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🗓️ 23 August 2023
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Archeologists and amateurs have made some incredible discoveries that can either reveal valuable information about the past or create entirely new mysteries. From 10 million-year-old teeth to thousands of baffling golden spirals, here are some of the most interesting ancient rare objects found underground.
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0:00.0 | Archaeologists and amateurs have made some incredible discoveries which can either reveal valuable information about the past or create entirely new mysteries. |
0:09.0 | From 10 million-year-old teeth, the thousands of baffling golden spirals, let's explore some of the most interesting ancient rare objects found underground. |
0:19.0 | You're listening. You're listening. You're listening. |
0:21.6 | You're listening. |
0:22.6 | You're listening to be amazed. |
0:28.6 | Everyone's seen the great Sphinx of Giza, the giant limestone statue, depicting a mythical creature which combines the strength of a lion with the worldly might of a king. |
0:38.3 | But Egyptian archaeologists made a surprising discovery in September 2018. |
0:42.8 | While draining groundwater from the Farionic Temple of Kamambot near the southern city of Oswan, |
0:48.0 | a team of archaeologists uncovered an intact hidden sphinx sculpture. |
0:52.7 | This statue was made of softer sandstone and is a far cry from the giant sphinx we're all familiar with, |
0:58.4 | as it stands just 15 inches tall and 11 inches wide. But careful excavation has restored it to its original mythical prowess. |
1:06.0 | The statue probably dates back to the Greco-Macedonian Ptolemaic dynasty, which ruled over Egypt from 305 BC until 30 BC, |
1:15.8 | and the antiquities ministry has vowed to carry out further studies into its purpose. |
1:20.4 | As the Temple of Komombo was built during the reign of Ptolemy the 6th, this lavish statue was most likely created to adorn the pharaoh and please the Egyptian gods. |
1:30.7 | Either way, this incredible find is lucky to have been rescued from floodwater and many millennia spent indoors. |
1:37.6 | Archaeologists in Denmark were truly baffled by the discovery of some bizarre Bronze Age objects |
1:42.2 | during a series of digs in an area of Bias Lunday in 2015. |
1:47.0 | This nicknamed Golden Enigma came in the form of 2,000 tiny spirals of tightly wound |
1:52.5 | gold wires, each no more than an inch in length, which if combined, would make up half a pound |
1:58.4 | of solid gold. Finding gold in Biaslunday is not uncommon as the area is |
2:03.4 | famed for its Bronze Age buried treasure, but these intriguing objects were a real headscratcher |
2:08.5 | for the team who discovered them. The spirals had been buried in a fur-lined wooden box, which |
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