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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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Hardtack (bread ration) from the US Civil War, 1862 (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyartifacts@lemmy.world
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[–] DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Dawg, that's Snack Bread, Wheat.

Second only to Vegetable Crackers, which pair nicely as a crumble with a vegetarian MRE.

Great share as always, Pug!

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

lmao, I have relatives who were in the military in the 90s and they swear to me that the crackers in the MREs back then tasted exactly like attic dust, and there's no proof that they weren't made of just that

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world -3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Ok and so wtf does “attic dust” supposed to taste like?

[–] Lookorex@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

MRE crackers

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Go up to your attic and see.