( Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ) Mammoths, Giant Ground Sloths and Dire Wolves Also Made the List Painted artifact found during the discovery of Egypt’s 3,500-year-old Golden City, one of Archaeology Magazine’s top ten discoveries in 2021. Betsy Brian, Professor of Egyptology at John Hopkins University in Baltimore USA, said the lost city is “the second most important archaeological discovery since the tomb of Tutankhamun.” Human and animal burials along with rare jewelry, pots and mud bricks bearing seals of Amenhotep III were all unearthed. The discovery of Egypt’s 3,500-year-old Golden City is at the top of the list because it is the largest ancient city ever to be uncovered in Luxor, located between Rameses III 's temple at Medinet Habu and Amenhotep III's temple at Memnon. Marley Brown, associate editor of Archaeology Magazine, said the slave tag “had to be included” or the individual who used it may have been “lost to time and to the dehumanizing system of enslavement.” Daily Mail explained that the slave owner would have paid anywhere from $10 to $35 for the tag. This find is deemed so important because this was the only US city to issue this type of permit. The square, copper slave tag dated 1853 from Charleston, South Carolina, permitted slaves to work away from their owners within the city limits of Charleston. ( College of Charleston ) Darkness and Light of Times Past in Archaeology Magazine Top Ten Historical violence was made obvious with the inclusion of a mass grave of 25 crusaders discovered in Lebanon, and once again in a slave tag from 1853 discovered in Charleston, South Carolina.Ĭopper slave tag discovered on the College of Charleston campus in South Carolina. The list also included the earliest leatherworking tools from Morocco, the oldest animal artwork, the oldest map ever discovered and a study demonstrating how Vikings landed in America four centuries before Christopher Columbus, celebrating the achievements of ancient navigators. 23,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Found In New Mexico Are Revolutionary.‘Mind-blowing’ Find in Egypt! Lost Golden City Discovered in Luxor.But among the oldest were the 23,000-year-old footprints discovered in New Mexico and the world's oldest artwork which was discovered in Tibet. The most significant find of 2021 was Egypt’s 3,500-year-old Golden City. For the last 70 years Archaeology Magazine has been published by the Archaeological Institute of America and this most recent top 10 list will be published in the January/February 2022 issue this week. The discovery shows "that ancient people honored those killed in battle, just as we do," Anne Porter, a professor of ancient Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto and one of the study researchers, said in a statement.The top 10 ancient discoveries for 2021 have been announced by Archaeology Magazine. The people who live in the area in modern times call the mound the "white monument" because the monument's gypsum causes it to glisten in sunlight, the archaeologists wrote. Ancient inscriptions in Mesopotamia mention how the bodies of the war dead were piled into a highly organized structure. Archaeologists found that soldiers with equids tended to be grouped in different areas that soldiers with pellets as if they were part of different units. It contains the corpses of at least 30 warriors along with equids and pellets. (Image credit: Euphrates Salvage Project & Antiquity Publications)Ī 4,300-year-old burial ground in Syria, at the site of Tell Banat, may be the world's oldest known war monument, archaeologists say. Here's what the ancient memorial looked like before it was flooded from the construction of a dam. Read more: Human head carvings and phallus-shaped pillars discovered at 11,000-year-old site in Turkey Oldest war monument Both sites are two of the oldest known monumental sites constructed by people. The site dates to a similar time as Gobekli Tepe, another archaeological site that has large buildings and carvings of animals and human heads. Excavations at the site started in 2019 and are ongoing. The building is part of a larger complex. "All pillars are erected and shaped like a phallus," Necmi Karul, a professor of prehistoric archaeology at Istanbul University, wrote in a paper published in the journal Türk Arkeoloji ve Etnografya Dergisi. (Image credit: Esber Ayaydin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)Īn 11,000-year-old prehistoric site in Turkey which is now called Karahantepe was used for a prehistoric parade that saw people walk through a building that contained phallus shaped pillars and a carving of a human head. Human depictions and obelisks are seen at Karahantepe, one of the important settlements of the Neolithic period, in Haliliye district of Sanliurfa, Turkey, on Sept.
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