Fascinating Historical Artifacts That Will Transport You Thousands of Years Back in Time

Some ancient artifacts that have survived to this day are so powerful that they can transport you back in time! Take a look at these unique and strange historical artifacts that will take you to the lands of civilizations that existed thousands of years ago the moment you see them! 👇

Burial mounds in the Okjeon cemeteries. (Korea, Gaya Confederacy, 4th-6th century AD)

French painter Joseph Ducreux, famous for his unconventional self-portraits. (1735–1802)

The skeleton of Saint Pancratius in the Church of Saint Nicholas in Switzerland. The bones of Saint Pancratius, taken from the Roman Catacombs, reached the town of Wil in the 1670s, where a team of nuns dressed them in armor.

A 2000-year-old ancient fast food shop found in Pompeii.

A twisted-barrel flintlock rifle with a heart-shaped hole from 1765, formerly owned by George IV and now part of the Royal Collection Trust.

A Mycenaean Greek ornate agate sword. (1400 BC)

An ancient Tower of Silence in Iran. Zoroastrians believed the earth was sacred and did not bury their dead to avoid contaminating it. Instead, they placed the dead in a Tower of Silence where vultures consumed the bodies.

A section of England’s iconic A303 road showing how the road has changed over thousands of years.

The skeletons of two violently killed women dating back to 6740–5680 BC, found in Téviec, buried under a “roof” of antlers and adorned with necklaces made of sea shells. The burial site was excavated as a single piece and is currently on display at the Muséum de Toulouse.

Predjama Castle in Slovenia, situated in the middle of a 123-meter high cliff for over 800 years. It is the world’s largest cave castle and has a network of secret tunnels that allowed robber baron Erasmus to continue his raids.

A 2-meter-wide wedding coat worn by Helena Slicher. (Netherlands, 1759)

A Byzantine mosaic from the 5th to 7th centuries AD found in the olive groves of the Bureij refugee camp by a Palestinian family.

An engraving of a horse looking backward over its shoulder, dating back approximately 37,000–32,000 years, found in the Pair-non-Pair cave in France.

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