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archeologyworldhistory. This community will be open to many discussions about archaeology, history,and aliens things! Please be kind with each other so we don't have to remove anyone from the sub. Whoever don't like the sub can nicely leave, and not assaulting anyone. Thank you for your understanding. Founded 2020 · 148.3K members

148.4K members. The best post we have captured here reached 8.6K upvotes, which works out to 58 per 1,000 members.

58peak upvotes per 1,000 members
148.4Kmembers
8.6Kbest post
725most comments
196posts 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.

61% 17% 11%
Image 61% Link 17% Gallery 11% Text 6% Question 3% Video 2%

What the ceiling looks like

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

The Varnhem Humerus, a broken bone repaired with a copper plate, and shows signs of healing afterwards. From Varnhem, Västergötland. Dated between 12…

↑ 8.6K 💬 225 image 2026

The Old Roman Bridge, standing for 2,000 years in the Murray Valley of Mosul/Iraq.1940s and present.

↑ 8.3K 💬 140 image 2026

Greece uses the same design on its 1 euro coins that was used 2500 years ago in athens.

↑ 8K 💬 41 image 2026

This man fled Pompeii as Mount Vesuvius erupted. Archaeologists found him 2,000 years later, holding a bowl to protect his head and a lamp to light h…

↑ 7.8K 💬 116 image 2026

The Ship That Returned From the 17th Century🇸🇪

↑ 7.7K 💬 194 gallery 2026

In 2010 A family discovered a hidden ancient chapel under their house in Shropshire, England

↑ 7.7K 💬 85 image 2026

Discovered in 1992 when local farmers pumped water out of five small village ponds in Zhejiang, China, the ancient Longyou Caves are an architectural…

↑ 7.2K 💬 68 image 2026

Stefano Vanacore, director of the laboratory at Pompeii Archaeological Site, carrying a cast of a child victim of Vesuvius. In this lab restorers wor…

↑ 6.3K 💬 62 image 2026

A Massive 2700-Year-Old, 18-Ton Statue Of An Assyrian Deity That Was Excavated In Iraq In November 2023

↑ 6K 💬 103 image 2026

Lisa Grace, a metal detectorist, discovered a 15th-century hat pin in 2013 in a plowed field near Horncastle, Lincolnshire.. The artifact is a mediev…

↑ 5.7K 💬 63 gallery 2026

Communities its size

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r/archeologyworld, in numbers

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What is r/archeologyworld?
r/archeologyworld ("archeologyworldhistory") describes itself this way: This community will be open to many discussions about archaeology, history,and aliens things! Please be kind with each other so we don't have to remove anyone from the sub. Whoever don't like the sub can nicely leave, and not assaulting anyone. Thank you for your understanding. It was founded in 2020 and has 148.3K members.
How many members does r/archeologyworld have?
r/archeologyworld has about 148.4K members. ViralHunt has tracked 196 of its posts; the biggest reached 8.6K upvotes, which is 58 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/archeologyworld?
"The Varnhem Humerus, a broken bone repaired with a copper plate, and shows signs of healing afterwards. From Varnhem, Västergötland. Dated b" reached 8.6K upvotes and 225 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/archeologyworld.
What subreddits are similar to r/archeologyworld?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/PopCultureV2, r/SpaceXBets, r/interestingnewsworld, r/circled, r/International.
What kind of posts do best on r/archeologyworld?
Of the posts we hold, 61% are image posts and 17% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/archeologyworld?
Across 196 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 14:00 UTC (4.3K avg upvotes), Monday at 16:00 UTC (3.2K avg upvotes), Saturday at 10:00 UTC (3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. 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/archeologyworld?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/archeologyworld has 4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 1 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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