25 Most INTENSE Archaeological Discoveries In Human History

number 25 baby disposal one thing you will realize at the end of this list is that people, at least in the past, were very into cannibalism, sacrifice and torture is an example of that. Not long ago, several archaeologists were searching the sewers beneath the Byzantine Roman Bathhouse in Israel when they came across something terrifying, baby bones and many of them, for some reason someone in the bathhouse above apparently felt forced to dispose of hundreds of babies in the sewer under number 24, the Venetian vampire, although these days it is the safest method. used to kill vampires is a stake through the heart hundreds of years ago it was not considered enough let us introduce you to the ancient alternative the brick in the mouth think about it what is the easiest way to prevent a vampire from sucking blood and stuffing it in your face Full of cement, no doubt, the skull you're seeing here was found by archaeologists outside Venice in a mass walk-and-sacrifice grave number 23, although it has been known for years that the Aztecs held numerous bloody sacrifice festivals in 2004, a frightening discovery. was performed on the outskirts of present-day Mexico City, numerous decapitated and mutilated bodies of both

human

s and animals shed some light on how horrible the rituals could be for the Terracotta Army, although they may not be as

intense

as the later ones. .

Few

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, this vast terracotta army that was buried with Kimchi Wang, the first emperor of China, is certainly

intense

in its own right, apparently the intention was for the soldiers to protect the emperor in the 21st afterlife, the screaming mummy, Unlike modern burials, the Egyptians did not. Be aware of the fact that if you don't tie the chin to the skull, it will open with a permanent scream, although

most

mummies exhibit this type of profile, it can become much scarier. From time to time, archaeologists discover mummies that appear to have actually been screaming at their death due to some type of ritual torture.

The one above is called unknown man II and was found by Gaston Miss Farrow in 1886, number 20. The first leper, also known as Hanson's disease. Leprosy is not contagious, but its victims. They have often lived on the margins of society due to extreme disfigurement because Hindu tradition requires cremation. The skeleton above often cited as the first leper was found buried just outside the city limits. Number 19. An ancient chemical war in 1933. Archaeologist Robert Demesnes from Busan was searching. Beneath the ruins of an ancient Roman Persian battlefield and came across some sage tunnels that had been dug beneath the city, in the tunnels he found the bodies of 19 Roman soldiers who apparently died while desperately trying to escape something and a Persian soldier grabbing his Apparently, when the Romans heard the Persians digging under their walls, they began to dig a tunnel of their own with the idea of ​​falling on the Persians from above, the problem for them was that the Persians heard it and put a trap as soon as the Roman soldiers who fell encountered burning sulfur and bitumen, which has the unfortunate effect of turning into acid in the lungs.

Rosetta stone number 18 discovered in 1799 by French soldiers sifting Egyptian sand. The Rosetta Stone has been one of archaeologists' greatest

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to date. and the primary source for the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphics, the stone is actually a fragment of a larger stone that contained a decree issued by King Ptolemy V around 200 BC. C. with the decree inscribed in three languages ​​Egyptian hieroglyphs demotic script in ancient Greek number 17 the D Keith Spears, known as the stone spheres of Costa Rica, scientists believe that these al

most

perfect spheres were carved around the turn of the millennium, although There is much speculation about what they may have been used for, no one is completely sure.

It's not unusual for mummified bodies to be found in swamps, but this body now known as the Snarl Ball Man is a bit unique - not only is he surprisingly well preserved with his hair and nails still intact, but it's possible to reconstruct his disappearance based on information. found around his body judging by a large wound hitting around his neck from ear to ear, it appears he was sacrificed, probably in an attempt to obtain a 15th best crop of desert kites since he was discovered by pilots a Early 20th century, a series of low stone walls in Israel's Negev Desert have baffled scientists for years.

The walls could be up to 40 miles long in some places and were recently nicknamed comets due to their appearance from the air; However, it was determined that the walls were actually used by hunters to funnel large animals and the pens are off cliffs where they could easily be slaughtered and Atlantis number 14 is fine, so Plato's Atlantis, at least the only one that I wrote in his dialogues, has never been found, of course, from time to time archaeologists turn to Something that stimulates numerous rumors and other ancient ruins have certainly been found resting at the bottom of the ocean but as of today the naval power that is rose before the Pillars of Hercules and sank to the bottom of the sea in a single day and night.

