A senior Egyptian archeologists, Zani Hawass, is now eager to track down the tomb of the legendary queen of ancient Egypt, Cleopatra, and her lover Mark Antony, a politician an general of The Roman Empire's 40th century BC.
Section, sunday, April 20, 2009, a team of archaelogists announced the discovery of an intial 22 ancient coins, 10 mummies, and fragments of the fractured face on the chin. It became a valuable clues to find the grave Mark Antony and Cleopatra, who had been swallowed by the earth disappeared.
Zahi Hawass showed the ancient treasures to journalists were discovered yesterday, in a tour of the temple of the God Osiris, who was 2,000 years old. Hawass believes, at the site located near the Mediterranean Sea is located the tomb of two lovers is a mystery for so long.
However, the discovery of 10 mummies outside the temple convinced Hawass that there are important figures are buried in the temple. "Nothing is buried outside the temple without the reason. We see future pharaoh, there's always a mummy that was buried beside phyramids", he said.
2. The Discovery Of The Tomb Of Robin Hood
A moss covered graves and tombstones with no pointed out as a tomb of a famous farmer who has done a robbery, arson and murder for the purpose of goodness. Farmers are said to be inspired legends of Robin Hood story. Lantern light : share interesting stories, phenomena, myths, world record, paced about, hot info, controversy, new inventions, technologies and other strange happenings around us. The tomb was discovered in the cemetery Warwickshire, England, said eight centuriesold. David Baldwin (64th), a british historian, author and lecturer of the univesity, believes the tomb belonged to Roger Godberd, a 13rh century peasant who's considered a boon to the poor in his time.
3. The tomb of Maracus Nonius Macrinus
The tomb of a general who allegedly inspired the main character the movie The Gladiator was found in the city of Rome, Italia. The tomb of Maracus Nonius Macrius is one of the few archaeological discoveries made in the city recently. Maracus Nonius Macrinus was a general favorite of Empire Marcus Aurelius, and helped win the war in Europe. He's believed to be one of inspiration in describing the character Maximus Decimus Meridius, played by Russell Crowe in the film gladiator.
4. The tomb of Tutankhamun
On February 16, 1923, a british archeologist, Howard Carter, made it into the chamber tombs of ancient Egyptian ruler, King (Pharaoh) Tutankhamun. After thousands of years, the mummy was eventually found.
5. The tomb of Qin Dynasty
Tomb of the Chinese emperor, Qin Shi Huang, was mentioned as one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 20th century. History records, Qin Shi Huang was the first emperor of Qin Dynasty, who led China between the period 221 BC - 210 BC. One of his landmark work in addition to completion of construction of building the Great Wall of China is building its own glorious tomb. Unlike the Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh, Cheops (Khufu) who chose to build a Great Pyramid at Giza as a final resting place of Emperor Qin Shi Huang prefers to make his grave like a palace with thousands of statues of soldiers guarding.
The emperor's tomb is breathtaking. There are approximately 8000 statue depicting the figure of the soldiers and war horses lined up along the tomb. Even more interesting, all the statues are not the same between one another whether it is the form of clothing, facial expressions, hair styles, up arsenals they carry. In addition, they are also distinguished by the rank of military service such as General, officers, until the common soldier.Statue of soldiers who have the highest body size is the rank of general.
The statues known as Terracotta Warrior is keselururuhan made of clay that is formed inside the mold. Height was varied between 183-195 cm. For the head, made separately from the body in order to have a shape and facial expressions are different from each other. While parts of the face such as lips, eyes and ears added manually and polished form perfected by the hand of the sculptor. The statue that has been so then burned so that the resulting construction of a more hard and solid. For the final stage, although most of the sculptures done painting is now the paint has faded.
Since the discovery by some local farmers in the region of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China 1974 Ditahun ago, until now still being conducted excavations there. The Arkelog estimates are still many statues and other artifacts are still buried. They also can not be sure how many figures this discovery will continue to grow.Recent calculations mentioned, there are more than 8000 statues of soldiers, 130 chariots with 520 horses and 150 cavalry contained in three main tunnels tomb. What an amazing sight to remember just one percent of the tombs have been unearthed!
