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You'd think that with all the ground-penetrating radars (GPR), light detection and ranging technology (LiDAR), hyperspectral imaging, drones, submarines, and digital archives, we would have already discovered the most important artifacts from our past.
However, historians, archaeologists, and even random grandmsa metal detectors continue to surprise us year after year. So, a person who goes by the handle @tradingMaxiSL on X decided to compile a list of impressive recent finds. Keep scrolling to check out the collection!
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Panda Panda Bo Banda 10 months ago (edited)
They found the long-lost gospel of the Book of Retractions
cerinamroth 10 months ago
This is how the legend of the golem started in Prague...! Just saying, watch your backs in 33 years' time!
Bryn 10 months ago
1) Romania wasn't occupied by the Axis powers, they joined the Axis powers and 2) nope, the books were in the convent longer than that. They were just forgotten about
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Bryn 10 months ago
Nope. That's actually a myth. With paper you want clean hands because you need tactile sensation. How do I know? It's my profession, I'm an archivist who deals with rare books.
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I’ve Seen Things 10 months ago
Due to the tectonic action around the region, many excavations are unearthed in this wavy pattern
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DowntownStevieB 10 months ago
That's so cool. Where has fashion gone? I really need to take more risks.
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Gonzalo Terán 10 months ago
Sooo many questions about that helmet shape... Is it for religious rituals? Or for religious rituals trying to emulate the gods that came from the stars?
Jan Rosier 10 months ago
You see? Proof of ALIENS ! yes, always said it, noone can deny it now ! NOooooo not the straightjacket again, I'll behave.
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David 10 months ago
Its ceremonial armor, its purpose was to show the wealth of the ruler, combat armor was more practical. But the skill needed for this is why you had several craftmen involved, one for the armor, one for artwork, one for the gold touches, one for finishing
Load More Replies... Tobias Reaper 10 months ago
just my luck i find decent armour and im too low level to equip it
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ManuelQue 10 months ago
I don't see a frog - just some weird thing I wouldn't want to meet near a swamp. The clarity of the human figures is stunning.
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michael Chock 10 months ago
Fake news. Someone went back 20,000,000 years ago and made these tracks to fool us.
Bored Sailor 10 months ago
Exactly, because there have never been dinosaurs on this flat rock./s
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Binny Tutera 10 months ago
Well birds can be traced back to dinosaurs so…
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mircea maftei 10 months ago
They are 60 million years old and have not suffered any erosion? Mountains and seas have disappeared but they have escaped untouched, as if they were made yesterday!
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Wood Carver 10 months ago
I understand how this happens in areas where there is low population and they move elsewhere but I am continuously fascinated by how whole buildings disappear below ground in fairly populated areas. This even happens inside cities where there are people constantly. Amazing.
Ece Cenker 10 months ago
"Even inside cities"? People ans dense living conditions are the number one factor why unused building disappear faster than they would collapse.
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Ece Cenker 10 months ago
For more info - https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/stadium-magnesia-before-after-excavation/
Lori T Wisconsin 10 months ago
Bet they had a better Half Time show than JayZ puts together for the NFL now!
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David Smith 10 months ago
It would appear that the water was quite cold as something has shrunk
CatD 10 months ago (edited)
The ancient Greeks thought a small pen!s was a sign of higher intellect.🤷
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Gabriele Alfredo Pini 10 months ago
Probably lost while smuggling them towed underwater, to avoid the port tariffs!
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primeline31 10 months ago
I bet this person can be found thru genealogical websites. The descendants would be very interested, for sure!
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Oerff On Tour 10 months ago
Or the steak knife in your average restaurant
Load More Replies... Brittania Kelli 10 months ago
I don't know the lingo but is it's handle a snake head with the blade coming out it's mouth or am I seeing things?
EWD 10 months ago
But we ignore the skeleton next to it? “F*ck that guy check out this sword!”
