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Historical Artifacts

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Just a community for everyone to share artifacts, reconstructions, or replicas for the historically-inclined to admire!

Generally, an artifact should be 100+ years old, but this is a flexible requirement if you find something rare and suitably linked to an era of history, not a strict rule. Anything over 100 is fair game regardless of rarity.

Generally speaking, ruins should go to [email protected]

Illustrations of the past should go to [email protected]

Photos of the past should go to [email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

From what I can decode it’s talking about horoscopes

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Mathematics and astronomy, according to where I got it (which I forgot to post)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

That would make sense

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Pretty sure that's a summoning circle. I'm gonna see if it works for summoning lunch.

What lunch is most compatible with dark magic?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is something this old a more ancient form of it, or can a modern speaker read it pretty well?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

TL;DR: Yes a modern reader can read this.

Only reason I can’t read the whole thing is image quality + bad hand writing

Arab countries speak completely different dialects. But the thing about these dialects is that they’re unofficial, have no grammar rules and change very often.

Dialects lacking grammar rules means they can’t be taught at schools, so schools only teach standard Arabic (“standard” here is redundant because it’s the only Arabic language).

So people don’t actually use the language but everyone in all Arab countries learns the language in detail enabling them to read stuff like this.

I believe society using dialects of Arabic has channeled natural language change into them (which happens all the time to all languages) which let the Arabic language remain unchanged for many, many years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

That's really amazing! As far as I know most languages are pretty unreadable in ancient forms to modern readers. I can definitely say as an English speaker than old English is pretty impenetrable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Mysterium Xarxes from Elder Scrolls Oblivion.