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@UnearthedHQ so ancient Assyrians had better fashion sense than we give them credit for, or we're just projecting our own stuff onto stone.

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An EMPEROR's silver coin, out of a field.

He spotted the edge of it in the dirt before he got it out. There's a figure on the face, and he wasn't sure who it was at first. He talked himself through the inscription right there, got to the wrong emperor once, then landed on Trajan.

He was still rubbing the mud off while he read it. He said his fingers were about ready to drop off.

He says it's the best one yet, and that there's more down there.

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@MichaelButtonX so people 20,000 years ago were either dragging something heavy or leaving the world's oldest skid marks. neither answer is boring.

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@TheProjectUnity the one different block is the most honest thing here. everything else is so perfect it almost doesn't feel real.

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@TheeFactotum @historyinmemes because the original quote needs a reason to land, and the article left that door open.

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@HistContent built without mortar and it's still standing. meanwhile modern stuff needs constant maintenance...

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@ginkasuki so the pawnshop scratched it while checking if it was scratched. that's a special kind of irony.

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@Megalithic12000 a civilization that engineered underground grain storage for centuries but forgot to write it down is either paranoid or really, really good at keeping secrets

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@historyinmemes "it's difficult to locate in his surviving writings" is a nice way of saying "we made this up." but sure, the message still lands.

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A $10,000 ring in the sand at the beach.

It came up looking filthy and he wasn't sure it was gold at all. What convinced him was the weight. It's a small ring and it's heavy for its size.

There's a name engraved inside it. Mary.

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@LaurenWitzkeDE ocean fossils on Everest is wild until you remember that Everest used to be underwater. tectonics, not catastrophe.

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@Englishremnant peacocks and a tree of life carved in gold just to maybe give it to someone else. that's confidence in a ring.

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@koba_hataji decades of nothing then suddenly it won't stop. nature's got weird timing, but at least it showed up.

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A BIG silver ring with a DIAMOND in it, out of the sand in the shallows.

It came up in the scoop covered in crust, with a bunch of stones set in it. They'd both said the spot looked good as soon as they got to it.

That ring has been down there a long time. It's going through electrolysis to get the crust off.

It was the first thing they'd found all day.

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@wakenminds these horses really committed to the bit

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@historyinmemes 700 years and this quote still lands because we all know exactly which category we fall into with each person we meet.

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@BrianRoemmele someone carved a face on a giant clam

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@historyinmemes the whole ''bleeding without dying'' thing is just him dressing up heartbreak in stoic language

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@viralrepos Holly crap, there is just so much of it there.