The Darkest Timeline 10 months ago
Yes; most skeletons aren’t terribly interesting while an intact sword that is thousands of years old is
Load More Replies... Shoopyfloop Roundbird 10 months ago
Beautiful!! That handle! But uh... we just not talking about the bones?
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StumblingThroughLife 10 months ago (edited)
Has anyone noticed the thumbs on the hands of the woman in white (right)? 2 left hands. The woman's hand in the red, too, is the wrong way round. It makes you wonder if they used hand-shaped stamps.
Lori T Wisconsin 10 months ago
Eloquent can also describe writings. The hieroglyphics are considered writings.
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Peter Bear 10 months ago
This is a message to all you so-called 'christians' out there that claim the name yet know nothing of His word: Christ said to lift each other up, not tear each other down. He also said to love one another and pay your taxes. Try actually living by those rules.
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The Scout 10 months ago
Mammoth tusks are a very sought-after commodity. Ivory has been a standard material for many applications in the building of musical instruments for centuries, and in many cases there is no really equivalent replacement. Only ivory is internationally ostracized for obvious reasons. So builders of historical instruments often use mammoth ivory, as, being already extinct, mammoths are not protected by international wildlife preservation treaties. Other than "regular" ivory it can be traded legally, although being expensive.
martymcmatrix 10 months ago
So the same applies to billiard balls (and all the other ivory items) if they were made from mammoth ivory, right? In my opinion, ivory remains ivory, regardless of whether it comes from a mammoth or another endangered (not yet extinct) species, because I am (unfortunately) not allowed to hunt poachers just to carve fancy toothpicks, wind chimes or dream catchers from their bones, am I? 🤷🏽 🦴 🎱 🦣 😔 🐘🤔
Load More Replies... Vicki Perizzolo 10 months ago
as the permafrost is melting and blowing methane into the atmosphere... not sure this matters in the long term.
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Lost Panda 10 months ago
I hope I'm alive when they actually open the tomb... I've been curious as to what else was there since finding out about the Terracotta Army as a kid
Pferdchen 10 months ago
As long as you're not there to open it, it's likely you'd survive. The people that open it may not be so lucky, given the historical accounts that it is booby-trapped.
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MsPlants 10 months ago
Each one of these was beautifully painted bright lifelike colors but when the tomb was opened and exposed to air the paint started to flake off. everything they tried to preserve the paint didnt work thats why all the statues we see now are just the color of the material. Thats also why it has never been open to the public and why there are parts that are still sealed off so that in the future we might be able to come up with something to preserve the remaining painted statues.
DowntownStevieB 10 months ago
It's a shame they opened the toub poorly. They were colored and better preserved, but the oxygen oxidized the paint left on them and that was that.
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The Scout 10 months ago
It is difficult not to stumble on antique mosaics or relics in parts of Italy. A tourist guide in Rome once told me thatmost of the cheap "original roman coins" sold by street vendors as souvenirs are indeed genuine, as they are found so plentiful that it would be more expensive to fake them.
Oerff On Tour 10 months ago
And: If you put a spade in the ground, you likely find something ancient, so the government steps in, kicks you out and start a decade long excavation
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Ece Cenker 10 months ago
Follow Thonis Heracleion, people. There will be some very amazing stories, artifacts and knowledge coming from there in the upcoming years.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 10 months ago
They definitely forgot to reference a banana for scale when making this statue!
Ravenkbh 10 months ago
I think the cow in the back is for scale reference
Load More Replies... XenoMurph 10 months ago
Somewhere for the Egyptians to park their submarines, obviously.
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TribbleThinking 10 months ago
Is that inset bit of wood part of a complicated bit, or a mend to a broken bit?
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Peter Bear 10 months ago
But if you save it until endgame, you take it to the Giant Blacksmith and get a legendary-tier upgrade!
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Heir of Durin 10 months ago
Found the ingredients! “The two major components were starch and animal fat, which probably came from the carcass of a cow or goat. The remaining ingredient was synthetic tin oxide (or cassiterite).”
