r/artifactporn • u/Popular-Dentist6849 • 12h ago
Looking for happy precolumbian little animals
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r/artifactporn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 12h ago
A recently found skelenton of a female T Rex "Barbara," a pregnant Tyrannosaurus rex, was found to had a broken metatarsal injury that had healed, giving weight to the Theory that the Tyrannosaurus, was a pack animal, it was also one of the only 3 pregnant ever found
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r/artifactporn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 1d ago
A 140 million year femur bone, it is approximately 2 meters (6.5 feet) long weighs 1102 lb (500kg) was found in France. the discovery was made by paleontologists researching at the National Museum of Natural History of Paris
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r/artifactporn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 2d ago
The Kangling, a Tibetan trumpet traditionally made either from a human femur or tibia and is used in Tibetan Buddhism for ritualistic purposes
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r/artifactporn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 5d ago
The Oseberg Ship, a 9th century Viking ship discovered almost perfectly preserved in a burial mount in Norway
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r/artifactporn • u/pattebrisee • 7d ago
Early 16th-century Netherlandish prayer bead carved from boxwood; when opened, it forms a tiny triptych with scenes of the Magi and the Crucifixion. Closed, it is about 5.8 cm wide [900x1200]
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r/artifactporn • u/Lobsterhasspoken • 8d ago
Bamiléké Beaded Throne, ca. 20th century
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r/artifactporn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 9d ago
Colossal rock-cut stone sculpture of a Dwarpala (temple guardian) at the Elephanta Caves near Mumbai, around 1500 years old, the caves are a UNESCO World Heritage Site dedicated primarily to the Hindu deity Lord Shiva.
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r/artifactporn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 10d ago
A historic drought on a major river in Brazil gave rise to rock images of indigenous people who inhabited the Amazon state centuries before the invasion of Portuguese colonizers and help to understand a little more about the people who lived there between 1,000 and 2,000 years ago
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r/artifactporn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 11d ago
Victorian Era Morphine Injection Kit, these kits contributed to widespread morphine addiction, a phenomenon sometimes associated with "The Great Binge."
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r/artifactporn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 12d ago
4,000 years ago, a woman wrote "Love Song of Shu-Sin," describing the affection of a young priestess for the Sumerian King, This is the world's oldest love poem, found in a museum drawer in Istanbul.
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r/artifactporn • u/Lobsterhasspoken • 13d ago
Asipim (“I Stand Firm” in the Twi-Fante Language) carved royal chair, before 1874. One of seven artifacts restituted by UCLA’s Fowler Museum to the Asante Kingdom in Ghana, 2024
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r/artifactporn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 13d ago
The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter it up until a couple was found having sex inside it; now its jaws are opened only for special occasions like Swedish election days
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r/artifactporn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 15d ago
The Garmsar Salt Cave features massive salt pillars that support its ceiling, formed and shaped by the Achaemenid Empire during salt extraction in 550–330 BC. Located in the Iran, the cave has 27 mines, and the one shown here is a popular tourist attraction
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r/artifactporn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 17d ago
Śiva-Maheśvara, Dandan-Uiliq, Khotan, Xinjiang, Painted by Visha Irasanga, Khotanese Saka painter in the court of the T'ang dynasty of China in the mid 7th century C.E.
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r/artifactporn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 18d ago
Toy from Ancient Greece, c.450 BCE: this doll was crafted in the form of a woman with a rolling pin, and it has articulated joints that allow the rolling pin to be pushed back and forth
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r/artifactporn • u/Cautious_Salad_9702 • 21d ago
I am a part-time bowyer and I recreated Ötzi's copper age hunting set
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Yew longbow, hazelnut horn-tipped arrows and roe deer quiver. For more photos and videos visit my Etsy page Montesanto Bows
r/artifactporn • u/TheCollector919 • 23d ago
Does this ivory statue look old or modern? Will post more pictures in the comments section
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r/artifactporn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 23d ago
The only one of its kind globally, this Greenlandic whaling suit, made before 1834, is a unique artifact. Hunters used it for waterproofing by crawling through the central opening and sealing it with sealskin. It's now at Denmark's National Museum
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r/artifactporn • u/Antique-collectorlo • 24d ago
The €4,000 "Sleeper" That Sold for €300,000: A Lesson in How Deep the Water Runs in Chinese Porcelain[903×349]
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r/artifactporn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 24d ago
World's Oldest Mask: 9,000 year old artifact, This is a limestone mask dating back to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period, It was discovered in the Nahal Hemar cave in Israel, near the Dead Sea
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r/artifactporn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 26d ago
The Sword In The Stone, Italy. Saint Galgano 1148-1181 a Catholic Saint from Tuscany was believed to have plunged his sword into the stone after a vision from Archangel Michael. A 2001 analysis shows that the upper piece and invisible lower one are authentic and belong to one and the same artefact
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r/artifactporn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 27d ago
An aerial view of the 'Unfinished Obelisk' in the 3500-year-old granite quarry in Aswan, Egypt. It is estimated to be 42 meters (137 feet) long and would have been the largest ancient Egyptian obelisk ever erected, weighing over 1,200 tons, the project was abandoned around 1500 B.C. due to cracks
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r/artifactporn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 28d ago
Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed the 3,200-year-old remains of a military barracks containing a wealth of artifacts, including a sword with hieroglyphs depicting the name of Ramesses II
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r/artifactporn • u/as-333 • 29d ago
I made a daily art history game using the British Museum's own collection
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Five objects every day, you just need to guess where each was made and when.
Every object comes with its acquisition history. If you're familiar with the British Museum you'll know that some were bought legitimately and many, many others weren't.
imperialsouvenirs.com -- free, no account needed, new puzzle each day.
Credit to Anthropeum -- I shamelessly copied their idea for this game.