The top 3 archaeological discoveries of the 21st century might just surprise you. In fact, if you went to school in the 20th century, they might downright shock you! Hold your breath. Here is the number one biggest archaeological discovery of the 21st century so far:The Neanderthals were way more like us than they’ve been telling us.
Yep; all through the 20th century and right into the 21st century, scientists were trying to figure out why or how the Neanderthals died out. Now they know they didn’t. Modern genetic studies have proven that modern humans owe about 4% of our genes to the Neanderthals, whose DNA was 99.7% identical to ours.
The second biggest discovery of the 21st century to date is at an old site: King Tut’s tomb. Archaeologists using modern scanning equipment believe they have found two new rooms at the site, leading them to speculate that they may have found Queen Nefertiti’s tomb. Nefertiti was the wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten and also King Tut’s grandmother.
Finally and not necessarily last of the three top archaeological discoveries of this century is the lost city discovered in the Honduras rain forest, after scientists used aerial imaging technology called LiDAR. The explorers were looking for the legendary La Ciudad Blanca – aka – City of the Monkey God when they stumbled across the undisturbed ruins of a lost culture. So little is known about the culture that built the city, that archaeologists still do not have a name for it.
What they do know from the discovery is that it was quite a large city that has been hidden for some 1000 or more years, when the civilization that lived there vanished, leaving everything behind, untouched and incredibly, unlooted,until discovered by these explorers of the 21st century!
