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An excavation of a tomb where many high priests were buried in the Minya Governate, about 186 miles (300km) south of Cairo, revealed one burial site dedicated to an otherworldly presence. Researchers from Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities discovered a sarcophagus dedicated to Horus inside the tomb.

Horus was considered the god of the sky in Ancient Egypt and was a deity associated with death and resurrection. Horus was also the son of the goddess Isis and the god of the underworld Osiris. Together with Isis and Osiris, Horus formed the principal trinity among Egypt’s gods and goddesses.
In total, the latest mission from the Egyptian archaeologists unearthed 16 tombs containing 20 sarcophagi, some engraved with hieroglyphics, all of which date to around 3,000 years ago.



Other findings include 10,000 blue and green ushabti (funerary figurines), 700 amulets, several of which were made from pure gold, and bearing scarab shapes. The Egyptian Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany said the Minya region “continues to reveal its secrets”. Mohamed Wahballah, a member of the archaeological team, added two of the sarcophagi were still sealed and in “very good” condition.

Minya has become a hotspot for Egyptian archaeology, with several major findings discovered in the region.

Just last year, archaeologists discovered tombs containing mummies dating back to the Cleopatra era in Minya. Cleopatra belonged to the Macedonian Greek dynasty of the Ptolemies, with European origins dating back to northern Greece. The burial chambers were said to be in good condition shedding a light on how ancient Egyptians lived thousands of years ago.

Sarcophagus of Egyptian God discovered in major excavation


The last decade had major archaeological discoveries, from the 10-month excavation of a Bronze Age settlement in England to what could be the world’s oldest figurative artwork, which was found in Indonesia last year. To find out more, nine archaeologists and scholars share their thoughts on which of these finds was the most the most significant?

Peggy Brunache
Lecturer in the history of slavery, University of Glasgow

In 2017, the domicile room of Sally Hemings at Thomas Jefferson’s historic Virginia mansion, Monticello, was discovered. Hemings, an enslaved woman, is believed by many to have given birth to several children of one of America’s beloved Founding Fathers. (The theory is supported by DNA evidence.) This discovery once again puts a focus on the entangled roles of enslaved people in the founding of the United States and, more importantly, on the private life of the man who famously wrote “All men are created equal,” and yet, over the course of his life, was a slaveholder of hundreds of Black lives.

Catherine Frieman
Associate professor of European archaeology, Australian National University

There have been many spectacular finds over the last decade. But, the one I personally consider most significant is the (beautifully excavated) waterlogged, burnt-down Bronze Age village at Must Farm in Whittlesey, England. The combination of conflagration and water logging means that organic preservation is unbelievable, offering a richly textured, tangible vision of daily life 3,000 years ago. Usually, our stories of the Bronze Age concern chiefs, swords, gold, and war; but Must Farm’s data lets us explore sewing, cooking, carpentry, and the sort of day-to-day existence that would have been familiar to most Bronze Age people.

Roland Enmarch
Senior lecturer in Egyptology, University of Liverpool

For me, the most remarkable archaeological discovery of this decade was the finding of the oldest known inscribed papyri at the ancient port of Wadi el-Jarf on the Red Sea. Almost 4,600 years old, they are the administrative archive of one of the officials who controlled the gangs who quarried and ferried stone for the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. It’s amazing to have even a fragmentary glimpse of the day-by-day records of the work of the pyramid builders.

Sofia Samper Carro
Lecturer in archaeology, Australian National University

During the last decade, several findings have shaken up our previous knowledge or assumption in palaeoanthropology and prehistoric archaeology disciplines. I reckon the most significant discovery has been the evidence that there were more hominins sharing the world at the same time, such as Denisovans or the recently found H. luzonensis. This makes research in prehistoric archaeology much more complex and exciting than what it was previously, pushing for more systematic and scientifically-based interpretations of human evolution paths.

Most Significant Archaeological Discoveries of the last Decade according to Four Historians

A rare medieval priestly burial was among over 50 burials unearthed by archaeologists at Lincoln Cathedral.

One of the many complete skeletons found is believed to be that of a medieval priest, who had been buried in the area that is now the building’s West Parvis.

