12 MOST INCREDIBLE ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES RECENT PART

12 MOST INCREDIBLE ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES RECENT PART

 ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES

ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES RECENT PART 1

You've probably heard of the phrase digging up information. It refers to the process of working through the past, trying to find things that are relevant to the present.

It's also a perfect metaphor for the practice of archaeology literally involves people digging into the ground.

To find out more about the people and places that came before us. In this article, we're going to find out all about the most important archaeological discoveries of recent times.

Our journey begins in France where an ancient engraved stone has just been pulled out of the ground in Angola, close to Bordeaux.

The Stone said to be 12,000 years old, has crude etchings of horses and other animals and is believed to have been a marker for an ancient hunting site, dating back to the Palaeolithic Era.

The stone is a mere 7 inches long, but contains detailed engravings on both sides. The most prominent of them is a headless horse, which takes up almost half the space.

Stone is yet another remarkable recent discovery in France. where researchers have also recently discovered ancient stone circles that predates Stonehenge in England.

It's now thought that stone circles made in the style of Stonehenge, which appear all over Western Europe may have originated in France. We're still no closer to knowing why they were both though.

We live in the age of video games now. So board games feel a little old school. As it turns out, they might be even more old school than you can possibly imagine.

In the case of backgammon, which is popular game interventions may have begun as long ago as 4000 years.

We say this because of a recent discovery in a rock shelter in Azerbaijan. The game has been hiding in plain sight for centuries.

It just took someone with knowledge of bechem and to pay closer attention to the series of holes carved in the shelter's floor to notice it.

The shelter was used by nomads and herders, so it was presumably a way for them to pass the time and entertain themselves.

There are 58 holes in total, which makes it consistent with a game known as housing with a long resemblance to modern backgammon.

It's also known that this game was popular in Egypt at the same time these carvings were made in Azerbaijan, which suggests that the nomadic tribes of the Bronze Age were extremely well traveled.

Just south of Paris and France, there's a mysterious ancient forest that people very rarely venture into.

And it's called Fountain Blue, covering over 173 square miles. It's large enough to contain an entire secret civilization.

And now archaeologists believe that it once may have done that. We know that 40,000 years ago but the marks they left behind on the rocks and in the caves don't translate, nor are they consistent with markings left elsewhere in France, or even elsewhere in Europe.

Most of the carvings are simply geometric shapes, crosses, circles, and lines. Often they form a kind of mash that is etched into the stone.

To add to the mystery the carvings are found most often in places that are hard to reach as if they were intended to be kept secret.

As if that weren't enough. In other areas. In the forest. There are carvings of elephants and seals, animals that simply wouldn't make sense at that time.

It shouldn't have been known to anybody living here that a secret society once live and thrive here.

Everyone knows that dragons are a symbol of China, and that would appear that they were once equally as symbolically important to the people of neighboring Mongolia.

Excavation work at a series of tombs in the country has turned up some interesting artifacts that once belonged to aristocratic members of the Jiang new people.

A loose alliance of tribes who you may have heard referred to more often as the hunt. They had several notable clashes with the Chinese during the Han Dynasty over 2000 years ago the set of Xiang new tunes is believed to be the oldest yet discovered and contains two tiny silver gilded dragons.

They're barely 3 inches long but in trying to be detailed. Each Dragon has clearly defined eyes, tea, horns, and feathers, and the team who unearthed them believe they were most likely once attached to a decorative drinking vessel.

Their style is consistent with Han Dynasty artifacts found in China, dating from the same period.

So we're now left to wonder which side of the border such designs originated from.

There were so many myths and legends about the ancient Mayan society that we could fill a whole book with them.

They were so advanced that their calendar was able to predict the time and date of every solar eclipse for centuries in the future.

Unsurprisingly, many people consider it to be a possibility that they were once contacted by extraterrestrials, and recently released photos of carvings and sculptures seem to support that theory.

The carvings were discovered long ago but have only recently been unveiled by the Mexican government.

And one of the carvings is the unmistakable shape of a saucer, seeming to hover over the ground with an alien pilot inside.

Several more carvings of faces revealed the traditional shape of a standard grey alien with the signature large sloping forehead and big eyes.

Even the human faces in the carvings aren't mysterious. They appear to depict Africans in Caucasian races that the Mayans ought not to have encountered 1000s of years ago.

Were they simply a very advanced civilization, or did they get a little help from outside our world?

The Sutton, who helped to go for it, but it has only recently gone on public display.

The British Museum has recently allowed the public to inspect the famous artifact if they visit room 41 of the building.

The legendary piece of armored headgear was found during the excavation of an Anglo-Saxon ship burial in 1939, and is thought to have been as important decoratively as it was in combat.

Not every Anglo-Saxon soldier would have been permitted to wear such an elaborate piece.

Some people even believe that it was effectively the Crown King raid walled of East Anglia as well as protecting the back and sides of the head.

