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Despite what it can sometimes feel like in a dull classroom, history is a lot more than just “random” dates and dead people. It shaped and continues to shape the world around us. Through the things our ancestors left behind, it can be a lot easier to see just how similar they were to us.
The “Museum of Artifacts” page shares interesting and cool items from history. We got in touch with the page’s creation and administrator to learn more. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to comment your thoughts below.
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#1 This 14th Century Door At Exeter Cathedral, UK, Is Thought To Be The Oldest Existing Cat Flap

#2 Frog, By The Japanese Artist Matsumoto Hoji. 1814 Ce

#3 For The First Time In 12,000 Years, The Teeth Of A Leopard Statue Saw Daylight In 2021 At Karahantepe, Türkiye

#4 A 2,000-Year-Old Green Serpentine Stone Mask Was Found At The Base Of The Pyramid Of The Sun In Teotihuacan, Mexico

#5 Rhyton In The Shape Of A Dog’s Head, Greece, Circa 480 Bc

#6 A 1800-Year Old Ceramic Horse. Han Dynasty (202 Bce– 9 Ce, 25–220 Ce), Now Housed At The Sanxingdui Museum In China

#7 Life-Size Statues Of Sumo Wrestlers, Made By Yasumuto Kamehachi In 1890

#8 Ancient Near Eastern Clay Vessel With Two Feet (1000–800 Bc), From Northern Iran

#9 A Fabric Womb Made By Angélique Du Coudray, A French Midwife Who Was Commissioned By King Louis Xv To Reduce Infant Mortality

#10 Roman Brick From Cherchell, Algeria With A Perfect 2000 Year-Old Imprint Of A Human Hand

#11 A Little Alpine Refuge That Was Built More Than 2700m Above Sea Level In Italy’s Dolomite Mountains (Mount Cristallo) Is Among Most Dramatic Reminders Of Wwi

#12 A Horreo Is A Traditional Granary Or Storage Building Commonly Found In The Northwest Region Of Spain, Particularly In Galicia, Asturias, And Cantabria

#13 Roman Army Knife (201-300 Ad); Has A Spoon, Knife, Fork, Spike, Spatula And Pick Allowing The User To Even Clean Between Their Teeth After Eating. It Was Part Of The Equipment Of Roman Legions

#14 Rock Engravings Of Val Camonica In Brescia, Italy

#15 Ship’s Biscuit With Inscription. Great Yarmouth, England, 1885

#16 Ancient Egypt Socks Designed For Sandals. 2400 Years Old

#17 Wedding Mantua Worn By Helena Slicher, Over 2 Meters Wide. The Netherlands, 1759

#18 “Memento Mori”, German Mammoth Ivory Skeleton – Second Half Of The 18th Century

#19 In 1663, The Partial Fossilised Skeleton Of A Woolly Rhinoceros Was Discovered In Germany. This Is The “Magdeburg Unicorn”, One Of The Worst Fossil Reconstructions In Human History

#20 Carved Ivory Japanese Netsuke Depicting A Human Skeleton Posing On A Large Human Skull, C. 1750-1850

#21 Fall Of The Rebel Angels, Carved Out Of A Single Piece Of Marble In 1740 By Italian Sculptor Agostino Fasolato, It Depicts 60 Fallen Angels

#22 Viking’s Blacksmith Tools And Weapons Found In Grave, Ca. 800 A.d. Norway

#23 A Lamassu, Or “Protective Deity”, From The Palace Of Assyrian King Sargon II (R. 722-705 Bc)

#24 In Ancient Rome, Roads Were Dotted With White Stones (Cats’ Eyes) Which Reflected The Moonlight, Acting As Street Lights To Help People Walk On The Street After Dark. Pictured Is A Roman Road In Pompeii

#25 Two Stuffed Frogs Having A Sword Fight, Found In A Late 19th Century French Mansion “Maison Mantin” After It Had Been Sealed For More Than 100 Years, From 1905 To 2010

#26 It Is Not A Real Rope Net, But That It”S Meticulously Carved In Marble. “Disinganno”, Francesco Queirolo, 1753-1754, Sansevero Chapel (Naples, Italy)