The priest had been carefully buried with a pewter chalice and paten, used during communion and key symbols of the work of the priest. Similar examples have been dated to as far back as the 12th and 13th centuries.

In addition to the skeletons excavated during the project, several other historic artifacts are currently being studied and dated. Some will be displayed as part of the new Lincoln Cathedral visitor center, which is due to open in summer 2020.


Other finds from the excavations include a hand from a statue that may be from a very early frieze, and a coin depicting the face of Edward the Confessor, the last king of the House of Wessex, who ruled from 1042 to 1066. The coin was minted between 1053 and 1056, so pre-dates the building of the current Cathedral.
Evidence was also uncovered of high-status Roman buildings in the area of the new visitor’s center, which is within a building previously used as a deanery.

Highly-decorated painted wall plaster from three different rooms, a near complete incense burner, a perfume jar and a Roman spoon were among the notable finds.Some of the Roman wall plaster was painted with an intricate flowers and leaves design, while the rest features colored bands. It may be possible for some to be reconstructed in the near future.

“Since our work began on the Cathedral as part of the Connected project in 2016, we have uncovered significant evidence of Lincoln’s medieval, Saxon and Roman past. The objects we have found are not only beautiful and interesting in themselves but importantly they enable us to better interpret the lives of those who occupied the city in previous centuries.”- Natasha Powers, Senior Manager at Allen Archaeology.

The overall project includes vital restoration and renovation works to the iconic building, which are due to be completed in 2022.

Further discoveries are expected after the excavation of Roman and medieval features around the gothic landmark.

Medieval Priest's remains discovered at Lincoln Cathedral

Archaeologists in northern Poland have made an unexpected discovery: certain local graves from the Middle Ages belonged to warriors from Scandinavia.

The discovery was made in a medieval cemetery in the village of Ciepłe, in the Pomeranian region in northern Poland.

Some of the graves are around 1,000 years old; they belong to people who lived during the reign of Bolesław the Brave, the first King of Poland, who lived from 967 to 1025.

Four graves located in the centre of the cemetery caught researchers’ attention.
“Men, probably warriors, were buried in them, as shown by the weapons and equestrian equipment laid there with them,” said Sławomir Wadyl of the Archeological Museum in Gdańsk, who has been conducting research at the graveyard.
A study of this site was edited by him, entitled “Ciepłe. An elite early medieval cemetery in eastern Pomerania”, was released in Poland last year.
Interpretation of the graves at the cemetery by artist " K. patalon"

One of the questions that Wadyl and his colleagues wanted to answer in their research was where the people buried in the cemetery came from.

Samples from some of the remains were sent off for genetic and stromium isotope analysis, which can provide researchers with information about where someone lived.
This analysis yielded some surprising results: the four warriors buried at the centre of the cemetery were not locals. Instead, they came to Poland from Scandinavia – most probably Denmark, according to Wadyl.

Indeed, some of the weapons found with the warriors, primarily swords and spearheads, appear to have been made in western Europe or Scandinavia, rather than by local swordsmiths.

The graves themselves provide a further clue: the four warriors were buried in graves made of wood  a type of grave found in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, but rarer in medieval Poland, unlike the other bodies in the cemetery, which were buried directly in the ground.

The discovery of the Scandinavian warriors provides researchers with further insights into society in early medieval Poland.
Wadyl says: “Buried in the central part of the cemetery, they represented the social elite at the time, as shown by the monumental nature of their graves and rich equipment.
“They probably belonged to a group of elite riders, but their role was probably not limited to warriors’ functions.”

Archeologists find VIKING graves in Polish village



Small stone tools probably arrow and spear tips found in a cave in Sri Lanka are rewriting the story of how humans moved into challenging new environments nearly 50,000 years ago. New radiocarbon dating shows that the microliths are the oldest found in South Asia and among the oldest in all Eurasia. The tools appear to have been part of a “survival toolkit” that enabled Homo sapiens to move into rain-forests and other difficult settings much earlier than previously thought.

