Curious Things Found In Museums Around The World (16 PICS)

Posted in PICTURES       19 Feb 2022       5412       8 GALLERY VIEW

"This loaf of bread from Pompeii has a crazy history: A baker put it into the oven right before the Vesuvius eruption. It solidified under a layer of ash and 2,000 years later, it was found by archaeologists."

"Toy horse, the Roman period, 30 BCE"

"A really old pepper pot: it was made in the Roman period, in 300-400 CE."

"This is the oldest straw hat in the world — it’s 1,500 years old. Some researchers think it’s not a hat but a bowl from Egypt, around 427-557 CE."

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"Ceramic pillow, Korea, twelfth-thirteenth century — it probably helped people cool down in summer."

"A puzzle ball carved from a single piece of Indian elephant ivory, China in the nineteenth century."
"A wedding ring — the house with the open roof probably symbolizes a couple’s life, from the US, the 1800s."
"Skirt lifter — a grip that lifts a big skirt to prevent it from going on the ground, from the nineteenth century."'
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"Here’s the eighteenth-century Uber: this decorated chair was carried by 2 people since European streets were too narrow."
"The inkwell of Catherine the Great looks like a sofa (gold, heliotrope, pearl), Paris, the 1700s."
"These glasses were made by the Dolgans to protect the eyes from the Arctic sun, made of metal, beads, and buckskin, from the nineteenth century."
"This is the modern version of the 8-legged dolls that were popular in the nineteenth century. The dress covered the legs and it seemed that the doll could walk."
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"In 1915, an elderly lady gave this bottle to the Pitt Rivers museum and said there was a witch inside and if someone opened it, they would have big trouble."
"A branch of red currant (gold, jade, and mountain crystal) from the company of Carl Fabergé, Russia, the beginning of the twentieth century."
"And finally, proof that cats are always incredibly cute, a jade piece, second-third century CE."
Bonus: "The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston showed what ancient Roman and Greek statues looked like in the past (they were painted)!"

"The experts of the museum conducted an analysis of the Athena Parthenos marble statue (the second or third century CE and created a digital reconstruction showing what Athena may have looked like 1,000 years ago."

 

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Clare 2 year s ago
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Babs 2 year s ago
What's up with the BCE/CE? Has BC/AD been cancelled too?
       
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Hez 2 year s ago
Babs,

Only right-wing "christians" still use bc/ad. The world has been using BCE/CE for centuries.
       
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Yulan 2 year s ago
Hez,

So you're also offended by the names of the days of the week and their religious origins?
       
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Deborah 2 year s ago
Babs,

Yeah... We have been using BCE (Before Common Era) and CE (Common Era) for a looooot longer than "cancelled" was a thing because most people just aren't Christian.
And if you don't like that people have their own religion, or don't believe in anything, bad luck. Welcome to the free world.
       
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Sal 2 year s ago
Deborah,

Sooooo...what event marks the demarcation between BCE and CE? If only there were already a convenient reference point.
       
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Trix 2 year s ago
Deborah,
The world is free, you are not, since you have to live upon governmen't money. haha poor boi.
       
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Trix 2 year s ago
#16 based on the gold and ivory statue of Athena and definitely not some marble statue of 300 AD. As for the color part, it is true. When SOB elgin came and stole the statues from Parthenon he had the color removed because in his stupid colonial german-origin mind, they were not white enough. F barbarian.
       
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