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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Legionaries of the Late Roman Republic (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 hours ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyillustrations@lemmy.world
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Medieval construction crane (lemmy.world)
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Traditional warriors of northeast India during the 19th century AD (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 days ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyillustrations@lemmy.world
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Celtic mercenaries along the Nile in Ptolemaic Egypt (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyillustrations@lemmy.world
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Model of a feudal Japanese castle town (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 days ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyillustrations@lemmy.world
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Aztec merchants in the canals of Tenochitlan (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 days ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyillustrations@lemmy.world
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Demonstrations of 14th century AD armor covering and helmets (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 days ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyillustrations@lemmy.world
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Scythian warriors of Central Asia/Eastern Europe in Classical Antiquity (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyillustrations@lemmy.world
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Imagining of the failed Gallic night assault foiled by the alarm of sacred geese, Sack of Rome, 390 BCE (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyillustrations@lemmy.world
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Illustration of a city of Nubia in the Bronze Age (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyillustrations@lemmy.world
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The Northern Palace at Masada, Israel (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyillustrations@lemmy.world
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The earthwork Walls of Benin (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyillustrations@lemmy.world
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Potala Palace complex at its height, Lhasa, Tibet (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyillustrations@lemmy.world
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A Cucuteni-Trypillia culture Village (Neolithic Europe) (quokk.au)
submitted 1 week ago by Deceptichum@quokk.au to c/historyillustrations@lemmy.world
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Medieval Chinese garrison using a traction trebuchet against besiegers (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyillustrations@lemmy.world
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Illustrations of scenes of combat between Roman and Dacian troops from Trajan's Column (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyillustrations@lemmy.world
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan%27s_Column

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A Turkish Janissary; seated on the ground almost in profile to right, wearing a tall conical hat, the top of which is folded over. 1479-81 Pen and black ink (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 weeks ago by merde@sh.itjust.works to c/historyillustrations@lemmy.world
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http://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yenieri-aturkishjanissary-gentilebellini.jpg

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Ottoman and European Christian troops about to clash, ~15th century AD (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyillustrations@lemmy.world
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Battle on the Nile River, 1366 AD (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyillustrations@lemmy.world
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Roman 'draco' standards, carried by cavalry (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyillustrations@lemmy.world
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Imagining of the Greek heroes of the Illiad (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyillustrations@lemmy.world
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Spanish troops assaulting a French fort in Florida (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyillustrations@lemmy.world
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Mural of the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (converted from the USS Merrimac) engaging in combat, the first time two ironclad ships fought one another, US Civil War, 1862 (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyillustrations@lemmy.world
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European naval boarders, 16th century AD (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyillustrations@lemmy.world
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German Landsknecht mercenaries of the 16th century AD (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyillustrations@lemmy.world
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