Of misfortune, thirteen figures of a chimera have yet to be discovered, although the majority of the scientific community now agrees that these figures were part of an elaborate hoax, their discovery initially created a bit of a stir found on the ground near Atkin Barrow Mexico there were hundreds of small figures resembling both

human

s and dinosaurs, which for a time some believed the ancients were much better archaeologists than previously thought number 12 the Antikythera mechanism discovered in a shipwreck off to the Greek island of Antikythera in the early 20th century this A 2,000-year-old device is often touted as the world's first scientific calculator with dozens of gears.

You can accurately measure the position of the Sun, Moon and planets simply by entering a date, although there is debate over its exact use. It certainly shows that even 2,000 years ago. Years ago, civilization was already achieving astonishingly advanced feats of mechanical engineering number eleven Rapa Nui, popularly known as Easter Island, this is one of the most isolated places in the world, thousands of kilometers from the Chilean coast in the South Pacific, the most disconcerting thing about this However, it is not the fact that humans managed to find and colonize it, but that they then proceeded to build huge stone heads or Island Number Ten, the tomb of sunken skulls, while excavating the bed of a dry lake in Matala, Sweden, archaeologists found several skulls that had stakes. propelled directly through their skulls as if that wasn't bad enough, one of the skulls even had pieces of the other skulls crammed inside of it.

What happened there eight thousand years ago was not pretty number nine. The Piri Reis map dating from the beginning of the 16th century. If this map shows the coasts of South America, Europe and Africa with astonishing precision, it was apparently constructed by the general and cartographer Piri Reis, hence the name of the fragments of dozens of others, number eight, the Nazca lines, although They were literally under the feet of archaeologists for a long time. Hundreds of years ago the Nazca lines were not discovered until the early 1900s for the simple reason that they are almost impossible to see unless you are directly above them, while there have been numerous explanations ranging from UFOs, technically advanced ancient civilizations to the most likely explanation. is that the Nazca were excellent surveyors, although why they built such enormous geoglyphs remains a mystery. number seven the Dead Sea Scrolls similar to the Rosetta Stone the Dead Sea Scrolls are one of the main

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finds of the last century containing the oldest known surviving copies of biblical documents dating back to 150 BC. number six Mount Owen MOA in 1986 an expedition was making its way deeper and deeper into the New Zealand owned cave system when it came across the enormous claw that you are now looking at, it was so well preserved that it almost seemed like it was the Whatever it belonged to, it had recently died during excavation and inspection;

However, it was determined to belong to a highland MOA, a large prehistoric bird that apparently came with a nasty pair of number five claws. The Voynich manuscript is described as the most mysterious manuscript in the world. This piece of literature dates from the early 15th century and most of its pages are filled with what appears to be his appeasement Burress, none of the plants match the known species and their language remains indecipherable. number four gobekli tepe, although at first glance it may appear to be nothing more than a pile of rocks, this ancient settlement discovered in 1994 was built approximately 9,000 years ago and is currently one of the oldest examples of complex monumental architecture in the pre-war world. pyramids. thousands of years old number three sacsayhuamán this walled complex on the outskirts of cusco peru is part of what used to be the capital of the Inca Empire, the crazy thing about this wall however is in the details of its construction, the rock slabs fit together so closely that it would be impossible to slip even a hair between them is a testament to the precision of ancient Inca architecture number two the Baghdad battery in the mid-1930s several simple-looking vessels were discovered near Baghdad Iraq no one paid attention to them until Much later, when a German museum curator published an article claiming that the jars could have been used as galvanic cells or batteries, although it may seem far-fetched at first, even the MythBusters joined in and confirmed that it was, in fact, a good possibility and number one without a head.

Dorset Vikings, While excavating a railway in Dorset, workers came across a small contingent of Viking warriors buried in the ground, all missing their heads. At first, the archaeologists thought that perhaps some villagers had survived a raid and taken revenge, but upon closer inspection, things became a little less clear, the titles seemed too clean and seemed to have been made from the front. instead of from behind. They still aren't sure what happened.