May's Greatest Archaeological Finds Will Shock You

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History is being rewritten this month and nobody even sent a memo! 🤯
From a 3,000-coin Viking treasure buried in a Norwegian field to a stolen mosaic looters live-streamed themselves digging up (yeah, really), May delivered some of the wildest archaeological finds in years. We're talking gold sacrificed to the gods during an apocalyptic famine, a 700-year-old notebook pulled out of a medieval toilet, and a mysterious "queen's hoard" that might rewrite Iron Age Britain.
In this video, we're counting down the 10 most mind-blowing discoveries from May that are changing everything we thought we knew about the past.

00:00 What we're covering today:
00:42 🪙 Norway's Largest-Ever Viking Coin Hoard (3,000+ Silver Coins)
02:14 🏛️ A Lost Ptolemaic Bath House & Roman Villa in Alexandria
03:50 ⛏️ A Prehistoric Copper "Factory" Found 7,000 Feet Up in the Pyrenees
05:45 ⚔️ A Chieftain's Gold Sword Fitting Found by a Hiker's Walking Stick
07:29 💰 6 Solid Gold Viking Bracelets Buried in a Danish Field
09:06 🎨 A Stolen Roman Mosaic Rivaling the Iconic "Gypsy Girl"
10:45 🧻 A Medieval Notebook (and Silk Toilet Paper!) Found in a 700-Year-Old Latrine
11:48 🔨 8 Pounds of Bronze Age Bracelets Buried in a Single Pit
13:02 ⚰️ A Roman Woman's Decorated Lead Coffin, Untouched for 1,700 Years
14:38 👑 The Melsonby Hoard — Possible Treasure of an Iron Age Queen