10 Mind-blowing Recent Archaeological Discoveries!

From a lost stonehenge in Spain to strange spheres, here are 10 mindblowing recent archaeological 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. Oldest-Ever Viking Dwelling Earlier this year, experts revealed the existence of two Viking Age longhouses in eastern Iceland - or, what’s left of them, rather. One predates the previous earliest known human arrivals to the region by over 70 years. They were accidentally discovered in 2003, but they were not excavated until 2015. 9. A Shipwreck Frozen In Time British explorer and naval officer Sir John Franklin took two ships on an ill-fated 1845 expedition to find the Northwest Passage, a sea route above North America that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The HMS Terror and the HMS Erebus and his 133-man crew vanished without a trace, and over 100 subsequent search missions failed to find any evidence of them. But finally in2014 and 2016, the missing ships were found! 8. 4,400 Year-Old-Tomb In late 2018, a team of Egyptian archaeologists discovered the tomb of a priest at Saqqara, a necropolis west of modern-day Cairo. The high-status burial is estimated to be 4,400 years old, and it was amazingly found untouched by looters or anyone else. 7. Spanish Stonehenge Nicknamed the “Spanish Stonehenge,” the Dolmen of Guadalperal, is a prehistoric circular arrangement of 140 boulders, some standing nearly 6-and-a-half feet (2 meters) tall! 6. 400-Year-Old Shipwreck In September 2018, archaeologists found what they called the “discovery of a decade” and “the most important find of all time” for Portugal: an astonishingly intact 400-year-old whipwreck off the coast of Cascais, near Lisbon. The vessel, which sank sometime between 1575 and 1625, during the height of Portugal’s spice trade with Asia, was likely returning from India when catastrophe struck. 5. Paisley Abbey Tunnel Mystery Solved Throughout the summer of 2019, a team of archaeologists worked to finish excavating a 14th-century tunnel known as the Abbey Drain, which is located near a former monastery in Paisley, Scotland. Experts have known about the well-preserved tunnel for hundreds of years, but until they fully explored it, they only knew where it started -- not where it ended. 4. Neolithic “Woodhenge” We have a stonehenge and now we have a woodhenge!! Earlier this year, researchers announced the discovery of a wooden neolithic structure in south-central Portugal’s Évora district, at the prehistoric site of Perdigões. Measuring over 60 feet (18.3 meters) in diameter, the monument is located within a series of ditch enclosures. In an interview with The Portugal News, archaeologist António Valera explained: “A possible access to the interior of this structure is oriented toward the summer solstice, reinforcing its cosmological character.” 3. Artificial Neolithic Islands A study released last year found that Neolithic people created hundreds of artificial islands, called crannogs, off the Scottish coast around 5,600 years ago. Researchers, some of whom published their findings in the journal Antiquity, had known about the crannogs for decades. 2. Massive Structure ‘Hidden In Plain Sight’ In mid-2016, thanks to satellite and drone technology, researchers found a massive structure buried in the sands of the world-famous Petra ruins in Jordan. Roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool, the building was found literally “hidden in plain sight just south of the city center, and archaeologists have missed this for 150, 200 years,” said researcher Sarah Parcak of the University of Alabama, Birmingham. 1. Golden Cannonball Fossil While out on one of his regularly scheduled fossil hunting missions with his father in early 2019 along Sandsend Beach in Whitby, England, a medical student named Aaron Smith discovered a large, shiny rock resembling a cannonball. #recentdiscoveries #archaeologicaldiscoveries #mysteriousdiscoveries #originsexplained