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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Gothic mace, Hungary, 15th-16th century AD? (upload.wikimedia.org)

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[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Then someone from 2 meters away pokes a spear into your side.

[–] Town@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

And you very likely did not have access to antibiotics.