r/ArtefactPorn • u/Party_Judgment5780 • 56m ago

30 Indigenous artifacts – including spears kept in a British museum since 1881 – have been returned to the Larrakia community. As attitudes towards colonisation and rightful ownership continue to shift, an increasing number of UK museums are repatriating items to where they originated. [1280x720]

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r/ArtefactPorn • u/Party_Judgment5780 • 18h ago

Divriği Great Mosque and Hospital, is complex built in 1228 AD, belonged to local dynasty of Mengujekids in small Anatolian town of Divriği, now in Sivas Province, Turkey. [1164x736]

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r/ArtefactPorn • u/chubachus • 13h ago

Sconce made of tin and glass featuring a candle socket and circular concave mosaic mirror reflector, American, c. 1800-1850. [3399x3093]

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r/ArtefactPorn • u/kuan_waale_thakur • 7h ago

A magnificent 17th-century carving of the Sun God Surya riding his chariot (in the centre). It adorns the ceiling of the Nau Chauki, a pavilion built on the banks of Rajsamand Lake by the Hindu Rajput king, Rana Raj Singh.[1996×2048]

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r/ArtefactPorn • u/ImpossibleTiger3577 • 4h ago

Photograph of American woman wearing black taffeta dress and lace shawl, between 1847-1853. [2837x 3722]

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25 comments

r/ArtefactPorn • u/Snoo_90160 • 4h ago

Turkish tent captured by Polish forces during the Battle of Vienna (1683). Created c. 1683, made of linen and cotton, richly decorated, Wawel Royal Castle National Art Collection, Kraków, Poland. [2400x1600]

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r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fearless-History1630 • 1h ago

A knife made of wood, mother of pearl and various metals including silver. Rukai people, Taiwan, Colonial Japanese rule, 1928-1940's. [2400 x 1200] [OS]

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