Until recently, rain-forests were seen as barriers to human migration, with disease, dangerous animals, the scarcity of carbohydrate-rich plants and limited resources all posing challenges. Therefore, research on human migration in Asia has focused on the coast and Savannah. But over the past decade, growing archaeological evidence has shown H. sapiens lived in tropical rain-forests in South Asia, South-East Asia and Melanesia between 45,000 and 36,000 years ago. Missing from this picture was a good understanding of the technology humans used to survive.
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So, the discovery of a huge repository of microliths in the Fa-Hien Lena Cave in Sri Lanka’s evergreen rainforest piqued the interest of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and colleagues from Sri Lankan and other international institutions.
Excavations in 2009, 2010 and 2012 yielded an extraordinary 9,216 artifacts, and these have finally been closely analysed for the first time.

The researchers, with funding from the National Geographic Society, found that the microliths – stone tools less than 40mm long – were up to 48,000 years old, making them at least as old as similar tools associated with H. sapiens in Europe.
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Writing in PLOS One, they say the sophisticated, miniaturised tools used by the occupants of the Sri Lankan caves changed little over the long period of human occupation, which ended only 4,000 years ago. This suggests they were remarkably successful. In Europe and Africa, the earliest appearance of hewn stone tools is linked to hunting medium and large-sized animals in grassland or woodland settings, or as adaptations to risky environments during periods of climatic change.

But the small, quartz microliths found in Fa-Hien Lena Cave were more likely to have been used to hunt tree-dwelling prey and small mammals. The miniaturisation of stone tool technology is seen as a major step in the development of technologies such as the bow and arrow. The researchers conclude that our ancestors were able to adapt their stone technology to the requirements of new environments, making microliths a flexible toolkit for survival as H. sapiens spread out of Africa.

Intriguingly, the idea that early humans in Sri Lanka could have produced microliths so long ago was first floated in the 1980s but was overlooked because scientists did not believe humans there could have produced such tools before European humans. Michael Petraglia, one of the paper’s authors, says more research is underway on bone tools and fragments from Fa-Hien Lena Cave.

“Whatever the results, these miniaturized stone tools place Sri Lanka in a central position in terms of discussing technological sophistication among our species.”

Sri Lanka’s Sophisticated Stone Tools Dated to 48,000 Years Ago


Dating back 1,800 years, the brass balsamarium shows head of a man wearing a cap made from the skin of a feline.(Image: © Daniela Agre)

The skeleton that was found in the grave belonged to a man who died when he was about 35 to 40 years old. Also buried with the remains, the team found a blade used to scrape sweat and dirt from the skin. Along side it rested the 1800 year old balsamarium: 


The balsamarium resembles a man with a goatee and a nose that looks to be broken or bent as if it had been injured and not fully healed. The man wears a cap that is made from the skin of a feline, probably a leopard, as archaeologists wrote in a paper published in the October issue of the American Journal of Archaeology. 



Many balsamariums have near identical features, such as a crooked or bent nose, have been found elsewhere in the Roman Empire and are often interpreted as depicting boxers or wrestlers.
"In our opinion, the grave belongs to a Thracian aristocrat, who has practiced sport in his everyday life, rather than to a professional athlete," Said Daniela Agre - archaeologist at the National Archaeological Institute with Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, who led archaeological work at the site. 


The grave of the sports man or enthusiast will allow many researchers to have a better understanding of life in Thrace during the Roman Empire. It shows that at least the local elite have acquired many  practices from the Romans. This find shows how popular the sport was in these regions.

Ancient Sports-Man or Fan Found Buried with 1800 year old Head-Shaped Jar


A metal detector hobbyist has unearthed a rare 1,700-year-old gold collar in Estonia. Jegor Klimov was exploring a field at the ancient sacrificial site of Saaremaa as part of a search team led by archaeologist Marika Mägi when his metal detector alerted. The team had already decided to pack up and leave, but Klimov started to dig and revealed a tell-tale yellow glint. Archaeologists joined in and excavated a coiled up ring of gold with a serpent head on one end.

The collar dates to the Roman Iron Age, around the 3rd century A.D. Neck rings from this period were marks of high rank in Scandinavia, the more complex the design and construction, the more elite the wearer. Almost all the ones that have been discovered were found in bogs; none of them were found in graves. A few more simple arm rings and neck rings have been found in cremation burials. Studies of artifacts have found that objects buried in bogs were not, as a rule, the same as those buried in graves. Votive deposits were more precious, the best possible objects dedicated as sacrifices at sacred sites. Of the 60 or so extant gold neck rings from the Scandinavian Iron Age, almost all of them have been found in Sweden and Denmark. A handful have been found in Finland; one in Poland. This is the first of its kind found anywhere else in the Baltic states.

