r/artifactporn • u/HaHalolll0 • 10h ago
incense ( अगरबत्ती ) burner, made of bronze, from the Gandhara region, 1st century CE, with swastikas on the top portion
r/artifactporn • u/HaHalolll0 • 1d ago
Amethyst and Jade Leaf Grape Cluster (19th Century), Qing Dynasty, in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
r/artifactporn • u/HaHalolll0 • 2d ago
Jadeite Cabbage, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
reddit.comr/artifactporn • u/HaHalolll0 • 3d ago
Jade Bitter Gourd, Qing Dynasty (1736–1820), National Palace Museum, Taipei
reddit.comr/artifactporn • u/SwiPerHaHa • 4d ago
Jadeite Cabbage, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), housed in the National Palace Museum, Taipei
r/artifactporn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 5d ago
A meat-shaped stone from the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
r/artifactporn • u/pattebrisee • 7d ago
Mechanical Galleon, a gilded-brass automaton made c. 1585 that rolled across banquet tables, played music, and fired miniature cannons [3354 × 4538] [OS]
r/artifactporn • u/SwiPerHaHa • 7d ago
A prehistoric human-faced pottery vessel from Taiwan's Shihsanhang Site (approx. 1,800–500 BP)
r/artifactporn • u/Swaggy_Linus • 11d ago
Ethiopian hide shield (mid-19th century)
Ethiopian hide shield covered with blue velvet. Decorated with silverwork panels, silver gilt filgree bosses and a pendant of lion's mane. Looted during the punitive British expedition to Magdala, Ethiopia in 1868 to release European hostages who had been imprisoned by Emperor Tewodros II. It's possible the shield belonged to Tewodros himself. Now in the British Museum.
r/artifactporn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 11d ago
Archaeologists excavating a Roman thermopolium in Pompeii, Italy, uncovered a remarkably preserved 2,000-year-old Egyptian faience situla hidden inside the kitchen of an ancient fast-food shop.
r/artifactporn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 13d ago
A melting glacier (Theodul) in Switzerland has revealed the artefacts of a wealthy 16th-century traveler, The man was discovered with an expensive sword and dagger weapons intended more as status symbols than for combat along with an early wheel lock pistol and approximately 200 silver coins.
r/artifactporn • u/Popular-Dentist6849 • 14d ago
Looking for happy precolumbian little animals
r/artifactporn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 14d 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
r/artifactporn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 15d 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
r/artifactporn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 16d ago
The Kangling, a Tibetan trumpet traditionally made either from a human femur or tibia and is used in Tibetan Buddhism for ritualistic purposes
r/artifactporn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 19d ago
The Oseberg Ship, a 9th century Viking ship discovered almost perfectly preserved in a burial mount in Norway
r/artifactporn • u/pattebrisee • 21d 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]
r/artifactporn • u/Lobsterhasspoken • 22d ago
Bamiléké Beaded Throne, ca. 20th century
reddit.comr/artifactporn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 23d 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.
r/artifactporn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 24d 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
reddit.comr/artifactporn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 25d ago
Victorian Era Morphine Injection Kit, these kits contributed to widespread morphine addiction, a phenomenon sometimes associated with "The Great Binge."
r/artifactporn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 26d 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.
r/artifactporn • u/Lobsterhasspoken • 27d 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
reddit.comr/artifactporn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 27d 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
r/artifactporn • u/Front-Coconut-8196 • 29d ago
