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Spareribs · 10-01-2007, 03:16 AM

Anyone into collecting ancient artifacts? Particularly from the BC era?
Couple stores where you can buy some of the stuff. Would be nice for home decorating.

http://www.ancientresource.com/lots/egyptian.html

http://www.worldwidestore.com/artifacts2.html

Spareribs · 10-01-2007, 03:23 AM

I like the mummy mask.

http://www.worldwidestore.com/artifacts250c.htm

GAD · 10-01-2007, 03:28 AM

It would be pretty cool knowing that an item in your house was in someone's house 2000+ years ago.

Makes me wonder what I have that would be worth a damn in 2000 years... Aside from my wit and charm of course...

GAD

braillediver · 10-01-2007, 03:32 AM

The stuff is mass produced in Egypt today.

Like any of us could tell the difference between an authentic and a forgery.

Mitch

Sovkiller · 10-01-2007, 03:45 AM

Don't you have enough with tube amps and vinyl???....

bhd812 · 10-01-2007, 03:50 AM

I have been looking into this subject a lot lately. I am really interested in Greek/Roman statues, Egyptian subjects, and fossil skeletons. I would never do a real deal on any of them, last thing i want in my house is some dead dudes tomb...eeww i would buy replica's of small size though.
if i had the money i would do a full size replica of a Rex and a pack of raptors, of course if i had the room also. but that's a dream, more of dreaming one could have the money to do it. I find eBay a great place to look around for the fakes, i have bought a lot of fake art from there in the past..

spent a few hours last night looking for a place that does life size replica castings of Dino fossil's, hell the Museum's themselves use the fakes anyway..

speaking of which..

does anyone know the name of this Chica is?

Spareribs · 10-01-2007, 04:48 AM

Originally Posted by bhd812

I have been looking into this subject a lot lately. I am really interested in Greek/Roman statues, Egyptian subjects, and fossil skeletons. I would never do a real deal on any of them, last thing i want in my house is some dead dudes tomb...eeww

I think stuff from a mummy tomb would be fine. Stuff like jewelry, jars, ceramics, tables, chairs, etc... would be cool to have in the house for display purpose and there would be no sanitation issues since they would be thousands of years old.

I wouldn't be surprised if there are some people in Egypt who have stuff like this in their house since tombs were robbed in the past centuries.

majid · 10-01-2007, 05:23 AM

My father had a paleolithic flint dagger and a flint axe head a Norwegian friend of his gave him.

Unfortunately demand for Mesopotamian antiquities is leading to wide-scale looting of priceless archeological sites in lawless Iraq nowadays.

GAD · 10-01-2007, 02:15 PM

Come to think of it, isn't it illegal for true artifacts to be exported in most cases?

GAD

Spareribs · 10-01-2007, 03:29 PM

Originally Posted by GAD

Come to think of it, isn't it illegal for true artifacts to be exported in most cases?

GAD

That's a good question. I've seen artifacts from the BC era like beads and small statues being listed on ebay.