Most BIZARRE Recent Archaeological Discoveries!

Hello everyone, I'm Katrina, from a Viking brewery to a sorcerer's treasure box in Pompeii, here are 10 of the

most

surprising

recent

archaeological

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number 10 Viking brewery The Vikings were well known for partying, celebrating holidays and, for Of course, they successfully looted another village and in the summer of 2019 archaeologists discovered the remains of what would probably have been the social center of one of their villages. A brewery was buried in a place called Scale Farmstead which is on the island of Rosae in Scotland there is evidence that people have lived. Here for more than 1,000 years At first, the team was looking at some small walls, but realized they were all part of a much larger structure believed to be 43 feet long.

Stone benches were found along the sides of the building and various artifacts. Also recovered were a ceramic comb, a bone spindle whorl and quite a few mittens that are very old piles of rubbish. You'd be surprised how much we can learn about how people lived thousands of years ago from the rubbish the building was in. use between the 10th and 12th centuries and would have been where only the

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important Vikings would have been welcome. Investigations are still ongoing, but this discovery appears very similar to others found in northern Europe and researchers hope to learn much more about how the Vikings lived in Pompeii graffiti historians have long believed that the destructive events that took place in Pompeii occurred in August 79 AD, but a

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discovery has cast all that into doubt.

The main record giving the date of August 24 when Vesuvius was violently erupted was written by Pliny the Younger, who had witnessed the event from across the Bay of Naples in Messina. In his writings he records that his uncle Pliny the Elder was in charge of a fleet of ships and died trying to rescue his friends from Pompeii. Pliny the Younger says that they were all suffocated by the dense vapors and looked more like sleeping people than dead That night, he and his family witnessed intense darkness, screams of fire and falling ash as daylight returned, the city buried deep in snow-like ashes. and Pompeii was in ruins as of October 2018, although archaeologists revealed a newly found white wall that was covered in graffiti.

It was written in charcoal and mentions a date of October 17. Coal is a fragile substance and does not last long, so the writing on the wall must have been built very close to the time the eruption preserved the area. This, along with other evidence such as a calcified tree branch bearing fruits that only come out in the autumn, means that the current idea is that the eruption actually took place. took place on October 24, more than two months after what Pliny the Younger had said, researchers still disagree on this and until conclusive evidence is found the debate will continue.

You know how much historians love a good debate. Number eight: tree coffin cultures around the world. They have developed several different ways to honor their dead, but occasionally human remains are found in the least expected places. In 2017, while builders were working on a project in a school district in Zurich, Switzerland, a woman was found buried inside a coffin with a hollowed-out tree trunk that still had bark on the outside. That would be a pretty strange discovery, since that it had been placed there more than 2,200 years ago, but the site was so well preserved that researchers were able to determine a great deal of information about it.

She was about 40 years old. When she died and probably had not done much physical work throughout her life, analysis of her bones showed that she had grown up in the area around where Zurich is today and liked to eat starchy and sweetened foods, she had been buried wearing bronze bracelets and a bronze belt chain, but researchers were more interested in the clasp of her necklace. Both ends of her necklace had a clasp that allowed him to fasten the strand of blue and yellow amber glass beads around her neck, a mechanism rarely seen in so long. Years ago this was not the first burial site found in the area in 1903, during the construction of the school gymnasium, the remains of a Celtic man were found who was buried around the same time as this new discovery.

They had buried him with his sword. a shield and a spear and it is more than likely that the two knew each other, unsurprisingly archaeologists are now carefully watching other plots at the site in case other members of their community were also buried nearby with the potential to find more information about how they were buried. society worked and why this was the place they chose to live and now for a recent discovery about Emperor Nero, but first make sure you subscribe to our new here and join the origins explanation family, I just wanted to give you a quick shout out. to all of you for supporting this channel I couldn't do it without you number seven The Sphinx room of Emperor Nero in 2018 conservationists who were working on the restoration of Emperor Nero's palace in Rome found something completely unexpected: a secret underground chamber in the Inside was a series of colorful animal frescoes depicting images of Panthers and Fink's centaurs, the palace known as Domus Aurea was built more than 1,900 years ago after the fire of 64 AD. which destroyed large domains of Rome, was Nero's pride and joy, but has not stood the test of time. are underway to regain some of his former glory and this new discovery further shows how in love the Emperor was with the art.

The workers nicknamed it the Sphinx room because of one of the most prominent images, but there are also murals of flowers, leaves, fruits, aquatic creatures, exotic birds. and the god Pan unfortunately the room is buried by tons of earth and disturbing it could endanger the foundations on which the rest of the palace is built. So it will take quite some time until the full extent of what's there is known, but investigations began in early 2019 and may one day reveal more secrets about one of Rome's most infamous emperors, who is believed to have He was responsible for starting the fire in Rome in order to rebuild the city, as well as murdering his mother and wives and, finally, committing suicide.

