{"id":75,"date":"2015-07-10T15:02:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T15:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historylearning.com\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2023-03-15T14:15:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T14:15:49","slug":"the-top-3-archaeological-finds-of-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historylearning.com\/blog\/the-top-3-archaeological-finds-of-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"The Top 3 Archaeological Finds of 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Archaeologists are constantly uncovering new and exciting historical discoveries to share with the rest of the world. What have they provided for 2015 so far? History Learning<\/a> makes it our mission to find out\u2026<\/p>\n

1. Greek Mystery Tomb<\/strong><\/p>\n

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At the beginning of 2015 there was a reported skeleton found buried under a huge mound at Amphipolis in northern Greece.<\/p>\n

Dating back to the reign of Alexander the Great (late fourth century B.C.), the tomb measures approximately a third of a mile in circumference and is the largest ever found one in Greece.<\/p>\n

The human remains were uncovered at the end of an archaeological exploration through sphinxes, female statues and dazzling mosaics, which would prove fierce competition even for the Ancient Romans<\/a>\u00a0or Egyptians.<\/p>\n

A new geophysical scan has identified four areas of \u201cespecially high electrical resistance\u201d underneath the vast tomb, indicating that more structures could await. Excavation is due to begin in the summer and any new discoveries may increase the number of existing historical sights.<\/p>\n

2. Amelia Earhart\u2019s Plane<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The mystery surrounding Amelia Earhart and her plane\u2019s disappearance over the central Pacific Ocean on 2 July 1937 still baffles the world today. She had her first proper flying encounter at an exhibition put on by a World War One<\/a> ace.<\/p>\n

On 28 October 2014 Ric Gillespie, executive director at The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), made the announcement that his team on Nikumaroro had found a piece of aircraft debris. This discovery paves the way for physical evidence of retrieving Earhart\u2019s apparently lost plane, seeing as Nikumaroro is an uninhabited chain of coral islands in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati.<\/p>\n

The finding could indicate that unlike previous assumptions, Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan did not in fact crash into the Pacific Ocean after running out of fuel, but instead were forced to land on the coral reef of Nikumaroro and became castaways.<\/p>\n

Gillespie will try to solve the untold mystery of Amelia and her plane this summer, when he sets out on an expedition to confirm whether or not a sonar anomaly captured off Nikumaroro in 2012 is part of the long lost Electra aircraft.<\/p>\n

3. Richard III\u2019s Final Resting Place<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Another significant testament has recently been added to the Richard III project ever since his skeleton was found in a Leicester car park in 2012.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0king reigned over England from 1483 until 1485, just after the Medieval period of English history. He died at the Battle of Bosworth.<\/p>\n

Mitochondrial DNA has shown a match between Richard and two of his living relatives – proving the bones are those of the former king and giving insight into his diet and disease and the skull injuries which caused his death.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year on 26 March, Richard III\u2019s remains were honoured with an official king\u2019s burial in Leicester Cathedral after a seven-day period of events in his name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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