24 Ancient and Incredible Things People Saw in Museums
Nathan Johnson
Published
12/05/2020
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The world is full of all kinds of amazing things. From ancient relics to pre-historical animals, there's no shortage of wonder and mystery. Check out this collection of odd and interesting pieces of history that someone saw and had to share.
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This is an ancient Roman doll made of colored ivory. It was found in the sarcophagus of an 8-year-old kid who lived about 1,800 years ago. -
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Mechanical prosthesis from the seventeenth century -
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A child’s tunic with a hood that’s about 1,100 to 1,400 years old -
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Here’s a loaf of bread that’s partially preserved thanks to carbonization. This piece is more than 1,940 years old. -
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A real mask that belonged to a plague doctor in the seventeenth century -
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It’s made of a preserved shoulder of beef and half of a wooden box. This meat is about 3,500 years old. It was found near the entrance to a rock burial in Thebes. -
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Here’s another 3,500-year-old box with food that presumably contained preserved duck. -
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An inkstand with Apollo and the Muses that was made in a workshop of the Patanazzi family in 1584. -
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Miniature linen sheets that are approximately 3,500 years old -
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A portable, boat-shaped arched harp that’s about 3,300 to 3,400 years old -
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The armor of Ferdinand II, the Holy Roman Emperor, that was made in the 1600s in Italy -
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This drawing was made approximately 700 years ago by a 7-year-old boy named Onfim who lived in Novgorod (present-day Russia). -
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Pope Clement XI’s chariot was designed in a sophisticated manner (the period of the papacy, from 1700 to 1721). -
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This oak Viking ship was discovered in 1904 near Tønsberg in Norway. The ship was set afloat in the year 820, approximately. -
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Roman makeup foundation that’s almost 2,000 years old -
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The head of Deinotherium at the Mainz Natural History Museum -
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A Roman glass perfume flask and a 2-part eye makeup container -
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Glass jars for storing essential oils that are approximately 2,000 years old -
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A vessel stand with ibex support made sometime around 2,600 BCE to 2,350 BCE -
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Stone spheres that were found in Scotland — their purpose remains unknown. -
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The table fountain (circa 1727-1732), Meissen Manufactory, Germany -
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This funerary urn from the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca was made between 500 CE and 1,000 CE. -
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Ancient Egyptian mummies of a cat and a dog that are approximately 2,100 to 2,400 years old -
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The Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen has a joke exhibit that contains a mermaid’s skeleton. It’s made of a human skeleton and swordfish bones.
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