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To: Verginius Rufus

Top Ten Finds in Archaeology for me.

1. Pompeii (The Villa of the Papriri)
2. The Clay Army of Shang Han of China
3. The Swedish warship Vasa.
4. The tomb of King Herod
5. The Royal Tombs at Tanis (the silver mummy)
6. King Tut in the Valley of the Kings.
7. The Etruscan Tombes in Italy.
8. The Pyramides in Northern Sudan
9. the Cities of Zimbabwe
10. The Mound builders tombs in Ohio, America.


52 posted on 05/03/2014 1:49:27 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
I think you mean the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum.

Other notable archaeological finds are Troy (Hisarlik) and Bogazkoy (Hattusas) in Turkey, Mycenae, Pylos, Delphi, Olympia, and the Athenian agora in Greece, Knossos and Phaistos on Crete, and the Mayan sites in Yucatan and Central America.

53 posted on 05/03/2014 2:28:54 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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