20 Cringe-Inducing Archeological Discoveries

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20 Cringe-Inducing Archeological Discoveries
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The number-one rule of time travel is never go backwards if you can help it, and that's not just true for anyone who's not male, white, rich, and healthy. The past was a brutal place even for the most privileged. Every day was a fight against famine, pestilence, the other equine Beatles, and actual medieval torture. Also, it's necessarily full of dead people.

Fortunately, the past is gone… mostly. Remnants of humanity's worst crimes, rituals, and weapons are still being unearthed all the time -- not to mention, you know, all those dead people. Just so many dead people, you guys. That's why one Reddit user asked r/AskReddit, “What is, in your opinion, the most disturbing archaeological discovery?”

youburyitidigitup 3y ago e Edited 3y ago Archaeology student here. Here's one I learned in class. A pueblo village went through a horrible drought and famine. A dwelling was found with the remains of a family that had died violently and had several cut marks all over their body. They also found a human coprolite (ancient poop). It is common practice to run chemical analyses of coprolites to figure out a person's last meal. It was human flesh. The DNA of the flesh particles matched the DNA of the family. Somebody murdered and ate the family, then pooped in the
. 3y ago India's Lake of Skeletons has to rank up there...
Southern-Toe5605 e 3y ago Vikings' burial sites are pretty disturbing. They were often buried with their wives, slaves and horses.
Buggy-Love . . 3y ago Back in '18, a mass grave of 140 children was found in Peru. There's evidence that it's the largest ritual child sacrifice in history.
trephine77 . : 3y ago The discovery that Yellowstone Park is actually a huge, HUGE, dormant vulcano that is historically overdue to have another eruption
iceblue-22 . Зу ago Well since the rivers dried up around the world due to the heatwave a fair amount of bodies hidden in containers were found at the bottom...
Just_Discussion6287 . 3y ago Homo Erectus mining gold. What was the purpose? Why would a primitive man(two or three species away from sapians) dig 20ft deep holes for a few ounces of metal?
Imaginehavinaname . 3y ago The Aztec death whistle. It was used to mimic the cries of a human by the Aztec possibly during rituals or in the battlefield, and it worked a little too well. It is very unsettling to hear.
silverandcoldone . 3y ago The antivampiric burials in Poland are more fascinating than truly disturbing. Would hate to be buried alive and have my head chopped off by a sickle if I tried to escape my tomb.
Capital-Wing8580 . 3y ago I can't remember exactly where, but a group of bodies were found in a mountain range. Dead soldiers from 2000 years ago that froze and were nearly perfectlt preserved. People originally thought the bodies were from recent times.
Melenduwir . Зу ago That there was an entire civilization living in the Amazon Basin that was destroyed by European diseases without Europeans making contact or becoming aware of it, and the Amazon rainforest is a gigantic, overgrown garden.
. 3y ago Not maybe as old as other discoveries, but I'm consistently disturbed by all of the children they are finding buried at old residential schools across Canada and the United States. Thousands and Thousands of children. Buried and hidden from history until now.
LeeodoreRoosevelt 3y ago There were several child mummies found in the Andes as part of human sacrifice rituals. They were supposedly drugged, sealed into an underground room and died from exposure. I guess it's not that disturbing if it was considered highly honorable to die that way by Incan society
DigitalFootPr1nt 3y ago Sure there's many hidden ones away from public view.... But imo the one for me would be gobekli tepe.. a very old archaeological site. Approx 10k years. It's pretty advanced stoneworkmanship. Almost on par with the pyramids. And the fact this site was deliberately covered up for some unknown reason. Can't remember how big the site is. But yeah the site was not covered up by any natural means or over time.
Rodby 3y ago Edited Зу ago The first King of Hawai'i, Kamehameha the Great, united the islands via conquest, and on Oahu he defeated the main force opposing him by trapping them on a cliff (the Pali) and essentially shoving them off. In the 1960's when they began building a highway through the mountains, they at one point were doing construction in the area where the battle was fought, and the construction unearthed hundreds of skulls and human remains. To this day no one camps or hikes in the valley beneath the Pali because of several supernatural incidents many believe
isaidyothnkubttrgo 3y ago In 2016/2017, they unearthed something like 900+ remains of babies who died or were killed by nuns in Tuam (two-um) Galway, Ireland. It was the septic tank of an old site where a laundry used to be. This is a place you were sent if you'd a baby out of wedlock or your family cared too much about how the neighbours thought of them. You washed clothes until you have birth and your baby went to an orphanage. Wealthy Irish, British and American couples came to help the poor babies who's mother was well and alive in
CaptainChats 3y ago Infant Sacrifices in ancient Carthage. This is sort of debated because we don't have direct evidence of child sacrifice, the is no big bloody alter labeled burn babies here. But what we do have is Roman accounts of child sacrifice in Carthage. On its own that isn't super damming, the Roman's accused everyone they didn't like of doing human sacrifices. The part that's disturbing is the remains of infant cremations mixed in with cremated animal remains. This may have just been a Carthaginian burial tradition, an animal sacrifice accompanying a lost child. However the odd thing is
PleasantSalad 3y ago When I was visiting Savanah I did a kayak tour through Ebenezer Creek. Hundreds of freed slaves followed the Union amy on Sherman's March to the sea. The union army was being sporadically shelled by in the rear by the confederates. The union army built a bridge over the marshy, alligator infested Ebenezer Creek and told the freed people at the rear they could cross once his 14,000 troops had crossed first. Deciding that the freed people had become a burden however, he ordered the bridge to be cut, abandoning 600-1000 freed slaves on the western bank.
SternCoats 3y ago Evidence of a second extinction event level meteor impact. It kind of means that extinction event meteors not only have happened, but are not all that rare of a thing when you take the age of the Earth into consideration.
ForgottenZodiac . 3y ago . Edited Зу ago The discovery of the bodies at Pompeii and what happened there always get to me. An entire city wiped out and bodies mummified where they fell.

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