Illustrations of history

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This magazine is for sharing artwork of historical events, places, personages, etc. Scale models and the like also welcome!

Generally speaking, actual photos of a historical item should go to !historyartifacts@lemmy.world

Photos of ruins should go to !historyruins@lemmy.world

Photos of the past should go to !HistoryPorn@lemmy.world

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Historical history illustration! Greek manuscript showing a swordfish, narwhal, hammerhead shark and whale, 16th century AD (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyillustrations@lemmy.world
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https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2017/11/page/2/

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15th century AD European ballista mounted on a wheeled carriage, with an incendiary round, barbed to get 'stuck' in flammable materials (lemmy.world)
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Depiction of a ~11th century AD Chinese multishot-ballista (lemmy.world)
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Crossbowmen loading from a sitting position at the Battle of Jaffa, Third Crusade, 1192 AD (lemmy.world)
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Irish Curragh boat, made of hides stretched over a wooden frame (lemmy.world)
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Unfortunately, I couldn't find a reasonably sized picture of the labeled version

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Model of an Ancient Egyptian farmer with a wooden ard plough (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyillustrations@lemmy.world
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The Globe Theater (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Zombiepirate@lemmy.world to c/historyillustrations@lemmy.world
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Wealthy Minoans in ancient Crete (lemmy.world)
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City street in Paris, France, circa 1910 (lemmy.world)
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Indian war elephants assaulting Alexander the Great's Macedonian pikemen, Battle of the Hydaspes (lemmy.world)
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Visual comparison of Japanese and European sword positions (lemmy.world)
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Battle of Shrewsbury, England, 1403 AD (lemmy.world)
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Cutaway of the British HMS Victory, 18th century AD (lemmy.world)
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Viking raid on a monastery (lemmy.world)
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Soldiers of the Teutonic Order fighting Cuman nomads in Transylvania, 13th century AD (lemmy.world)
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Knights charging during the Battle of Lewes, England, 1264 AD (lemmy.world)
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Viking longships at sea (lemmy.world)
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Quarry in Medieval Italy (lemmy.world)
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Illustration of an Inca settlement (lemmy.world)
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Loading and firing a Medieval bolt-thrower (lemmy.world)
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Siege of Bothwell Castle, 1301 AD (lemmy.world)
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Aztec home cutaway diagram (lemmy.world)
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Cutaway of a Roman domus (upper-class urban house) (lemmy.world)
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Construction of Jamestown by the English in the American colonies, 1607 (lemmy.world)
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Depiction of the First Siege of Vienna by Hans Sebald Beham (lemmy.world)
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