7. Canadian Vikings
Place: Canada’s Newfoundland
Year Found: 1960
Approximate Value: $70,000–$80,000*
The well-known tale of the Vikings’ failure to subjugate North America is well-known, but what if someone found their nearest-ever post to Canada? In the L’Anse aux Meadows, on the northernmost tip of Canada’s Newfoundland, an outpost from the eleventh century was found.
Canada’s Vikings
Remarkably, artifacts and architectural relics from the outpost attested to its historical significance as the earliest European settlement in North America. Even though the structures appeared to have been used for a long time, Indigenous people were probably the reason they were abandoned.
8. The African Burial Ground in Manhattan
Location: USA’s Manhattan
Year of Discovery: 1991
Estimated Value: Not Given
Envision a typical building site where heaps upon heaps of human remains are being discovered. Although the image looks like it belongs in a horror film, it happened in Manhattan in 1991 when workmen discovered human skeletal remains approximately nine meters below the surface.
African Burial Ground in Manhattan
Subsequently, researchers found a six-acre African burial site containing over 15,000 complete corpses, providing insight into the nation’s sordid colonial past. Their causes of death were never determined, however the remains were believed to have been from between 1630 and 1795.
9. American Mammoth Bones Discovered
Location: USA’s Oregon
Year Found: 2016
Estimated Value: Not Known
When the plan to build Reser Stadium at the University of Oregon was approved, no one anticipated to discover Ice Age bones, but that is exactly what happened. When a tooth, a 1.22-meter femur bone, and many other bone fragments were discovered during construction, the construction workers were taken aback to discover that they were all from a mammoth that lived thousands of years ago during the Ice Age.
USA Mammoth Bones Discovered
Researchers have concluded that the relics, found in a 3 m deep trench, must have been a drinking hole or pond where ailing animals had taken their final rest.
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