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History's greatest archaeological discoveries
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Terracotta Army
In 1974, a group of peasants digging a well near the Qin Shi Huang Emperor's tomb mound at Mount Li near Xi'an in China's Shaanxi Province made one of the most celebrated archaeological discoveries in history, the 8,000-strong terracotta army created to protect the emperor in his afterlife. The figures include warriors, chariots, and horses, all interned for over 2,000 years.
Tutankhamun's tomb
One of the most significant archaeological finds of the 20th century took place on November 4, 1922, when a team headed by British Egyptologist Howard Carter (1874–1939) discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings. The young pharaoh's golden mask was uncovered later, in 1925. It is one of the best-known works of art in the world.
Rosetta Stone
Unearthed in 1799 by a French soldier during Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign, the Rosetta Stone is a slab of granitoid stone featuring three versions of a written decree issued in 196 BCE by a group of Egyptian clergy. The top and middle texts are in Ancient Egyptian using hieroglyphic and Demotic scripts (a script derived from hieratic) respectively, while the bottom is in Ancient Greek. This ensemble helped scholars finally crack the code of hieroglyphics.
Pompeii
A cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE buried the ancient Roman city of Pompeii under volcanic ash and rock. The site was first excavated as far back as 1592, but it was only in the 1920s that organized archaeological digs started to uncover the astonishingly well-preserved ruins and the treasures buried therein.
Cave of Altamira
A cave complex discovered in 1868 near the historic town of Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, Spain, revealed an astonishing set of prehistoric rock art featuring charcoal drawings and polychrome paintings of contemporary local fauna and human hands, the earliest of which are dated back 36,000 years.
Staffordshire Hoard
The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork ever found was discovered in 2009 by a metal detectorist in a field near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, England. Archaeologists believe the over 4,000 items, including this folded cross, had lain hidden since 700 BCE.
Stonehenge
Arguably the world's most famous prehistoric stone circle—and certainly the most architecturally sophisticated—Stonehenge has puzzled historians and archaeologists for centuries. The first known excavation at Stonehenge was undertaken in the 1620s by the Duke of Buckingham. The first real archaeological investigation of the site, however, took place in the late 1660s when the antiquary John Aubrey (1626–1697) surveyed the mysterious monument.
Varna Necropolis
Discovered by archaeologists in 1974, the Varna Necropolis in Bulgaria is internationally considered one of the key archaeological sites in world prehistory. Dubbed the wealthiest grave of the 5th millennium BCE, the numerous gold artifacts unearthed were subsequently dated back to 4560-4450 BCE, making them the oldest processed gold in the world.
You mean moslems don't dare to let the public study the Saa'na Scrolls fully. Initial findings already suggest that the Saa'na Scrolls contains verses different from today's qurans. It'll mean the total collapse of the current versions of the mohammedan teachings.
The fact that westerners have studied it and Islam still hasn't collapsed say much. Dare to let Israel release the Dead sea scrolls?
Communism and homosexuality haven't collasped either. If this is your proof of Islam, then it's refuted.
That's not proof of Islam. Read the context of the conversation.
Tombs of pyramid builders in Egypt
The pyramids of Giza rank among the greatest archaeological treasures found on Earth. It's long been speculated that they were built using slave labor. However, a 2010 discovery of ancient tombs, reported to be more than 4,000 years old, casts doubt on this assumption. Archaeologists believe the tombs belong to the workers who built the pyramids of Khufu and Khafre. As free individuals, they were given the honor of being buried within the shadow of the sacred pyramids they worked on.
Sutton Hoo
Sutton Hoo is the site of two early medieval cemeteries dating from the 6th to 7th centuries near Woodbridge, in Suffolk, England. In 1939, amateur archaeologist Basil Brown (1888–1977) discovered a spectacular funerary long ship brimming with dazzling riches, among them four complete Anglo-Saxon helmets.Similar threads
