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Unearthing the Dark Secrets: Recent archaeological discoveries around the world

Gruesome archaeological discoveries 

Recent archaeological discoveries around the world have unearthed controversial practices in ancient cultures, revealing unusual and gruesome findings. In Denmark, a family grave containing three bodies preserved for nearly a millennium offered a haunting glimpse into the past.

Meanwhile, in Bubashua, India, a statue of the god Chamunda, with her necklace of human skulls and crown of fire, represents a dark aspect of the mother goddess. Stone amputation techniques from 31,000 years ago on Borneo suggest advanced surgical skills, while the preservation of hair in ancient Egyptian mummies and the discovery of an intact hairstyle of Queen Teddy provide insights into ancient beauty practices.

Recent archaeological discoveries around the world

These discoveries shed light on the macabre aspects of our history and evoke mixed emotions about our ancestors' practices and beliefs.

Being an archaeologist is not always fun and beautiful, but it can also be very challenging. After all, you never know what awaits you behind the thick walls. Sometimes, the researchers on Earth are downright awful and have to deal with vines that give you chills.

Before we show you some of these grisly discoveries, please stay tuned with this article by leaving a polite and kind comment. We will appreciate it.

Now, let's start with the 10 most Recent archaeological discoveries around the world

1. Chamunda

Recent archaeological discoveries around the world

We can probably pretty well imagine what researchers were thinking when they found the statue in the Indian state of Bubashua. The mummy-like woman wears a necklace made of human skulls, has a crown of fire on her head, sits on top of a corpse, and carries a skull fragment in her hands.

In India, this apparently not-so-friendly woman is known as the god Chamunda. Jamanda is also called Jamundi by the Indians, and she is a variant of the Divine Mother, who in Hindu belief is the supreme deity in the universe. Jamanda is somewhat reminiscent of Kali, the dark goddess of death and destruction.

In fact, both goddesses are dark aspects of the mother goddess who is actually wise and compassionate.

Chamunda means the one who defeated the demons Chanda and Munda. Both represent a distorted identification with matter and possessions. People who are caught in boasting and ego or identifying with their worldly possessions will have to deal with that terrible mother.

In simple language, this means that such people remain mortal and addicted to fear. Just like that, such people started to see themselves fearfully in the presence of Chamunda, while the terrible goddess inside just smiled tiredly from a purified or enlightened soul.

2. Traces of a Stone Amputation

Recent archaeological discoveries around the world

The fact that people did not have anesthetics and sterile operating rooms available in the past does not mean that there were no operations. In fact, there was an excellent surgeon on the island of Borneo 31,000 years ago. Researchers found this out during excavations in a cave.

They found the skeleton of a young man who probably underwent an amputation in his teens. The lower leg bone had been cut in such a perfect way that the researchers could only marvel. 31,000 years ago, humans supposedly just learned to use stones as primitive tools, but the stone doctor must have possessed far more skill than just neatly severing a limb. Amputations require knowledge of the vessels and nerves. Even today, doctors could reconstruct from the bones that the limb had not only been professionally severed but that the wound had later optimally healed.

This surgeon obviously knew exactly how to stop the bleeding after the operation. In short, one could also say a modern surgeon could not have done it any better.

Instead of anesthesia and antibiotics, however, it is very likely that 31,000 years ago, there was only perseverance and medicinal plants. The young man who was amputated survived the operation by at least seven to nine years, but somehow the idea of an operation under these conditions still remains gruesome.

3. Queen Teddy

Recent archaeological discoveries around the world

Queen Teddy was the wife of the Egyptian pharaohs and monopolis III in the 14th century BC and the mother of the famous agent academ Teddy. She was equally known for her influence and beauty during her lifetime.

Born at Bourgeois, she had managed to conquer the heart of a pharaoh. The latter broke the Lafayette that he had to marry a noble wife, which speaks for a very rare love marriage by Egyptian standards. Tahi is said to have ruled almost equally at the side of her husband and to have been privy to all affairs of state.

When this resolute lady was not engaged in the world politics of antiquity, she passionately took care of her hair. In addition to constant washing and combing, the queen preferably greased her hair with crocodile fat. Here is said to have been the most luxuriant and beautiful in the whole empire, and the discovery of her mummy showed that these old writings were not lying.

When the tomb of Tahi was opened in the Valley of the Kings, the queen, who died at about the age of 60, still looked graceful for a mummy. Her hair was amazingly well-preserved three thousand years after her death, and the woman did not have a single gray hair. Despite this perfect preservation, a dried-up corpse like this one with curls seems kind of gruesome, doesn't it?

