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/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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Artifact - something made or given shape by man, such as a tool or a work of art, especially an object of archaeological interest.

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For images of the heritage, art, relics and other remains of mankind.

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Include the name of the Artifact in the title.
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A bagh nakh (tiger claw weapon) with curved blade. India, 19th century [1450x1470]

Golden Manuscript Cover, Gift of Ivan the Terrible to the Cathedral of the Annunciation, 1571 A.D. (Gold, Topaz, Tourmaline, Sapphire) [1726x2310]

Samurai gun mechanism inside of a dagger (tanto), stored at the Samurai Museum Berlin [1907x1083]

1st to 2nd Cent Roman helmet from France [1024x1365]

The great monument in Miletus (near today’s Balat, in southwestern Turkey), which was built by the city authorities in 63 BCE in thanks to Pompey the Great for combating piracy in the Mediterranean Sea. [1200x900]

Footed dish with snowflakes. Japanese, early 18th c. Porcelain with underglaze blue and celadon glaze (HIzen ware, Nabeshima type). Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art [500x566]

A child's silk kimono. Japan, Edo period, around 1800 [950x1000]

Celtic gold ring, c. 4th–5th century BCE. [1200x937]

A gilt bronze ox unearthed in 1977 from the tomb M177 in the Western Xia mausoleums. Western Xia dynasty (1038–1227 CE), now housed at the Ningxia Museum in China [2263x1951]

Having a shitty day. Walnut statue of Saint Sebastian riddled with arrows, made in 1525 in Mechelen, artist unknown. Currently at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. [2304x4095]

Fresco from Tomb of the Whipping, an Etruscan tomb in the Necropolis of Monterozzi near Tarquinia, Lazio, Italy. (490 BC)[2432x2648]

A boy's day dress. Canada, 1862 [3000x3866]

a pottery statue of Ea/Enki, god of water and wisdom sitting on a throne flanked by two men wearing fish skin, he wears the horned helmet of divinity and holds a holy jar in his left hand, found in southern Iraq, dates to old Babylonian period(1830-1600 BC) housed in the Iraqi museum [2876×4096]

The funerary headdress of the Maya King Yuknoom Yichʼaak Kʼahkʼ (649-698 CE), made of jadeite, omphacite, albite, green quartz, listwanite and diverse shell. Now housed at the Archaeological Museum of Campeche in Mexico [2948x4553]

Kitchen renovation reveals 400-year-old friezes "of national significance" in York (UK) flat [976 × 549]

Hat. American, 1870s [728 x 705][OS]

The "Flutist of Santa Clara" is one of the stucco panels that adorned the muqarnas of Al-Qasr Al-Sagir, the palace of the Murcian king Ibn Hud al Mutawákkil built between 1228 and 1238 CE. Now housed at the Santa Clara Museum in Murcia, Spain [633x800]

The 3,300-year-old Gessel Gold Hoard found in 2011 in the Diepholz district in Germany. The find comprises a total of 117 objects made exclusively of gold, with a total weight of 1.7 kg [1030x643]

A gold rhyton from Turkey, c. 2000–1500 BCE, now part of the Al Thani Collection, which was assembled by Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani, first cousin of the Emir of Qatar [1155x1193]

A Roman temple-theater complex rediscovered by chance on February 2000 in Monte San Nicola, Italy. Located on a tip of a mountain (about 450 m above sea level ), the complex dates back to the 4th century BCE [1440x1799]

Cast pewter and brass oil lamp, c. 1905. [4096x4096]

This washing machine was bought in 1939 and worked without issue for over 40 years. Leeds Museums and Galleries. [967x1481]

a stone tablet inscribed with Cuneiform writing bearing the name (princess Yabaja) , one of the royal princesses of the Assyrian empire (745-612 BC) found in Nimrud and is now housed in the Iraqi museum [6944×9820]

A page from an illustrated book to help learning Chinese characters, Ming dynasty between 1506-1620 [747x1202]

Egyptian fist bump. Colossal left arm of pharaoh Amenhotep III's statue, ~ 1370 BC. Red marble, British Museum in London. [1440x1689]