1. 4 Million Year Old Whale Fossils
Scotts Valley, near Santa Cruz, is now roughly 6 miles away from the Pacific Ocean, but it used to be under water. In September of 2015, construction crews were working on building single-family homes when they uncovered ancient whale fossils. Scientists believe that the fossil of the 25 feet long whale is roughly 4 million years old and was stunned by how well it stayed intact.
2. 10,000 Year Old Stone Tools
As crews were preparing to prep a site for construction near Redmond Town Center in Washington, archaeologists had uncovered over 4,000 stone tools used by locals nearly 10,000 years ago. The tools included stone flakes, scrapers, awls, and spear points used to kill bison, deer, bear, sheep, and salmon.
3. An American Revolution-Era Warehouse Building and War Ship Underground
Just 8 feet below ground, construction crews in Alexandria, Virginia, who were making way for a new 250-room waterfront hotel, found the remains of a fully intact foundation of a warehouse that historians believe to be the city’s first public building. The warehouse, which was built in 1755, was approximately 100-by-24 foot in size and the foundation was constructed with large wooden beams. The wood flooring is believed to have been re-purposed from a ship’s mast.
Only two months later, crews made another significant discovery when they dug up a 50-foot long war ship believed to be used around the time of America’s Revolutionary War. Also found was a 3 person privy, aka restroom, from around the same era.
4. Century Old Mass Burial Site
While working on Route 61 in Schuykill County a few days ago, the crews uncovered a 97 year old mass human burial site, which caused major construction delays. The human remains are believed to have belonged to victims of the 1918 Spanish Influenza epidemic, from which some 1,600 locals died in roughly one month. According to historians, it was not uncommon for people to be buried in large unmarked graves like this one, when so many people died in such a short period of time.
5. 121-Year-Old Time Capsule and a Bottle of Whiskey
Crews from the construction firm Morgan Sindall were working on the Ruthven Bridge in Kingussie, Scotland when they dug up a rusty metal box, the size of a typical shoe box. Inside that box was a newspaper clipping from September 1894, a paper scroll, and a bottle of what experts believe to be a bottle of whiskey.
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