 4. Two meters tall monkey woman

Recent archaeological discoveries around the world

The story of a two-meter-tall monkey woman persists. Reports of entities of this kind, hairy all over the body and living in the forest, exist almost all over the globe. In America, they are called Bigfoot. In India, Getty. Australian natives know the Yahoo, and in Russia, the Big Forest people are called Chuki.

At the end of the 19th century, hunters are said to have captured a two-meter-tall Forest woman and then brought her as a gift to the prince. The woman became known as Sana and is said to have lived for several years at various courts.

The prince of the now autonomous region of Ab Kazaya soon grew tired of the wild forest woman and donated her to a neighboring kingdom. The legends of the forest woman, who could only be appeased by wine, are known throughout the Black Sea region. Unfortunately, there is no proof that she really existed.

5. Polish vampirists

Recent archaeological discoveries around the world

During excavations in a cemetery in Poland, researchers found a skeleton that sent a shiver down their spines. The reason was the safeguards used to bury this woman in the 1700s: a sickle around the neck and a chain on the feet were intended to ensure that the dead woman would remain safely where she was buried.

The belief in vampires had been widespread in Eastern Europe since the Early Middle Ages. Following a number of mysterious incidents, all people who had died in a strange way or were suspected of being connected with witchcraft and dark magic during their lifetime were buried in this way for safety's sake.

In Poland and other countries in Eastern Europe, more than a dozen of these vampire graves have now been found during excavations. Unfortunately, the researchers have not been able to find out who the vampire in PN in Poland was during her lifetime.

 6. Woman in the Stone

Recent archaeological discoveries around the world

This mysterious and somehow also creepy find became known as the Guadalupe woman. There are currently only two photographs of this artifact, which British officers found in 1810 during the conquest of the until-then French island of Guadalupe.

The stone tablet was brought to Britain and displayed there for years. What makes it unusual is the size of the body. In fact, with head and arms, the lady would have been about five meters tall. Later, it could be determined that the rock in which the skeleton is baked is 28 million years old.

Of course, this raised questions about who this woman was when she died and whether the bones are as old as the stone. During a move by the British Museum, it is still considered lost.

 7. Family grave in Denmark

Recent archaeological discoveries around the world

When researchers opened this voluminous tomb in Denmark, they were presented with a grisly sight. Three bodies lay in one room in their oak coffins, just as if they had been buried alive in their living room. Later, however, it turned out the dead had died one after the other.

It was very likely that the woman, a man, and a younger man were a family. Due to the good preservation inside the mound, some of the bodies were very well preserved. The hair, as well as muscle tissue, were still intact almost 1,000 years after their death.

8. Bone Games

Recent archaeological discoveries around the world

Australia is the Greek name of various games of skill and dice. The game piece used in ancient times were the jumping legs of cloven-hoofed animals, such as sheep or goats.

For one game, a circle was drawn on the ground, and the players each had to carry their teammates' knucklebones out of the circle with their own. Rumor has it that in certain parts of the world, especially in times of war, the game was also played with the bones of human enemies. Evidence for this, however, does not exist to this day, or let's say, fortunately.

 9. Animal Slaughter

Recent archaeological discoveries around the world

The Spaniards are known until today for their sometimes bloody customs in which animals come to harm. These rights, which have been increasingly banned in modern times for animal welfare reasons, may have a legacy in the Tartesso culture.

The people who lived along the Strait of Gibraltar were, according to Laurel, actually extremely advanced and wealthy. Yet, they apparently practiced cruel animal rituals in an ancient building. Researchers found the remains of such a cult inside a temple-like room.

About a dozen horses had apparently been burned alive. The researchers also found human bones, presumably from guards of the temple who were supposed to ensure that the horses did not escape and that no one from outside disturbed the ritual. However, these guards eventually burned themselves or died from smoke poisoning.

10. Human Teeth

Recent archaeological discoveries around the world

During excavations in Çatalhöyük, Turkey, 8,500-year-old human teeth were found. Further findings eventually indicated that the hunter-gatherer culture of the time used the teeth as jewelry. According to researchers, the teeth came from a person between 30 and 50 years old.

After their death, the teeth had been forcibly removed, pierced, and strung as a necklace. This leads to the conclusion that people either wore the teeth of their deceased ancestors or those of their enemies as jewelry.

Macabre, isn't it? How do you feel about it?

Would you want to wear your grandfather's teeth or anyone else's teeth as jewelry? And how do you feel about all the other gruesome finds from this article? As always, we welcome your opinions and discussions on the topic in the comments. See you next time.


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