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Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!
Heraklion Archaeological Museum
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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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Limestone boar statue, with flecks of pigment residue, Gobeklitepe, Turkiye, ~9000 BCE
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Roman knife handles depicting gladiators, ivory, Germany, sometime before the 5th century AD
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Bracelets of Pharaoh Shoshenq II, gold and semiprecious stones, Egypt, ~885 BCE
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Belt Cup with Dragon Handle, Central Asia, late 13th or early 14th century AD
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Grave goods/headdress of Shaman of Bad Dürrenberg (Germany). approx. 9000 years old
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Video talking about the discovery and significance:
https://youtu.be/65MUZ6fcSzg
Wikipedia page (only in German):
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestattung_von_Bad_D%C3%BCrrenberg
Edit: there were far more grave goods. This just shows likely headdress bits.
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Silver coins of (left) Gordian III, Roman Emperor in 238-244 AD, and (right) Postumus, founder of a split-away Gallic Empire in 260 AD, France
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Ornate gaming pieces, gold, resin, and precious gems, Mughal India, late 18th century AD
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The Galloway Hoard was discovered in 2014 by metal detectorists in Balmaghie, Dumfries and Galloway, and has been described by experts as one of the most important archaeological finds in the UK this century.
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