r/UpliftingNews • u/oldermuscles • 2d ago
Toddler picks up rock on nature walk, discovers 3,800-year-old amulet
https://www.oregonlive.com/nation/2025/04/toddler-picks-up-rock-on-nature-walk-discovers-3800-year-old-amulet.html436
u/joeri1505 2d ago
Unless it has +1 to all skills, crit multi AND a good life roll I dont want it.
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u/Neon-_-God 2d ago
Take my upvote exile
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u/flaming0-1 2d ago
Wait… they’re excavating and this kid found it just on the surface and nobody is asking questions? Why wasn’t it buried?
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u/FlyLikeHolssi 2d ago
They address that possibility in the article:
Yoli Schwartz, a spokeswoman for the Antiquities Authority, said children stumble upon artifacts a few times a year. “Sometimes after the rain, the earth is rich with archaeological finds and things come up,” she said in a phone call.
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u/HippyGrrrl 2d ago
Sounds like pick your own crystal mines. There’s a reason to go right after a rain.
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u/readskiesdawn 2d ago
Many archeology discoveries are by random people stumbling on it.
Also construction workers. The occasional roadworker too.
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u/actuallyamber 2d ago
Following our house fire, both our insurance adjuster and our home builder told us that we could expect to see things pop up in years to come. When they tore our house down, some things from inside of it inadvertently got buried or packed into the ground, and they said that over time, these things would come to the surface. I imagine it’s kind of like that on a bigger scale.
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u/flaming0-1 2d ago
Oh yeah, thank you. I never heard of that. I guess it makes sense, rocks float up in fields. Just weird.
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u/boredvamper 1d ago
I get it, it got uncovered by erosion. Many o' fossils were accidentally uncovered like this.
So what is the process that buries everything in the first place and where was erosion back then?
Bc by the sound of every archeologist we had thousands if not millions of years of crap getting covered by dust and sediment and it's getting exposed now.
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u/thirtytwoutside 2d ago
Meanwhile my kid picks up rocks that look like they could be dog poop.
Definitely actually dog poop.
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u/OrdinaryCactusFlower 1d ago
I saw something like that on one of those “help me identify this” subs
Someone found what looked like a chunk of brain, took it home, dissected it and posted it on Reddit complete with observations on sight and smell
People immediately identified it as a paper towel a dog pooped out lol
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u/billyjack669 2d ago
Gypsy curse inbound.
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u/Artimusjones88 2d ago
When was it "Their Land" ? When it was part of the Egyption empire, Roman, Greek, Ottoman, English?
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