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Illustrations of history

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This magazine is for sharing artwork of historical events, places, personages, etc. Scale models and the like also welcome!

Generally speaking, actual photos of a historical item should go to !historyartifacts@lemmy.world

Photos of ruins should go to !historyruins@lemmy.world

Photos of the past should go to !HistoryPorn@lemmy.world

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[โ€“] rjthyen@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would love to learn more about pre colonization anything. I feel like other than Mayan and Incan societies there's little info on cities, and I'm particularly interested in wildlife habitat before widespread human interference in North America if anyone knows of any good reads or documentaries

[โ€“] bamfic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The book 1491 was really good as an introduction.