Not all property of the emperor and jewelry have been found. That said, there are still many valuable possessions of Emperor Qin Shi Huang's tomb stored disuatu section, where the ground attached to the pitfalls that can shoot arrows automatically to anyone who dared to disturb him. Even believed the workers who installed the traps are also buried alive so that confidentiality is maintained. Sounds pretty scary, is not it?
According to the historian Sima Qian (145-90 BC), the construction of the great tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huang began around 246 BC - the age when the Emperor had just 13 years - by employing approximately 700,000 workers. But what is the purpose of Emperor Qin Shi Huang built all this?
In fact, the tomb was set up as an image of an underground palace is so big and luxurious. Even said he was underground palace with the most complex structure in the splendor and amenities. Artificial rivers made of mercury and the ceiling with pearls hiasaan helped beautify the palace. Confidence in the kingdom said that Emperor Qin Shi Huang will continue to lead the next life squad kingdom (heaven / afterlife). For that he needed a royal palace as the center, complete with the army and government officials.
The emperor's tomb is breathtaking. There are approximately 8000 statue depicting the figure of the soldiers and war horses lined up along the tomb. Even more interesting, all the statues are not the same between one another whether it is the form of clothing, facial expressions, hair styles, up arsenals they carry. In addition, they are also distinguished by the rank of military service such as General, officers, until the common soldier.Statue of soldiers who have the highest body size is the rank of general.
The statues known as Terracotta Warrior is keselururuhan made of clay that is formed inside the mold. Height was varied between 183-195 cm. For the head, made separately from the body in order to have a shape and facial expressions are different from each other. While parts of the face such as lips, eyes and ears added manually and polished form perfected by the hand of the sculptor. The statue that has been so then burned so that the resulting construction of a more hard and solid. For the final stage, although most of the sculptures done painting is now the paint has faded.
Since the discovery by some local farmers in the region of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China 1974 Ditahun ago, until now still being conducted excavations there. The Arkelog estimates are still many statues and other artifacts are still buried. They also can not be sure how many figures this discovery will continue to grow.Recent calculations mentioned, there are more than 8000 statues of soldiers, 130 chariots with 520 horses and 150 cavalry contained in three main tunnels tomb. What an amazing sight to remember just one percent of the tombs have been unearthed!
Not all property of the emperor and jewelry have been found. That said, there are still many valuable possessions of Emperor Qin Shi Huang's tomb stored disuatu section, where the ground attached to the pitfalls that can shoot arrows automatically to anyone who dared to disturb him. Even believed the workers who installed the traps are also buried alive so that confidentiality is maintained. Sounds pretty scary, is not it?
According to the historian Sima Qian (145-90 BC), the construction of the great tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huang began around 246 BC - the age when the Emperor had just 13 years - by employing approximately 700,000 workers. But what is the purpose of Emperor Qin Shi Huang built all this?
In fact, the tomb was set up as an image of an underground palace is so big and luxurious. Even said he was underground palace with the most complex structure in the splendor and amenities. Artificial rivers made of mercury and the ceiling with pearls hiasaan helped beautify the palace. Confidence in the kingdom said that Emperor Qin Shi Huang will continue to lead the next life squad kingdom (heaven / afterlife). For that he needed a royal palace as the center, complete with the army and government officials.
6. The tomb of Emperor Cao Cao
Burial complex discovered an estimated age of about 1,800 years and believed to be the final resting place of Cao Cao, a general and a leader in intelligent the 3rd century that often featured in folk tales as a cunning politician.
7. The tomb of Monalisa
A large excavation projects being worked on in Florence, Italy. Because of the involvement of leading archaelogists, the project attracted huge media attention. Archeologists are currently multiplying a tomb, believed to be the tomb of the Monalisa. Media Italy, NASA reported that the scientists hope to find the of Lisa Gherardini Del Giocondo, the wife of an Italian silk merchant who died in 1545. He's believed to be a model of the MonaLisa - Leonardo Da Vinci's master work of the famous to the whole world.
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