The facial features also double up as the outline of a dragon symbolizing that the owner was a mighty warrior.

What you see if it now represents an incredible piece of restoration work. The helmet was initially found in fragments, which were painstakingly put back together over a series of years until work was completed in 1970.

Owning an alcohol distillery has always been a surefire way to make money. The biggest distilleries in the world make millions of dollars every year.

So we wonder how much this ancient one in China must have been worth built 500 years ago, the distillery is so large that it must have been producing an industrial output of spirits.

The complex covers a staggering 55,000 square feet and includes 30 tanks for fermentation, and three stoves used for distillation for the era.

This is quite a sophisticated setup while they're caught up in the rest of the world. Rice based spirits are popular in China today and have been for centuries.

That is what this distillery would have been making. Evidence suggests that it opened during the Ming Dynasty during the 1300s and continued its operations until at least the 1600s.

By which time the Qing dynasty had begun. Amazingly, one distillery which would have opened at around the same time as this one is still operational. The shushing distillery in Chengdu.

The Dead Sea's scrolls the collections of 1000 historical documents, dating back over two centuries and survived by being buried under piles of rubble and coated in bad droppings.

One of the scrolls known as the temple scroll is better preserved than any of the others. Scientists have long wondered why this is the case, but they're not wondering anymore.

The 25-foot-long scroll was coated in a solution made from salty minerals, an extra layer of protection, which wasn't awarded to any of the other ducks.

Whoever buried the scrolls felt that this one, which contains the plans of a temple that was never built was more important than the rest.

Interestingly, the solution contained calcium, sodium, and sulfur, which means that it didn't come from the dead sea itself, nor did it come from the fore of the cave in which it was buried.

How the original owner knew that the solution would work as a preservative is yet to be explained.

Someone in England recently lived the ultimate dream of every antique expert.

He picked up an old vase from a charity shop for just one pound and more than 80,000 pounds.

The seller who wants to maintain their anonymity, bought the little flat back vase, just look at it, and hope to make a small profit on his purchase.

He was suddenly flooded with offers, realizing he might have something valuable on his hands.

He canceled the auction and took the vase to a professional to have it assessed. Incredibly It was once in the personal possession of Chinese emperor xi and long who had it made for himself during the 18th century.

There's even a rose marked as a sign that it wasn't to be considered for trade or export, but instead, it was intended to be kept within the Emperor's own palaces.

The cow would eventually end up in a charity shop and or No, but it's a fortunate break for the Finder.

Part of the problem of trying to read the Bible as a historical text is that it's difficult to find evidence of any of the claims and accounts which are relayed within the book.

It all happened so long ago that many records have simply been lost to tie sometimes, though those lost records appear.

A recently discovered stone altar in Jordan, for example, seems to confirm a biblical account of an ancient war.

The shrine is around 2800 years old and was discovered after off Jordan on this ancient altar are a pair of inscriptions, the first of which refers to vast quantities of bronze that were plundered after Iraq was captured in battle.

The other inscription which only survives in fragments mentions 4000 foreign soldiers falling in battle within the city and the city becoming desolate.

Both would make sense in the context after Mesha the king of Moab rebelled against Israel, it seems that Iraq in the process, the battle is referenced in the Hebrew Bible, which says to measure tributary demands from Israel.

When archaeologists describe the discovery as once in a lifetime, you just know it's worth your attention.

That label was most recently given to a Pictish stone unearthed in Dingwall, Scotland. The 1200-year-old relic isn't just any old Pictish stone either.

It's one of less than 50 pictures of cross lands ever found. Although we know its value. Now, it appears that some of our ancestors didn't. It was reused in the 1700s and then forgotten about and overgrown by weeds and vegetation until the Scotland archeological study came along.

To take a closer look at each yard it was hidden in. The symbols of the Pictish people are carved all over the stone, including mythical creatures, soldiers with animal heads, and swords and shields.

Stones like this would be placed around the outskirts of a Pictish settlement as a warning to potential invaders who found or kept the reverse side of the stone a secret. But if it's anything like Pictish cross-stones, which have been found in the past, it will have an enormous Christian cross on it.

It rather not even think about what construction workers usually have to dig through when they're excavating an old sewer.

But finding anything other than waste has to be seen as a bonus for heading Nora and Jannik Vestergaard to date on all the streets and all of Aalborg got their reward in the form of an ancient sword.

 The sword is over 3 feet long, and so whoever managed to wield it must have been enormously powerful.

North Jutland Historical Museum has taken a closer look at this word on behalf of the men and confirmed that it dates back to the 14th century and possibly even earlier.

If the sword suggests that it was used in anger, and that would make sense given the history of the area, it was found all Borg was a flashpoint during a civil war in the 14th century, so it's likely that the owner of the sword lost it during a conflict.

Usually, a sword like this would be buried with the person who owned it. But that wasn't the case with this one.

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