{"id":3922217,"date":"2025-10-04T19:03:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T00:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/10-of-the-most-amazing-archaeological-discoveries-made-in-2017\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T19:03:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T00:03:02","slug":"10-of-the-most-amazing-archaeological-discoveries-made-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/10-of-the-most-amazing-archaeological-discoveries-made-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"10 of the most amazing archaeological discoveries made in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It is time to take a look at 2017 and comb through the numerous archaeological discoveries that have were made this year, and pick out 10 of the most fascinating, worth remembering.<\/p>\n

Note there isn\u2019t a particular order.<\/p>\n

Tower of skulls<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Skull
The ancient skull-tower is believed to have been quoted by Spanish conquistadores. Image credit: REUTERS. <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A group of archaeologists has found more than 650 skulls amalgamated with lime near the \u2018Templo Mayor\u2019 of the Aztec capital Tenochitlan, in Mexico. Archaeologists believe they were part of the Huey Tzompantli, a massive tower of skulls that horrified the Spanish conquerors when they captured the city in 1521.<\/p>\n

Cavity in the Great Pyramid<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"ScanPyramids
Where researchers found a void in the Great Pyramid of Giza using muons. The team previously discovered a smaller, passageway-like void on the pyramid\u2019s northern face. ScanPyramids\/HIP Institute<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Scientists who used cosmic ray-based scanning technology detected a large mysterious \u201ccavity\u201d inside the Great Pyramid of Giza.<\/p>\n

The mysterious space, 20 meters long, is located just above the Grand Gallery, and it is the first large structure discovered since the 19th century inside the pyramid, which is believed to date back around 4,500 years.<\/p>\n

The Dead Sea Scrolls\u2014the 12th cave<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Image
A small piece of the Book Of Giants and the Dead Sea Scrolls<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Researchers announced in 2017 the discovery of a series of jars, wrappings, and ties related to the Dead Sea Scrolls (the manuscripts that include the oldest known copies of biblical texts) in a cave, the twelfth of the Qumran caves near Qumran, Israel.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis exciting excavation is the closest we\u2019ve come to discovering new\u00a0Dead Sea scrolls<\/a>\u00a0in 60 years,\u201d said Hebrew University archaeologist Oren Gutfeld, director of the excavation.<\/p>\n

Two sunken cities<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"sunken
A joint Tunisian-Italian archaeological mission has been looking for evidence of Neapolis since 2010 \u2013 Image Credit: National Heritage Institute Tunisia\/University of Sassari<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tunisia and Italy. Archaeologists discovered the existence of two submerged ancient Roman cities: Neapolis, near the city of Nabeul, and Baia, on the Italian coast. They disappeared in the 4th century, as a result of seismic and volcanic activity in the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n

Stone gates in Saudi Arabia<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Saudi
The massive structures as seen from the air.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Researchers came across more than 400 strange structures which date back thousands of years in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

It is believed that the ancient stone structures\u2014dubbed as Gates by experts\u2014could go be around 7,000 years old. Their purpose remains a mystery. Some of these \u201cgates\u201d are located next to a volcanic dome that at one time spewed out basaltic lava.<\/p>\n

The Antikythera wreck<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Antikythera
The bronze arm recovered at the site of the shipwreck.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Antikythera\u00a0shipwreck yielded more fascinating discovers as researchers discovered a\u00a0vast array of relics and an arm of a bronze statue. This is quite a find as experts say that bronze statues are among the rarest artifacts from ancient times. What makes this discovery even more fascinating is the fact that the arm fragment does not match any statue bodies discovered to date, which brings us to the question: Where\u2019s the rest of the statue?<\/p>\n

The Oldest Pottery fragments in America<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Pottery
Pieces of the pottery fragments recovered by archaeologists. Image Credit:\u00a0Far Eastern Federal University\u00a0of Russia<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

2017 has yielded what many experts consider as the oldest pottery fragments ever discovered in the American Continent.<\/p>\n

A team of Russian and Ecuadorian experts recovered artifacts that are believed to date back more than 6,000 years and belonged to the little-studied culture of San Pedro.<\/p>\n

A 4,000-year-old clay tablet reveals location of Ancient Cities<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Cuneiform
Ancient cuneiform inscriptions. Image Credit: Shutterstock<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Researchers have analyzed a 4,000-year-old clay tablet created by ancient merchants from the Assyrian Empire which details the approximate location of 11 long lost ancient cities.<\/p>\n

Written in the ancient Cuneiform script\u2014developed by the ancient Sumerians\u2014the clay tablets detail a set of business transactions, accounts, seals, contracts and even marriage certificates.<\/p>\n

Buddha\u2019s remains?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Buddha\"
The ceramic urn containing human remains incinerated with the name of engraved Buddha (Chinese Cultural Relics)<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Archaeologists have recovered cremated bones hidden away in a 1,000-year old chest in China that according to reports, may belong to Siddhartha Gautama, better known as Buddha, the founder of Buddhism.<\/p>\n

9,7-million-year-old teeth<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Ancient
Seen in this image are two of the fossilized teeth discovered at Eppelsheim. Image Credit: The Museum of Natural History in Mainz<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Experts found a 9.7 million-year-old fossilized denture that belonged to a species that in theory appeared in Africa several millions of years later has taken experts by surprise.<\/p>\n

The revolutionary finding may put Europe as the cradle of humanity.<\/p>\n

The discovery was made by experts from Germany who after making the discovery said: \u201cWe do not want to dramatize it too much, but I would hypothesize that we will have to start rewriting the history of humanity after today.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It is time to take a look at 2017 and comb through the numerous archaeological discoveries that have were made this year, and pick out 10 of the most fascinating, worth remembering.<\/p>\n

Note there isn\u2019t a particular order.<\/p>\n

Tower of skulls<\/p>\n

The ancient skull-tower is believed to have been quoted by Spanish conquistadores. Image […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3922217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-code","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3922217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3922217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3922217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3922217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}