11 Amazing Archaeological Discoveries
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05/14/2014
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Ancient gold, discovered in March 2014Gold fitting for a dagger sheath around 1900 BC. found near Stonehenge -
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Ancient forest revealed by storms. The recent huge storms and gale force winds that have battered the coast of West Wales have stripped away much of the sand from stretches of the beach between Borth and Ynyslas. The disappearing sands have revealed ancients forests, with the remains of oak trees dating back to the Bronze Age, 6,000 years ago. The ancient remains are said by some to be the origins of the legend of Cantrer Gwealod , a mythical kingdom now submerged under the waters pif Cardigan Bay -
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Diamond, discovered in March 2014This rare diamond that survived a trip from deep within the Earth's interior confirmed that there is an oceans worth of water beneath the planets crust -
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Byzantine mosaic, discovered in February 2007Plans for a walkway at the centre of the furious dispute over Jerusalem's holiest site were delayed by the discovery of a Byzantine mosaic -
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Neolithic 'lost avenue' - prehistoric stone circle, discovered in September 1999The discovery of a Neolithic 'lost avenue' was described as one of the most important finds of the last century. Since the 1700s, archeologists and historians have argued over the existence of the huge sarsen stones, which were unearthed at the site of the world's biggest prehistoric stone circle at Avebury in Wiltshire -
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The Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered ca. 1950The Dead Sea Scrolls are almost 1,000 biblical manuscripts discovered in the decade after the Second World War in what is now the West Bank. The texts, mostly written on parchment but also on papyrus and bronze, are the earliest surviving copies of biblical and extra-biblical documents known to be in existence, dating over a 700-year period around the birth of Jesus. The ancient Jewish sect the Essenes is supposed to have authored the scrolls, written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, although no conclusive proof has been found to this effect -
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Rosetta Stone, discovered in 1799The Rosetta Stone is a basalt slab inscribed with a decree of pharaoh Ptolemy Epiphanes 205-180 BC in three languages, Greek, Hieroglyphic and Demotic script. Discovered near Rosetta in Egypt -
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Million-year-old human footprints, discovered in February 2014Photograph of the footprint hollows in situ on the beach as Happisburgh, Norfolk -
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Terracotta warrior, discovered in June 2010Chinese archaeologists unearthed around 120 more clay figures in June 2010 excavations at the terracotta army site that surrounds the tomb of the nation's first emperor in the northwestern Shaanxi Province -
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Complete mammoth skeleton, discovered in November 2012The first complete mammoth skeleton to be found in France for more than a century was uncovered in a gravel pit on the banks of the Marne, 30 miles north-east of Paris. Picture shows experts at work making a silicon cast of the mammoth's tusk -
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Whale skeletons, discovered in February 2014Chilean and Smithsonian paleontologists study several fossil whale skeletons at Cerro Ballena, next to the Pan-American Highway in the Atacama Region of Chile
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