this post was submitted on 25 May 2025
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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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[โ€“] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 27 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[โ€“] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 days ago

Especially with its right hand flying a proud bird for all time. ๐Ÿค˜๐Ÿผ

[โ€“] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 14 points 2 days ago

Good luck finding a blessed weapon to stop this dickhead from just respawning.

[โ€“] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[โ€“] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No wonder they died .... that armor exposed the most vulnerable parts

[โ€“] mriswith@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Jokes aside, he was allegedly beheaded as a martyr at fourteen and never wore armor in life.

Well that's his own fault then. That collar looks like it might have helped prevent a beheading. Teens, smh.

[โ€“] SquiffSquiff@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah but that st pancras' skull is on a church in Rome

[โ€“] Sergio@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 days ago

I've decided how I want to be "buried."

[โ€“] PugJesus@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

That's metal as fuck

[โ€“] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Where do they keep the skeleton of St. Spleen?

[โ€“] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

The patron saint of insulin.

[โ€“] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 days ago

Looks like something out of WH40K.

[โ€“] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Does that particular armor and/or sword have some significance?

[โ€“] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

+5 resistance to holey cheese

[โ€“] Lumiluz@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago

To look cool

[โ€“] andybytes@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

If you like this you might like Joel Peter Wittkin. I grew up Catholic. So I'm used to looking at relics and dead people and shit. So I think you'd like this photographer. And if people are bothered by the photographer and his subject matter, then why do Catholics get away with it?