The 24th August AD 79 is traditionally believed to have been the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that wiped out numerous Roman settlements including Pompeii and Herculaneum.
The most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever unearthed was discovered by palaeontologist Susan Hendrickson.
On the 17th May 1902, an ancient analogue computer known as the Antikythera mechanism was first identified by Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais.
Cecil Chubb became the last private owner of Stonehenge, having bought the Neolithic monument at auction.
Often referred to as the ‘lost city of the Incas’, Machu Picchu was constructed in the middle of the 15th century but was abandoned barely a century later in 1572.
On the 21st July 1970, construction was completed on the Aswan High Dam in Egypt.
On the 19th July 1799, an announcement was made of the discovery of a slab of rock covered in carvings by French Lieutenant Pierre-François Bouchard in the area around Fort Julien near the Egyptian town of Rashid or, as it also known, Rosetta.
The Terracotta Army was discovered in Shaanxi province, China.
On the 16th February 1923, Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
The first professional archaeological excavation began in the Qumran Caves, the location of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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