10 Most Bizarre Archaeological Discoveries In The World

From an evil goddess out to eat you to a tower of human skulls, here are 9 of the strangest archaeological discoveries in the world.


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9. LAMASHTU PLAQUE
Lamashtu was a demon of Mesopotamian mythology and the daughter of the Sky God Anu. She menaced women during childbirth and kidnapped their babies while they were breastfeeding. In addition to gnawing on childrens’ bones and sucking their blood, Lamashtu committed numerous other misdeeds, including eating men, interrupting people’s sleep, destroying nature; infesting freshwater bodies, such as rivers and lakes, and inflicting disease.

8. MISTAKEN BIBLICAL IDENTITY
A shocking new study reveals that bones previously thought to belong to St. James the Younger, one of the 12 apostles and possibly Jesus’ brother, are a case of mistaken identity. Recent radiocarbon dating results show that the femur fragments, which have resided at the Santi Apostoli church in Rome for the past 1,500 years, belong to someone else.

7. Fish Lung
Researchers in Morocco recently examined the fossilized lung of a previously unknown ancient fish species belonging to the mysterious coelacanth order, which was thought to be extinct until someone discovered a live specimen in 1938. The species in question, which is extinct, measured an estimated 17 feet (5.2 meters) long. Almost the size of a Great White Shark!!

6. ANCIENT CESSPIT
While conducting preliminary excavations in anticipation of building a new sewer beneath the Courtauld Gallery in London last year, construction workers discovered a giant medieval cesspit at the site. The 15-foot (4.6 meters) deep pit was filled with a trove of around 100 medieval artifacts dating back to the 14th and 15th centuries, including ceramic vessels, a ring, pendant, belt buckle, forks, and other utensils.

5. LEHI HORSE
In 2018, landscapers unearthed a horse skeleton in an ancient lake in Lehi, Utah, in somebody’s backyard. Experts originally believed the specimen was a 16,000-year-old mare who roamed the area during the last ice age, but a new study recently found that it was a domestic horse, and that the skeleton is no more than 340 years old.

4. ANCIENT SHELL HORN
For decades, a large conch shell that researchers now believe may be the oldest known seashell instrument sat unnoticed at a museum. Discovered in a prehistoric cave dwelling in the Marsoulas cave of the French Pyrenees in 1931, the artifact was originally thought to be a drinking vessel.

3. A PERSONAL ENGRAVING
While excavating in anticipation of a road construction project in Cambridgeshire, England last year, a team of archaeologists discovered an ancient millstone bearing an engraving of a large phallus. The artifact dates back roughly 2,000 years, during the Roman era in Britain.

2. MALIWAWA FIGURES
Western Arnhem Land, located in Australia’s Northern Territory, is extremely archaeologically rich, containing several thousand rock art sites. New discoveries are made there every year.

1. HUMAN SKULL TOWER
Archaeologists excavating a building in the center of Mexico City have discovered an Aztec tower of human skulls. Known as Huey Tzompantli, it is a circular tower made from human skulls that was part of a skull rack from the temple to the Aztec god of the sun, war and human sacrifice, Huitzilopochtli.

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[tyw]

As a Utahn I have to tell you we pronounce Lehi as Lee-High. But it’s cool to see something from my neck of the woods thank you!!

[istvantimmermans]

Watching your videos for quite some time now and I still love them with all the interesting topics!!!

I would love a shout out in one of your next vids!!

Cant wait for the next one 😇

[TheFirstArsynyc]

Lehi = Lee-High, Ute = Yoot. Awesome video though! Glad to see that so much is still being discovered!

[duveltje]

i think you includ a april fools joke there where no 10 buth 9 Bizarre Archaeological Discoveries nice anyay

[wingedeathnoisewave]

Pazuzu! That statue is from The Exorcist!

[katem]

I saw someone else mention a video on out of places objects and that sounds like a really cool idea! Just putting my yes vote in in that 🙂

[roberttilson]

Can do without the cartoons. I'm not a child.

[mrs.formerfish]

I am a person who lived in Lehi Utah. And utah people pronounce it LEE-HIGH. Lehi. After the prophet from the book of mormon. Lehi.
I love the video. I don't mean to sound mean. I was shocked to hear my home town on the list! 😊

[Nasauniverse]

How did they know the bones were not the saint? And do fish have lungs?

[emmaleetaylor]

I know we here in Utah have some "weirdly" named cities & Native American tribes, but it's Lehi (Lee-Hi) as in the Prophet Lehi from Scripture not Lehi (Lee-Hee). Someone else already mentioned that it's Ute not Uta, other than that great video!

[paulkendra]

All that at the bottom of a ses pit?? No wonder Rome fell, look what the hell they were eating!!

[mesmartgnome]

Nobody’s gonna point out that the lady researching the conch shell is named Conkey?

[phoenixzreaper]

*OBEY THE MAGIC CONCH SHELL, WWOOOLOLOLOLO* 😐
Squidward: may I have something to eat? (Slightly sarcastic)
Conch shell: No ( really sarcastic)

[penny_the_wiser]

I have a huge conch shell. It's been altered to be a horn. I played it outside and my neighbor freaked out

[mrruswarp]

How could James live in the first century BC?

[robyngillon]

Australian art thanks from Australia deadly mate 👍

[crikettjones]

As Ty Warner let you know, it's pronounced lee-high. Being from the Utah county, I graduated from Lehi High, home of the Pioneers class of 1989!!

[chelseybrothers]

Love your videos! My girls and i watch every day! ❤💥

[Axeman]

Not telling you off or anything but "Cambridgeshire" is pronounced "Cambridge Cher" ok God Bless!!

[BlenderStudy]

Thank you for the update, Katrina..!! 0:20 I've never heard of that Goddess until today. I'll study more on them. :)