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The Herculaneum papyri are more than 1800 papyri that were carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius (79 CE). IT'S the only surviving library from antiquity that exists in its entirety. With x-rays, these scrolls are being read for the first time in millennia
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A 4,500-Year-Old Egyptian Bead Dress
The Penn Museum
Great read on Egyptian clothing: amzn.to/3wATgzn
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Bison paintings in the Cave of Altamira, Spain. They were painted over 20,000 years between 35,000 and 15,000 BC. Photo by Thom Quine.
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Queen Isabel II, veiled, 1855 C by Camillo Torreggiani. Masterful use of light and shadows to make it look like real lace.
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A World War 1 memorial in Vácrátót, Hungary - a family missing their father.
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Boys working in a coal mine, 1911. Photo by Reinhard Schultz
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Lỗ Mạnh Hùng, a 12-year-old war photographer, Vietnam war, 1968
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Women demonstrating against British occupation during the Egyptian Revolution of 1919.
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WWI front-line defense against gas attack
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Soviet ski troops by the Hermitage Museum during the Siege of Leningrad.
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A Statue of Osiris at the sunken city of Thonis-Herakleion, 7th to 2nd century BC
Osiris Expo
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3300-year-old wool trousers discovered in the vast Yanghai cemetery near Turfan, northwestern China.
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A 300-year-old Chinese Abacus Ring, Qing Dynasty, c. 1700s. Each rod has 7 beads to help calculate business transactions.
Photo via chinaculture.org
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Thousands of telephone lines, Stockholm, 1890.
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Aerial view of Hiroshima before and after the atomic bombing on August 6th, 1945
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The last photograph of Lenin, May 1923. Here he is with his doctor and sister months before he died.
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A horse-drawn omnibus from the 1890s. Two or three horses would pull them. Companies that ran them like London Omnibus had stables around the city to switch them out periodically.
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Just two friends sharing a cigarette during the Tour de France, 1920s.
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17-year-old Marina Ginestà with an M1916 Spanish Mauser rifle overlooking Barcelona during the 1936 military uprising in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War. Photo by Juan Guzmán. Color by Julius Colorization: bit.ly/3LqUsJu
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Goofing around before going to the WW1 front, 1914.
"My great grandfather goofing around before he headed to the front. He died on his first day of combat, just four days after he was mobilized” via reddit u/enraged-elephant.
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Fasting/Starving Buddha Sculpture, Gandhara Period, Pakistan, 2nd Century AD.
899
The marble sarcophagus of Yaroslav the Wise (King of Rus) and his wife Queen Ingegerd Olofsdotter of Sweden. Kyiv, Ukraine, 1054 AD
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A man takes a selfie using a stick of wood to activate the camera, 1957
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