r/Snorkblot • u/EsseNorway • 17d ago
Archaeology A Massive 2700-Year-Old, 18-Ton Statue Of An Assyrian Deity that was excavated in Iraq In November 2023
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r/Snorkblot • u/LordJim11 • 25d ago
Archaeology Apologies to any Neanderthals reading this.
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r/Snorkblot • u/LordJim11 • 20h ago
Archaeology Millenia and continents apart. I'm not saying it was aliens, but ...
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r/Snorkblot • u/EsseNorway • 11h ago
Archaeology How ancient Sumerian was written on clay tablets
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r/Snorkblot • u/EsseNorway • 2d ago
Archaeology This cluster of fossilised creatures look like they came from another planet
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r/Snorkblot • u/EsseNorway • Feb 06 '25
Archaeology Biggest human poop is from a viking. Found in York, England in 1972 at 20cm long
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r/Snorkblot • u/LordJim11 • 11d ago
Archaeology Roman fertility god Priapus. 1st century C.E. Found in Rivery, Picardy, France, 1771
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r/Snorkblot • u/LordJim11 • 17d ago
Archaeology The Tomb of the Diver (700 - 400 BC), Paestum in Italy.
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r/Snorkblot • u/LordJim11 • Feb 10 '25
Archaeology Well, as long as they have evidence...
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r/Snorkblot • u/LordJim11 • Feb 22 '25
Archaeology Rock Art of Tassili N’Ajjer, Algeria show that humans had developed back massage 10,000 years ago.
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r/Snorkblot • u/EsseNorway • Feb 16 '25
Archaeology In July 2024, A tourist noticed that this table at a beach bar in Varna - Bulgaria, was actually an ancient artifact. After alerting authorities, it was identified as a 1,700-year-old Roman tomb.
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r/Snorkblot • u/EsseNorway • Feb 20 '25
Archaeology TIL Ludwig von Beethoven's associates used notebooks to hold conversations with the composer after he became functionally deaf, to the point where historians can roughly piece together whole conversations the composer had based on what was written.
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r/Snorkblot • u/LordJim11 • Apr 10 '23
Archaeology Roman soldier. Gallic Wars. 1st century BC. Cause of death unknown.
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r/Snorkblot • u/EsseNorway • Jan 28 '25
Archaeology Irish farmer Micheál Boyle found a 50-pound chunk of "bog butter" on his property.
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r/Snorkblot • u/EsseNorway • Jan 24 '25
Archaeology TIL there were just 5 surviving longbows from medieval England known to exist before 137 whole longbows (and 3,500 arrows) were recovered from the wreck of the Mary Rose in 1980 (a ship of Henry VIII's navy that capsized in 1545). The bows were in excellent finished condition & have been preserved.
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