

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The oldest throne room in Europe, at the heart of the Bronze Age Minoan Palace of Knossos, Crete, 15th Century BC.

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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).

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We think we are civilized but some ancient peoples and tribes were way ahead of us.

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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.

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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.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Forget the modern cities, I would just love to visit this or Arg-e Bam in Iran. Maaan I could be there all day and just walk around and look.

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Nubian pyramids in Sudan, built from the 700s BC onwards, not as well known as Egypt's pyramids but still amazing.

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Scroll written in gold ink on dark blue paper. Japan, Heian Period, 9th century AD.

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A rare dagger for esoteric rituals from France, mid 19th Century.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hope there wasn't a book with a screaming human face on its cover nearby...

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The Ancient wooden Orthodox Church, built in 1655 at Krasnaya Lyaga, Russia.

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Roman gold ring with a cameo bust of Minerva made from chrome chalcedony, ca. 1st century CE.

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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.

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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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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!"

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A 2000-year-old giant cat geoglyph was discovered amid Peru's famous Nazca Lines, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Charles V's Nemean Lion Parade burgonet. Made by Filippo Negroli in Milan c. 1541.

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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.

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Head of a man with tight, curly hair. Egypt, 2nd century BC 

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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).

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Corinthian helmet from the Battle of Marathon (490 BC) found with the warrior's skull inside.

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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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Romans were so advanced. I wonder how Europe would have developed if their empire wouldn’t have fallen into the uneducated Christian times.

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Cast of a dog from Pompeii, 79 CE.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nooooooooooooooooooo, my heart hurts for him. Yes, I know, long dead, but still.

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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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You never know what the sea might wash out! If I saw it I would have thought it is just a funny looking stone.

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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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To clarify "take no prisoners" means they would kill everyone on the ship they attacked.

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Only taxidermied blue whale in the world. Gothenburg, Sweden 1865.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is this the one where people could go inside, but that was later forbidden after a couple was busted having sex inside it?

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One of Stalin’s pipes, depicting him and FDR playing chess. It was given to him in 1945 by the visiting US chess team.

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Top hat worn by Abraham Lincoln the night he was shot. Now on display at the National Museum of American History.

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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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And you don't have to go through the cook's life story to get to the recipes

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Gauntlet of “Lion” armor of Henry II, king of France, 1550. 

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Certainly would have made for an imposing figure on the battlefield.

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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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Imagine what they’ll think when they recover our tablets from 2021 in 2400? (“What idiots these people were” I should think).

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Formal outfit worn by one of the last daimyōs. Japan, Edo Period, around 1830.

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Armored Gauntlets owned by the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, from 1508 until his death in 1519. (Metropolitan Museum of Art).

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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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At least the first layer of it, without the temple on the top

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A backside view of the Great Sphinx of Giza that features its giant tail. Old Kingdom, c. 2558–2532 BC.

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Mountaineer's axe with heart-shaped holes and bronze reinforced shaft. Japan, Muromachi period, 14th century.

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Bronze Phrygian Helmet, Greek, Late Classical to Early Hellenistic, c. 350-300.

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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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And hair. I’m assuming that’s their own hair, not fake hair made from toothpaste or concrete dust. If I’m wrong that’s even more baffling.

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9.4 inch mortar shaped like a sitting tiger. India, 1770-1799.

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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).

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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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.

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Ancient Greek Helmets from Classical Period, Olympia Museum.

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A book of magic, with spells and occult diagrams involving the 99 names of God. Middle East, 1425.

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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.

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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.

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A Gold Bar with mint marks, recovered from the Spanish treasure ship 'Atocha' which sank in 1622.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The gold rolex the, I'm guessing, museum curator is wearing is almost as impressive.

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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.

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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.

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Medieval ax with a preserved wooden handle discovered on the island of Ledniczka in Poland.

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My picture of the burial chamber in the Tomb of Seti I on the West Bank of Luxor, circa 1279 BCE.

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Roman chariot unearthed 'almost intact' near Pompeii.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For sale, Sport chariot. Ran when parked, I know what I got, no chariot wheel kickers, 3 gold coins. Call Caius Smithus

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A silver brooch I found metal detecting, finally being worn again after 400 years in the ground.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Did you know that during the mid 20th century, round pins like that were called "virgin pins", and were worn by girls who wanted the world to know all about their private lives?

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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.

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The bullet that killed the president Abraham Lincoln in 1865.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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Silk vest worn by King Charles I of England during his beheading on charges of treason in 1649.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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