From ancient Roman shoes to brain surgery: 14 amazing artifacts of the past (15 photos)

Amazing artifacts that will tell more about the past than a history textbook.





We at TravelAsk believe we best illustrate history is not dates and dry facts about historical events, but things from different epochs. Archaeologists do a great job finding and studying artifacts. Description of the simplest household items helps us understand how we lived people in the past and how ancient human culture is. Even tiny the tip of the spear can tell the extraordinary story of people about diligence, diligence and love for aesthetics. And what can we say about two-story houses in which people lived more than three thousand years ago!

Excavations at Pompeii



Shoes with a bird found in Haarlem, the Netherlands

This shoe was made in the first half of the 14th century.





An ancient man's spearhead that was carved around a fossil shell

This spear belonged to a man's ancestor who lived from 300 up to 500 thousand years ago. The tip was found in the English county of Norfolk. This is indisputable proof that the interest in art, beauty and aesthetics made us human.



Mosaic in the house of Neptune and Amphitrite in the ancient city of Herculaneum, Italy



A house in the village of Akrotiri on Santorini, buried under the ashes in the 16th century BC.

This two-story house was built several centuries before how Troy was taken. The village was destroyed during the Minoan an eruption that wiped out an entire civilization from the face of the earth.



Roman emperor bows before the Persian king, Nakshe Rustam, Iran

The relief was created in the 3rd century AD. He portrays Roman emperors Philip the Arab and Valerian I, over whom he defeated victory of Shapur I, king of Persia.



Head of the god Amun-Ra in the flooded city of Heraklion

Heraklion lies at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea about six kilometers from its modern coast. Once the city was important port of ancient Egypt.



Ruins in the ancient city of Mitla, Mexico, 1875

In the pre-Columbian era, in the X-XV centuries, Mitla was a major center of Indian culture.



Ancient Roman leather shoes found at the Vindolanda military camp in England

The camp was built in 85 to protect against Pictish raids.



Perfume vessel found in the city of Nora in Sardinia



Indus Valley civilization dice, 2600-1900 B.C.



Remains of patients who underwent brain surgery, 15th century

Such operations were performed by ancient Inca doctors.



Fountain of Artemis at Villa d'Este near Rome

The fountain was built in the 16th century by a sculptor inspired by antiquity. He perfectly portrayed the goddess Artemis (or Diana), whom the Greeks and Romans considered the universal mother and an inexhaustible source life.



The village of Haid Al-Jazil, built on stone five centuries ago, Yemen