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Created
Between 1 November 2023 and 31 May 2024— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated.
16 measurements spanning 16 days, net -363. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 29,825–30,296 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)
Subscribers
Change
23 Aug 2026, 13:34
29,879
-37
21 Aug 2026, 21:05
29,916
-25
20 Aug 2026, 19:25
29,941
-16
19 Aug 2026, 19:35
29,957
-19
18 Aug 2026, 22:56
29,976
-20
17 Aug 2026, 20:03
29,996
-26
16 Aug 2026, 16:17
30,022
-42
15 Aug 2026, 01:26
30,064
-17
13 Aug 2026, 15:06
30,081
-19
12 Aug 2026, 15:18
30,100
-21
11 Aug 2026, 17:54
30,121
-38
10 Aug 2026, 14:26
30,159
-16
9 Aug 2026, 15:14
30,175
-36
8 Aug 2026, 17:44
30,211
-31
7 Aug 2026, 18:00
30,242
no change
7 Aug 2026, 17:56
30,242
first reading
Engagement
15 posts held, back to 21 January 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 35 pagesof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 15 posts for this entry, the most recent from 11 March 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
What this channel posts
Photos
≈1,730
Videos
≈92
Links
≈150
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 23 August 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.
Video runtime
2m 37s
Average length
22s
Measured directly from 7 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
Reaction mix
1,084 reactions across 15 posts, in 1 kind.
Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
Reaction
Count
Share
Share, drawn
❤
1,084
100.0%
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 15 of the 15 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 1,084reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 15 most recent posts we hold, published 21 January 2026 to 11 March 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Telegram Stars
Stars received
4
across the posts below
Posts paid on
3
of 15 we hold a reading for · 20%
Most on one post
2
single highest reading
A paid reaction is a reader spending Telegram Stars — bought with money — on a post by @pastvault. Telegram publishes the count on the public post preview alongside ordinary reactions, and this register reads it there. It is the only figure on this site that measures money moving rather than attention.
Stars are not reactions, and the two are never added. They are rendered in the same strip on Telegram and counted in the same shape, but one is a tap and the other is a purchase. The reaction totals and the engagement rate elsewhere on this page exclude every figure in this section, and no rate here is computed against a reaction count.
This is not revenue, and we publish no currency figure. What a Star costs a reader and what it pays a channel are different numbers, Telegram takes a share we cannot observe, and the terms have changed. Converting a Star count into money would be an estimate dressed as a measurement, so the count is where we stop.
Counted over the 15 most recent posts we hold for this entry, published 21 January 2026 to 11 March 2026. Star counts above 1,000 reach us in Telegram’s short form and carry the same three-significant-figure rounding as everything else on this page.
This specific 3,000-year-old basalt monument features a distinct, customized headdress and highly individualized facial proportions, proving it was a portrait of a specific Olmec ruler.
Carving the subtle details of this stern face required immense precision, while moving its massive weight across miles of dense jungle without wheels demanded unprecedented engineering.
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This is the House of the Ceii in Pompeii, frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago 😲
What was once lost to ash was finally restored in 2021 using laser technology
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This shouldn't exist 🏀
12,000 years ago, someone carved this perfect stone ring at Göbekli Tepe.
No metal tools. No writing. No settled agriculture. Just a vision that has survived the Ice Age and outlasted empires.
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A diamond mining operation in the Namibian desert led to an astonishing discovery: the wreck of the Bom Jesus ⛵
A 500-year-old ship carrying more than 100 elephant tusks, 2000 copper ingots, and Spanish and Portuguese gold coins worth about $13 million.
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One of the most dangerous promotions in history came from a kid's cereal box 🧸
In 1947, Kix cereal offered the «Atomic Bomb Ring» for just 15 cents and a box top.
Shockingly, the toy contained polonium-210, one of the deadliest radioactive substances known to man.
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College Street Presbyterian Church at Bathurst
1910 postcard / 2023 photo 🕍
Completed in 1885 and designed by Smith & Gemmell, became the College Street United Church in 1925 when Canada's Presbyterians, Methodists, and Congregationalists voted to form the United Church of Canada.
Weird little tango in the 1980s: church membership had dropped from 2000 to 150 in the 1980s, they wanted to develop the land (reserving…
Mycenaean daggers and swords from the 16th–14th centuries BC, displayed at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.
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The water pipes at Knossos date back to the Bronze Age, with the advanced plumbing system reaching its peak around 1700 BCE.
This means these pipes are at least 3,500 years old.
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In 2008, archaeologists in Bulgaria unearthed a 2000-year-old Thracian chariot, complete with horse skeletons.
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A rare Swiss music box from the 1800s, made in Geneva
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❤88
Showing the 12 most recent of 15 posts we hold for @pastvault. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Stars beside a post are paid reactions — Telegram Stars, bought with money and spent on that post. They are a different unit from reactions and are never added to them, here or anywhere else on this page.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 23 August 2026 — this
entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“The lost legacy” (@pastvault), 29,879 subscribers as measured 23 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/pastvault.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.