Very few artifacts from this period have been discovered in Estonia and gold objects from any period are extremely rare in the Estonian archaeological record. They can literally be counted on the fingers of one hand. At 175 grams in weight, this piece is the heaviest, most valuable gold archaeological artifact ever found in Estonia and must have belonged to someone of the highest rank among the Nordic elite. Its discovery supports the hypothesis that what is now western and northwestern Estonia had meaningful cultural contact with the peoples around the Baltic Sea and in Scandinavia as well as with the tribes in the modern-day Baltic states and Russia.

The Saaremaa piece may have been a bracelet, spiral collar or necklace. It’s difficult to say because, as is common with sacrificed objects, it was deliberately deformed, but its heavy weight and length suggests it was probably a neck ring.

“One can say that this is likely the most valuable single find,in the material sense, to be unearthed in Estonia,” Mägi explained to ETV news broadcast “Aktuaalne kaamera.” “It is believed that whoever wore these, they were a symbol of belonging to the highest echelons of society. So these are not regular bracelets. How this particular bracelet ended up in Saaremaa is an exciting question in its own right, and one we’ll likely never get a real answer for. This is a type of jewelry which throughout Scandinavia is considered one of the most significant items of the Roman Iron Age, and it is associated with royal power and royal families.”

Metal Detector Hobbyist Unearths a Rare 1,700-year-old Gold Collar in Estonia


Unearthed remains of a previously unknown military site include many coins and French tableware.


During redevelopment of the site in the Devon city archaeologists have described the important discovery, which occurred as important and unexpected. A Roman ditch was first uncovered, with further excavations revealing two more ditches running parallel to each other. These belonged to a previously unknown military site, which was either a fort occupied by an army unit or a defended compound.


Coins and pottery made in the area for the troops, as well as fine red samian tableware imported from France, were also discovered. The find was made by Cotswold Archaeology, which is working with Kier , the construction company, in the run-up to the renovation of a bus station and leisure complex.
Andrew Pye (archaeology officer at Exeter city council) said: “This is a very important, and completely unexpected, discovery, in an area that has been heavily changed by previous postwar redevelopment."
Along with other recent work in Exeter, it show just how much of the city’s history can survive in unlikely places, despite the damage caused by bombing and modern concrete foundations.


Roman fort discovered by Accident under Exeter bus station


King Tutankhamun's body has never left it's 3300 year old tomb, even when it was discovered it was always left inside it's outter coffin made from gold and wood that stayed in the Valley of Kings until today.

As the development of tut's tomb took almost 10 years and has finished earlier this year by the Getty Conservation Institute and the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities. But now they are working on restoring his golden coffin, removing from it's resting place and letting experts take a much close look.


This complicated project is mainly motivated by the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum in late 2020, which will open out over the Pyramids of Giza. As well as the three coffins that accommodates King Tut's Body. This exhibit will certainly display multiple relics found in his tomb.

Carter's discovery of Tut's coffin was the first time a royal tomb from ancient Egypt has been uncovered in outstanding conditions and well intact including royal treasures as well. After the discovery was made, two of three coffins were transported to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo while the outer coffin was left inside the king's tomb. But after July of 1997 it was removed under intense security in order to keep it well intact, with careful restoration attempts underway experts have their chance to inspect the outer coffin up close and reveal the photo for us to see.
Given the extent of the damage that was due to the heat and humidity inside the tomb, Khaled el Enany who is the Antiquities Minister said that it would take a minimum of eight months to restore it as it was explained that the coffin is about 30% damaged.

King Tut's Coffin Removed from it's Tomb For The First Time in History


Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is a popular park in Arizona's Sonoran Desert,and also a home to an extraordinary exhibit of plants including the cactus plant that gives this landmark its name. The site likewise flaunts mankind's history extending back 16,000 years; antiquated cultures and societies used to venture out through this region to purchase salt, obsidian and seashells from Mexico. But, the Trump administration's plan to develop a border between Arizona and Mexico is putting the National Monument's archaeological legacy at hazard, as indicated by a National Park Service report to the Washington Post.

