Objects from the distant past have a deep, rich history. They are tangible fragments that give us a glimpse into specific moments in time when life was starkly different, to say the least. That’s why museum visits are almost always guaranteed to pique our curiosity.
Reddit also has its own museum of artifacts, where more than three million members share photos of artwork, tools, and archeological finds. Some objects date back to the B.C. era and carry fascinating backstories.
We’ve compiled this list of images from the community. Hopefully, you get to learn something new today.
#21 "The Sorceress Kit", A Bizzare Collection Of About 100 Trinkets Found Buried Inside A Box, In The Garden Of A House In Pompeii, Believed To Be A Fortune Teller's Tool Kit
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#22 In The Summer Of 2018, At Rousses, Crete, A Farmer Was Trying To Park Below The Shade Of An Olive Grove In His Property. The Ground Gave Up And Through The 1.2 Meter (4ft) Hole He Found A Minoan Tomb, Undisturbed For Around 3,400 Years, This Is Pretty Much The First Good Look At It
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#23 A Roman Mosaic Depicting A Fish. 1st Century Ce, Now Housed At The State Historical Museum In Moscow
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#25 Leather Coat That Belonged To An Ojibwa Captain. Ontario, Canada, Ojibwa Culture, 1789
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#27 Sculpture Of A Female Figure, Probably A Yakshi (Nature Spirit). Mathura, India, Around 200 Ad
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#28 The Sweet Track Is A 5830-Year-Old Neolithic Timber Walkway, Located In The Somerset Levels In England And Discovered In 1970
It was originally part of a network of tracks built to provide a dry path across the marshy ground
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#29 A Very Well Preserved 3,000-Year-Old Bronze Sword Was Recently Discovered In The Southern Bavarian Town Of Nördlingen In Germany
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#32 Beautiful Portrait Of A Woman From The 2nd Century Ce From Roman Egypt. The Painting Was Made On Wood And Placed On An Egyptian Mummy
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#34 Gold Ring (Circa 500a.d.) Found Between Some Boulders By A Deer Hunter In Sweden
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#36 Over 100,000 Ceramic Wares From Two Chinese Shipwrecks, 1500 Meters Deep In The South China Sea. Discovered In May 2023. Ships Dated To The Ming Dynasty, 1506-1522
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#37 An Ivory Japanese Netsuke (Miniature Sculpture) Of A Cluster Of Rats. (4 Cm In Diameter, 19th Century)
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#40 A 1800-Year Old Ceramic Horse. Han Dynasty (202 Bce– 9 Ce, 25–220 Ce), Now Housed At The Sanxingdui Museum In China
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