30 Amazing Historical Artifacts

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Parade shield made by Leone Leoni, Italian sculptor in XVIth century.

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Lycurgus Cup - roman, 4th century goblet which changes colour when held up to the light.

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Armour for a Boy, probably Prince Henry Stuart 1608

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Chinese Qin Sword with Gold Openwork Handle 770476 B.C.

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Lewis chessmen - 12th century chess pieces, most of which are carved in walrus ivory.

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Scythian golden comb 5th century BC

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Knife-and-Fork Set with Mars and Diana, ivory and iron 1650-1690

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Burmese bronze 'dragon' cannon, 1790

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Aztec Stone of the Sun - the exact purpose and meaning of the stone is unclear 14th-16th century

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Berlin Gold Hat - 490 grams of gold, overall height 745 mm, average thickness 0.6 mm. Made in the Late Bronze Age, circa 1,000 to 800 BC

11.

Helmet Namban Boshi circa 1600

12.

Cuirass holed by a cannonball at Waterloo

13.

General Patton's Colt .45 Model 1873

14.

Caparison ordered by Swedish royal household in 1621

15.

Dunstable Swan Jewel from about 1400

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Top of the Lion Armour's helmet. 16th century, France.

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Elephant armour from 17th century India. It's composed of 5,840 plates and weighs 118kg

18.

The Sword of Emperor Maximilian I

19.

ighteenth century make-up kit from England opening it reveals a mirror, pencils and a manicure set

20.

Gold Silver on Bronze Mycenaean "Lion Hunt" burial dagger. Grave Circle A, Mycenae, Greece 16th century BC

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Morion for the Guards of the Elector of Saxony

22.

Catherine the Greats chair, probably destroyed by communist in 1950.

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Peacock Clock from Hermitage Museum. It's a large automaton made for Catherine the Great in 1781

24.

Polish Hussar's half-armour, mid-17th century

25.

Pyxid Al Mughira from 968 year

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A golden wreath and ring from the burial of an Odrysian Aristocrat at the Golyamata Mogila tumulus mid-4th century BC

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Abraham Lincoln assassination chair from Ford's Theatre

28.

Egyptian ring from the tomb of King Tutankhamen

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Armoured Dresses, Graz Armoury, Austria. Late 16thEarly 17th century.

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Joyeuse - Charlemagne's personal sword