12 Most Incredible Recent Archaeological Finds

in the field of archaeology what's old is always new every time something old is found it provides us with new information about our own history our ancient ancestors aren't around to tell us how they lived so we have to learn about them from the objects and places they left behind it's a never-ending quest that makes more progress every day and in this video we're going to check out some of the most compelling recent discoveries while it's generally accepted that homo sapiens came from africa the same isn't said of neanderthals in fact it's always been commonly believed that the human-like species never made it to africa at all until now in february 2021 archaeologists re-examined the fossilized tooth of a nine-year-old child that was discovered in shukla cave close to jerusalem in the 1920s to their amazement they found that it was neanderthal rather than homo sapien that's far further south than we've ever found evidence of neanderthals before and if they made it that far it's conceivable that they could have gone a little further and made it all the way to the african continent the tooth had been mislabeled in a collection in a natural history museum in england for almost a century before the truth came to light as the tooth is neanderthal it stands to reason that the stone tools found with it are neanderthal in origin too that's further evidence that the neanderthals were considerably more advanced and well-traveled than the historians of the past have given them credit for ancient discoveries are made in egypt all the time but they're usually made in the desert beneath the sand or within tombs at well-established archaeological dig sites it's far less common to find a priceless egyptian relic underneath a typical egyptian family home and yet that's where this cost statue of king ramesses ii turned up in december 2019 it was found as a 62 year old man dug up his garden in mit ranina close to the ancient city of memphis he wanted to solve a drainage problem but found the statue among other ancient blocks of stone immersed in the groundwater it's thought that they're part of what was once a temple tuta who was the patron deity of memphis it's not yet been possible to estimate the age of the sculpture but this is only the second cost statue of a pharaoh ever to be discovered in egypt aka is supposed to represent the life force of a deceased individual therefore symbolically keeping them alive long after they've died in this case it appears that king ramesses has spent a lot of his time swimming under a house [Music] long before the first railways existed in the united kingdom there were wagon waves where horses pulled carts along tracks to take goods and people from one place to another among the first of them was the tranic cockenzy wagon way track laid in 1722 with wooden rails for wooden wagons with wooden wheels an iron railway came along to replace it in 1815 after which the tranic kenzie line was covered over and forgotten in december 2019 it saw the light again for the first time in more than 200 years the excavation work was carried out by a local group of railroad enthusiasts who hoped to locate the timbers used to lay the railway they were successful in their attempt which was hailed as one of the top five archaeological discoveries in the country that year very little archaeological work has been done when it comes to wagon ways which has led to a shortage of information about how they were built and what kind of technologies they used even though its comparatively recent history having found this short stretch of track the group now intends to excavate a much longer stretch of the track during 2021. [Music] when you build a settlement close to the water's edge there's always the risk that it'll end up under water one day when that happens it might take centuries for anyone to find it again someone eventually will though like the russian divers who found an ancient forgotten roman port off the coast of syria in january 2021. the long-lost town thought to be a port city was located close to tardis by a team from the sevastopol state university archaeological evidence recovered from the scene so far indicates that it was built during the first century and even had a lighthouse the ruins probably belonged to the former island of arvid which is known to have been first settled by the phoenicians more than 3 500 years ago the question of how it later came to find itself entirely underwater hasn't been answered yet but that's something for the academics to work on for now the focus is on getting as much material back to the surface as possible so far that's involved a lot of collecting roman and greek amphorae and tools along with other household items but it should be possible to pick up some of the larger relics with a little careful planning finding archaeological evidence that supports the historical accounts of the bible is a common cause for archaeologists in and around jerusalem they had cause to celebrate in april 2019 when a bulla seal believed to have once belonged to a royal courier named in the holy text was discovered there the artifact is said to date back to the siege of jerusalem by the babylonians in the year 586 bce which was an attempt to destroy the first temple not everything was destroyed in the siege this tiny printed seal survived the carnage and then waited for over 2 500 years to be found again in more recent times it's been buried under a parking lot the inscription on the seal reads belonging to nathan malek servant of the king king josiah had a servant named nathan melek who's named in the bible at two kings 2311 and would have lived at the right time for this to be his seal while it's always possible that there was more than one nathan mellick around that time the odds that two people of the same name should be prominent royal servants at the same time are fairly long add to that the fact that this was found in what appears to be the ruins of a finely constructed building with polished marble floors and you're probably looking at a genuine artifact modern teeth especially american teeth tend to be brighter whiter and shinier now than at any point in human history which could lead you to believe that dental sciences come a long way in the past two or three decades that might not necessarily be the case here's some shocking evidence that dennis provided cosmetic treatments like implanting jewels and teeth and creating golden dental bridges 14 000 years ago this unlikely phenomenon was identified by stefano benazi from italy's university of balogna in 2018 after studying the exceptionally well preserved remains of a young man from the late upper paleolithic era the precise location of the skeleton's discovery is unknown but it's known to come from the north of the country scanning electron microscopy revealed deliberate chipping and cut marks on the teeth probably caused by flint tools in an attempt to treat a cavity the same archaeologists made another striking discovery a year earlier when he identified the world's oldest fillings in a set of thirteen thousand year old