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Thread on Astonishing Historical Things 🧵

1. Details of the Hercules armor of the Emperor Maximilian II of Austria. Made in 1555, it's now on display at the Kunsthistorisches museum in Vienna

2. Before and after of the excavation of the Ancient Greek Stadium

3. A 1,700-Year-Old Roman-Era “Good Shepard” Gold Ring Bearing An Engraving Of A Boy Holding A Sheep On His Shoulders, An Image Used By Early Christians To Symbolise Jesus

4. 1,500-year-old Ceramic Maya Figurine with Removable Helmet, found in El Perú-Waka', Petén, Guatemala

5. More than 100 old books, manuscripts and documents, some 1,200 years old, were recently discovered in the attic of the St. Margaret Evangelical Church in Mediaș, Romania.

6. A Viking Sword Found At A High Altitude

7. 2000 year-old Roman face cream/lotion. Dating back to II AD. Object was found in the temple complex dedicated to Mars. It's one of the world's oldest cosmetic face cream and it has finger marks in the lid.

8. While hiking in the Ötztal Valley in the Alps (1991), German hikers stumbled upon a remarkably preserved mummy, later named Ötzi, which had been encased in ice for over 5,300 years

9. Before and after the excavation and restoration of the Great Ziggurat of Ur, built approximately 4000 years ago by King Ur-Nammu of the Neo-Sumerian Empire, in dedication to the Moon God, Nanna.

10. Wooden Ship Unearthed at World Trade Center Site From Revolutionary-Era Philadelphia

11. A 700-year-old well-preserved lacquer coffin dating back to the Yuan Dynasty (1206-1368), discovered in east China's Jiangsu Province in 2018

12. A Gold Bar With Mint Marks, Recovered From The Spanish Treasure Ship "Atocha" Which Sank In 1622

13. A colossal Egyptian statue being raised from the depths of Abu Qir Bay in Alexandria, Egypt. The statue once belonged to the submerged port city of Thonis-Heracleion

14. A 1,300-Year-Old Pre-Viking Ski Found at the Digervarden Ice Patch in Norway

15. Thousands of life-size terra-cotta soldiers stand in Pit 1, the largest repository of figurines at the third-century B.C. funerary complex of Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi, near Xi’an, China.

16. Mosaics Of A Roman Villa Were Found Under A Vineyard In Negrar, Italy

17. A Mammoth Tusk Found In The Arctic