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.

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Beautiful silver reliquary, 8th-10th century AD, Carolingian Empire (modern day France, Germany, and Italy) (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyartifacts@lemmy.world

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[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Was it carved, molded, or what? It's pretty crooked. Maybe an altar boy dropped it 500 years ago.

[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I've seen artifacts on this sub that were 1000 years older and looked 100 times better!

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Exactly. I mean, it's way better than I could do, to be sure, but if I were the king or whatever that commissioned this I would request a refund.