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Tableware |
Wooden Spoon | The secrets to certain dishes lie not in how to cook them, but in what to eat them with.
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Antique Fork | The evolution of the fork began with two teeth. | ||||||
Kitchen Knife | There has never been a kitchen without a knife. | ||||||
Chopsticks | Chopsticks are a part of cultural history. Eating with them was surrounded by a mass of conventions and ceremony. | ||||||
Cake Server | People have always loved sweets, so don't let this find surprise you. | ||||||
Minimum Artifact Depth: 1,100 | |||||||
Lock Set | Horse-Shaped Lock | This is a great thing to lock up your stall with.
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Padlock | This is a handy item. It'll protect your barn better than any guard dog, and you don't even have to feed it. | ||||||
Deadbolt | There was a time when a door's security was measured by how many deadbolts it had on it. | ||||||
Code Lock | With a lock like this, you don't need to worry about a key! Just make sure you've got a good memory... | ||||||
Bike Lock | If you want to find your bicycle in the same place you left it, use a bike lock. | ||||||
Minimum Artifact Depth: 1,350 | |||||||
Antique Fans | Egyptian Fan | The Pharaoh's servants were in great shape. You try fanning someone with a golden fan for a couple of hours.
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Japanese Fan | According to legend, the master craftsman who first made these fans was inspired by the wings of a bat that fell at his feet. | ||||||
Lace Fan | On a hot, sunny day, going for a walk outside in a magnificent dress and a corset with no fan could lead to serious problems. | ||||||
Gunbai Fan | These fans were used by chinese generals. They don't just protect you from the heat, they're also real weapons, | ||||||
Peacock Fan | It turns out that peacocks can do more than just look pretty - they also protect people from the sun's harmful rays. | ||||||
Minimum Artifact Depth: 1,500 | |||||||
Roman Warriors | Roman Centurion | Only a truly wise and brave warrior could lead a whole legion.
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Trumpeter | This warrior is obviously calling his comrades to arms... or maybe to lunch, who knows? | ||||||
Gladiator | Being a gladiotor was a real honor, But it was also dangerous. | ||||||
Legionnaire | Forreign invaders would get week in the knees when they saw these terrifying soldiers. | ||||||
Lancer | The townspeople could sleep soundly knowing that these soldiers were patrolling the area. | ||||||
Minimum Artifact Depth: 1,650 | |||||||
Art | Carved Mammoth | Who could ever have guessed they'd dig up a woolly mammoth in Township?
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Palette | All an artist used to need was a palette and three colors of paint to get all the colors of the rainbow. | ||||||
Cave Painting | Even cavemen had paintings on their walls. | ||||||
Statue Arm | It was in our town that the arm of the Venus de Milo was discovered. | ||||||
Manuscripts | The secrets of building ancient cities and recipes for exotic dishes are encoded in these manuscripts... we just haven't managed to crack to code yet. | ||||||
Minimum Artifact Depth: 1,800 | |||||||
Telephones | First Telephone | You had to shout really lout into this telephone if you wanted the person on the other end to hear you.
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Desk Phone | It might be a long way from cell-phone, but back then it was considered a space-saver. | ||||||
Rotary Phone | This was a handy invention, but nowadays phone numbers have gotten so long that you might not enjoy using one. | ||||||
First Cell Phone | This phone might look pretty enormous nowadays, but at the time it was considered an innovation | ||||||
Cell Phone | Nowadays children are learning how to use cell phones before they even learn to talk. | ||||||
Minimum Artifact Depth: 1,950 | |||||||
The Evolution of Writing | Quill Pen | They used to use a special cutting and sharpening method to prepare goose feathers for writing and drawing.
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Pencil | It would be hard to underestimate the significance of the pencil in our lives. | ||||||
Fountain Pen | Calligraphy enthusiasts still use pens like these. | ||||||
Ball-Point Pen | It just might be one of mankind's greatest inventions. | ||||||
Typewriter | Everyone knows that laziness is the mother of invention. That's where the typewriter came from. | ||||||
Minimum Artifact Depth: 2,100 | |||||||
Knight's Gear | Halberd | Firearms are very effective on the battlefield, but before they were invented, the halberd did quite nicely.
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Knight's Helmet | Every knight believed that he had to keep his feet warm and his head helmeted. | ||||||
Sword Fragment | This sword is shrouded in mystery. Maybe we can find the other half... | ||||||
Knight's Gauntlet | This is probably the sturdiest glove I have ever seen. | ||||||
Shield | No good-luck charm afforded a knight more protection than a sturdy shield, | ||||||
Minimum Artifact Depth: 2,250 | |||||||
Glassware | Bottle | A once-in-a-lifetime find! This bottle contains thousand-year-old air!
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Glass Vase | Amazing! How could such a delicate vase have remained intact all these time? | ||||||
Christmas Tree Decoration | Decorating the town christmas tree is one of our oldest traditions. | ||||||
Alchemist's Retort | You need to be very careful with this retort. Who knows what kinds of potions the alchemists of Yore brewed in it... | ||||||
Glass Decanter | This lovely decanter is all that's left of the old town's first restaurant. | ||||||
Minimum Artifact Depth: 2,400 | |||||||
Sport Memorabilia | Antique Weight | What a find! With a couple more of these you could open up a gym in the museum.
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Old-Fashioned Hockey Stick | Modern hockey players break about a hundred sticks per season. Imagine how many has been broken since hockey was invented! | ||||||
Leather Ball | It looks like this ball still bears the autograph of a soccer player from those days... | ||||||
Tennis Racket | The original multi-tool! Besides playing tennis with it, you can also use it to clean the dirt off cows. | ||||||
Ice Skates | The wintergames were actually held in our town a long time ago. | ||||||
Minimum Artifact Depth: 2,550 | |||||||
Blacksmithing | Hammer | You don't need to be a genius to hit a piece of iron with a hammer, but forging something useful was considered high art.
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Anvil | The artist has his easel, the blacksmith - his anvil. | ||||||
Chisel | No blacksmith has ever gotten by without this tool. | ||||||
Tongs | Blacksmiths had to work with hot iron - you can't just grab it with your hands. | ||||||
Vice | A vice is a handy thing to have around the house - you can crack nuts with it in a pinch. | ||||||
Minimum Artifact Depth: 2,600 |
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