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.

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Glass perfume bottles in the shape of birds, Roman Empire, 1st century BCE/AD (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyartifacts@lemmy.world

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[–] EdanGrey@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And we'll never know what the perfumes smell like because they'll never be broken

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m not so sure. You could probably use spectroscopy to figure out what is in there now and then work out what form would have been in way back then.

[–] EdanGrey@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I'd definitely be curious to know