for regular videos on ancient cultures and forgotten civilizations please subscribe the year has come to a close and now it's time to look back on it so we're going to consider the greatest archaeological discoveries of NUMBER_TOKEN mind you this is my list so it will most certainly be from my perspective kaylee from history with kaylee she's got one a list as well top five i think and it's very different from mine after watching this go check it out and see what she thinks if i recall her list contains only one discovery that i have on my list so there's hardly any overlap this list includes objects found from ancient times only so there's nothing medieval here or prehistoric so you were looking for footprints in the americas you won't find them here i'm staying in my wheelhouse and it helps narrow things down a bit some of the discoveries on my list i think about three concerned things found before NUMBER_TOKEN but it's in NUMBER_TOKEN that a realization came as to what was actually found does that count as an archaeological discovery i think if it involves the work that archaeologists do after something is dug up it does it's a discovery right archaeological discoveries are important for the study of ancient history because with each discovery ancient history is revised our understanding of the past changes sometimes a little sometimes a lot but they are always informative and transformative so now i'm going to count down the NUMBER_TOKEN greatest archaeological discoveries of NUMBER_TOKEN. number NUMBER_TOKEN the roman coin horde found in germany more than NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN silver coins buried by a river about NUMBER_TOKEN years ago were discovered in augsburg germany these coins are denarii that's the standard silver denomination during the first to early third century ce the youngest coin of the horde was minted at the beginning of the third century thus dating the deposition of the horde in the early third century we don't yet know why the horde was deposited there number NUMBER_TOKEN chinese bronze mirrors yes archaeologists conducting excavations at a cemetery in northwest china have found more than NUMBER_TOKEN roughly NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN year old bronze mirrors the ancient chinese used to cast the mirrors using a variety of methods they range in diameter from three to nine inches many of the artifacts are very well preserved one of them is still able to reflect images fairly clearly the tombs belong to the elites of that society most of the mirrors were buried close to the head or upper body of the owners who included both men and women the accessories held inscriptions conveying wishes for a better life most of the mirrors date to between the warring states period of NUMBER_TOKEN to NUMBER_TOKEN bce and the late western han dynasty which ended around NUMBER_TOKEN ce these mirrors are great references for archaeologists to further study the material culture of the early and middle periods of the western han dynasty there are also excellent examples of the aesthetic taste of the ancient chinese and they possess both historical and artistic value number NUMBER_TOKEN a gupta temple was found in india yes the archaeological survey of india found the remains of an ancient temple in a village called bilsar in uttar pradesh a staircase of the temple has shankalipi inscriptions shankalipi is an ornate stylized script often used to write names and they say sri mahendra dita on
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