front teeth from elsewhere in italy we know that bejeweled dental implants were all the rage in the kingdom of the maya sixteen hundred years ago but the italians appear to have started far earlier [Applause] there's a bar in seville spain that locals and tourists have been drinking in for decades unaware that a 12th century bathhouse was hidden right beneath their feet the bar named serviceria geralda has been trading since 1923. and so has a long history of its own but it's only been trading for the blink of an eye compared to the age of what lays beneath it the surprising discovery was announced in february 2021 the bar's current owner noticed that the unusual vaulted ceilings of the cellar resembled those of a traditional bath house so he called archaeologists in to investigate fernando amoris of the university of seville took up the challenge and after a little exploratory digging he found traces of 12th century geometric paintings on the walls along with the remains of skylights those skylight windows take the shape of eight pointed stars which is consistent with the design of hamam's as we know that seville was part of the muslim al-muhad caliphate during the 12th century that helps to confirm the rough date the bar isn't far from the location of the city's oldest mosque so this might have been a place for people to come and relax before or after worship it's a common tradition for soldiers serving on the front line to send love letters to their partners back home and that tradition goes back thousands of years we can see it here on this humble wooden utensil which was recovered from the ruins of an old courier station in the chinese city of dan huang the chinese character for love is carved into the lid of the artifact with symbols referring to loyalty carved down to the sides it's thought that the carvings were made by a frontier officer serving in battle during the days of the han dynasty perhaps as long as 2200 years ago most people in china were illiterate back then so the person who made these carvings was probably an educated officer he was probably entrusted with guarding this former station which is positioned on the silk road a long way from the heartlands of this dynasty and presumably his family and friends most written communications issued back then were etched onto bamboo slips so whoever went to the trouble to make this was clearly feeling an intensity of emotion while we're talking about china we should mention that some of the secrets of its ancient water supply were discovered in january 2021. archaeologists working in the country's hinan province have unearthed the remains of a water system that dates back 3 600 years to the time of the shang dynasty it's surprising that it's taken so long for the pipes moat and river courses to be discovered they've been hiding in plain sight in the ruins of the city of yancey which was first found by archaeologists in 1983. the fact that the city was built in three layers over several centuries has complicated the work of the experts though so progress at the site is slow based on what they found thus far they believe the water system was split into two an internal system for drainage and an external system featuring the moat the two systems were carefully connected allowing for drainage to take place and also providing a way to landscape the palace with more than twelve thousand square feet of water and would also probably have smelled awful that last chinese discovery was interesting but this next one could rewrite the history of the whole region as of may 2020 archaeologists believe they found a large ancient settlement in zhengzhou that was built 5300 years ago that would make it the earliest known city-like settlement in china and force experts to think again about when chinese civilization began the site known as shuang hauishi was already known to archaeologists and was already considered to be an important area of focus in terms of understanding the origins of modern china it's just that nobody suggested that the history of the area stretches back so far in time before the evidence to support the amazing claim includes layered ring trenches city walls and over 1700 tombs carefully arranged into blocks suggesting sophisticated city planning there are also the remains of what appear to be three sacrificial platforms positioned in the middle of a residential area which again indicates that construction work was carefully planned with thought given to location and function while there might have been civilizations in places like liangshu before this the civilization that began in shanghaishi all those years ago still continues to this day giving the region the right to call itself the birthplace of modern china long before people learned to play and love the game of chess they played a viking-inspired game called nefariful or games based on it while nobody knows the precise rules of this ancient board game evidence of its popularity exists all over europe here's a particularly striking nefariful piece that was found on the english island of lindisfarne in july 2020 there was once a large medieval monastery on the island but the monastery was stormed and occupied by viking raiders in the year 793 during the first stages of the viking invasion of britain they presumably brought their favorite board games along with them as the piece is made of a heavily decorated piece of blue glass it's likely that this was the kingpiece of which the game had only one we know the game eventually spread to the rest of britain because pieces made from either bone or wood have been found in a variety of locations but glass pieces are extremely rare in fact this is only the second example of a glass nefariful piece ever to be found there [Music] we wonder whether the person who invented trousers had any idea they'd come up with a fashion standard that would last for thousands of years having asked ourselves that question we also wonder whether the person came from china it's possible because that's where this surprisingly stylish pair of ancient trousers was found inside a previously undisturbed tomb in april 2019 the tomb set within the yangai graveyard not far from terreme basin is believed to be 3000 years old that makes these trousers worn by its occupant the oldest known pair in the world while trouser-like garments of greater age have been found elsewhere they tend to be made of individual leggings with an additional covering piece for the most sensitive parts of the anatomy these trousers are a single garment and were probably invented to make horse riding a little more comfortable the brown woolen cloth fabric that the trousers are made from is a little worn and tattered but if somebody decided to copy this design and market it they'd probably find that there were plenty of buyers we could see someone strutting their way down a catwalk in them subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications and you will be the first to know when a new video comes out thank you for watching and see you in the next video

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Published: Tue Mar 16 2021