19th-Century French Postcards Predict The Future
A set of 19th century postcards designed by French artists has revealed what they thought we would be doing in the 21st century. According to Yahoo, these postcards were probably produced between 1899 and 1910, and they predicted the life of Parisians in the year 2000. Check out their predictions below:
Vikings
The historical phenomenon that began on 8 June 793 with the sack of Lindisfarne abbey in Northumberland and ended around 1050 left a lasting trace in the memory of the frightened West. The Viking myth of the barbarian brute, standing in horned helmet at the prow of his drakkar, is still vivid today. And yet [...]
Silk Route
The Silk Road, a term that first appeared at the end of the nineteenth century, refers to that network of caravan tracks traversing Central and West Asia, used to carry trade goods between the East and West from approximately the second century B.C. to the fifteenth century A.D. These tracks were neither a single road [...]
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