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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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A 2000-year-old Roman silver dagger, that was discovered by an archeology intern in 2019 in Germany, before and after nine months of careful restoration work. (lemmy.world)

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Smithsonian article on the dagger.

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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I preferred the dirty/rusty version, as it does more long term infection damage, but thanks for taking notice of this wonder 👍

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I already admired and saved this post, at first glance I thought you posted it LOL, but apparently not. Regardless, absolutely beautiful indeed! 👍