r/artifactporn 1d ago

The Oseberg Ship, a 9th century Viking ship discovered almost perfectly preserved in a burial mount in Norway

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21 Upvotes

r/artifactporn 3d ago

Early 16th-century Netherlandish prayer bead carved from boxwood; when opened, it forms a tiny triptych with scenes of the Magi and the Crucifixion. Closed, it is about 5.8 cm wide [900x1200]

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110 Upvotes

r/artifactporn 4d ago

Bamiléké Beaded Throne, ca. 20th century

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17 Upvotes

r/artifactporn 5d ago

Colossal rock-cut stone sculpture of a Dwarpala (temple guardian) at the Elephanta Caves near Mumbai, around 1500 years old, the caves are a UNESCO World Heritage Site dedicated primarily to the Hindu deity Lord Shiva.

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29 Upvotes

r/artifactporn 6d ago

A historic drought on a major river in Brazil gave rise to rock images of indigenous people who inhabited the Amazon state centuries before the invasion of Portuguese colonizers and help to understand a little more about the people who lived there between 1,000 and 2,000 years ago

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r/artifactporn 7d ago

Victorian Era Morphine Injection Kit, these kits contributed to widespread morphine addiction, a phenomenon sometimes associated with "The Great Binge."

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29 Upvotes

r/artifactporn 8d ago

4,000 years ago, a woman wrote "Love Song of Shu-Sin," describing the affection of a young priestess for the Sumerian King, This is the world's oldest love poem, found in a museum drawer in Istanbul.

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9 Upvotes

r/artifactporn 8d ago

Asipim (“I Stand Firm” in the Twi-Fante Language) carved royal chair, before 1874. One of seven artifacts restituted by UCLA’s Fowler Museum to the Asante Kingdom in Ghana, 2024

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r/artifactporn 9d ago

The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter it up until a couple was found having sex inside it; now its jaws are opened only for special occasions like Swedish election days

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10 Upvotes

r/artifactporn 11d ago

The Garmsar Salt Cave features massive salt pillars that support its ceiling, formed and shaped by the Achaemenid Empire during salt extraction in 550–330 BC. Located in the Iran, the cave has 27 mines, and the one shown here is a popular tourist attraction

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14 Upvotes

r/artifactporn 13d ago

Śiva-Maheśvara, Dandan-Uiliq, Khotan, Xinjiang, Painted by Visha Irasanga, Khotanese Saka painter in the court of the T'ang dynasty of China in the mid 7th century C.E.

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r/artifactporn 14d ago

Toy from Ancient Greece, c.450 BCE: this doll was crafted in the form of a woman with a rolling pin, and it has articulated joints that allow the rolling pin to be pushed back and forth

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14 Upvotes

r/artifactporn 17d ago

I am a part-time bowyer and I recreated Ötzi's copper age hunting set

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Based on the 1991 findings in the Ötztal

Yew longbow, hazelnut horn-tipped arrows and roe deer quiver. For more photos and videos visit my Etsy page Montesanto Bows


r/artifactporn 19d ago

Does this ivory statue look old or modern? Will post more pictures in the comments section

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30 Upvotes

r/artifactporn 19d ago

The only one of its kind globally, this Greenlandic whaling suit, made before 1834, is a unique artifact. Hunters used it for waterproofing by crawling through the central opening and sealing it with sealskin. It's now at Denmark's National Museum

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12 Upvotes

r/artifactporn 20d ago

The €4,000 "Sleeper" That Sold for €300,000: A Lesson in How Deep the Water Runs in Chinese Porcelain[903×349]

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r/artifactporn 20d ago

World's Oldest Mask: 9,000 year old artifact, This is a limestone mask dating back to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period, It was discovered in the Nahal Hemar cave in Israel, near the Dead Sea

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17 Upvotes

r/artifactporn 22d ago

The Sword In The Stone, Italy. Saint Galgano 1148-1181 a Catholic Saint from Tuscany was believed to have plunged his sword into the stone after a vision from Archangel Michael. A 2001 analysis shows that the upper piece and invisible lower one are authentic and belong to one and the same artefact

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27 Upvotes

r/artifactporn 23d ago

An aerial view of the 'Unfinished Obelisk' in the 3500-year-old granite quarry in Aswan, Egypt. It is estimated to be 42 meters (137 feet) long and would have been the largest ancient Egyptian obelisk ever erected, weighing over 1,200 tons, the project was abandoned around 1500 B.C. due to cracks

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24 Upvotes

r/artifactporn 24d ago

Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed the 3,200-year-old remains of a military barracks containing a wealth of artifacts, including a sword with hieroglyphs depicting the name of Ramesses II

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17 Upvotes

r/artifactporn 25d ago

I made a daily art history game using the British Museum's own collection

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Five objects every day, you just need to guess where each was made and when.

Every object comes with its acquisition history. If you're familiar with the British Museum you'll know that some were bought legitimately and many, many others weren't.

imperialsouvenirs.com -- free, no account needed, new puzzle each day.

Credit to Anthropeum -- I shamelessly copied their idea for this game.


r/artifactporn 28d ago

The Laguna Copperplate Inscription (LCI), dating back to 900 CE, the oldest known written document found in the Philippines. Its discovery completely transformed historical understanding, proving that pre-colonial Philippine societies possessed formal legal systems and deep trade connections.

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22 Upvotes

r/artifactporn 29d ago

World’s oldest complaint a Babylonian clay table from 1750 BC, the complaint was written in Akkadian cuneiform by a man named Nanni to a merchant named Ea-nasir, expressing dissatisfaction with the quality of copper delivered

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28 Upvotes

r/artifactporn Jun 22 '26

MOST GUARDED OBJECTS - in the world

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r/artifactporn Jun 20 '26

Obsessed with this guy from my trip to the museum of Rafael Coronel

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Went on vacation to visit family in Mexico and we had planned on going back to Zacatecas city to visit family. On the day before we left, my family went to visit the museum of Rafael Coronel which is know for it's collection of folk craft and boasts the largest collection of masks from across Mexico. To be honest I wasn't as interested in the mask but they did have a section on Mesoamerican artifacts. And the first was an exhibit on Mesoamerican pottery. One of them that caught my eye was this guy, a bowl. How cool is that? I mean if there was a molcajecte on the market that looked like this guy right here, I'd buy it. He's amazing but I forgot to actually write down what culture he might have originated from.