87. Loss Boats Found Under San Francisco
Location: San Francisco, California
Year Discovered : 1920 – 2017
Est. Unknown Value
Since eight thousand years, ships have played a major role in economics and transportation. You can imagine that there are a lot more ship wrecks at the bottom of oceans, as not every vessel had a happy ending.
Archaeologists discovered ship wreckage not on the surface of the water but under the streets of San Francisco. During the Gold Rush, these ships docked at Yerba Buena Cove before being abandoned. Estimates claim that another 35 ships could be hidden under San Francisco. Over the centuries the city grew and the bay was filled with ships.
88. German Tourists Discover a Caveman Buried In Ice
Location: Fineilspitze, Otztal Alps, Austria-Italy Border
Year Found: 1992
Est. Value: N/A
Two German tourists hiking in the Otztal Mountains saw a dead body on September 1991. They initially thought the body belonged to a mountaineer. However, after contacting authorities, they discovered it was a natural mummy, which was a man that lived between 3350-3105 B.C.
Otzi, the Iceman was his nickname because of the location where he was discovered. Otzi, Europe’s oldest human mummy to date (sofar), is displayed in an Italian Museum. Otzi’s body was discovered to have an embedded arrowhead, which indicates that he did not but rather die of natural causes.
