11 Most EXCITING Archaeological Discoveries Recently Made!

Hi, it’s Katrina! From abandoned ancient construction projects to a palace from King Arthur legend, here are 11 exciting 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 11. Lake Michigan Shipwreck On Thanksgiving 2019, strong winds and large waves uncovered a mysterious shipwreck in Lake Michigan, off the Muskegon coast. Resident Kim McDaniel discovered the wreck after holiday dinner while checking out the damage from the storm surge, which saw the highest water levels since 1985 in certain areas. 10. Unfinished Obelisk In the ancient granite quarries of Aswan, Egypt sits an unfinished obelisk that would have been the largest ever created, had its creators removed it from its rocky bed and set it upright. The stone structure would have towered at an astonishing 137 feet (42 meters) tall and weighed 1,168 tons, making it much bigger than the largest surviving obelisk, located in Rome, which is 105 feet (32 meters) tall and weighs 455 tons. 9. Ancient Celtic Shield Archaeologists in the UK recently revealed their discovery of a more-than 2,000-year-old Celtic warrior’s gravesite in Pocklington, East Yorkshire. Sometime between 320 BC and 174 BC, the warrior was laid to rest in his chariot, with two upright horses leaping from it, as if transporting him into the afterlife. The grave also contains weapons, including a shield, which Dr. Melanie Giles of the University of Manchester hails as the “most important British Celtic art item of the millennium.” 8. 2,000-Year-Old Mummy Earlier this year, archaeologist Dr. Martin Bommas, who has been digging in Egypt for nearly 30 years, found a mummy purely by chance. During the filming of a documentary called “Opening Egypt’s Great Tomb” in the city of Aswan, a strong gust of wind exposed the 2,000-year-old mummy in the sand. 7. Roman-era Chicken Egg While excavating a waterlogged pit in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England between 2007 and 2016, archaeologists discovered four 1,700-year-old Roman-era chicken eggs. During the dig, three of the eggs cracked, reportedly releasing an “overpowering potent stench” (I can only imagine!). Luckily, they managed to preserve the fourth egg, making it the only complete Roman chicken egg ever discovered in Britain. 6. Civil War Hair Dye In 2015, archaeologists excavating the merchants’ area of Camp Nelson in Kentucky discovered the remains of the first-ever photography studio ever found at a Civil War site. At the 150-year-old studio site, the team found a glass cover plate, which was used in photography at the time; bottles containing photo development chemicals, small picture frames, and lots of hair dye. 5. D-Day Wall Identities While archaeology teaches us a lot about the past in an academic sense, it also sometimes yields personally meaningful discoveries and reminds us of the more emotional aspects of history. Seventy-five years ago, over 70 US soldiers etched their names into a 62-foot (19 meters) wall in Southampton, England, while waiting to head to Normandy. 4. Kutna Hora Mass Grave Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of a record-breaking mass grave containing the remains of over 1,200 people near the macabre 14th-century Cemetery Church of All Saints in the Czech Republic. Nicknamed the “bone church” and part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it’s located near Kutná Hora in the suburb of Sedlec, roughly 53 miles (85 km) east of Prague. 3. Mystery Chainmail In November of this year, archaeologists discovered a previously-unknown type of well-preserved chainmail armor at the site of Deultum, an Ancient Roman colony in Southeastern Bulgaria, near the Black Sea coast. The chainmail dates back between the fourth and sixth centuries, possibly to the Late Antiquity period, during the later years of the Roman Empire prior to its split into the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire. 2. Royal Palace of the Dark Ages Closely linked to the legend of King Arthur, this archaeological site in Tintagel, Cornwall, has uncovered the remains of a royal palace from the Dark Ages. The palace is thought to have been home to 6th century rulers of Dumnonia, an ancient south-west British kingdom! 1. Gobekli Tepe Klaus Schmidt, a German archaeologist, was looking for a new site to explore in 1994 when he came across research from 1963 by some Chicago researchers who had found some unusual stone slabs in Turkey. The site, known as Gobekli Tepe, was in southeastern Turkey near the city of Urfa. #archaeology #discoveries #originsexplained