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ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS

Added on: 4th Jun 2015

 

THE GRAUBALLE MAN

Grauballe man

It’s not a strange occurrence for mummified bodies to be found in bogs

but this body, now known as the Grauballe Man, is a bit unique. Not only

is he amazingly well preserved with his hair and fingernails still intact,

it is possible to reconstruct his demise from the information found on

and around his body. Judging from a large wound wrapping around his

neck from ear to ear it seems he was sacrificed, probably in an

attempt to turn a better harvest.

 

 

DESERT KITES

Desert Kites

Since being discovered by pilots at the turn of the 20th century a series

of low stone walls in the Negev desert of Israel had puzzled scientists for

years. The walls could be up to 40 miles long in some places and were

nicknamed “kites” as a result of their appearance from the air. Recently,

however, it was determined that the walls were actually used by hunters to

funnel large animals into pens or off of cliffs where they could easily be

slaughtered en masse.

 

 

ANCIENT TROY

Troy

Troy is a city well-known to both history and legend (as well as

archaeology) and was situated in northwest Anatolia in what is now Turkey.

In 1865, English archaeologist Frank Calvert excavated trenches in a field

bought from a local farmer at Hisarlęk, and in 1868, Heinrich Schliemann,

a wealthy German businessman and archaeologist, also began excavating

in the area after a chance meeting with Calvert in Çanakkale and what they

found has been generally been agreed upon to be this ancient city.

 

 

 

ACAMBARO FIGURES

Acambaro Figures

Although most of the scientific community has now agreed that these

figures were part of an elaborate hoax, their discovery at first created a

bit of a stir. Found in the ground near Acambaro, Mexico were hundreds

of little figures resembling both humans and dinosaurs which for a little

while led some to believe that the ancients were better archaeologists

than previously thought.

 

 

ANTIKYTHERA MECHANISM

Antikythera mechanism

Discovered in a shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera around the

turn of the 20th century. This 2000 year old device has often been touted

as the world’s first scientific calculator. With dozens of gears it can

precisely measure the position of the sun, moon, and planets simply by

inputting a date. Although there is debate over its exact use it certainly

shows that even 2000 years ago civilization was already accomplishing

amazingly advanced feats of mechanical engineering.

 

 

RAPA NUI

Easter Island (Rapa Nui)

Popularly known as Easter Island, this is one of the most isolated places

In the world, thousands of miles off of the Chilean coast in the South Pacific.

The most baffling thing about the island, however, isn’t the fact that humans

even managed to find and settle it but that they then proceeded to construct

enormous stone heads around the island.

 

 

THE TOMB OF SUNKEN SKULLS

Tomb of the Sunken Skulls

While excavating a dry lake bed in Motala, Sweden archaeologists came

across several skulls that had stakes driven directly through their craniums.

As if that weren’t bad enough one of the skulls even had pieces of the

other skulls crammed up inside it. Whatever happened there 8,000

years ago wasn’t pretty.

 

 

PIRI REIS MAP

Piri Reis Map

Dating to the early 1500s this map shows the coastlines of South America,

Europe, and Africa with amazing precision. Apparently it was constructed

by general and cartographer Piri Reis (hence the name) from the

fragments of dozens of others.

 


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