Artifacts
15 Threads
Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaja made note of everything. He Jotted down things He might forget on palm of His hand. He assisted in all important work of statecraft and for this purpo...
Description of the shew stone given to Dee and Kelly in November 1582 by the 'angel' King Camara. This is most likely the stone used for the subsequent angelical communications. ht...
Based on my reading over the years, I would say there is a significant number of inscriptions from Karnataka that lie in the British Museum, at the very least a hundred or two. The...
The ring of Michael Attaleiates (c.1022-1080). Michael was a famous lawyer & historian during the tumultuous 11th century. His work “The History,” is an invaluable text in understa...
An alien medallion found in an ancient Egyptian tomb The gold medallion worn by the pharaohs was a symbol of power in ancient Egypt. It was lost thousands of years ago and was rec...
Bronze kamaṇḍalu, 1st-2nd c., Mekong delta Originally manufactured in Gandhara, this Kushan period kamaṇḍalu has a spout in the form of an elephant head & trunk. It was found in S...
The Brutish British Museums: A legacy of slavery, loot & colonialism. Western Museums are vestiges of colonialism. Many were founded by Slave traders. This thread looks at "India...
In 1834, when a Christian missionary arrived in Northern New Zealand to work with the Māori tribes, he saw their women using a seemingly ordinary pot to boil potatoes. This pot ext...
A mesmerising, almost incomprehensibly perfect spiral, engraved with a possum incisor hafted to a bone shaft, on the slate surface of an Aboriginal churinga representing the Janpan...
"The Museum of the Bible in Washington [...] returned a handwritten gospel that is more than 1,000 years old to the Greek Orthodox Church on Tuesday afternoon after determining tha...
A common misbehavior of ITsell pages is to label every antique from Chandraketugarh as Shunga period. The matter becomes so ironic, where the Shunga rule was a short-lived stay of...
skeleton, england, 15th century https://t.co/K4k5fYetlW
Brass & Copper Pichkari, Rajasthan, India, 1700s Constructed with alternating bands of copper & brass, the nozzle is an elephant’s head with ears, tusks & eyes that held gems. A...
‼️THREAD OF AFGHAN ANTIQUITIES AT RISK‼️ Afghan heritage is currently under threat of looting and illicit traffic. Help us protect the identity & history of Afghan people by sharin...
10 of the many artefacts the British took from other countries [thread] https://t.co/gUQWJISMg2
