![]() ![]() It’s a Christmas Miracle! An Archaeologist May Have Just Found Jesus’s Childhood Home in Nazareth Now Scholars Say They May Be Dire Warnings of Climate ChangeĪstounded Scholars Just Found What Appears to Be a Previously Unknown Work by Albrecht Dürer in a Church’s Gift ShopĮxperts Conclude That This Odd Self-Portrait of Vincent van Gogh Giving the Side Eye Really Is by the Dutch MasterĪrchaeologists May Have Uncovered the Secret Ingredient Behind Australia’s Mysteriously Precise Cave Paintings: Beeswax The Riddles on a Mysterious Viking Monument Long Proved Baffling. But Archaeologists in China Just Found More Than 200 Others There Are 8,000 Known Terracotta Warriors. The Statue of Liberty’s Most Iconic Feature Was Originally Supposed to Look Very Different, Newly Discovered Drawings Reveal In an Extraordinary Discovery, Archaeologists May Have Just Located the Tomb of Romulus, the Legendary Founder of Rome Why Does This Rock Art Look So Trippy? Because Native Californians Were Literally Taking Hallucinogens When They Made It, a Study SaysĪ 500-Year-Old Aztec Tower of Human Skulls Is Even More Terrifyingly Humongous Than Previously Thought, Archaeologists FindĪrchaeologists Have Uncovered an Ancient Church Built on the Site Believed to Have Hosted the Last Supper Due to pending litigation, the finder revealed his identity only at the end of the year, but is keeping the location of the discovery a secret-although some treasure hunters believe the hoard’s hiding place was in Yellowstone National Park.Ĭan’t get enough? Here are the other art-world discoveries covered on Artnet News this year:ĭid Ancient Hebrews Get High During Temple? A New Archaeological Discovery Suggests They Did This year, shortly before Fenn died at age 90, someone finally succeeded in that occasionally deadly quest. #Oldest artifact full#Over the course of the last decade, as many as 300,000 people may have tried to uncover the bronze chest full of gold, precious gems, and other valuables said to be worth $2 million that the eccentric New Mexico art dealer Forrest Fenn hid somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. The culprit, a recent study suggests, might actually have been 6,000 miles away, where the Okmok volcano exploded on Alaska’s Aleutian Islands the year before, unleashing clouds of ash that triggered a famine that contributed to the social unrest that followed.Ĭlimate scientists made the breakthrough through samples of six arctic ice cores, which can be dated like tree rings, comparing the volcanic tephra in the ice to the rock chemistry of volcanos around the world, definitively matching it to Okmok.Īncient Viking Artifacts Emerged Beneath Melting Ice (Thanks, Climate Change)įorrest Fenn’s treasure was allegedly buried in an ornate, Romanesque box filled with gold nuggets, gold coins and other gems. ![]() The assassination of Julius Caesar in the year 44 BC may not be to blame for the fall of the Roman Republic. ![]() Photo by Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, paleoclimatology professor and researcher at the Centre for Ice and Climate at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen in Denmark. There Are More Mummies and Painted Sarcophagi to Be Found in Egyptĭetailed records of past explosive volcanic eruptions are archived in the Greenland ice sheet and accessed through deep-drilling operations. Other times, even the most minor details can become crucial, as when researchers discovered that Johannes Vermeer’s Girl With the Pearl Earring once had eyelashes.Īll are fascinating. And this year also proved the groundbreaking discovery of the oldest example of the written Basque language to be a hoax.Īnd though some discoveries prompt skepticism, others can be earth-shattering, such as the largest, oldest Maya monument ever found. Of course, 2020 reminded us that discoveries can be a bit of a bummer: museum visitors might be destroying The Scream, and a possible new Leonardo da Vinci drawing might prove the record-setting $450 million Salvator Mundi isn’t the Renaissance master’s painting. Shortly after scientists confirmed that the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, owned Dead Sea Scroll forgeries, putting the authenticity of some 70 other known fragments in question, the University of Manchester realized that parchment scraps believed to be blank and worthless were actually part of a cache of ancient manuscripts. Despite its many difficulties, 2020 gave us some incredible discoveries. ![]()
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