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Ancient Civilizations. A Place For Ancient History Lovers Founded 2014 · 304.1K members

304.6K members. The best post we have captured here reached 15.1K upvotes, which works out to 50 per 1,000 members.

50peak upvotes per 1,000 members
304.6Kmembers
15.1Kbest post
629most comments
494posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

47% 25% 18%
Image 47% Link 25% Gallery 18% Text 5% Video 4% Question 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Europe 27 China 24 Greek 22 Asia 21 Roman 19 India 19 Egypt 17 Anatolia 17 Mesopotamia 9 Mesoamerica 7

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

A 2,200-year-old Roman bath in central Türkiye that has never stopped flowing at 45°C.

↑ 15.1K 💬 42 image 2026

An Iraqi woman dressed in the ceremonial costume of the goddess Ishtar.

↑ 9.5K 💬 89 image 2025

10,000-year-old Dabous Giraffes in Niger

↑ 8K 💬 36 image 2025

Ancient remains in Morocco showing the animals that once inhabited the African region

↑ 7.5K 💬 119 gallery 2025

3,500-year-old Egyptian sarcophagus found with carving resembling Marge Simpson

↑ 6.8K 💬 81 image 2025

Everyone knows the Nazca Lines. Almost nobody knows about the wind-powered underground aqueducts right next to them — and they still work.

↑ 6.7K 💬 104 image 2026

A view of Persepolis from the air. The capital city of the Persian Empire which ruled 2500 years ago.

↑ 6.7K 💬 48 video 2025

Tomb of Ramesses VI

↑ 6.6K 💬 70 gallery 2025

Sapphire ring belonging to Roman Emperor Caligula, depicting his wife

↑ 6.2K 💬 58 image 2026

A 4,500-year old Egyption dress....Was painstakingly reassembled from approximately 7,000 beads found in an undisturbed tomb in Giza,Egypt

↑ 6K 💬 75 image 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/AncientCivilizations, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/AncientCivilizations?
r/AncientCivilizations ("Ancient Civilizations") describes itself this way: A Place For Ancient History Lovers. It was founded in 2014 and has 304.1K members.
How many members does r/AncientCivilizations have?
r/AncientCivilizations has about 304.6K members. ViralHunt has tracked 494 of its posts; the biggest reached 15.1K upvotes, which is 50 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/AncientCivilizations?
"A 2,200-year-old Roman bath in central Türkiye that has never stopped flowing at 45°C." reached 15.1K upvotes and 42 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/AncientCivilizations.
What subreddits are similar to r/AncientCivilizations?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Whistleblowers, r/Louisiana, r/popculture.
What kind of posts do best on r/AncientCivilizations?
Of the posts we hold, 47% are image posts and 25% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/AncientCivilizations?
Across 494 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 20:00 UTC (5.1K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 10:00 UTC (3.4K avg upvotes), Sunday at 01:00 UTC (3.2K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/AncientCivilizations?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/AncientCivilizations has 4.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 121 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/AncientCivilizations, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.