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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Massive flag from a Spanish ship during the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805 (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyartifacts@lemmy.world

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 38 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Captain: .... get ready for battle ... hoist the flag!

Crew two hours later: ... ready captain!

(that is one huge freakin flag!)

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not even one of the biggest ships of the period, naval ensigns back then were just that massive!

[–] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 3 weeks ago

That Wikipedia page has such a shitty drawing as a header image, lol