Illustrations of history

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This magazine is for sharing artwork of historical events, places, personages, etc. Scale models and the like also welcome!

Generally speaking, actual photos of a historical item should go to [email protected]

Photos of ruins should go to [email protected]

Photos of the past should go to [email protected]

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The 'city' of Rome in its earliest days (lemmy.world)
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Cutaway of the Ancient Greek Parthenon at its height (lemmy.world)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenon

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Cathedral of Santa Maria Del Fiore diagram (lemmy.world)
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Reconstruction of a stone-age Siberian warrior (lemmy.world)
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https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/stunning-reconstruction-reveals-warrior-and-his-weapons-from-4-000-year-old-burial-in-siberia

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Firing positions from a bastion fort designed to maximize an approaching enemy's exposure to the fort's firepower (lemmy.world)
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Reconstruction of a Mycenean citadel, Greece (lemmy.world)
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English troops during the Hundred Years' War (lemmy.world)
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Chinese beacon tower along the Great Wall (lemmy.world)
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Roman-era Silchester, Britain (lemmy.world)
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Assassination of the Roman Emperor Galba (lemmy.world)
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Scale model of Roman-era Vesunna, modern-day Périgueux, France (lemmy.world)
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Vesunna Gallo-Roman Museum: model of the Roman town at the peak of its development in the early IIIrd century AD: A) Temple to Vesunna; B) Forum; the darkened circle roughly indicates the site of the town after 284 AD and the brightened one that of Puy-Saint-Front, a new medieval settlement

https://www.romeartlover.it/Perigueux.html

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Barbarian travelers approaching a border checkpoint of the Roman Empire (lemmy.world)
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Hussite militiamen defending a war-wagon formation (lemmy.world)
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Man-of-War: The Forecastle by Stephen Biesty for DK Multimedia (1994) (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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Yet another castle diagram (they never get old, tbh) (lemmy.world)
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Cutaway of a Neolithic flint mine (lemmy.world)
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Romans constructing an aqueduct channel beneath ground-level. (lemmy.world)
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Cutaway diagram of a Roman upper-class domus (City house) (lemmy.world)
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English troops during the Hundred Years' War (lemmy.world)
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Agricultural calendar by Pietro Crescenzi (1306) (feddit.org)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_de%27_Crescenzi

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Roman and allied troops throwing themselves upon a Macedonian phalanx (lemmy.world)
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750 years in Paris (lemmy.world)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27486155

I don't know where else to post it ...

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French troops taking a longbow volley during the Hundred Years' War (lemmy.world)
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Illustration of a medieval battle (lemmy.world)
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Crusader fortress of Krak des Chevaliers in Syria (lemmy.world)
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