Artifacts

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Anonymous
Artifacts 2016-10-09 13:30:29 Post No. 1800704
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File: Antikythera mechanism (200-100 BC).jpg (949KB, 2000x1500px) Image search: [Google]

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Artifacts Anonymous 2016-10-09 13:30:29 Post No. 1800704 [Report]

Post interesting artifacts.

The Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek clockwork orrery from around 200-100 BC.

Anonymous 2016-10-09 13:33:23 Post No.1800712
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File: Byzantine Sundial-Calendar (c. late 5th-early 6th centurey AD).jpg (113KB, 844x526px) Image search: [Google]

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A 5th-6th century Byzantine sundial and geared mechanical calendar.

Anonymous 2016-10-09 13:34:12 Post No.1800714
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File: Byzantine Sundial-Calendar 2.jpg (71KB, 678x337px) Image search: [Google]

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>>1800712
The reconstruction

Anonymous 2016-10-09 13:37:37 Post No.1800723
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File: Muhammad ibn Abī Bakr al Ibarī, Astrolabe with geared calendar (1221-1222 AD).jpg (602KB, 1300x1955px) Image search: [Google]

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An Iranian astrolabe and geared calendar made by Muhammad ibn Abī Bakr al Ibarī in 1222 AD, containing a the world's oldest intact gear train.

Anonymous 2016-10-09 13:38:21 Post No.1800726
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File: Muhammad ibn Abī Bakr al Ibarī, Astrolabe with geared calendar 2.jpg (207KB, 1300x1955px) Image search: [Google]

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>>1800723
The gears inside.

Anonymous 2016-10-09 13:41:31 Post No.1800732
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File: Salisbury cathedral clock (1386 AD).jpg (187KB, 768x1024px) Image search: [Google]

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The Salisbury cathedral clock, probably dating to 1386 AD making it possibly the oldest working mechanical clock.

Anonymous 2016-10-09 15:45:23 Post No.1801125
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File: Dura Europos Scutum (mid-3rd century AD).jpg (202KB, 1505x2000px) Image search: [Google]

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Roman shield from Dura Europos

Anonymous 2016-10-09 16:02:28 Post No.1801215
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>>1800704
Diagram for the Antikythera artifact.

Anonymous 2016-10-09 16:20:39 Post No.1801287
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Anonymous 2016-10-09 16:20:39 Post No.1801287 [Report]

Amazing thread guys. Keep 'em coming.

Anonymous 2016-10-09 16:45:55 Post No.1801389
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File: IMG_0356.jpg (68KB, 500x677px) Image search: [Google]

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I don't know who originally had this sword, but he was either a big guy, or was compensating.

Anonymous 2016-10-09 17:47:27 Post No.1801644
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File: Bronze handgun, Acheng district, Heilongjiang Province (1288 AD).jpg (52KB, 500x375px) Image search: [Google]

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The Heilongjiang Handgun from northern China, 1288 AD, the oldest true gun discovered so far.

Anonymous 2016-10-09 17:51:41 Post No.1801662
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Anonymous 2016-10-09 17:51:41 Post No.1801662 [Report]

>>1801644
>have gunpowder for centuries
>guns appear at the tail end of the mongol invasions
really makes you think

Anonymous 2016-10-09 17:53:24 Post No.1801673
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File: Bianzhong of Marquis Yi of Zeng, State of Chu, (433 BC).jpg (4MB, 4256x2832px) Image search: [Google]

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A set of bells from the tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng, c. 433 BC.

Anonymous 2016-10-09 17:57:02 Post No.1801687
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File: Dunhuang Mara Budda, Fire Lance and a Grenade.jpg (2MB, 2413x1935px) Image search: [Google]

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>>1801662
They had fire-lances and grenades centuries earlier. Pic related shows them in the 10th century.

Anonymous 2016-10-09 17:57:39 Post No.1801691
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>>1801389

Well, Grote Pier wasn't named that for nothing

Anonymous 2016-10-09 18:01:02 Post No.1801705
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File: Ibrahim ibn Said al-Sahli, Celestial Globe (Valencia, 1085 AD).jpg (123KB, 746x1000px) Image search: [Google]

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Celestial globe made in Valencia, 1085 AD.

Anonymous 2016-10-09 18:05:07 Post No.1801728
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File: Ambrosius Gemlich, Wheellock Pistol Hunting Knife (c. 1540-46 AD).jpg (315KB, 1600x1200px) Image search: [Google]

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A German wheel lock pistol combined with a hunting knife made in the 1540s by Ambrosius Gemlich.

Anonymous 2016-10-09 21:01:44 Post No.1802605
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File: Mycenaean panoply, found in Dendra, Argolid, c. 1400 BC.jpg (1MB, 960x1280px) Image search: [Google]

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Mycenaean armour

Anonymous 2016-10-09 21:03:12 Post No.1802610
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File: Tutankhamun Sandals.jpg (1MB, 1700x2060px) Image search: [Google]

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Sandals from the tomb of Tutenkhamun

Anonymous 2016-10-09 21:04:32 Post No.1802618
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File: Tabaketenmut toe, 900-750 BC.jpg (116KB, 550x392px) Image search: [Google]

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Ancient Egyptian prosthetic toe, still attached to its foot.

Anonymous 2016-10-09 21:05:52 Post No.1802621
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File: Turin Erotic Papyrus (c. 1150 BC).jpg (919KB, 1559x885px) Image search: [Google]

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Part of the Turin Erotic Papyrus, from c. 1150 BC

Anonymous 2016-10-09 21:07:57 Post No.1802630
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File: Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory (575-550 BC).jpg (896KB, 3879x3060px) Image search: [Google]

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Etruscan bronze chariot

Anonymous 2016-10-09 21:09:51 Post No.1802642
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>>1801728
*_*

Anonymous 2016-10-09 21:44:08 Post No.1802903
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>>1802630
wow

Anonymous 2016-10-10 07:15:05 Post No.1804967
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File: 01 Olmecs.jpg (111KB, 618x460px) Image search: [Google]

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Just a giant olmec basalt head

Anonymous 2016-10-10 10:46:35 Post No.1805263
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>>1801673
looks like the sixth house bells in morrowind (or whatever they're called)

Anonymous 2016-10-10 10:59:16 Post No.1805280
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>>1801728
Imagine getting wild boar blood and fur all over that.

Anonymous 2016-10-10 11:00:42 Post No.1805286
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>>1805263
Huh, things in video games are inspired by things in real life...
Really makes you think...

Anonymous 2016-10-10 13:33:55 Post No.1805515
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File: Tutankhamun Chariot 1.jpg (4MB, 3147x2781px) Image search: [Google]

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>>1802903
Here's an Egyptian one too.

Anonymous 2016-10-10 13:35:17 Post No.1805520
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File: Yinxu Chariot Pits 2.jpg (262KB, 1024x494px) Image search: [Google]

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>>1805515
And a bunch from the Shang dyansty.

Anonymous 2016-10-10 13:36:58 Post No.1805522
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File: Terracotta Army Chariot 5.jpg (785KB, 1600x1200px) Image search: [Google]

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>>1805520
And a model from the Qin.

The Etruscan one is still my favourite though.

Anonymous 2016-10-10 13:37:47 Post No.1805525
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File: Terracotta Army Chariot 3.jpg (1MB, 2019x1609px) Image search: [Google]

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>>1805522

Anonymous 2016-10-10 13:45:26 Post No.1805537
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File: Simeon_Stylite_Louvre.jpg (127KB, 582x671px) Image search: [Google]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_Stylites

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