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A mysterious Roman artefact found during an amateur archaeological dig is going on public display in Lincolnshire for the first time. The object is one of only 33 dodecahedrons found in Britain,...
A mysterious Roman artefact found during an amateur archaeological dig is going on public display in Lincolnshire for the first time. The object is one of only 33 dodecahedrons found in Britain...
May 4, 2024 · A mysterious Roman artefact dug up in Lincolnshire has left experts baffled as to what it is. Found during an amateur archaeological dig in Norton Disney - where Walt Disney's ancestors...
Feb 8, 2022 · From the Sword in the Stone to ancient Egyptian airplanes, strange and mysterious artifacts summon people to put away their iPhones, don a fedora, snap a bullwhip, and get their faces melted. Some artifacts are intoxicating through their storytelling or by the puzzles they present.
- Stone spheres in Costa Rica. Giant stone spheres — some dating as far back as A.D. 600 — pepper the Diquis Delta of southern Costa Rica. Known locally as Las Bolas ("The Balls"), these monuments were the works of a Pre-Colombian civilization, and most are made from gabbro, a rock that forms from molten magma.
- Antikythera mechanism. Like something from a fantastical treasure movie, the discovery of the Antikythera Mechanism remains a major archaeological head-scratcher.
- Cleopatra's tomb. Cleopatra VII was the last of a series of rulers called the Ptolemies who ruled Egypt between 305 and 30 B.C. Much is known about her intelligence, beauty and romantic relationships (she had children with both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony), but one fact about Cleopatra is still shrouded in mystery — her burial place.
- Qin Shi Huang's tomb. In 1974, farmers in China's Shaanxi province accidentally unearthed one of the biggest archaeological finds of the 20th century — the life-size terracotta army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang (259 B.C.
Jan 5, 2022 · From the golden tongued mummies of Egypt, a bullet-shaped metal anomaly in a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite, a Fenris runestone, Roman battering rams dragged from the Med, intact 2,400-year-old fruit baskets and more… Here is our list of popular artifact finds from 2021.
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Jun 5, 2024 · From neolithic stone balls to Roman cosmetic grinders, here are five finds that have baffled archaeologists.