#27 A Megalithic Monument In Spain That’s Older Than The Pyramids Was Recently Uncovered From Its Watery Hiding Place By A Drought

#28 Abandoned Hotel Belvédère Was An Iconic Swiss Hotel On The Edge Of The Rhone Glacier. It Was Built In 1882 By Young Hotelier Josef Seiler In One Of The Hairpin Bends Of The Furka Pass, One Of The Snowiest Regions In Switzerland

#29 Ancient Greece Toys. About 2300 Years Old

#30 Cannon With Nine Bores. Ottoman Empire, 16th Century

#31 An Egyptian Rock Crystal Of A Chonky Hinpopotamus Amulet, Middle Kingdom, Ca. 2050-1650 Bce

#32 The 2000-Year-Old Clothes Of The Huldremose Woman, A Bog Body Recovered In 1879 From A Peat Bog Near Ramten In Denmark

#33 A Black Mug. Southern Italy, 2400(!) Years Old

#35 Holy Trinity Church, A Historical Building In Hrastovlje, A Village In Southwestern Slovenia, It Is A Romanesque Church From 12th Century Ce. Church Stands Behind A Wall That Local Population Built To Protect Itself From Turkish Attacks In 16th Century Ce

#36 Thonis-Heracleion Was One Of Egypt’s Greatest Ports, But It Slowly Submerged Into The Sea From C.100 Bce-800 Ce

#37 A Steam-Powered Elevator In The House Of Guard Captain S. Muyaki In St. Petersburg, Russia. Circa 1902-1903

#38 Ivory And Ebony Chess Pieces Shaped Like Insects. Italy, 1790

#40 One Of Two Known Surviving Tea Chests From The December 16, 1773, Boston Tea Party When 340 Tea Chests Were Dumped Into Boston Harbor By Rebelling Colonists

#41 One Of Two Huge Marble Lustration (Ritual Purification) Urns That Were Brought To The Hagia Sophia From Pergamon During The Reign Of The Ottoman Sultan Murad III

#42 Aquamanile Depicting Airstotle’s Girlfriend,phyllis,riding Him Around The Garden After Aristotle Warned Alexander The Great About Women.copper Alloy,south Lowlands,14th-15th Century Ce(Metropolitan Museum Of Art In New York City)

#43 3,700-Year-Old Ancient Clay Tablet Containing Applied Geometry. A Millennia Before The Birth Of Pythagoras

#44 Details Of The Dolphin’s Armor Of Henry, The Future King Henry II Of France, Made By Negroli Francesco In Milan In The 1540s. Now On Display At The Army Museum In Paris

#45 A Roman Bronze Colander From Pompeii, Italy, 1st Century Bce

#46 An Ancient Glass Bowl With Blue And White Canes. Greek Or Roman, 100–1 Bce, Now Housed At The J. Paul Getty Museum In Los Angeles

#47 The Uniform Worn By King Charles Xii Of Sweden When He Was Killed By A Stray Shot During The Siege Of Fredriksten On 30th November 1718, Now In The Collections Of The Royal Armoury In Stockholm, Sweden

#48 A Pair Of Levi’s Jeans From The 1880s Found Down An Abandoned New Mexico Mine Have Been Sold At Auction For A Total Of $87,400

#49 A Pair Of 15th Century Venetian Calcagnetti, The Soles Add 43cm (17 Inches) To The Wearer’s Height

#50 Woollen Cap Found In The Grave Of A 17th Century Dutch Whaler

#51 The Lion’s Gate Of Mycenae In 1250 Bc Is One Of The Oldest Giant Structures In Europe And One Of The Largest Statues Created In Aegean History

#52 A Boy’s Dress With Mother-Of-Pearl Buttons. England, Around 1865

#53 Gilded Silver And Rock Crystal Vessel, Crafted In Nuremberg, Germany, Circa 1580

#54 14000 Years Old Bisons Sculptures Found In Le Tuc D’audoubert Cave. Ariege, France

#55 Gaetano Cellini’s Marble Masterpiece: ‘Humanity Against Evil’ At The National Gallery Of Modern Art, Rome

#56 The Imperial Crown Of The Holy Roman Empire (Worn By Soldier Circa 1945). Made In 962 A.c

