Archaeology

Stories filed under Archaeology in the Weird Science History archive — 31 stories from the strange edge of science.

• The Tube of Paint That Got a Funeral in an English Garden
• The Stone Age Skull Surgery With a Higher Survival Rate Than the Civil War's
• The Teenagers Who Found a 20,000-Year-Old Art Gallery
• Göbekli Tepe: The Temple Built Before Farming, Writing, or the Wheel
• The Roman Concrete That Heals Its Own Cracks
• The Runaway Goat That Led to the Dead Sea Scrolls
• The Sea Monster Rebuilt With Its Head on the End of Its Tail
• The Obelisk That Took Three Attempts, Two Countries, and 120 Men to Stand Up
• The Petrified Giant That Was a Fake of a Fake
• Piltdown Man: The Fake Fossil That Fooled Science for 40 Years
• The Library Burned by Vesuvius That AI Is Finally Reading
• The Lost Hammer That Led to 14,865 Roman Coins — and Got Its Own Museum Number
• The Man Who Found Troy — and Dug Straight Through It
• The Mummy's Curse That Missed Its Main Target
• The King Found Six Hours Into the Dig, Under a Parking Space Marked 'R'
• The Fake Fossils Carved to Humiliate a Professor — Who Then Published a Book About Them
• The Circus Strongman Who Found Egypt's Greatest Tomb
• The Coin-Operated Holy Water Machine That Beat the Vending Machine by 1,800 Years
• The Copper Tools That Scraped History Off the Parthenon Marbles
• The Angry Customer Complaint That Survived 3,750 Years
• The Baghdad Battery: The 2,000-Year-Old 'Battery' That Probably Never Held a Charge
• The Basement Wall That Opened Onto a City for 20,000 People
• The Buried Army Found by Farmers Digging a Well
• The 5,300-Year-Old Iceman Whose Tattoos May Have Been Medicine
• The 180,000 Mummified Cats That Were Sold by the Ton as Fertilizer
• The 2,000-Year-Old Computer Found in a Shipwreck
• The 22-Pound Lump of 2,000-Year-Old Butter Turf Cutters Dug Out of a Bog
• The 3,000-Year-Old Pants That Were Invented for Horseback Riding
• The 5,700-Year-Old Chewing Gum That Held an Entire Human Genome
• From a Sponge on a Stick to the Flush Toilet: A Short History of the Toilet
• Kon-Tiki: The Raft That Crossed an Ocean to Prove a Theory That Was Wrong

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