Collecting Artifacts In Time

The Bloated One

The Bloated One

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dear all,

This should get you thinking. . .

If you could travel back in time, what artifact would you bring back with you e.g. George Washington's hippo ivory false teeth, Napoleon's frock coat.

You must be able to wear or carry whatever you bring back.

I am looking for suggestions for my YA Tarquin Jenkins novel.:D

TBO
 
Personally, I'd get Michelle Pfeiffer's private phone number...... but I guess Tarquin might be too young for her, so what about Nelson's telescope that he put to his blind eye and said "I see no ships". Or was that Raleigh? Napoleon's hat?
 
Depends on what he wants the artifact for.

I think I'd want something shiny, pretty, and worth a load of dough. Maybe the Hope diamond before it was dug up by whover it is dug itup.
 
Knowing me I'd probably probably carry plague baccilus.

No, that's not an artifact, is it? (mind you, neither is an uncut diamond)

How far back in history, and do I have to leave history intact? I might try for the detonator of the Hiroshima bomb (before it went off, obviously)
 
I'd skip the diamond and go for a rosetta stone type artifact that included Linear A. Although if I could have two I might take a map to those mythological 7 cities of gold. ;)
 
Would you have been able to read Linear A though? Maybe bring back a dictionary to be on the safe side ;)

How far back indeed?
Me? I'd have brought back the first edition of the Bible. That would teach them!
 
Precision Grace said:
Would you have been able to read Linear A though? Maybe bring back a dictionary to be on the safe side ;)

How far back indeed?
Me? I'd have brought back the first edition of the Bible. That would teach them!
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that was why it only included Linear A, so I could compare it to the other scripts on the artifact and figure it out. Though, a plain dictionary would probably save me a few steps :p
 
all,

Go back as far as you like!

Some excellent ideas. Nelson's telescope is interesting. Goes nicely with Napoleon's coat and lost cities would appeal to the young audience. Shiny stuff is good, diamonds et al. My Leprechauns and Clurichaun already steal art work, vases and 'shiny stuff' from history, so they could be off searching for the diamond and get hopelessly lost and pick up the wrong thing (plague virus) and alter history.

Typical Chris,

Knowing me I'd probably probably carry plague baccilus.

Despite my comments above, this is not a Terry Pratchett novel!

TBO
 
If you did steal the Second Star of Africa or the Koh-i-noor, would those diamonds suddenly disappear from the British Crown Jewels causing a massive security alert and investigation? Or would history be re-written to show that they were never used in the Crowns?

The same would apply to any works of Art, or anything valuable. Just to be safe and keep the Timeline intact, I would go for something that no longer exists i.e. the Crown Jewels that were melted down by Oliver Cromwell.

Can you bring back animals if you can carry them? I'm thinking recent extinctions like the Dodo? Though you did say as far as you like and kids would love a Dinosaur egg! Just imagine your own Flintstones Dino.
 
Well, I've been going for original architectural plans.

It now seems evident that Wren's annotated drawings for St. Paul's were quite largely modified by the ring caused by a large tankard of ale placed on the parchment; indeed, this could be considered the origin of its most notable feature.

The fact that the hanging gardens of Babylon were built upside down is no great surprise, considering the plans were inscribed into clay in the heavily travelled bank of the Euphrates next to the construction site, but reading "cubits" for "spans" when building the Great Pyramid was inexcusable.

Now, the colosseum and Hagia Sophia…
 
If we are opening the door to myth or literature (and I had my camera with me), I'd go for Excalibur, an apple from the Garden of the Hesperides and a snatched photograph of Sophia Western in her night attire.

From the real world, I'd go for the arrow which killed King Harold, the last English king of England. I'd mount it on a plaque on my living room wall as a lament for the subsequent waves of jug-eared Plantaganets, feeble-minded Angevins, syphilitic Tudors, hapless Stuarts and pointless Hanoverians who have swept across our sceptr'd isle like a cloud of fat ponces.

Haroldus interfecit est. Eheu!

Peter
 
I think I'd go for the very pubic hair to grow on the very first creature to be genetically identifiable as a human. :)

And I'd bring it back in my teeth! ewww!
 
Re: Post #14... Let's avoid this sort of thing, shall we? Treading awfully thin ice on that one....
 
That Moonbat is just plain nasty at times....

Why not go for broke and nick the apple before Eve gets a chance to offer it to Adam? No paradise lost....
 
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