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  • Divers Found a 3,000-Year-Old Statue at the Bottom of a Lake—With Fresh Human Fingerprints

    08/10/2024 8:00:43 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 19 replies
    Popular Mechanics ^ | August 8, 2024 | Tim Newcomb
    At the underwater archaeology site of Gran Carro di Bolsena in Aiola, Italy, divers found an ancient clay figurine pegged to be from the 9th or 10th century BC...A clay figurine has spent millennia incomplete, waiting at the bottom of a lake for its long-dead craftsman to finish the Iron Age-era statuette.During work at the underwater archaeological site of Gran Carro di Bolsena in Aiola, Italy, researchers pulled the rudimentary clay creation from the volcanic Lake Bolsena. The unfinished clay figure of a woman, dating from between the 10th and 9th centuries BC, looks more like a first draft than...