Thread by @ill_Scholar

Seven NEW Archaeology Discoveries of 2024

Stuff just keeps getting older

Thread 🧵, my favorite one from the Amazon at the end (Percy Fawcett & Francisco de Orellana vindicated)

But first, Peru

But first, a Peruvian throneroom

Before the Incas the Moche thrived in Peru.

Archaeologists believe the throneroom belonged to a female ruler, ~700 AD

Also in Peru, an old find was expanded...

New Nazca lines just dropped!

303 New designs found, adding to the already 400 discovered

Kind of look like aliens.

Somehow this temple, right off the cost of Italy, was not found earlier

Right off the coast of Pozzuoli, Italy this Nabatean temple was made just before the Romans took over, around the end of BC

The only temple of its kind outside the Middle East

This find isn't really new, but new INFORMATION is very interesting

The altar stone of Stonehenge, the south of England, is from SCOTLAND

I wonder why they brought it so far away, nearby stones were probably fine

This find is also not new, but more parts were discovered

This huge Necropolis in Egypt houses 10+ levels of tombs, from the Greco-Roman Period

It's old but not as old as....

The new oldest cave art in the world

Found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi

~51,200 years. There must be more on the former Sundaland

and my favorite....

A new, ~2,500 year old city found in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Incredible. Percy Fawcett died trying to find it, he was mocked, but it was there

I wrote a thread on that city, here:

https://x.com/ill_Scholar/status/1907503592098996709

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