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Discovered in 1992 when local farmers pumped water out of five small village ponds in Zhejiang, China, the ancient Longyou Caves are an architectural marvel wrapped in absolute mystery.

The Jarkov Mammoth is a well-preserved woolly mammoth discovered in the Siberia permafrost. It had been frozen in the ground for about 20,000 years. In 1999, scientists airlifted the mammoth encased in a 23-ton block of frozen earth so it could be carefully studied without damaging the remains.

The Etruscans made dental bridges from gold wire and ox teeth around 700 BCE.

Göbekli Tepe is 6,000 years older than the Pyramids!

In 2015, a routine construction project in Borujerd, Iran, led to the unexpected discovery of an ancient aqueduct system hidden beneath the remnants of a historic castle.

A 5000 years old "sleeping lady" from Malta - a small clay figure of a reclining woman was discovered at the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum, a prehistoric underground temple complex in Malta.

An evidence of a non-Greek language in the Aegean during the Archaic period: The Lemnos Stele is a carved funerary monument discovered on the Greek island of Lemnos in the Aegean Sea.

Ancient Roman leather shoes for a man, a woman and a child, recovered at the Bar Hill Roman Fort, Antonine Wall. @ Hunterian Museum, Glasgow.

50,000-year-old kiss painting found in Brazil's Serra da Capivara- the worlds 1st depiction of a kiss and it has such sweetness to it

This crystal cup, excavated from a Banshan Shitang Warring States tomb in Hangzhou; carbon-14 dated to the mid-to-late Warring States period, over 2,000 years ago