25 Most Curious Ancient Artifacts (26 photos)

It's always interesting to look at something that people used hundreds, even thousands, of years before you were born. It seems like history has been forever imbued in such an object, and if it could, it would tell many incredible stories about legendary times. Well, let's try listening?







Boots XIV century





A perfume box made of ebony and ivory, which belonged to Queen Nefertiti of Egypt (1295 - 1186 BC)



A saddle made of Deer antler and linden wood, Bohemia, 1400–1420.



Scythian daggers and knives with gold fittings, 6th–5th centuries BC



Griffin-headed helmet, Italy, Milan or Brescia, 1550



Crossbow of Count Ulrich V of Württemberg, Stuttgart, 1460 g.



Armor likely belonging to Henry VIII of England, King of England from 1509 to 1547.



Sacred Chariot from Strettweg, 2,400 years old



14th-century war hammer from the Ghent Historical Museum Belgium



The oldest known map of the New World, engraved on an ostrich egg, 1504.



Scythian warhorse bridle in the shape of a mountain goat's head with a perched bird. Altai, 300–290 BC. BC



Copper alloy cat head, made in Ptolemaic Egypt



Children's orthopedic shoes with ankle support, Italy, 16th century



Ptolemaic cup, sardonyx, 1st century BC. Kept in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.



Bowl in the shape of a donkey's head, Greece, 480 BC



Plate chainmail and helmet, Tibet, 16th-17th centuries.



Roman sword, 3rd century AD



Head of an unknown pharaoh of Southern Egypt wearing a white crown, 2675–2130 BC.



Sword, scabbard, and orb of the Holy Roman Empire. The sword and orb were made in Germany around 1200; the scabbard, with portraits of emperors from Charlemagne to Henry III, was made in Italy in the second half of the 11th century.



Sacred talisman in the shape of a solar disk made of amber, Bronze Age. Found in Denmark



Armor of the Japanese shogun Ashikaga Takayuji, early 14th century.



Axe from the tomb of Queen Ahhotep, Thebes, 16th century BC.



The world's oldest revolver, made by Hans Stopler in Nuremberg, 1597



Roman multi-tool, 2nd century AD Includes a spoon, knife, fork, awl, spatula, and toothpick.



Turkish sabre, 16th century