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Bored Panda
Ieva Pečiulytė

“The First Leper”: 25 Times Archaeologists Dug Up Something Straight Out Of A Nightmare

When I was a teen and the time came to decide what my career should be, I wanted to be an archaeologist for a while. If I had kept that dream, I could've become one of the 7,720 professional archaeologists in the U.S.

You might think that we already dug up the most significant historical artifacts that there are, but archaeology is a path that keeps on giving. For example, a national gas distributor in Lima, Peru claims that they have been responsible for around 2,200 discoveries in the past 20 years.

But this time, we would like to dedicate a post to the most disturbing and scary archaeological finds. Courtesy of the history and archaeology professionals who shared their knowledge in two Quora threads, Bored Panda brings you the times they dug up something that maybe would've been better off buried.

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