12 Most incredible Recent Artifacts Finds

when an amazing archaeological discovery happens we like to know about it we pride ourselves on bringing you all the latest and greatest archaeological discoveries on this channel and this video is no exception we've seen some truly stunning objects and artifacts come to light in the recent past with amazing stories to be told and beautiful sights to see let's get straight into it not all archaeological discoveries have to be made of gold or silver in order to be valuable sometimes you can find great value in the most humble of objects this chocolate bar for example it was found inside oxberg hall stately home in norfolk england in may 2021 and is a 121 year old relic of the boer war the chocolate bar is so well preserved that it still has its original wrapper and 10 and has been protected from the passing of the years by virtue of the fact that it was hidden inside a helmet case in the attic of the mansion the confectionary was given to sir henry edward paston bettingfield in 1902 as he returned home from serving in the king's liverpool regiment in the second boer war bars like this were given out to british troops ostensibly by queen victoria as a way to improve morale among british soldiers as they were stationed in south africa during the turn of the century sir henry kept his chocolate untouched inside the ten but sadly it's now inedible even despite its excellent state of preservation [Music] it would be easy to overlook the importance and significance of this tiny little stick if you walk past it in the street it looks like an old scrap of broken wood to the untrained eye look a little closer though and you'll notice that its entire surface is covered in ancient runes that's why it's called a rune stick the fragile artifact dates back to the early 13th century and was recently found during an exploratory archaeological dig in odin's denmark it was broken into three pieces when the research team first found it but the pieces slotted together perfectly to make the stick time hasn't been kind to this 800 year old relic there's a chunk missing and the runes have faded so badly that it hasn't yet been possible to decipher the message in full the words tome his servant and good health have been picked out in latin but there are other pieces of indecipherable text that might make sense of the whole piece it might not look much like the kind of accessory you'd consider wearing today but it was likely worn for religious reasons as either a talisman or an amulet [Music] around 2000 years ago in isernia italy a roman emperor figuratively lost his head in early may 2021 it was finally rediscovered rather than being a literal case of decapitation this is the head of what was once a statue of augustus the first emperor of rome the badly weathered marble visage was found by local archaeologists francesco giancola who was in the process of performing restorative works to a medieval arrow wall that had recently collapsed during a storm when he made his precious discovery according to francesco it was probably made during the very early years of the first century he has no idea how it came to be at the location it was found at he thinks there might once have been a forum in the area but has no proof of that his second guess is that there was once a temple here devoted to the cult of the imperial family but he's got no proof of that either it's a complete mystery but a very interesting one all the same based on the size of the head the statue it was once attached to would have been around six feet and seven inches tall there's no sign of the body in the surrounding area which might mean that the head was broken off and brought here on purpose what an odd thing to do technically speaking our next artifact isn't a recent discovery in fact it was found in 1994 we're still counting it as a recent discovery though because it was in such a delicate state when it was found that archaeologists weren't able to recover it until 2019 this is an arca ferrata an object that can be best described as an ancient roman safe the storage vessel was trapped inside the ruins of the casa del matrejo roman villa when it burned down in the 4th century the fire destroyed the villa but the thick layers of ash that it generated protected the safe for more than sixteen hundred years you might not think that it would be much use as a safe on account of the fact that it's made of wood don't let that fool you you could try to break into the arc of ferrata if you wanted to but you'd be at risk of being punctured by one of the iron spikes that's secreted inside it as a booby trap discoveries like this one are exceptionally rare so much so that this is only the fourth complete arca ferrata that's ever been found [Music] speaking of ancient roman artifacts check out this tiny sundial it's from the roman dhammas in piazza del miracoli in pisa and is thought to have been unearthed during archaeological excavations there in the mid-1980s unfortunately it was mislabeled after being found and spent more than 25 years unnoticed in a storage box on a university shelf before a student finally recognized it in april 2021 the sundial is made of ivory and was likely crafted around 2200 years ago by someone with incredible skill it's barely two inches tall or wide and yet the time grid that's etched into its surface is so accurate that it's still possible to use it to measure time today it's only the second ivory sundial ever to be found and the only other example was discovered in tannis in the egyptian delta the size of the artifact seems to confirm that this was designed to be a portable object which would make it an early ancestor of the pocket watch such items would have been rare all that time ago so it's likely that its owner was someone of high status and considerable means in ancient times soldiers were often laid to rest with their swords by their sides but the swords were often bent or folded historians have never been sure about the significance of this act some believe it's a symbolic representation of the soldier's defeat whereas others feel it's a sign that a warrior has fought his last battle here's a striking example of the practice that was recently found in a warrior's grave in greece the fact that the grave is part of an early christian church is unusual because the act of sword folding is normally associated with pagan societies it might indicate that the soldier was a mercenary who adopted the beliefs and customs of rome but never parted from his pagan roots that could mean that he was a romanized goth or perhaps a member of a germanic tribe drafted into the imperial roman army both the grave and the iron weapon are around 1600 years old this is a very recent discovery so