{"id":1894,"date":"2020-08-05T05:36:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T05:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/?p=1894"},"modified":"2020-08-05T05:37:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T05:37:15","slug":"archaeology-bombshell-chilling-discovery-of-extremely-rare-6500-year-old-skeleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/?p=1894","title":{"rendered":"Archaeology : Chilling discovery of &#8216;extremely rare&#8217; 6500-year-old skeleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1895\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1895\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2598618.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1895\" srcset=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2598618.jpg 590w, wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2598618-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1895\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Archaeology news: Researchers found the skeleton in the basement (Image: Penn Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nResearchers were able to determine that the skeleton was unearthed around 1930 as part of an excavation into the Royal Cemetery of Ur led by Sir Leonard Woolley.<\/p>\n<p>Woolley\u2019s records indicated that he had shipped a skeleton over, and the team digitizing his records had uncovered pictures of the excavation, which showed the skeleton being removed from its grave. A researcher on the digitization project, William Hafford, mentioned the records to Janet Monge, the museum\u2019 chief curator.<\/p>\n<p>Woolley\u2019s team uncovered the remains 40 feet (12 meters) below the ground, beneath the remains from the cemetery itself, which dates to 2500 BC. The body was found in a deep layer of silt that archaeologists believe was leftover from a massive flood.<br \/>\nThe remains indicate they are those of a well-muscled man who died at 50 and would have stood approximately 5-feet, 10-inches tall.<\/p>\n<p>A similar find was made in 2016 by a group of archaeologists led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports. They discovered a 2,050-year-old human skeleton during the excavation of the famous Antikythera shipwre.<br \/>\nDr Hannes Schroeder, an expert in ancient DNA at the Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen said: \u201cAgainst all odds, the bones survived over 2,000 years at the bottom of the sea and they appear to be in fairly good condition, which is incredible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr Brendan Foley, a marine archaeologist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution said: \u201cArchaeologists study the human past through the objects our ancestors created.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the Antikythera shipwreck, we can now connect directly with this person who sailed and died aboard the Antikythera ship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ARCHAEOLOGISTS were stunned when a 6500-year-old skeleton was rediscovered in the basement of a museum.<br \/>\nBy CHARLIE BRADLEY<br \/>\nfrom: Express Newspapers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers were able to determine that the skeleton was unearthed around 1930 as part of an excavation into the Royal Cemetery of Ur led by Sir Leonard Woolley. Woolley\u2019s records indicated that he had shipped a skeleton over, and the team digitizing his records had uncovered pictures of the excavation, which showed the skeleton being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1897,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions\/1897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}