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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
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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!