the sword is still covered by a thick layer of rust but experts are hopeful that they might be able to remove the rust and find out whether there's anything inscribed on the blade that might tell us more about its owner [Music] parts of these scottish shetland islands were once occupied by vikings the locals are well aware of their viking history but they got a fresh reminder of it when a trio of ancient viking artifacts was found by children playing in the historic parish of sandwick in april 2021 the objects in question are cross-headed pins each one of which is finished in a different manner the most elaborate of them is distinctive because of the cross that's carved at one end pens like this were used to keep cloaks or clothing in place while archaeologists are 100 positive that two of the artifacts are pins they're keeping an open mind about the possibility that the third might have been a bone needle elsewhere in sandwich a young girl found a broken piece of a viking lamp at almost the exact same time it's like a prankster's been running around sandwich under cover of darkness leaving viking artifacts in their wake local experts currently think that the objects might have been placed at either end of a viking longhouse so their next job is to dig for evidence that might support that theory moving from scotland to england an amazing artifact was recently found during road works in the green gates crossroads area of bradford it's a large metal crown plaque that was dug up in may 2021 and archaeologists are already excitedly arguing about who it may once have belonged to a pub once stood for hundreds of years on the spot where the crowd was found but this object almost certainly predates the former drinking establishment one theory put forward by local archaeologist michael fraser is that it might have come from a toll bar that was situated at the crossroads to collect taxes levied on goods for the english crown it's georgian at the latest which would date to the early 19th century but in all likelihood it's probably considerably older than that after experts finish studying and assessing it it's likely to go on display inside a museum in the area although it will need a little cleaning up before that happens the company responsible for the roadworks has agreed to help out with that by sandblasting it to get off the worst of the decay our next artifact might be one of the strangest and most disturbing that we've ever featured on our channel it's a shrunken head that was used as a prop in the 1979 movie wise blood after its movie appearance it went on display at mercer university in georgia usa that lasted until early 2021 when one of the university staff decided to have the realistic-looking prop tested that's when they discovered much to their horror that it wasn't a prop at all this is a real human head known as a tonsa many fake tonses were manufactured to satisfy a macabre western obsession with them during the 1800s but this wasn't one of them it now appears that it was collected by biologist jim harrison while traveling through ecuador in 1942 who then went on to loan it to the movie production without telling them what they were really dealing with the university quickly decided that it no longer wanted to have the head on public display and sent it to the ecuadorian consulate in atlanta to have it returned to ecuador archaeologists in kazakhstan recently got the equivalent of a two-for-one deal when they worked at a site in areol they found a two layered tomb and the two layers were built and used more than one thousand years apart the upper layer of the tomb dates back to the time of the pension eggs who lived in the region during the 11th and 12th centuries those upper layer finds were interesting but unremarkable however in the lower layer the experts found relics dating back to the area of the sarmatians some 2200 years ago the creation of the tomb atop the lower layer has helped to preserve it keeping the multiple golden artifacts household objects and even a few items of clothing protected for the research team to find there are some signs that the grave may have been looted at some point in the very distant past but not to such an extent that everything of value had been taken it's even possible that whoever built the upper layer stole a few keepsakes from the lower one these gold plates are among the most outstanding recoveries from the tomb looking at them it's hard to believe they're more than 2 000 years old [Music] there's something amiss about this ancient oil lamp to be more specific it's missing half of its face archaeologists have never seen anything like this before it was recovered from the city of david national park in jerusalem in may 2021 and is still undergoing extensive study early indications are that it's around 2000 years old the fact that the representation of a human face has been cut so cleanly in half might mean that the flat side of the object was once affixed to a wall but that's only a guess it was probably but not definitely placed into the foundations of a new temple during the mid-first century which would make it a relic of the region's roman period the acanthus plant-like shape of the handle is a typical roman motif which all but confirms that finding the temple that once stood here wasn't built far from siloam pool which would have been the most important source of water in jerusalem at the time that might explain why special blessings and offerings were made for the temple but it still doesn't explain why we're only dealing with half a face rather than a full one [Music] is this the oldest woven basket in the world we'll save you any of the guesswork that you might have been about to begin and answer the question for you yes it is the basket was found inside israel's maraba at cave toward the beginning of 2021 and is estimated to be 10 500 years old that makes it comfortably the world's oldest basket and identifies it as a reminder of the ancient origins of the art of basket weaving a pastime that's still practiced today by millions of people all over the world the favorable conditions deep inside the cave have preserved the basket for all that time it was in such good condition when it was found that even the lid was still perfectly attached there was nothing inside the basket when archaeologists opened it up that's okay the basket is a remarkable find even if it's empty to give the fine some context at around the same time the basket was made the world's first ever town was in the early stages of being established at jericho in levant it comes from the very beginnings of structured human civilization as we understand it which makes it a truly breathtaking find 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: Wed Jun 09 2021