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Historical Artifacts
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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.
Generally speaking, ruins should go to !historyruins@lemmy.world
Illustrations of the past should go to !historyillustrations@lemmy.world
Photos of the past should go to !HistoryPorn@lemmy.world
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Is the skull real or ivory?
I don't really see how you could get the snake to fit so well with a real skull. It's tail even goes through some kind of hole at the jaw hinge. So I guess it must all be made of ivory even though it looks super real
What's wild to me is the sutures. That's a detail I didn't expect on a carving of a skull, and it makes me wonder how many real skulls the artist held in his hand to compare. I'm 99% sure it's all ivory, the area above the teeth looks just a little too smooth for it to be a actual skull, but good GOD is that detailed and amazing
When you were out partying, I studied the skull.
It's worth Google Lensing this picture to see how many more there are of this type of memento mori, in various sizes, usually smaller than a real skull.