Dive into an intriguing compilation of two dozen incredible discoveries that have reshaped our understanding of history through archaeology.
“Executioner’s Sword With An Inscription That Reads “When I Raise This Sword, So I Wish That This Poor Sinner Will Receive Eternal Life”. Germany, Late 17th Century”
“A Gallic Bronze Helmet In The Shape Of A Swan, Found By Archeologists In Tintignac, France, In 2004 (4th-2nd Century BCE)”
“17th Century Boots, Certamen Equestre”
“Incredible Rare Roman Statues Found In HS2 Rail Construction Dig”
“A 1,700-Year-Old Roman-Era “Good Shepard” Gold Ring Bearing An Engraving Of A Boy Holding A Sheep On His Shoulders, An Image Used By Early Christians To Symbolise Jesus”
“This Archaeological Wall Of Engravings I Found While Hiking”
“Mosaics Of A Roman Villa Were Found Under A Vineyard In Negrar, Italy”
“Medieval Gold Ring I Just Found”
“An Ancient Clay Tablet Found In Uruk (Warka), Southern Iraq”
“My Buddy Threw His Detector Down And Started This Wild And Crazy Dance. I Asked Him What He Found, But He Couldn’t Speak. He Had To Point To It”
“Back In 2014, The Secrets Of The Ice Program Found An Exceptional Pre-Viking Ski, 1300 Years Old, At The Digervarden Ice Patch In Norway”
“I Found This Elizabeth I Penny While Metal Detecting Yesterday. It’s Only 14 Mm In Diameter”
“Archaeologists In Alexandria, Egypt Discovered A Tunnel That May Lead To The Long-Lost Tomb Of Cleopatra”
“This German-Made 12th Century Blade, Adorned In Sweden, Was Discovered In 1975 Buried Under A Tree In Siberia, Russia”
“A Gold Bar With Mint Marks, Recovered From The Spanish Treasure Ship “Atocha” Which Sank In 1622″
“First-Time Metal Detecting. Found An Over 100-Year-Old Time Capsule”
“At The Penn Museum Excavations At Nimrud, Iraq, Archaeologists Uncovered A Door Threshold Of The Assyrian King Adad-Nerari III (811-783 BCE) With A Well-Preserved Cuneiform Inscription”
“British Archaeologist Leonard Woolley And His Wife Catherine At The Moment Of The Discovery Of Pottery Pipes”
“The Earliest Swords So Far Known In The World, Found At Arslantepe Mound In Turkey”
“Some Things I Found While Metal Detecting The Mountains Of Vermont”
“Highlights include a musket part, a pair of 1700’s shoe buckle frames, and a 1806 Spanish silver half-reales!”
“The Horned Helm Of Henry VIII. Commissioned In 1511 As Part Of A Suit Of Armor That Was Gifted To King Henry VIII By The Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I”
“The Mask Of Agamemnon Found In Tomb V In Mycenae By Heinrich Schliemann In 1876”
“500-Year-Old Vistula Punt Found In A Pond In Czersk, Poland In 2009”
“I Found This Arrowhead While Digging A Hole In My Backyard”