[rdl6989]

This artifact was stored in a box at the museum for almost a century. It makes me wonder what other important artifacts are just sitting in a box waiting to be rediscovered.

[rdl6989]

Ping.

[Verginius Rufus]

Have they ever found any snake fossils in Ireland? (Pre-Patrick, of course.)

[Idaho_Cowboy]

This artifact was stored in a box at the museum for almost a century. It makes me wonder what other important artifacts are just sitting in a box waiting to be rediscovered.

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Just like The Ark of the Covenant.

[COBOL2Java]

And next to the bear bone, the archeologists found an empty jug

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

A great deal.

If something was not unique (by the standards of the time) or pretty, it often was packed up and stuck on a shelf.

Museum basement "excavation" can be a career maker. And you don't have to live in a tent.

[JimRed]

The ice had not been gone very long 12,500 years ago. Must have been a tough life.

[Jaxter]

"It makes me wonder what other important artifacts are just sitting in a box waiting to be rediscovered."

[ZULU]

Lol!