Michelle C 10 months ago
Beef tallow is, similarly, a common moisturizer. I wonder, though, what was the function of the starch: a thickener or binder, perhaps?
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Susan 10 months ago
And we thought we were more advanced and used lead pipes, then plastic PVC....
The Darkest Timeline 10 months ago
How much do these leak? How often do they have to be replaced or repaired?
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April Pickett 10 months ago
O.K., If you say so, then it's a canoe. It looks pretty skinny, maybe they just sat on it and dangled their legs in the water.
LNB87 10 months ago
hmmm.... looks like someone debarked a tree... that doesn't look like a canoe of any sort...
Oskar vanZandt 10 months ago
I think the fact it's concave suggested it was an ancient Native American canoe...
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nm (he/him) 10 months ago
It doesn't look an arrow tip to me. Most probably a special nail for a special purpose.
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cerinamroth 10 months ago
Personally, I wouldn't want to open that thing... But it is beautifully made!
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Rose the Cook 10 months ago
Was the entrance always underwater though? The artist/s would have to have been keen just to crawl in even if it was dry.
Andy 10 months ago (edited)
Yeah, at the time it was in use the entrance would have been far above the sea level. It's believed there likely were much more cave paintings originally, but the majority were destroyed by the rising water.
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Vicki Perizzolo 10 months ago
it probably wasn't underwater during the ice age as oceans were a lot lower.. as the ice melted it would have flooded the opening and access to the cave.
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Richard Pennington 10 months ago
I think the one on the right is in Danish - the place-name at the bottom could be an old version of København = Copenhagen. It appears to be a collection of letters ("epistles") of the Evangelists [possibly the letters of St. Paul in the New Testament] set to "comfortable melodies". The top line reads "In Jesus' Name!". The handwriting on the left appears to say "Johannes Haldenström", and lower down "ex Librus Olai Benet Söderberg" (or similar, in both cases).
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tresgatos72 10 months ago
Reminds me of a skinny version of the Tangerine Cockwomble staging a coup for dictatorship in the U.S.
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MsPlants 10 months ago
Huh Baal is an ancient Canaanite-Phoenician god of fertility, rain, and storms. I wonder why they call this Baal's Bridge and its located in London England nowhere near the location this religion was located.
Lila Allen 10 months ago
In gaelic it just means lord. So it's lord's bridge
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LNB87 10 months ago
When was this found? After they came down? Or before they went up? It'd be interesting to see what else is under the buildings of NYC
C P 10 months ago
Based on the outfits they’re wearing I’d say this is post 2001. All of lower Manhattan and the financial district is land fill, they sunk boats and covered them over with dirt to create new land.
Load More Replies... primeline31 10 months ago
Found in 2010: https://www.cnn.com/2014/08/05/us/new-york-ground-zero-ship/index.html
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MsPlants 10 months ago
right?!? that looks like a Bieber haircut if Ive ever seen one
Load More Replies... Lila Allen 10 months ago
Can we stop disinterring people please...someone buried that person, mourned them, and did not intend to have them dug up like some cool trophy
CatD 10 months ago
Especially since most burials like this were for ritual reasons.
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Aliza Elias-Bachrach 10 months ago
I've been there, and it's so cool. The entire wall is basically covered in bones, and there's one section where you can touch them. It's awesome
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¬_¬ 10 months ago
Last year I went and climbed all the way to the top, the view was amazing! Although I would recommend bringing a very large water bottle for the journey up and be aware that the closer you get to the top, the more windy it is and there are fewer barriers on the stairs leading to the top. If you are planning to visit you should set off at around lunch time so you can get there in tie for the glorious sunset. x
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Lila Allen 10 months ago
Which is a fairly big difference. And may I just say he absolutely did not kill those boys
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Richard Pennington 10 months ago
The local council has a sense of humour ... Leicester-...95f22e.jpg 
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Heather Ball 10 months ago
If you would like to see the second photo, click on the small gray link in the lower left corner under the picture, it will take you to IG and you can see both photos
ManuelQue 10 months ago
Thank you! That's a great restoration. I would guess there were various historical artworks they could draw on.
