Museum of Artifacts

Small object that shaped great history

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Gold doggy pendant, uncovered from the Susa Acropolis in what is now Iran, circa 3800-3100 BC

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#cats in #history

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Tortoise shell gunpowder flask with
silver fittings, Paris, France, circa 1725

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Large Japanese Carved Ivory Okimono of a Human Skull

Meiji period (1868-1912) circa 1900

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A Japanese carved ivory banana, meiji period (1868-1912)

Naturalistically carved with two strips of skin peeled back to the brown stalk, revealing the fleshy interior, the skin stained a pale yellow, unsigned; with separate wood stand.

Sold at Bonhams for 4000pounds.

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Historic death mask

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16th-Century Italian Fireplace Mantel with 17th-Century Tiles in Pierre Passebon’s Paris Apartment

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One of the massive atlases from the temple of Zeus (480s BCE), the largest Doric temple ever constructed, although it was never completed and now lies in ruins in Agrigento, Sicily. There were 38 such figures incorporated into the architecture of the building and each stood 7.5 m

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@SchwertnerPL I równie „ciekawie” w sądach rodzinnych. Polecam poczytać o piekle ojców.

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Chauvet horse beautifully observed over 30,000 years ago created by lamplight from memory with fingers and rudimentary art kit on a limestone cavern wall deep underground

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This cave painting depicting a battle scene from Sefar, in Algeria, is one of the earliest examples of depictions of violence in the world. It shows 24 men on the left-hand side fighting 13 people on the right-hand side. 5000-3500 BC
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A 4,573-year-old #neolithic wooden peat road near NieuwDordrecht, in the #Netherlands. 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

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These coins were in the pocket of a #Belgian soldier named Optatius Buyssens, they stopped a bullet and saved his life during #WW1

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After moving to Paris, #vanGogh became almost obsessed with colour combinations, and used coloured balls of wool to test different combinations before trying them out with his expensive paints. The wool & the red box they were kept in are pictured

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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

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A brown velvet hat that belonged to a street "dentist" or travelling tooth puller in London in the 1820s-50s. It is decorated with 88 decayed human teeth from his former patients, each drilled with a hole and attached with twine.

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A Romanesque fresco depicting Saint Nicholas refusing his mother's milk. Late 11th century CE, Novalesa Abbey, Italy

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