12 Most Amazing Ancient Artifacts Finds

You never quite know where you might find an amazing old artefact. There could be one hidden in a box in your basement. Perhaps there's one buried in your back yard or hidden by the mud on the banks of the nearest river? Amazing finds from the past could be literally anywhere, and whenever they're found, they make for wonderful stories. Let's hear some of those stories now.

[justdoingitjim]

A Midden isn't a place to discard "uneaten" shellfish! It's a place to discard the SHELLS of shellfish that were eaten!

[tank]

Amazing, their destruction was infathomable. Similar to a video I recently posted. Crazy!

[HannibalFan]

Actually, I have seen a music typewriter. In the 1970s, I worked for a small music publisher on Long Island. The owner had invented a version of the music typewriter, and then went on to develop a computer program that would do the layout, though variables like crescendos, decrescendos, and ties were still done by hand.

[OldMonklander]

And one of the clips that is used in discussing the finds in Scotland are of the rising tides Hopewell Rocks in the Bay of Fundy Canada

[Jesse-zkge]

Although I think it probably would be fun to test that chocolate chemically. Maybe we'll learn more about how they made it in the past versus how they make it today. 4:16

[capt.bart.roberts]

Kent has a title in England, "The Garden of England".

[CrazyBear]

Uruk in Iraq? Or a rook in a rock? Or was it a Mugwump Typewriter? In 1975 a brand new VW Rabbit cost $2999.oo

[capt.bart.roberts]

At a guess, on The Inana Stone, humans have been making incarnations of such "secret objects" since gawd was a boy!

[robinburn]

Old chocolates aren't ancient artifacts

[MW-xmrc]

A Bick lighter for smoking Winston cigarettes?