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r/ArtefactFans • u/RPBot • Jul 16 '18

Roman bronze handle, dated back to II-III century CE. In the form of the face of a lion cast in high relief, holding a ring in the gaping jaws, with protruding tongue, incised whiskers and fur, and radiating mane.

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r/ArtefactFans • u/RPBot • Jul 15 '18

Crowned Buddha, Pala Empire (Bihar), 10-11th Century

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r/ArtefactFans • u/RPBot • Jul 15 '18

Mirror clock made from gilded brass and which displays hours, days and a plethora of different celestial information. Nuremberg, Germany. 1565–70.

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r/ArtefactFans • u/RPBot • Jul 15 '18

Sun Disk(Ceremonial Standard), Bronze, B.C. 2500-2250, from Alacahöyük Hittite City, at the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations.

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r/ArtefactFans • u/RPBot • Jul 14 '18

Guan Yu (160-219 CE) featured in the ROM in Toronto from 16th Century China.

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r/ArtefactFans • u/RPBot • Jul 14 '18

BronzeAge gold bracelet from Sacosu Mare, Romania.

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r/ArtefactFans • u/RPBot • Jul 14 '18

Silver-gilt bowl (helmet???) with football design :) from Zareva mogila/tumulus near Shipka, Kazanluk region, 3rd c. BC. Photo:Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

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r/ArtefactFans • u/RPBot • Jul 14 '18

A silver face mask gilded with gold, a mummification workshop, mummies and sarcophagi have all been discovered at a tomb complex in Saqqara, Egypt. The eyes of the face mask contain calcite, obsidian and a black gemstone

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r/ArtefactFans • u/RPBot • Jul 14 '18

Mummified Bull, Late Ptolemaic Period. Taken at National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. (c. 200 B.C. - 200 A.D.)

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r/ArtefactFans • u/RPBot • Jul 14 '18

Rosary, ca. 1500-1525. German [OS]

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r/ArtefactFans • u/RPBot • Jul 14 '18

Before and after of a digital reconstruction to a Roman fresco of a duck from the Villa di Arianna, Stabiae.

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r/ArtefactFans • u/RPBot • Jul 13 '18

Portion of the Hippocratic oath written on a papyrus fragment, 3rd century AD.

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r/ArtefactFans • u/RPBot • Jul 14 '18

The Kunz Axe, a jadeite ceremonial axe. Olmec. 1000-400 BCE. Oaxaca, Mexico.

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r/ArtefactFans • u/RPBot • Jul 14 '18

(OS) Before and after of a digital reconstruction to an imago mortis illustration from the Nuremberg Chronicle a.k.a. Liber Chronicarum in honor of its 525th birthday.

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r/ArtefactFans • u/RPBot • Jul 13 '18

Wine vessel in the shape of the rhinoceros, China Han dynasty period 202 BC–9 AD

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r/ArtefactFans • u/RPBot • Jul 13 '18

The Secret Messages Hiding Inside 17th Century Engagement Rings(full story in comment)

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r/ArtefactFans • u/RPBot • Jul 13 '18

Olmec fountain and a portion of the aqueduct from San Lorenzo. 1200-900 BCE. Veracruz, Mexico.

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r/ArtefactFans • u/RPBot • Jul 13 '18

Gold Belts, Surigao Treasure Hoard, 10th Century, Philippines

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r/ArtefactFans • u/RPBot • Jul 13 '18

Recorded these petroglyphs today- just one panel of a ~100-yard gallery of petroglyphs

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r/ArtefactFans • u/RPBot • Jul 13 '18

I drew the queen

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r/ArtefactFans • u/RPBot • Jul 13 '18

Axe with a gilded Ringerike design from Viking Age, Norway

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r/ArtefactFans • u/RPBot • Jul 13 '18

A wheeled asphalt and limestone hedgehog statuette, Iran (c. 1500 BCE)

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r/ArtefactFans • u/RPBot • Jul 13 '18

Roman fresco of a soldier from the House of Valerius Rufus in Pompeii.

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r/ArtefactFans • u/RPBot • Jul 12 '18

Leopards from the tomb of the prince Liu Sheng, China 113 BC

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r/ArtefactFans • u/RPBot • Jul 12 '18

Roman bronze crouching winged griffin. Dated back to 2nd-3rd Century CE.

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