The Greatest Archaeological Discoveries in 2017

According to researchers who wrote about this scientific magazine, some of the most important discoveries were the skulls found at the Gobekli Tepe municipality in Turkey, which date back to between the tenth and eight-year-old millennium BC, the American warship Indianapopolis and the wolf buried at the Grand Aesthetic Pyramid in Mexico, broadcast Kosovo Pres.

The Gobekli Tepe locality in Turkey consists of large rock circles that have gathered the inhabitants of that area because of social or religious ceremonies and events.

Archaeologists this year found small pieces of skulls belonging to people hanging on pillars on which monolith stones were erected. They concluded that the skulls, from which small parts had fallen, were cut and changed shortly after the death of the deceased.

This is a first indication of how the people of Neolitu have dealt with their relatives or enemies.

According to them, this monolith complex may be a place of skull cult. The discovery tells of the possibility of a ritual being held in this location.

The skull tracks indicate that they were cleansed of meat, carved, even colored.

Deep cuts in skulls created the extent of channels, which, in Germany's opinion, went from front to head. Over the head was a small hole that could pass rope to bind skulls.

This is the first discovery of this type for the early Neolith period and tells us about the unusual relationship of the living with the dead”, says archaeologist Julius Gresk of the German Archaeological Institute.

The second largest discovery this year was the American warship Indianapolis, which was sunk during World War II and is at the same time considered the biggest disaster in the history of the U.S. Navy war.

The ship belonged to Portland class. It was launched from San Francisco on July 16, 1945, with 1,196 crew members in office, tasking as soon as possible to send some components for the atom bomb, which would be thrown into Hiroshima.

On the way she was hit by Japanese submarines, and in less than 15 minutes, she sank. Some surviving mariners were unable to explain the shipwreck correctly.

It was found at the bottom of the Pacific in the depth of some 6,000 feet [6,000 m].

Thanks to a submarine without crews, sea experts based on the testimony of surviving crew members approximately defined the area where the ship could be deployed, and now Indianapolis is ready to pull to the surface.

The third discovery is a sweet - fruit cake found in good condition at the South Pole by New Zealand scientists.

The dessert made by British pastries of Huntley & Pammers was still wrapped in paper, in a remote hut in Antarctica. He belonged to Robert Falcon Scott's 1911 expedition.

The next discovery is the wolf buried in the large astec pyramid in Mexico as if he were a great warrior of war.

The young wolf's skeleton was covered with gold items that have not been seen so far.

Archaeologist Leonardo Lopez Luyan explains that the wolf was buried with all its honors as if it were a human, as its head had turned west.

The wolf was buried during the time of King Ahuicotla (1486-1502) when the astech state was in great expansion.

The future discovery that gained the right to be among the most important in 2017 is from Egypt, where a carved inscription was found showing how Egyptian hieroglyphic writing evolved. This is the earliest public hieroglyphic note. The Egyptians view it as part of Pharaoh's public message.

A team led by Egyptologist John Darnell of Yale University found this inscription on the side of a wall and dates from 3,255 BC, which was the time of the zero dynasty, when the Nile Valley was divided into two conflicting states.

Early inscriptions from the period of the zero dynasty are rare and have to do with administrative data until this inscription is about a half meter high and 300 years older than previous inscriptions found from that period.

The oldest gold artifacts in Great Britain have been found in Leacroft and date from the period of 400-250 BC.

In style they were dedicated to decorating women, while in question are the oldest things of gold from iron time when trade routes between British land and British islands were cut off, where gold was not yet known.

They were probably created in Europe and brought as a gift from some European people.

The next discovery is in Rome, where during the construction of the new subway line, workers found the oldest water supply dating back to 312 BC. The remains of the aquifer were found in the vicinity of Celmontana Square, in depth 20m.

In the middle of the monolith circle near Stonehage, England, a square composed of the same monoliths was found. This circle of monolith stones is the largest of all known constructions in Britain.

A square space surrounded by monoliths is attributed to the foundation of a building built more than 5,000 years ago, the purpose of which cannot be determined. Previously it was believed that stone circles in Avebury were located from outside toward center, and now, with the discovery of the foundation of some constructions, archaeologists believe the process could be reversed and that the stone circuits spread from the center to the ends of the field.

The next discovery, the latest on the magazine's list, changes the date for the appearance of the ancestor of the homosapiens. Excavations at Jezebel Irhoud off the Moroccan coast found the bones of homosapiens, whose age was 300,000 years and are the earliest remains of human ancestors.

The remnants of the hominides from Morocco are younger than the Neanderthal remnants for at least 50,000 years, but at the same time two types of hominides were developed. One had a flater and shorter face, similar to modern homo sapiens, and the other had a longer face, bigger teeth, and so looked more like Neanderthals.