2. 2700 year old skeletal remains of a yogi in padmasana Posture. Balathal. Mewar, India 🇮🇳

3. The Swedish warship Vasa sank in 1628 less than a mile into its maiden voyage and was recovered from the sea floor after 333 years almost completely intact. It is now housed at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm and is considered the world's best-preserved 17th-century ship.

4. 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.

5. Roman Mosaic found in a vineyard near Negrar di Valpolicella, Italy 🇮🇹

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

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

8. The world’s oldest wine bottle The Speyer wine bottle, dating back to the 4th century AD, is considered the world's oldest unopened bottle of wine. It was found in 1867 when archaeologists discovered a Roman tomb near Speyer, Germany 🇩🇪

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

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

11. In the 1970s, archaeologists in Bulgaria unearthed a vast Copper Age necropolis from the 5th millennium BCE. Inside burial 43 they found the remains of a high status male with more gold than it was found in the entire rest of the world in that period

12. 23,000-year-old human footprints uncovered in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park are one of ARCHAEOLOGY’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2021.

13. Sarcophagus from tombs of Yuya and Thuya, discovered in 1905

14. 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.

15. Several years ago, team of archaeologists excavating megalithic tomb of Montelirio tholos (Spain) found a 5000 year old dagger (8.5 in.long) formed from rock crystal. It was found along with 10 arrowheads, 4 blades and core for making weapons, all of which were rock crystal.

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

17. While hiking in the Ötztal Valley in the Alps (1991), German hikers stumbled upon a remarkably preserved mummy, later named Ötzi, which had been encased in ice for over 5,300 years

18. In 2015, the world's only intact Basilosaurus fossil, a large prehistoric whale dating back 40 million years, was discovered in Wadi El Hitan, Egypt 🇪🇬.

The 4,000-year-old skeletons of a mother shielding her child during a massive earthquake that struck China around 2000 BC, triggering floods in what is sometimes called "China’s Pompeii." These remains are now located at the Lajia Ruins Museum in northwest China 🇨🇳

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