Archaeology

Stories filed under Archaeology in the Weird Science History archive — 54 stories from the strange edge of science.

• The 3,000-Year-Old Trumpet That Shattered in Rehearsal for Its Worldwide Radio Debut
• The 3,300-Year-Old Golden Beard That Got Glued Back On With Epoxy
• The Ancient Greek Robot Maid Who Poured Your Wine — and Then Quietly Watered It Down
• The Archaeologist Who Measured the Great Pyramid in Pink Underwear — and Buried His Father's Favorite Theory
• The Bronze Age Shield Sliced in Two in Front of Britain's Top Archaeologists
• The Colonel Who Opened the Great Pyramid With Gunpowder — and Got His Drill Stuck in the Sphinx
• The Earthworms Darwin Caught Slowly Burying Stonehenge
• The Easter Island Statues That 'Walked' to Work — and the 18 People Who Took One for a Stroll
• The Mummified Baboons That Helped Find a Lost Kingdom — Using Their Teeth as a Return Address
• The Roman Pet Monkey Buried With Three Kittens and a Piglet of Her Own
• The Roman Pocket Sundial Shaped Like a Ham
• The South-Pointing Chariot That Needed a Man Hidden Inside to Point South
• The Surgeon Who Unrolled Mummies for Sold-Out Crowds — and the Duke Who Hired Him to Make One More
• The 3,000-Year-Old Wooden Toe Scientists Test-Drove in Replica Egyptian Sandals
• The Crocodile Mummy a Fed-Up Workman Smashed — and Found Stuffed With Ancient Paperwork
• The First Roman Letter Found Near Hadrian's Wall Was About Socks and Underpants
• The 3,900-Year-Old Fart Joke Scribes Copied in School
• The Bluestone Bound for Stonehenge That Sank 17 Miles Into a 240-Mile Trip
• From Baltimore Sewer Gas to the Shroud of Turin: A Short History of Radiocarbon Dating
• The 3,000-Year-Old Pharaoh Who Flew to Paris for a Fungus Treatment — Without a Passport
• The Ancient Egyptian Pregnancy Test That Asked Women to Pee on Grain — and Sort of Worked
• The Bronze Dragon That Spat Out a Ball Over an Earthquake Nobody Felt
• The Opera Costume Designer Who Put Horns on the Vikings
• The 180,000 Mummified Cats That Were Sold by the Ton as Fertilizer
• The 22-Pound Lump of 2,000-Year-Old Butter Turf Cutters Dug Out of a Bog
• The Basement Wall That Opened Onto a City for 20,000 People
• The Coin-Operated Holy Water Machine That Beat the Vending Machine by 1,800 Years
• The King Found Six Hours Into the Dig, Under a Parking Space Marked 'R'
• The Lost Hammer That Led to 14,865 Roman Coins — and Got Its Own Museum Number
• The Obelisk That Took Three Attempts, Two Countries, and 120 Men to Stand Up
• The Tube of Paint That Got a Funeral in an English Garden
• From a Sponge on a Stick to the Flush Toilet: A Short History of the Toilet
• The Sea Monster Rebuilt With Its Head on the End of Its Tail
• The Fake Fossils Carved to Humiliate a Professor — Who Then Published a Book About Them
• The Man Who Found Troy — and Dug Straight Through It
• The Mummy's Curse That Missed Its Main Target
• The 5,700-Year-Old Chewing Gum That Held an Entire Human Genome
• The Angry Customer Complaint That Survived 3,750 Years
• Kon-Tiki: The Raft That Crossed an Ocean to Prove a Theory That Was Wrong
• The 5,300-Year-Old Iceman Whose Tattoos May Have Been Medicine
• The 2,000-Year-Old Computer Found in a Shipwreck
• The 3,000-Year-Old Pants That Were Invented for Horseback Riding
• The Baghdad Battery: The 2,000-Year-Old 'Battery' That Probably Never Held a Charge
• The Buried Army Found by Farmers Digging a Well
• The Circus Strongman Who Found Egypt's Greatest Tomb
• The Copper Tools That Scraped History Off the Parthenon Marbles
• The Library Burned by Vesuvius That AI Is Finally Reading
• The Petrified Giant That Was a Fake of a Fake
• Piltdown Man: The Fake Fossil That Fooled Science for 40 Years
• The Roman Concrete That Heals Its Own Cracks
• The Runaway Goat That Led to the Dead Sea Scrolls
• 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

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