Thread on mind-blowing archeological discoveries 🧵
1. A Massive 2700-Year-Old, 18-Ton Statue Of An Assyrian Deity that was excavated in Iraq In November 2023
2. In 2011, a Canadian mine worker stumbled upon a perfectly preserved 110-million-year-old nodosaur. This paleontological find is hailed by experts as the most well-preserved dinosaur ever, with its skin and armor still intact.
It’s been called the "Rosetta Stone of armor."
3. A 2000-year-old Roman silver dagger, that was discovered by an archeology intern in 2019 in Germany, before and after nine months of careful restoration work