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r/Archeology

This is a subreddit for all things archeology and history. Founded 2008 · 578.5K members

578K members. The best post we have captured here reached 14.1K upvotes, which works out to 24 per 1,000 members.

24peak upvotes per 1,000 members
578Kmembers
14.1Kbest post
420most comments
192posts 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.

43% 24% 22%
Link 43% Image 24% Gallery 22% Video 5% Text 4% Question 2%

The topics it labels

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

Sensible Question :snoo_thoughtful: 1 What is this? :illuminati: 1 Age of Artifact is in Dispute 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Was told to post here - My step father went metal detecting for the second time ever and found Saxon gold.

↑ 14.1K 💬 310 gallery 2025

A cannon ball still stuck in a house from the American Revolution in Yorktown, Virginia 1781

↑ 9K 💬 71 image 2024

Found 200+ year old cistern beneath our house [UPDATE]

↑ 6.7K 💬 164 gallery 2025

My rabbit dug a hole and found this little pot near Nijmegen, the Netherlands

↑ 6.6K 💬 240 gallery 2024

What are these things? Found about 2 meters down while digging for a septic tank in Oaxaca, Mexico.

↑ 6.3K 💬 420 gallery 2025

Honestly question: is there any merit to this meme?

↑ 5.5K 💬 284 image 2025

I was told you guys might be interested in this

↑ 5K 💬 181 link 2025

Rather happy with this find

↑ 5K 💬 85 gallery 2024

Anyone can explain this?

↑ 4.8K 💬 402 image 2025

Owner has No idea how far back this goes

↑ 4.6K 💬 185 image 2025

Communities its size

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

r/Archeology, in numbers

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

What is r/Archeology?
r/Archeology describes itself this way: This is a subreddit for all things archeology and history. It was founded in 2008 and has 578.5K members.
How many members does r/Archeology have?
r/Archeology has about 578K members. ViralHunt has tracked 192 of its posts; the biggest reached 14.1K upvotes, which is 24 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Archeology?
"Was told to post here - My step father went metal detecting for the second time ever and found Saxon gold." reached 14.1K upvotes and 310 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Archeology.
What subreddits are similar to r/Archeology?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite, r/DailyShow, r/asheville.
What kind of posts do best on r/Archeology?
Of the posts we hold, 43% are link posts and 24% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Archeology?
Across 192 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 23:00 UTC (5.2K avg upvotes), Saturday at 14:00 UTC (2.8K avg upvotes), Monday at 15:00 UTC (2.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Saturday. 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/Archeology?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Archeology has 3.3K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Archeology, 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.