Surely many of you would like to be in the past for a while to satisfy your curiosity and see how things were arranged before? After all, that world is radically different from ours. Unfortunately, the time machine has not been invented (we hope that this will happen in the near future). However, we can resort to an alternative and admire interesting archaeological finds that hide many secrets in a museum or on the Internet. They can tell a little about what happened hundreds, thousands and even a million years ago.

You can only imagine how much work the researchers had to put in to find these treasures and show them to those who also care about the history of the world. And how much more do they have to do to get closer to answers to questions that interest all of humanity?

Crown of Emperor Wanli, China, Ming Dynasty, 1620

The crown is made of gold wire. It has an image of two dragons looking at a burning gem.

In Norway, a group of scientists discovered an arrow that is about 1,500 years old

A 2,700-year-old ring depicting a cat from Ancient Egypt

Statue of Yasuke – the first black samurai who arrived in Japan in 1579

Almost 500 years ago, an African came to Japan and became the first foreigner to receive the title of samurai. Today, his personality attracts special attention in Hollywood. Several films have already been made about Yasuk.

A perfectly preserved Arsinoiterian skull

Arsinoiterians are extinct mammals that lived approximately 35–40 million years ago. They vaguely resembled modern rhinoceroses, as they had large and massive horns.

An amazing Roman helmet dating from the second half of the first century was found in Nijmegen (Netherlands)

Gold and carnelian ring depicting Galatea, first century AD

One of 145 loincloths found in Tutankhamun’s tomb

Terataspis is a marine arthropod that lived about 397 million years ago

Fossilized dinosaur egg with embryo discovered in China

A beautiful glass vessel in the form of a pomegranate, which belongs to the Roman period

The device was probably once used to store perfumes or other liquids.

A 2,000-year-old Roman-era sauna is still used by locals in Henschela, Algeria

One of the richest tombs was discovered in Bulgaria

The jewels found in it date back to the period from 4600 to 4200 BC.

Archaeologists in southeastern Turkey discovered a huge underground city built almost 2,000 years ago

Ancient gold coins found in a jar among the ruins of a Roman theater

An unusual statue found on the coast of Texel

A group of Dutch shrimpers found an ancient wooden statue off the coast of Texel. Archaeologists believe that the statue was originally on a warship, possibly during the 80 Years War, which lasted from the mid-1500s to the mid-1600s.

Bronze helmets of the classical period of Greece (mid-5th century BC)

A stone knight discovered in Kilmuir Cemetery in Scotland

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