1. Mexico: the "beast" capital and the megalodon peninsula - Maya
In May 2020, while renovating a military base north of Mexico City, a "mammoth graveyard" with the remains of at least 60 animals, dated to at least 10,000 years old. During the ice age, it was a muddy lake. The airport project from the old base site is on hold for excavation, which could take several years.
Bone "beast" in Santa Lucia - (Photo: AP).
Not long after, in the town of Santa Lucia near Mexico City, another airport project that started in 2019 was repeatedly interrupted by the great remains of 200 Columbian mammoths one after another.
Jaw and body reconstruction of a megalodon "monster" shark in a museum in Mexico - (Image: ZME SCIENCE).
The city of Meria - the capital of the Yucatan peninsula - is famous for the discovery of teeth and vertebrae of at least 3 species of giant and terrifying sharks, including the megalodon "super shark". Also this year, a "Maya ship" project on the Yucatan peninsula also threatened to stall indefinitely when the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico used ground-penetrating radar (GPR, which can detect objects). unusual structure buried many meters deep underground" to scan the peninsula and discovered that in just the first 366 km of the land planned to build the railway line, there were more than 2,700 structures that are pyramids, temples. , houses... of the Mayans looming from the ground
2. The land of Viking "dead ships"
Norway attracts attention with a series of Viking graves revealed only in 2020, of which most are the graves of the nobility with many treasures, and there are also extremely rare "boat graves".
The most recent include 15 burial mounds in the village of Bodosjoen, Bodo. Ground-penetrating radars are used to survey snow-covered fields and have seen them. Each mound is 17.5 m in diameter, in fact a huge family crypt built by Viking nobles. Earlier in December 2020, in another field in Gjellestad, Southeast Oslo, the Norwegian Institute of Cultural Heritage continued to use LiDAR to discover 20 other noble tombs, possibly full of treasures, among them. There was a huge "grave boat" that could carry the remains of a king or queen.
A Viking boat used as a grave is on display in a museum in Norway - (Photo: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC).
Exactly 1 year ago, in December 2019, another "dead boat" up to 16-17 m long was also discovered by the Norwegian Cultural Heritage Research Institute on Smola island. Usually the Viking boat is made a grave only a few meters long, this giant boat can be a mass grave or the grave of an extremely important dignitaries.
3. San diego: just make the road to meet "beast"
SR-11/Otay Mesa East, the highway leading directly to the border crossing at the US-Mexico border, has dug a mass grave of all kinds of extinct beasts, including an ice age camel and many living creatures. unnamed objects, not to mention a rock mass ejected from an ancient volcano that makes the "grave" more interesting. Paleontologists from the San diego Museum of Natural History (USA) warn that this project is cutting through ancient sediments and will still encounter many "beasts ".
Unearth the "beast" in San diego - (Photo: SAN dieGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM).
Before that, another route called SR-54 a few decades ago dug up an ice age "beast" that was a mastodon, an extinct creature of the genus Mammut. The SR-76 route crashed into a giant 120,000-year-old bison.
4. Great Britain and the "treasure act"
This country has a "UK Treasure Act" to balance the interests of discoverers, owners and society with the countless archaeological finds here.
A 4,000-year-old gold jewelry from Northamtonshire - (Image: LONDON Archaeological Museum).
The most remarkable recent may be the latest discovery of a magnificent 16th-century manor house during the construction of the HS2 train line between Brimmingham and London, which has clashed with tens of thousands of monuments and tombs dating from the Paleolithic era. stone to modern times and turned into the largest archaeological work in England, regularly having more than 1,000 archaeologists working throughout the railway.
At the end of December 2020, an anonymous man discovered Britain’s largest gold store by accident on the bank of a field, dating back 2,000 years. A housing project in Northamtonshire has unearthed 154 ancient tombs full of precious 4,000-year-old jewels... According to the Archaeological Museum of London, surveying by archaeologists is a mandatory procedure in many localities in London. UK when you want to build something.
