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10 Most Bizarre Recent Artifacts Discoveries

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From metal wolf collars to creepy ancient masks, here are 10 of the most bizarre archaeological artifact discoveries. Follow us on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/katrinaexplained/ Subscribe For New Videos! http://goo.gl/UIzLeB Check out these videos you might like: Unbelievable Animals SAVING Other Animals! 🐯https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxehUWvMr38 LARGEST Animals Ever Discovered! 🐙https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yj7F_tPYsU Wild Animals That SAVED Human Lives! 🐻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mllqeVSsIl0 10. Medieval Dog Collar Dogs have been our best friends for thousands of years!! They have been with us through thick and thin as companions, guards, hunters, messengers, even soldiers. 9. Smashed Ancient Beer Mugs Around 1050 A.D. in what is now Peru, a mountaintop colonial outpost called Cerro Baúl held its final party as the Wari empire collapsed. To mark the occasion, the attending elites trashed the site. First, they destroyed the temple and brewery. 8. Metal Hand In late 2018, Swiss archaeologists announced the discovery of a 3,500-year-old metal hand inside a Bronze Age burial, making it the earliest metal body part ever found in Europe. 7. Tollense Artifacts Around 1200 B.C., hundreds of soldiers fought at what’s considered Europe’s oldest battlefield along the Tollense River in northern Germany. Archaeologists have been excavating the site for over two decades in search of evidence indicating what may have caused the battle, and who the adversaries even were in the first place. 6. Creepy Neolithic Masks Over the years, archaeologists have uncovered 16 Neolithic stone masks dating back roughly 9,000 years. The most recently found mask was recovered in 2018 by the Israel Antiquities Authority’s (IAA) Theft Prevention Unit, and according to National Geographic, it reignited past conversations regarding the authenticity of these artifacts. 5. Potted Corpses While building a new baseball stadium in Nicaragua’s capital city in 2017, construction workers discovered a rare array of 1,000-year-old artifacts that were undisturbed by Spanish conquistadors. 4. Mysterious Bronze Disk In late 2017, Greece’s Division of Underwater Antiquities announced the discovery of numerous new artifacts in a world-famous shipwreck off the island of Antikythera, where the famous Antikythera mechanism was found back in 1901. 3. Temple Complex Of Brodgar The Ness of Brodgar in Scotland, is one of the most impressive archaeological sites that many people don’t know about. Located in the Orkney Islands, the site is marked by giant monoliths, the remnants of Neolithic villages, stone mounds called cairns, and a stone circle, or henge, known as the Ring of Brodgar. 2. A Cryptic Religion Lake Titicaca straddles the border between Peru and Bolivia high in the Andes Mountains, where it sits at an elevation of 12,507 feet (3,812 meters). In 2013, underwater archaeologists recovered a mysterious cache of valuable artifacts from the bottom of the lake, including incense burners, semiprecious stones, ornaments, and gold objects. 1. Codex Washingtonianus The world’s third-oldest Bible, known as the Codex Washingtonianus, contains exclusive content not seen in other copies, offering rare insight into the history of the First Testament and how early Christians viewed the Gospels. #ancientdiscoveries #mysteriousdiscoveries #strangeartifacts #originsexplained

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