r/ArtefactPorn

r/ArtefactPorn

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r/ArtefactPorn is a subreddit with 3.1M members. Its distinguishing qualities are that the community is size-massive, activity-high.
/r/ArtefactPorn is a community dedicated to posting the very best objects, from the very large to the very small, made or shaped by the mankind throughout history. These artefacts range from tools and works of arts to archaeological finds, and give us a better sense of life in various moments throughout history.

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: "An 18th century CE ivory dildo complete with contrivance for simulating ejaculation and its own discreet cloth bag. The didlo was hidden in the seat of a Louis XV armchair found in a convent near Paris. Now housed at the Science Museum in London [720x1203]"
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#2
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: "Carbonized Scroll from Herculaneum’s Villa of the Papyri Can Now Be Read. [2400x2327]"
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Popular Posts in r/ArtefactPorn

An 18th century CE ivory dildo complete with contrivance for simulating ejaculation and its own discreet cloth bag. The didlo was hidden in the seat of a Louis XV armchair found in a convent near Paris. Now housed at the Science Museum in London [720x1203]
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A bronze "Roman dodecahedron," unearthed summer of 2023 during an amateur dig in a farmer's field near the Lincolnshire Footage of Norton Disney; roughly 1,700 years In the ground. [5250x3880].
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A Romanesque fresco depicting Saint Nicholas refusing his mother's milk. Late 11th century CE, Novalesa Abbey, Italy [1246x1632]
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The medieval Eltz Castle located in Wierschem, Germany, has been owned and occupied by the same family for over 850 years, 33 generations to be exact [864x1080]
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Condom, designed by Gabriele Falloppio (of Fallopian tube fame) 1564 was popular after the outbreak of syphilis. It was soaked in chemicals and tied on with a ribbon (1000 X 715)
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⬆ 2565
Wood statue of Kraaper, one of the most realistic in ancient Egypt. Representing a high official of the V dynasty 2435-2306 BC, old kingdom. Originally, the statue was covered in stucco and painted [2848x4796]
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1,400-year-old Buddhist sculpture that was recently painted by some elderly villagers, which has been criticized as "gaudy" and "not an improvement". Sichuan, China, Northern Wei dynasty, 386–535 AD [1170x1625]
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⬆ 2467
A coal miner's canary, the inscription reads: "In Memory of Little Joe. Died November 3rd 1875. Aged 3 Years”. [534x680].
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A 4,573-year-old neolithic wooden peat road near Nieuw-Dordrecht, in the Netherlands, excavated in the 1980s. The peat road was at least 800 metres long, and its construction has been precisely dated to the year 2,549 BC thanks to dendrochronology or tree-ring dating [1110x1733]
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Female Figurine c. 1500-500 BC Mexico, Guerrero, Xalitla, Xochipala style [4442x3400]
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An ancient Greek kylix showing a baby sitting in his pottychair and calling to his mother. ca. 480 BCE, the Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels. And a 6th Century BCE potty found in the Athenian Agora. Agora Museum, Athens [960x1576]
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⬆ 2091
Hephaistion's signature ("Hephaistion made this") on a 2nd century BCE floor mosaic from the Palace V of the Acropolis at Pergamon, Turkey. The tesserae are meant to look like a parchment note held by wax, about to fly away [2400x1787]
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⬆ 2004
A relatively intact Roman water boiler with all its pipes, at the Villa della Pisanella in Boscoreale, Italy, 1st century BCE. Photograph by Fratelli Alinari, 1931 [2327x3018]
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⬆ 1940
In 1959, two ancient bronze statues of Athena & Artemis were discovered together in Piraeus. This first photograph shows them as found in situ. 4th-3rd century BCE, now they're both housed at the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus in Greece [1280x2516]
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⬆ 1861
3,500-year-old piece of bread, from the Tomb of Hatnefer and Ramose. Thebes, Egypt, New Kingdom, 1492–1473 BC [3400x2600]
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⬆ 1777

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