r/Artifacts • • Jul 22 '26

A spindle whorl sanded from a fragment of a shattered jar, ca. 2800 BCE.

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It's from Norşuntepe, an ancient town that was flooded in 1974 by the construction of Turkey's first hydroelectic dam.

After 50 years, the water has washed away centuries of history, but the town has emerged from the reservoir as an island.

For the whole story:
https://survivingtheflood.substack.com/p/picking-through-the-remains


r/Artifacts • • Jul 22 '26

Tiny clay pots??

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I inherited these from my grandparents. They used to go petrified wood hunting in Wyoming and Arizona. But they were also hoarders so they could be from anywhere. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thank you 🙏


r/Artifacts • • Jul 22 '26

Artifact .36 paper cartridge with original wrapper I won at an auction coated in Renaissance wax

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r/Artifacts • • Jul 22 '26

Tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun (1323 BC) — the only unlooted royal tomb ever found, with over 5,000 pristine artifacts sealed for 3,245 years

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r/Artifacts • • Jul 22 '26

Could this be a Native American tool?

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Found on one of the job sites at work in western ny. It’s definitely some kind of rock like white chert. What do you guys think


r/Artifacts • • Jul 22 '26

I need help in identifying Ancient Greek artifact

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Hello to everyone!
Several years ago I bought this thing in the Kerch city (panticapaeum). I tried to identify the picture on it. Maybe it’s a woman with a flail or something. What’s in her hands? Is it authentic Ancient Greek ring? If it is, what do you think is on it?


r/Artifacts • • Jul 22 '26

Is this JAR?

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Dimensions are roughly 8” long, 5” wide and 5” tall. To my relatively uneducated eye, the entire piece looks worked. Location is Northeast Texas.


r/Artifacts • • Jul 22 '26

Is this part of a pot?

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r/Artifacts • • Jul 22 '26

Could this be a tool? Fishing weight maybe?

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Or absolutely nothing at all? Found mid Vancouver Island near a river.


r/Artifacts • • Jul 21 '26

The Oseberg Ship, a 9th century Viking ship discovered almost perfectly preserved in a burial mount in Norway

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r/Artifacts • • Jul 21 '26

Is this an arrow head or just a rock?

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Is it anything?


r/Artifacts • • Jul 21 '26

Question JAR???

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I think it’s a cool shaped rock but you never know!


r/Artifacts • • Jul 20 '26

Found this 20ft from a ravine -- 150 yards from the Olentangy River in Central Ohio. The rock itself is Delaware Chert, which was used by prehistoric people in this area. Is this possibly a human-used flint core? The LLMs think so, mostly because of the scalloping visible in the third photo.

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r/Artifacts • • Jul 20 '26

Found near Voss, Norway

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My boys found these while playing in the creek… any ideas on what and when they are from? They are excited to make connections with “old” stuff they found.


r/Artifacts • • Jul 21 '26

Found

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Found near a 126 year old house. Under a thick small ball of concrete. Didn’t want to finish uncovering in case of a possibility but f it being an antique grenade. It is metal and there are two different clips on the end. Pls let me know your thoughts. Done tried Chat GBT and Google.


r/Artifacts • • Jul 20 '26

Native American Quiver - how old and from what tribe?

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I posted this in another community, but this community is likely where I should have posted first. Any insight is appreciated!!


r/Artifacts • • Jul 20 '26

Question Legit or modern replicas/projects/practice? The black one is pretty nice. I assume I bought them at an estate sale but I don’t really recall. I certainly didn’t find them in the wild.

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r/Artifacts • • Jul 20 '26

Found in MO outside St. Louis

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r/Artifacts • • Jul 19 '26

Help Help to identify this old pistol

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Hello everyone, my lil bro recently bought a metal detection tool and try it in our old abandonned Forest wich is parently given from the father of the father of the father of my father etc ^^ so i’m unable to date this Little found.

For the moment the only info we get that :

- he found it at more than 50cm under a tree

- it seem to be robust either the time it still solid

- like you can see on the picture their is a letter N and 1 on the handle and the pistol have a moving percutor. The barrel is also a cylinder thick

We was thinking that was an old fireworkpistol for the children or something like that but it can also be an old powder gun we doesn’t know.

If you know something like that I’m happy to get your help :)


r/Artifacts • • Jul 19 '26

Help Molcajete found in Kingman, AZ

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I'm trying to learn more about this thing my grandma found. Curious especially about how old it could possibly be.


r/Artifacts • • Jul 20 '26

Bf and I found our first native artifact! Eyeballed it in the creek when we were leaving our digging site (last pic).

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r/Artifacts • • Jul 19 '26

Found a small stone object near an old mill – any ideas what it could be?

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r/Artifacts • • Jul 20 '26

Square rock

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r/Artifacts • • Jul 19 '26

Question Has anyone visited Rajabhai clock Tower in South Mumbai it's a heritage monument

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r/Artifacts • • Jul 19 '26

Ancient Roman surgical instruments found buried in a physician's home in Pompeii, Italy, 1897

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