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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 !historyruins@lemmy.world
Illustrations of the past should go to !historyillustrations@lemmy.world
Photos of the past should go to !HistoryPorn@lemmy.world
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What did the Romans write on? Paper wasn't invented yet, so... parchment? Papyrus (Egypt was part of the empire)?
Mostly papyrus! It was cheap and available enough from trade routes that low-grade papyrus was used for wrapping.
In this case, however, the tablet used by re-enactor would hold a sheet of wax or lead inside the wood frame, which could be 'erased' and reused multiple times. Perfect for a soldier jotting down the night's password, or taking note of those coming-and-going through a watchpoint!