10 Amazing Artifacts That Were Accidentally Unearthed
29010 Amazing Artifacts That Were Accidentally Unearthed
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In most cases, well-trained archeologists are charged with anything that pertains to unearthing artifacts. They know where to find it, how to handle it, and what instrument to use at what time. However, there are still occasions whereby even untrained people unearth artifacts when they least think of it. This has happened in different parts of the world at different occasions. In this video, we are going to show you ten artifacts that were unearthed by accidents. Stay tuned as we take you through the journey from one discovery to the other.
10. Pompeii
Natural disasters, although happen rarely, are the greatest reminders of how weak humans can be. They kill in a matter of seconds if you fail to escape them.
In 79 A.D, Mount Vesuvius vented its anger on Pompeii, a major Roman City, and buried everyone who failed to escape, with stones, ashes and fire. The bodies were as far down as 19 to 23 feet deep into the earth. For over a thousand years, nobody bothered to check on Pompei.
When Domenico Fontana, an architect who was working on an infrastructural project around the city started work in the 16th Century, he accidentally unearthed the lava covered wall. However, it was after 200 years when workers who were working on the new palace of the King of Naples first rediscovered Herculaneum, a city near Pompeii, and a victim of the same disaster that the city of Pompeii rose again.
After some centuries, the city which was discovered as ruins becomes top in the list of places to visit in Naples.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/archaeology/pompeii/
9. Dead Sea Scrolls
If a degree in archeology is given by an accidental discovery, then Muhammad Edh Dhib should be one of the people that should be awarded. And who knows if honorary degrees were ever awarded in the 1940s? If so, perhaps he should be given a posthumous award for these rare artifacts he came across while herding cattle along the ancient site of Khirbet Qumran.
Muhammad, who found those seven scrolls in a ceramic jar, became a clue to archeologists towards unearthing other 900 manuscripts in the same area. The scrolls were several copies of parts of the old testaments of the Holy Bible. Also, hymns were discovered. These artifacts have been kept in the Shrine of Books in Jerusalem, which is a section of the national museum of Israel. Apart from generating income, it is a proof that it’s not everything written by the old prophet that was enshrined in the Bible.
https://www.imj.org.il/en/wings/shrine-book/dead-sea-scrolls
8. Akrotiri, Thera
Like Pompei, a volcanic eruption from a raging mountain buried the whole city of Akrotiri. But this internment ended up as preservation of the city when the city later started to emerge in 1867.
That year, workers were on a quarry working assiduously when they accidentally dug up some artifacts. The discovery by these locals became a clue to Spyridon Marinatos, a Greek archeologist, who supervised the project of excavation of the site a century later. The discovery by Marinatos and his team proved that the ancient Civilization had their private homes, paved streets, indoor toilets and painted walls. They had nearly everything we couldn’t have imagined.
The absence of human remains in the site however proves that just as meteorologists warn us about the weather and possible typhoon in the present, the people of Akrotiri had been previously warned and had left the city before the disaster.
If you visit the Museum of Prehistoric Thera, you will find these artifacts and see how awesome the city used to be.
Have you scheduled a time to visit yet?
https://www.imj.org.il/en/wings/shrine-book/dead-sea-scrolls
7. Terracotta Warriors and Emperor Qin Shi’s Tomb
The discovery of Terracotta Warriors happens to be a monumental event on its own as it is tagged one of the massive archeological discoveries of the 20th century. Some Chinese farmers took the credit for discovering this site in 1974, before archeologists came in.
The terracotta warriors alongside their chariots as well as horses were a breathtaking work of art buried less than a mile distance to the vault of the first emperor Qin Shi Huang (29B.C 210 BC). As tradition demanded, others were also figures near the tomb, including those of musicians, acrobats, and instrumentalists.
There are speculations from archeologists that the vast tomb was an exact copy of the Chinese city of Xi'an. The artifact has the same topography as the city.
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