Miracles left by history as our inheritance (31 photos)

Archeology is not only about broken shards and rusty fragments of weapons. It is not so rare that archaeologists find objects of material culture that can rightfully be called masterpieces.





Gothic style spiral staircase, carved from solid wood in 1851, at Lednice Castle, Czech Republic



Stairway to Heaven - ancient Inca road leading to Machu Picchu, Peru





4852 year old ancient mountain cypress tree in Tandoori National Park, Iran



Cloister University in Glasgow, Scotland





Buried basalt Moai statues on Easter Island, built by the Rapa Nui people between 1250-1500. AD, with petroglyphs carved on their backs.

A 2,000-year-old sapphire ring believed to have belonged to the Roman Emperor Caligula and depicted his fourth wife Caesonia



The bracelet that gave its name to the famous house in Pompeii: “House of the Golden Bracelet.” A two-headed snake with glass eyes holds a medallion with the image of Diana



A wooden sarcophagus emerges from the sand in Abydos, Egypt



Seljuk box with combination lock, cast and hammered brass, inlaid with silver and copper. Iran, 1200-1201



Emerald wine cup, 18th century, India (Mughal). Faceted emerald with gold setting



Hut made of mammoth bones, Cro-Magnon, Mezhirich, Ukraine, 15,000 BC



Roman amphora filled with gold coins discovered in Como, Italy



Tutankhamun's bracelet with scarab. Gold, lapis lazuli, carnelian, turquoise, quartzite. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty. Location - Egyptian Museum



Gate of All Nations, also known as the Gate of Xerxes in Persepolis, Iran, 486-465. BC.



Prehistoric rock carving depicting a herd of deer. Bayankhongor, Mongolia



Hieroglyphic inscription on the wall of the mortuary temple of Ramses III at Medinet Habu on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor, built around 1186-1156. BC.



Hearse, 1920s



Carpet mosaic in Hisham's palace from the early Muslim caliphates, built between 724 and 743 AD. in the West Bank city of Jericho consists of 38 panels with geometric and floral designs



Delikkemer is one of the first Roman hydrological engineering structures in Anatolia. It was built to meet the water needs of Patara, the capital of the ancient Lycian region



Falcon of Horus, gold and lapis lazuli, Egypt, late period, 27th dynasty



Caryatids on the Acropolis of Athens



Jade brooch with an openwork pattern in the form of birds in a gold frame, decorated with rubies, sapphires and jade. China, late Jin dynasty or early Yuan dynasty, XIII-XIV century



Aztec obsidian ritual knives



Viking Age ring with the words "For the sake of Allah", found in the grave of a woman buried 1,200 years ago in Birka, 25 km west of modern Stockholm



Petra, Jordan



Viking runestones in a Swedish village, 1899-1945.



A Roman road was discovered during excavations at the site of a new McDonald's in Marino, Italy. Subsequently, the restaurant had a glass floor overlooking the excavation site



"Rat's Nest", Japanese netsuke from the late 19th century



Construction of metal clamps that hold giant stone blocks together. Some buildings on such supports have stood for thousands of years and are still standing



Gold buckle with the image of a Hun horseman, found in Tajikistan, 2nd-1st centuries. BC. Kept in the National Museum of Antiquities of Tajikistan