#57 Johann Sebastian Bach’s Handwritten Personal Copy Of His Mass In B Minor, Held By The Berlin State Library, And Added To Unesco’s Memory Of The World Register

#58 The Giant Flag Of The French Ship Le Genereux, Which Was Captured By One Of Admiral Nelson’s Captains Sir Edward Berry At The Battle Of Malta Convoy In 1800. (With Humans For Scale)

#59 Viva La Vulva Amulet: Crowned, Mounted On A Horse, Wielding A Crossbow And A Torch, In Silver. Medieval European Pilgrims Wore These Apotropaic Medals To Protect Against Plague, Robbers, Rapists, And Other Dangers

#60 Gold Ring, Roman Egypt, 1st Century Ad

#61 Pictured Above Is The Marble Lace Neckerchief Carved By French Sculptor Louis-Philippe Mouchy (1734 – 1801), Who Masterfully Created The Marble Statue In 1781

#63 Anthropomorphic Figure Of A Polar Bear With Its Cub. Medium: Carved Walrus Ivory. Culture: Native Alaskan. Date: C. 1800 To 1900. Place Of Origin: Bering Sea

#64 Michelangelo’s Secret Drawing Room Was Found Under A Church In Florence, Italy, In 1975 And Is Now Open To The Public

#65 Château De Chenonceau, Indre-Et-Loire, France

#66 Detail From The “Unswept Floor” Mosaic Made By Heraclitus, Showing A Mouse Eating A Walnut. 2nd Century Ce, Now On Display At The Vatican Museums

#67 In 2014, Norwegian Archaeologists Found A Lone Wooden Ski On A Mountaintop, Where It Had Been Trapped In Ice For 1300 Years

#68 The World’s Oldest Known Wooden Staircase (3,400 Years Old) Located In An Old Salt Mine In Hallstatt, Austria

#69 Medieval Ax With A Preserved Wooden Handle Discovered On The Island Of Ledniczka In Poland

#70 “Devil In The Glass”. Cast In Glass, The Small Figure Of A Devil Is Made Of Black Lead

#71 In 1965, Excavations In Mezhyrich, Ukraine, Revealed The Presence Of 4 Huts, Made Up Of A Total Of 149 Mammoth Bones

#72 The “Ghost Wagon” On Detroit Lake In Oregon Appeared In 2015 When Water Levels Dropped To Historic Lows. The Wagon Was Built By The Milburn Wagon Company Of Toledo, Ohio Around 1900 And Was Probably Used To Transport Freight

#73 “The Kiss”, A 12,000-Year-Old Rock Painting At Pedra Furada In Brazil

#74 Funeral Portrait Of An Egyptian Woman Named Aline, Found In An Ancient Egyptian Grave In Hawara From The Time Of Tiberius Or Hadrian, C. 42 Bc – Ad 138. She Would Be Found With 7 Others, Including Her 2 Daughters And Husband

#75 Abuna Yem’ata Guh In Ethiopia. Situated At A Height Of 8,460 Ft, The Hewn Church Has To Be Climbed On Foot To Reach. It Is Notable For Its Architecture, Dome & Wall Paintings Dating Back To The 5th Century

#76 An Adorable Ancient Egyptian Otter Statue!

#77 Found In 1867, The Orkney Hood Is The Only Complete Piece Of Clothing To Survive From Before The Medieval Period In Scotland

#78 The 6m Tall Lion Of Chaeronea In Greece, Erected In 338 Bc

#79 Death Mounted On A Lion’ (1513 Ce), Middle Franconia

#80 The Remains Of A Prehistoric House From The Bronze Age Settlement Of Akrotiri In Santorini, Greece. The Settlement Was Destroyed In The Theran Eruption Sometime In The 16th Century Bce And Buried In Volcanic Ash

#81 Octopus Vase From Palaikastro. Greek, 1500 Bce

#82 Ancient Greek Spartan Shield, King Leonidas Shield With Greek Letter L

#83 The Sacred City Of Caral In Peru. At Almost 5000 Years Old, It’s The Oldest City In The Americas And Predates Even The Great Pyramids Of Egypt. It Includes 6 Pyramids, The Largest Of Which Measures 150×160 Meters, 2 Sunken Ceremonial Plazas, Residential Districts And An Irrigation System