10 Amazing Ancient Civilization Finds

You won't believe the top 10 weirdest and most incredible archaeological discoveries like ancient coins and a cave of bones!

7 - I Want Your Skulls
20 blackened Roman skulls were found in October of 2013 just outside a Crossrail train tunnel located in central London. The site is believed to have been a 17th-century Bedlam burial ground, making the Roman skulls a unique discovery and shocking surprise. The Roman skulls were found in clumps, and are now thought to have been caught in the bends along the banks of the long-vanished river once known as Walbrook. The skulls were found by construction workers who were digging a pit beside Liverpool Street Station to relocate utility cables. Some have speculated that the skulls belonged to executed criminals and were left exposed as a gruesome warning.

6 - Mummy in a Box
In March of 2011, road workers in the city of Taizhou (TIE-JOE) in the Jiangsu Province located in Eastern China were widening the road; while digging they came across a buried tomb. Buried beneath a little over six feet of earth was a 700-year-old mummy. The well-preserved corpse is believed to be a high-ranking woman from the Ming Dynasty, the ruling power in China between 1368 and 1644. Archaeologists excavated the site and found 2 additional coffins containing mummies.

5 - Cave of Bones
In March of 2014, archaeologists found 13 small bones and bone fragments inside a cave in the Knocknarea mountain not far from the town of Sligo located inside Ireland. The bones belonged to a 5,500-year-old adult aged 30 to 39 and 5,200-year-old child aged 4 to 6. According to the Irish Mirror, the discovery provided new evidence of Knocknarea Neolithic links and the prehistoric practice known as excoriation. IT Sligo archaeology graduate Thorsten Kahlert discovered the bones by chance while he was surveying several unknown caves along the slopes of the mountain.

4 - A Skeleton and His Shield
In 1990, 11 skeletons were discovered and excavated from a car park of the Three Kings public-house in Cambridgeshire England. It is now believed that the bodies belonged to early Saxon inhumations. A man speculated to have been in his fifties with a shield, spear and knife were found next to a jewelry-clad woman thought to be in her late teens and were some of the more well-preserved of the bodies which were unearthed. Grave goods, weaponry, and everyday items from the 6th century also surfaced during the excavation.

3 - The Voynich Manuscript
Discovered in 1912 by a Polish book dealer named Wilfrid Voynich, the Voynich Manuscript is an illustrated codex hand written in an unknown writing system. The vellum on which it is written has been carbon-dated and indicates that the book dates back to the early 15th century. Some of the pages are missing, with approximately 240 still remaining, some of the text is written in patterns similar to those found in more common natural languages. Star charts and vibrant diagrams, as well as full coloured pictures, can also be found between the pages of the manuscript but to date, no one has succeeded in deciphering the ancient mystery.

2 - The Maine Penny
In August of 1957, Guy Mellgren, a local resident and amateur archaeologist found this unusual coin at the Goddard Site located in Brooklin Maine. The Maine penny, also referred to as the Goddard coin consists of Norwegian silver and dates back to the reign of Olaf Kyrre, the king of Norway from 1067 to 1093 AD. Found alongside Native American ruins this ancient piece of monetary treasure offers an intriguing piece of evidence that Vikings did travel much further South than Newfoundland, long predating Christopher Columbus. To date, a collection of 30,000 items have been excavated from the Maine located Goddard Site, though the Viking coin remains the only find of Norwegian origin. The coin was donated to the Maine State Museum in 1974 but remains a topic of discussion and debate on ancient cultures and their impact on the early stages of the United States of America.

1 - The Divje (DIVJA) Babe Flute
In 1995, discovered in a cave in Slovenia located inside the Netherlands, the Divje Babe flute is believed to be the oldest musical instrument to have ever been unearthed. The artefact is a fragment of the femur which belonged to a cave bear perfectly pierced with holes spaced only several small centimetres apart. The piece of animal bone has been dated between 60,000 and 43,000 years old which links the musical instrument back to ancient Slovenia. Evolutionary scientists believe that a musical culture would have helped prehistoric human beings to survive because music constitutes as a form of communication and motivation.