As Juliet Eilperin and Nick Miroff show that the report  includes five destinations that are compromised by the border wall construction plan, which started a month ago at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and tries to replace existing vehicle boundaries and fences with a 30-foot-tall steel bollard fence. NPS archaeologists additionally note that past research has "found 17 archaeological sites which are likely to be completely or somewhat decimated by the border wall plans."
President Donald Trump has over and over promised to construct 500 miles of the border by the November 2020 election; at present, as per Zolan Kanno-Youngs of the New York Times, his organization has developed 66 miles of fencing, fundamentally in territories where run down borders previously existed. A month ago, the Washington Post's Nick Miroff and Josh Dawsey announced that the President had "is directing aides to quickly follow billions of dollars of development contracts, forcefully seize private land and completely neglect environmental guidelines" to complete his quest.

While critics have focused on the border wall's potential environmental impacts. Construction of the barrier, however, does not have to meet the requirements of federal environmental laws including the Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act since the Department of Homeland Security has waived those regulations for the sake of “border security.” Activists are troubled about the ecosystems of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, which is an internationally recognized biosphere reserve.

“The lights that will be installed on top of the wall, blasted into the wilderness, the ground water being sucked up—it’s more than just a border wall,” “All of these activities will just increase the desertification of the region.” Laiken Jordahl, a borderlands campaigner at the Center for Biological Diversity, at an interview with Kanno-Youngs of the Times.
Furthermore, as the new report features, the National Monument's archaeological legacy is likewise in danger of decimation. Stone tools, rock shelters and engravings have all been discovered there, and archaeologists are concerned about the damage that the border wall construction plans will harm un-excavated antiquities. Among the territories of concern are the Quitobaquito Springs, which are related with an ancient exchange route known as the Old Salt Trail.

Numerous indigenous gatherings have noteworthy associations with the grounds inside Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, including the Tohono O'odham and the Hia C'ed O'odham, as per the report. “We’ve historically lived in this area from time immemorial,” Tohono O’odham Nation Chairman Ned Norris Jr. tells Eilperin and Miroff. “We feel very strongly that this particular wall will desecrate this area forever. I would compare it to building a wall over your parents’ graveyards. It would have the same effect.

In any case, experts stay worried about the CBP's arrangements to finish its Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument barriersby January 2020. In the report, the NPS considers the entirety of Roosevelt Reservation to be “an area of great concern, whose cultural and natural resources are imperiled.” And Kevin Dahl, Arizona senior program manager for the National Parks Conservation Association, tells Eilperin and Miroff that under typical circumstances, the department would take steps to protect historic properties under its purview, even conducting excavations if necessary.

Border Wall Threatens to Destroy more Than 20 Archaeological Sites In Arizona


A beautiful fifth-century mosaic that portrays one of Jesus' most renowned supernatural occurrences has been uncovered in Israel, splendidly protected underneath the ashes from an antiquated flame.


The mosaic, which is thought to indicates Jesus bolstering his people with loaves of bread and fishes, made to decorate the floors of a church built in the late fifth or sixth century in an old city called Hippos. This city, based on a mountaintop sitting above the Sea of Galilee, was well known during the Roman and Byzantine era, as indicated by an announcement.

Now called the 'Burnt Church', as it has burned down to the ground during the Sasanian Conquest of Hippos in the seventh century ( Sasanian Empire is the Last Persian empire Before Islam). Although it was destroyed, the mosaic decoration on the floor was well protected by the ashes.


The colorful mosaic floors had two Greek engravings that represents the ancient church fathers who built the church for a Martyr Called "Theodoros." The Mosaic also had many geometric patterns such as bird, fruit, fish and baskets of loaves of bread and fish which relate to the reference in the " Feeding the multitude" described in The New testament, according to the statement. The scripture portrays Jesus multiplying five loaves of bread and two fish in order to feed 5000 men.


The mosaic portions depicting five loaves of bread and two fish. As there could be a multitude of explanations behind the mosaic, Archaeologists Michael Eisenberg who is the head of the excavation team in Hippos with the Zinman Institue of Archaeology at the University of Haifa, insists in a statement saying " You cannot ignore the Similarity to the description in the New testament". However he also notes that there are also many differences between the biblical account and the mosaic as some of the baskets are not only full of bread but also fruit, in addition some parts of the mosaic display not only two but three fish. The Zinman Institute of Archaeology has spent the last decade excavating Hippos and the 'Burnt Church'.

