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Today we look at 10 mind blowing archaeological finds, you won’t believe were found on Earth. 10. The unfinished obelisk
The unfinished obelisk in Aswan, Egypt, is the largest ancient obelisk known to man. It’s nearly one third larger than, any ancient Egyptian obelisk ever erected, measuring in at a staggering 138 feet, and weighing nearly 1,200 tons! The creators of the obelisk, began to carve it directly out of bedrock, but cracks appeared in the granite, and the project was abandoned.
9.Ancient troy
For centuries, Troy and the Trojan war was thought to be the stuff of legend and fantasy rather than an actual civilization. That was until archaeologist and businessman Heinrich Schliemann started digging on a site in Hisarlik, Turkey in 1868, and Troy was finally rediscovered. The ancient civilization dated back to 3000 BC.
8.The Venetian vampire
The creepy skull of a 16th century plague victim was discovered from a Venetian Island, in a mass grave with her jaw forced open by a brick. This is an exorcism technique used on suspected vampires in Europe at the time. The skull was the first of its kind, that vampires were behind the spread of plagues like the Black Death.
7.The screaming mummy
In 1886, historians discovered a mummy that was more terrifying than all the rest. The great Egyptian pharaohs lay the body of a young man, his face locked in an eternal blood-curdling scream, in a plain undecorated coffin. To this day, no one is quite sure who the man is.
6.Mount owen moa
Nearly three decades ago, archaeologists discovered an enormous, dinosaur-like claw, still intact with flesh and scaly skin, in a cave in New Zealand. The mysterious claw was found to be the 3,300-year-old mummified remains of an upland Moa, a large prehistoric bird that had disappeared from existence centuries earlier.
5.The 100 year old watch in a 400 year old tomb
In 2008, archeologists in Shangsi, southern China were filming a documentary at a dig at a sealed tomb dating back 400 years to the Ming Dynasty. However, while excavating a sealed tomb, a piece of rock fell from a coffin, hitting the ground with a metalic sound. What the experts found was a 100-year-old Swiss ring watch, with the time frozen on 10:06.
4.Grauballe man
In 1952, The boggy Grauballe Man was found in Denmark. He was extremely well preserved with his hair and fingernails in tact. It was possible for archaeologists to reconstruct his death, with the clues found on and around his body. Judging from a wound wrapping on his neck, from ear to ear, he seems to have been sacrificed.
3.Terracotta army
Terracotta Army first discovered in 1974, by farmers in China while digging a well, an underground army of nearly 8,000 life-size terracotta figures. The army was guarding the tomb of the First Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, who become famous for unifying the states into what is now China.
2.Easter Island
Archaeologists were shocked to find the enormous stones, heads carved from volcanic rock, on Easter Island, thousands of miles off the Chilean coast, in the South Pacific. They also discovered that the heads had bodies attached, buried underground. In 2015, it was revealed that, the previously hidden torsos were covered with intricate tattoos.
1.The headless Vikings Of Dorset
A mass grave containing 54 skeletons, and 51 skulls was found by archaeologists in 2009 in Dorset, England. At first they thought that the local villagers had survived a raid and exacted their revenge, but a closer inspection revealed a different story. The men are believed to be Scandinavian Vikings, executed by local Anglo-Saxons sometime between AD 910 and 1030.
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