This is one of the exciting situations where an artifact was found by a layperson and not during an excavation. It was found in 1936 by a farmer who was tending to an area of field that was formerly a lake. The chest is a Viking age object dated somewhere between 7 CE. The oldest known chest is the Mästermyr chest, found in Gotland, an island of Sweeden. The stone has the same text written in Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, Demotic script, and Greek script, allowing archaeologists to reverse-engineer hieroglyphics by comparing it to the Demotic and Greek scripts. The text is famous because it helped provide the code for deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics. The rosetta stone is another famous text which was produced during the Hellenic period (about 196BC). The Book of Two Ways is believed to be at least 40 years older than any other written text. It was a set of texts found etched on the inside of a sarcophagus (Egyptian stone coffin). The book is believed to be about 4,000 years old. Books and TextsĮgyptologists believe that the oldest illustrated book is the Book of Two Ways. Similarly, the Venus of Tan-Tan, discovered in Morocco, may be as much as 500,000 years old. Artworks may also be identified on features, such as etched into trees and caves.Įxamples of some of the oldest artworks identified on artifacts include the Venus of Berekhat Ram, estimated to be older than bother Neanderthals and Homo sapiens and possibly made by Homo erectus, which was found in the Golan Heights in 1981. ArtworksĪrtworks that form artifacts are often not simply painted canvases, but artworks that are found etched into other artifacts.Įxamples include artworks on pottery, swords, shields, and coins. It was made of beaten bronze and was full body armor consisting of 15 pieces held together by leather straps. This armor is estimated to be from the 15th Century BCE, making it around 3500 years old. In 1960, archaeologists extracted the oldest known piece of armor from a dig site in Greece named Dendra. Chris Drew (PhD) Examples of Artifacts in Archeology 1.
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