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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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Early surviving diving suit for ship and cargo salvage, Finland, 18th century AD (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyartifacts@lemmy.world
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[–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 17 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Why the mouth hole like dat

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Historians don't like telling people this, but they were primarily used as gimp suits to keep tensions from rising on the ship.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Banned for betraying trade secrets

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 10 points 8 months ago

The people need to know the truth!

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 16 points 8 months ago

Presumably, there would be a hose connected to it.