Mosaic Discovered in Haifa's “Burnt Church” Depicts One Of Jesus's Miracles


source : Xinhuanet
A group of Chinese archaeologists who partook in a joint unearthing venture in Mongolia was stunned to discover two finely-carved silver dragons among-st the artifacts as Mongolian folklore isn't popular for mythical dragons. The Tibetan mythology was the one known for dragons of course, the mythical Chinese dragon is known to be one of the legendary creatures in Chinese mythology, folklore.

While Chinese archaeologists were working through their third year at the excavation site on tombs of Xiongnu aristocrats in Mongolia, they stumbled upon the gilded silver dragons. Lan Wanli, who led the Chinese archaeological says that the 3 inch length dragons had a gesture looking back to its vertical tail, these characteristics hint to the Western Han Dynasty 206 B.C. Experts also say that these two dragon artifacts could be attached to a decorative vessel, as well as can be a sign of cultural interchange between the north and central China.

This Mongolian tomb precedes the previously found Xiongnu aristocratic tombs in Russia and Mongolia, furthermore they noted that this tomb belongs to someone who had a high status in the ancient Mongol society.

Lan Wanli also added that they have also found many other artifacts such as a jade belt hook,wooden cups,leather horse harness and other household utensils, chariots and weapons inside the tomb.

Who are the Xiongnu ?

The Xiongnu people were an alliance of nomadic tribes also known as the Huns that emerged around the end of the third century B.C. and had a huge impact on Chinese and world history. During the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu and the Chinese imperial court clashed several times. 

Archaeologists Unearth Two Golden-Silver Dragons from Mongolian Tomb


Yesterday in Worcester, England, archaeologists identified relics that are supposedly related to the last clash of the English Civil War have been found under layers of sediment in the base of a waterway valley in the West Midlands.

The antiquities incorporate rifle balls, gun shot, horse tackle fittings, belt clasps, a powder holder top, a black powder rifle trigger gatekeeper, and a bit of metal that may have been the cross grip of a sword. The opening clash of the war, battled by Royalists and Parliamentarians, occurred on horseback toward the north of Powick Bridge in 1642.

King Charles II  was vanquished on September 3, 1651, by Oliver Cromwell in a fight that struck the south of a similar extension. The ruler got away, in any case, and fled to Europe, where he lived in a state of banishment until he was reestablished to the position of royalty in 1660.

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England's civil war Battle of Worcester artifacts unearthed


Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie, discovered the fossil "MRD" cranium in Ethiopia, posing with it at the site.
Recently a team of researchers has uncovered a 3.8 million years old complete cranium that belongs to 'Australopithecus anamensis' which is the oldest species of Australopithecus. "MRD" was found in Woranso-Mille site, Ethiopia.

(Photograph by Cleveland Museum of Natural History.)

 Researchers took three and a half years to finally determine that the skull was a part 'A.anamensis' species. The fossil was partially discovered in February 2016, the first part that was found was the upper jaw while the rest of the cranium was found soon after. The fossil comes from a male who's middle and lower parts extend forwards, which is distinguishable from Lucy's that has a flat mid-face similar to a human's flat face.



(by Dale Omori, Cleveland Museum of Natural History.)

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Lucy's oldest ancestor fossil discovered to be 3.8 million years old.




Recently in northern Peru, Archaeologists have discovered an ancient mural from the lost Caral civilization. The mural dates back to 3,800 years ago, Found in the Vichama archaeological site. An excavation team has brushed the soil from the mural to reveal several figures that depict a toad that wraps its hands around the head of a man. 


Dr Ruth Shady Solís, director of the Caral Archaeological Zone (ZAC), and A rchaeologist Tatiana Abad believe that the ancient mural represents the "arrival of water" through rainfall. adding that it focuses on the importance of water and the reflections that we can create from them. Which leads them to believe that the sculptures and the mural were made in times of crisis where famine and severe shortages of water.  
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3800 year old mural discovered by Peru archaeologists

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