At the age of thirty, number six, Chinese marijuana is becoming more socially acceptable in some countries around the world as a medicinal and recreational substance, but there is evidence to suggest that it has been a part of human culture for much longer than we think. you might think in 2019. Scientists announced the discovery of ten wooden incense burners from human burial sites in the cemetery called Jirzyn on the Pamir Plateau in western China, which were covered in what was initially a residue mysterious. When Mae tried the substance, it was immediately clear that it was cannabis, but there was something about this that was surprising: it had long been known that people in China had cultivated this crop five and a half thousand years ago, but this was for For its use as an oilseed and for its fibers, this form had very low levels of psychoactive substances, so it was unlikely to have been smoked due to its high level of residues in the recent discovery, although it revealed something different: it had high levels of THC, the psychoactive chemical in cannabis, suggesting that people intentionally grew crops for use in ritual or religious activities in an attempt some believed to communicate with the gods or the deceased number five, the lost Scottish village, the 1692 massacre of Clan McDonald of Glencoe and the Scottish Highlands was one of the most infamous violent events in Scottish history due to the failure to pledge allegiance to King William the Third Government, to soldiers who had remained with the clan They were ordered to kill their hosts. 38 men were immediately killed and their families were forced to flee to the hills where most of them died of exposure.

It was an episode so bloody that it is believed to have inspired. The Red Wedding and Game of Thrones, but until recently the location of the victims' houses remained a mystery until archaeologists began searching parts of the valley and discovered the remains of the small municipality of Acto Reactive, one of the three settlements known abandoned buildings in the area. They found structures that were likely homes for large families and found evidence that these buildings were covered by a layer of grass that would have helped them withstand mountain conditions. Some pottery shards have also been found nearby, but researchers are hopeful that by focusing on the In this house they may find a trove of artifacts from colonial brothels in 2018, just by chance an archeology student was walking through the ruins of the city of Brunswick in North Carolina when they noticed what appeared to be the outline of a building that was not on any map ahead.

Research found that there was indeed an underground structure that was approximately five feet deep and covered an area of ​​400 square feet the following year and after a month-long excavation, a team from East Carolina University revealed their findings believing that this It was the site of a colonial tavern which was potentially a brothel, the entire town was burned down in 1776 by British soldiers, but this building appears to have collapsed in flames a few years earlier, its disappearance meant that a number of objects were buried inside as a time capsule and is now proving to be a valuable source of artefacts from the period, so far they have recovered a brass tap from a wine barrel, tobacco pipes, cups, liquor bottles, an Irish halfpenny and various associated items with the restoration of garments.

Archaeologists plan to return to the site next year in hopes. to find even more evidence about what this place once was and help reveal more of the lost history of area number three, the Great Synagogue of Vilnius during World War II and in a subsequent attack by Lithuanian authorities in 1957 , the great synagogue of Vilnius. It was left in ruins, but in a place that was once known as the Jerusalem of the North and, although a school has since been built on top of it, it remains an incredibly important

archaeological

site where numerous treasures and artifacts are constantly found through the use of ground-penetrating radar in In 2015, researchers were able to determine its precise location and recent excavations have made some notable finds, including two ritual baths known as mikvehs, part of the Bema and a series of tiles.

Researchers have also found sitting plates, a cellar, a prayer book, 200 coins among them. from the 16th and 20th centuries and even buttons from Napoleon's army, perhaps the most important find so far is a stone table for reading the Torah with writings in honor of a rabbi and showing the close connection that the Lithuanian Jewish community felt with Israel. Number 2 Cherokee Messages to A group of explorers first found a series of mysterious writings in Alabama's Manitou Cave in 2006, but only recently were archaeologists, with the help of a team from the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes, able to understand what the words written in the cave meant. walls and ceilings of the cave about 200 years ago in a newly created alphabet known as the Cherokee syllabary that was invented by a man named Sequoia in the first few hundred years, it became widely used by the Cherokee, but it was still a surprise to researchers find it. written on walls that in some cases are more than a mile from the mouth of the cave, the messages themselves are ceremonial and are primarily accounts of their ancestors and of a sport called stickball that was similar to the cross, although some They were written backwards, which researchers believe was done so that the spirits living in the cave could read them while the spiritual messages are sacred so that the translations would not be revealed.

The other detailed events surrounding the ball games in preparation For each match the players underwent a water cleansing and it is now clear that the waters of this cave were an integral part of that number one ritual. The witcher's hidden treasure. Continued excavations at Pompeii regularly uncover new and exciting finds and in August 2019 researchers announced the discovery of what they called the witcher's treasure trove they were searching for. a house where the remains of ten victims lay in a room. Here they discovered what was left of a wooden box. Inside were amethyst ceramic and amber crystals, as well as beetles, amulets, gems and several figures, more than just ornaments, it is believed that the contents of the box would have beenused during rituals to ward off bad luck, unfortunately for the residents of Pompeii and those in the house, these trinkets were not enough, thanks for checking out which archaeological discovery was your favorite, let me know in the comments below and remember to subscribe .

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