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Shelby Moonheart 10 months ago
This could be one reason that Abramham's father sent them out from this land to Canaan. Genesis 11:31
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BoredLittleLeafSheep 10 months ago
A 19th-century mining hammer found in London, Texas, USA. "The most likely explanation...is that a deposit of highly soluble travertine formed and hardened around it within a relatively short time." - Wikipedia London Hammer. So, not really a mystery at all.
Mo Flores 10 months ago
It is a mystery to that organization that attempts to scientifically prove the existence of a creator
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LizzieBoredom 10 months ago
Creation Evidence Museum. And this is before the Department of Education is demolished.
john doe 10 months ago
Young earth Creationists love this hammer they think it proves fossil remains are recent, it's just mineral build up from the mineral rich water in the mine it was discovered.
meeeeeeeeeeee 10 months ago
I see it as the opposite, proof humans have existed on Earth for millions of years. Creationists SURELY cannot, for the life of them, pretend they believe the carbon dating of that thing or the rock is accurate. Since they reject all other carbon dated things.
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Paulina 10 months ago
Simple carbon dating will give you the answer, but given the source I'm not surprised they want it to stay a mystery 🤦♀️
Paulina 10 months ago
Although, reading the post again I'm starting to wonder if they're really talking about the age of the artifact... By saying "is it a natural occurrence", do they mean that the hammer could've spontaneously came to existence inside the rock?! 😅 Is that what they think "God" does?
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Barong 10 months ago
And a banana for scale. Wait has the banana for scale thing been over used? Did I miss my opportunity to use an internet trend when it was still funny or cool?
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April Pickett 10 months ago
Yep. That thingmabobber is a hole in the ground?
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Angela B 10 months ago
*squints* Its a.....thing. an anomaly *squints again* thing.
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Lost Panda 10 months ago
The Sannai-Maruyama site found 10-15 minutes from my mother-in-laws house. Settled around 3900 BC. Maybe not as old as Roman and Egyptian things, but still cool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sannai-Maruyama_Site
Rafael 10 months ago
That's well before Rome and even the Sphynx, and should've been included on this list instead of that creationist propaganda!
Load More Replies... BoredLittleLeafSheep 10 months ago
How recent is "recent"? I wouldn't say the Atocha is recent, let alone 19th century Limerick. Moderately interesting but another misleading title.
UKDeek 10 months ago
Can I highlight the Burton Agnes chalk drum, found in 2022 in the village of Burton Agnes in East Yorkshire, UK. Believed to be 5000 years old, this carved chalk drum was found in a burial plot containing three children. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ancient-chalk-drum-discovery-2071538 - interesting video on YouTube about them as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIeKoKSGO0A
Erik Biesemeier 10 months ago
I'm surprised Dogor isn't in this list. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogor
Lost Panda 10 months ago
The Sannai-Maruyama site found 10-15 minutes from my mother-in-laws house. Settled around 3900 BC. Maybe not as old as Roman and Egyptian things, but still cool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sannai-Maruyama_Site
Rafael 10 months ago
That's well before Rome and even the Sphynx, and should've been included on this list instead of that creationist propaganda!
Load More Replies... BoredLittleLeafSheep 10 months ago
How recent is "recent"? I wouldn't say the Atocha is recent, let alone 19th century Limerick. Moderately interesting but another misleading title.
UKDeek 10 months ago
Can I highlight the Burton Agnes chalk drum, found in 2022 in the village of Burton Agnes in East Yorkshire, UK. Believed to be 5000 years old, this carved chalk drum was found in a burial plot containing three children. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ancient-chalk-drum-discovery-2071538 - interesting video on YouTube about them as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIeKoKSGO0A
Erik Biesemeier 10 months ago
I'm surprised Dogor isn't in this list. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogor
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