Vertigo_Warrior

Crazy discoveries from the Past ~ A Thread 🧵

1. A massive 7.5 ft (2.3 m) long sword discovered at Tomio-Maruyama Mound. Japan, Kofun period, 4th cen AD 

2. 2700 year old skeletal remains of a yogi in padmasana Posture.

Balathal. Mewar, India 🇮🇳 

3. 23,000-year-old human footprints uncovered in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park 

4. The largest Shiv-Lingam in South East Asia. The site was accidentally discovered in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 1985. 

5. A 3,000-year-old perfectly preserved sword 

6. In 1940, Marcel Ravidat, 18, stumbled upon the Lascaux Cave in France after his dog found a hidden entrance. 

7. In 2011, a worker at a Canadian mine discovered an almost perfectly preserved 110-million-year-old nodosaur.

Scientists consider this the best-preserved dinosaur ever found, with its skin, armor, and internal organs remarkably intact. 

8. This tiled floor dates back to 2600BC and was discovered in 1969 during excavation at Kalibangan, India along the banks of now extinct Saraswati river. It belongs to the Indus Valley civilisation. This tile design is still  used in the Indian Subcontinent. 

9.  Predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years, Göbekli Tepe has revolutionized archaeologists' understanding of early civilization.

Discovered in Turkey in 1963, it features massive stone pillars that are among the world's oldest known megaliths. 

Under 5% of the site is excavated. 

10. An array of frescoes newly unearthed in Pompeii 

11. Drainage system of Indus Valley civilization at Lothal Gujarat , India . This drainage system and pipes date back to 2500 BC 

12. This 2,400 year - old skeleton mosaic discovered in Turkey says: " Be cheerful, enjoy your life" 

13. This Roman mosaic discovered -made that it Antakya , Turkey , was so well made that it maintained the wave effect of an earthquake without breaking the pattern. 

14. The excavation of the Ancient Greek stadium of Magnesia on the Maeander located in modern day Turkey 

15. A stunning around 2000 year old Roman Mosaic on the bank of the River Euphrates ,Turkey 

16. In 2008 , archaeologists discovered a 2000 -year - old Thracian chariot with horse skeletons in Bulgaria 

17. A 2000-year-old Roman blue glass bowl was unearthed in immaculate condition at an archaeological dig in Nijmegen in 2021. 

18. In 2020, archaeologists in Pompeii, the city buried in a volcanic eruption in 79 AD, made the extraordinary find of a frescoed hot food and drinks shop, offering the ancient equivalent of street food. 

19. A "Beware of Dog" sign from 2,000 years ago. This mosaic was found at the entrance to the house of a Roman poet in Pompeii, Italy.

The Latin phrase "Cave Canem" means beware of the dog. 

20. Ammonite fossil preserved in iron pyrite.



21. The Antikythera Mechanism, discovered in a 2,000-year-old shipwreck in 1901, is known as history's first analogue computer.

It predicted astronomical positions and eclipses, puzzling researchers about its origin and the millennium-long disappearance of the technology. 

22. In 2021, archaeologists unearthed the statue head of Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, during excavations in the ancient city of Aizanoi, Turkey. 

23. A 4000 years old painted pottery from Indus Valley Civilization -

The Indus Valley Civilisation was a Bronze Age civilisation in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300-1300 BC, and in its mature form from 2600-1900 BC. 