From the reveal of the mysterious
Easter Island heads to discovering the perfectly kept bodies from the
Pompeii volcanoe explosion, these are 14 bizarre things that have been unearthed.
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8.
World War II Bombs
Just when you think you’re safe, you find a bomb! That’s exactly what happened to a development of luxury homes in
Orlando, Florida. The developers who created the community were well aware of the previous military use, but decided to continue with their building plans anyway. Residents of the half-million dollar homes are angry, to say the least. While it is assumed that there isn’t any immediate threat,
Army Corps cleanup leader
Mike Ornella concedes that they’re “never going to be
100 percent sure.”
7.
Royal Hair Pin
This tricky little hairpin had everyone scratching their heads when it was found in a communal toilet during the restoration of the
Fontainebleau Castle in
Paris.
Belonging to the
Queen of France in the mid-1500s,
Catherine de Medici, the three and a half inch long pin is one of the very few pieces of jewelry of hers that was uncovered. It was identified in a flash because of the interlocking “C” design and green and white colors she was known for.
6. The
Jehoash Inscription
The Temple Mount of
Jerusalem is widely known as a holy place for almost any Christ-centered religion.
Near here, the Jehoash Inscription was found on a tablet. It has roughly 15 lines of
Hebrew text that was written in the ancient
Phoenician script, and translates to describe renovations that were to take place at
King Solomon’s temple.
Scholars and archeologists argue whether or not the tablet is authentic, as it contains grammatical errors that would align with a modern-day forgery, but the patina on the sandstone points towards its authenticity.
5.
The Remains of
Richard III
“
Foul devil, for God’s sake, hence and trouble us not!”
Lady Anne shouts these disdainful words at Richard III in the namesake’s play by
Shakespeare. Known widely as a disgusting excuse for a human, the evil and twisted-spined
King Richard III was killed while crossing blades with
Henry Tudor in the final battle of the
War of the Roses. His remains were found underneath a parking lot in
2007, which was dug up in order to be redone.
4. The
Easter Island Bodies
Bet you didn’t know the
Easter Island statues aren’t just heads! That’s right, these age old relics have been known to have bodies since a
1914 excavation, and it’s said they’re buried so deep because of half a millennium worth of erosion. There are
150 plus statues, with the tallest known one standing at an imposing 33 feet tall! Few people know that their traditional name is “moai,” and that they were carved into volcanic rock by the
Polynesians between the years of 1100 and 1500
AD!
3.
Ridgeway Hill Viking Burial Pit
Mass graves will always have an eerie quality to them, and the Ridgeway Hill Viking Burial Pit is no exception. While crews were excavating in preparation to add a new roadway in, they came across this pit which held 54 skeletons and 51 heads of what was later to be determined as
Vikings executed sometime between
AD 910 and 1030. The exact circumstances of the deaths are unknown, but it is speculated that they were captured and killed in an attempted raid on Anglo-Saxon territory.
2.
Piri Reis Map
This controversial archeological find is called the
Piri Reis map, and is arguably an exact copy of the map used by explorer
Christopher Columbus in
1492. Sources for much of the map were found in his writings, but it isn’t known for sure whether or not the cartographic image is actually the same one
Columbus used. It is now stored in
Istanbul, Turkey at the
Library of the
Topkapi Palace, but you’d be hard-pressed to see it, as it isn’t usually on display for the public.
1.
The Ruins of Pompeii
79 AD is the fateful year of the biggest known
Mount Vesuvius eruption to date. It remained almost entirely undisturbed until 1748 when a group of hikers came looking for ancient artifacts. They were in for quite a surprise when they discovered the ruins of Pompeii almost exactly as it was roughly 2,
000 years ago. This petrified pup is just one of the many victims found encased in ash the exact same way it fell, the preserved remains kept in pristine condition by the ash.
It’s unnerving and sad, but teaches us a lot about the way life was in
Italy around the time.
- published: 28 Jan 2016
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