Archaeological artefacts Archaeological artefacts The Arthur stone was discovered in 1998 in 6th Century ruins at Tintagel Castle in Cornwall, England. Apparently used originally to dedicate some building or other public structure, it was broken down and used as a drain when the original structure was destroyed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arthur stone"
The Tillya Tepe (Golden Hill) " Bactrian Gold" hoard is a collection of about 20,600 gold ornaments that was found in six burial mounds near Sheberghan, in the northern Afghanistan province of Jawzjan, and was excavated in 1978 by a team led by the Greek- Russian archaeologist Victor Sariyannidis, a year before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The ornaments include coins, necklaces set with gems, belts, medallions and crowns. A new museum in Kabul is being planned where the Bactrian gold will eventually be kept. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bactrian Gold"
The Battersea Shield is a sheet bronze shield dating to circa 300 BC. It was dredged from the River Thames in the UK, and probably was deposited as a ritual gift to the spirits of the River, as were many other pieces of bronze, iron work and human skulls that have found themselves into the Thames and other rivers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Battersea Shield"
The Botorrita plaques are four bronze plaques discovered in Botorrita (Roman Contrebia Belaisca, ), near Saragossa, Spain, dating to the early 1st century BC, labelled Botorrita I, II, III and IV ...more on Wikipedia about "Botorrita plaque"
The Gaulish Coligny Calendar was found in Coligny, Ain, France ( ) near Lyons in 1897, along with the head of a bronze statue of a youthful male figure. It is a lunisolar calendar. ...more on Wikipedia about "Coligny calendar"
The Crowle Stone, originally carved as a cross shaft, is now located to the rear of the nave in the local parish church of St Oswald. Until 1919 it was used as a lintel over the West Door. The preservation of the stone is almost certainly as a result of the Norman masons reusing it when the church was built in 1150AD.The stone measures 6'11" (2.11m) in height 16" (400mm) thick and 8.5" (215mm) wide. ...more on Wikipedia about "Crowle Stone"
A Dodecaeder is a small roughly-spherical hollow object made of bronze or stone, with twelve flat pentagonal faces, each having a circular hole in the middle which connects to the hollowed-out center; they date from the 2nd or 3rd centuries A.D. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dodecaeder"
The only Etruscan chariot found intact dates to ca. 530 BC and is now kept at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. ...more on Wikipedia about "Etruscan chariot"
(Exhumation of Yagan's head) * Bates, C. R. (2005) pers. comm. ...more on Wikipedia about "Exhumation of Yagan's head"
Illicit antiquities are artefacts of archaeological interest, found in illegal or unregulated excavations, and traded covertly. ...more on Wikipedia about "Illicit antiquities"
The Ishango bone is a tally stick, made of bone, which contains sequences of prime numbers, and some series of multiples. The bone was found in the area of the headwaters of the Nile River. The bone has three rows of notches, with the row a) below having 2 sets of numbers in excess-one format, base 10: 9,19; 21,11. Row b) is a descending series of prime numbers from 19; row c) continues the series of prime numbers, down to 5; row c) then contains multiples of 3, 4 and 5, in an example of Egyptian multiplication. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ishango Bone"
The Kafkania pebble was found in Kafkania, some 7 km north of Olympia, in 1994. It bears a short inscription of eight syllabic signs in Linear B, possibly reading a-so-na / qo-ro-qa / qa-jo. On the reverse side, there is a double axe symbol. The inscription is not unambiguously identifiable as in the Mycenean language, but qo-ro-qa has been suggested to be a personal name with the well known -oqos (-ωπς) suffix. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kafkania pebble"
The Lewis chessmen belong to one of the few complete medieval chess sets that have survived until today. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lewis chessmen"
The Lloyds Bank turd is a large human coprolite recovered by archaeologists excavating the Viking settlement of Jorvik (now York) in England. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lloyds Bank turd"
In 1991, archeologists discovered anthropomorphic secondary burial jars in Ayub Cave, Piñol. Maitum, Sarangani Province, in Mindanao, Philippines. Since this sensational finding, a number of archaeological excavations were conducted to recover these important artifacts. These excavation projects were either government or privately sponsored. ...more on Wikipedia about "Maitum Anthropomorphic Potteries"
The Mask of Agamemnon is an artifact discovered at Mycenae in 1876 by Heinrich Schliemann. The mask is a gold funeral mask, and was found over the face of a body located in a burial shaft (grave V). Schliemann believed that he had discovered the body of the legendary Greek leader Agamemnon, and from this the mask gets its name. However, modern archaeological research suggests that the mask is dated circa 1500-1550 BC, which is earlier than the traditional life of Agamemnon. In spite of this, the name remains. The mask is currently displayed in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mask of Agamemnon"
The Mask of la Roche-Cotard is a Mousterian artifact, found in 2002 in the entrance of la Roche-Cotard on the banks of the Loire River, dating back to about 33,000 BCE. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mask of la Roche-Cotard"
The Mesha Stele (popularized in the 19th century as the "Moabite Stone") is a black basalt stone, bearing an inscription by the 9th century BC Moabite King Mesha, discovered in 1868. The inscription of 34 lines, the most extensive inscription ever recovered from ancient Palestine, was written in Hebrew-Phoenician characters. It was set up by Mesha, about 850 BC, as a record and memorial of his victories in his revolt against Israel, which he undertook after the death of his overlord, Ahab. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mesha Stele"
Ötzi the Iceman (also spelled Oetzi and known also as Frozen Fritz) is the modern nickname of a well-preserved natural mummy of a man from about 3300 BC, found in 1991 in a glacier of the Ötztal Alps, near the border between Austria and Italy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ötzi the Iceman"
The Phaistos Disc (Phaistos Disk, Phaestos Disc, Festos Disc, Greek: Δίσκος της Φαιστού) is a curious archaeological find, most likely dating from about 1700 BC. Its purpose and meaning, and even its original geographical place of manufacture, remain disputed, making it one of the most famous mysteries of archaeology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Phaistos Disc"
Priam’s Treasure is a cache of gold and other artifacts, which classical archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann claimed to have found at the site of ancient Troy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Priam's Treasure" http://www.shortopedia.com , this is it!
Quipu or khipu were recording devices used in the Inca Empire and its predecessor societies in the Andean region. A quipu usually consists of colored spun and plied thread from llama or alpaca hair or cotton cords with numeric and other values encoded by knots in a base 10 positional system. Quipus may have just a few strands, but some have up to 2,000 strands. ...more on Wikipedia about "Quipu"
The Ringlemere barrow is an archaeological site near Sandwich in the English county of Kent most famous as being the find site of the Ringlemere gold cup. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ringlemere barrow"
The Rosetta Stone is a dark grey-pinkish granite stone (often incorrectly identified as basalt) with writing on it in two languages, Egyptian and Greek, using three scripts, Hieroglyphic, Demotic Egyptian and Greek. Because Greek was well known, the stone was the key to deciphering the hieroglyphs. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rosetta Stone"
Sennacherib's Prism is a hexagonal stone prism, containing six paragraphs of cuneiform written Akkadian. The text was translated by Daniel David Luckenbill. The Akkadian text, along with a translation into English is avaliable in his book: "THE ANNALS OF SENNACHERIB" D.D. Luckenbill 1924, University of Chicago Press. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sennacherib's Prism"
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