Thread of surreal archaeological discoveries 🧵
1. 2000-year-old Roman mosaic on the bank of the Euphrates River, Türkiye
2. This Roman mosaic discovered in Antakya, Türkiye, was so well made that it maintained the ripple effect of an earthquake without breaking the pattern.
3. In 2011, a Canadian mine worker discovered a nearly preserved 110-million-year-old nodosaur.
Scientists consider it the best-preserved dinosaur ever found, with its skin, armor, and internal organs remarkably intact.
4. Roman mosaic found under an Italian vineyard
5. In 2022, archaeologists working on a site on Southwark Street discovered the largest surface of Roman mosaic discovered in London in half a century.
6. The Antikythera Mechanism, discovered in a 2,000-year-old shipwreck in 1901, is known as the first analog computer in history.
It predicted astronomical positions and eclipses, baffling researchers about its origin.
7. The Swedish warship Vasa sank in 1628 less than a mile into its maiden voyage and was recovered from the seabed after 333 years almost completely intact.
It is considered the best preserved 17th-century ship in the world.
8. The oldest wine bottle in the world
The Speyer wine bottle, dating back to the 4th century AD, is considered the oldest unopened bottle of wine in the world. It was found in 1867 when archaeologists discovered a Roman tomb near Speyer, Germany.
9. In 2021, archaeologists unearthed the head of a statue of Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, during excavations in the ancient city of Aizanoi, Turkey.
10. This 2,400-year-old skeleton mosaic discovered in Türkiye says: “Be happy, enjoy your life”
11. In 2020, archaeologists in Pompeii, the city buried by a volcanic eruption in 79 AD, made the extraordinary discovery of a frescoed hot food and drinks shop, offering the ancient equivalent of street food.
12. This is the oldest leather shoe in the world, dating back 5,500 years. It was discovered in 2008 in the well-preserved Areni-1 cave in Armenia.
13. In 2022, archaeologists unearthed an extraordinary collection of Roman mosaics on the streets of the town of Stari Grad on the island of Hvar, Croatia.
14. Göbekli Tepe, 6,000 years older than Stonehenge, has revolutionised archaeologists' knowledge of early civilisation.
Discovered in Turkey in 1963, it features enormous stone pillars that are among the oldest known megaliths in the world.
15. These loaves from the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were carbonized by the volcanic pyroclastic flows of Vesuvius in 79 AD.
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