HistoryArtifacts

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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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[–] CuriousRefugee@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Forbidden chicken nugget

[–] diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Forreal it went from chicken to an epic Skyrim dagger