Drained Dutch canal reveals items dating back 120,000 YEARS… from ancient sea shells and primitive shears to broken mobile phones
Archaeologists in Amsterdam have found 700,000 items left behind when the city's Amstel river was drained
A comb from the 1500s, a set of crocodile teeth and a human thigh bone among items pulled from river bed
Around 20,000 objects found by excavators have been logged on the Belowthesurface.amsterdam website
By Katie French For Mailonline
Published: 17:05 EDT, 19 July 2018 | Updated: 17:43 EDT, 19 July 2018
A drained Dutch canal has unearthed a treasure trove of ancient items from sea shells dating back 120,000 years to broken mobile phones.
Archaeologists in the Dutch city of Amsterdam found almost 700,000 items left behind when the city's Amstel river was drained to make way for a new train line.
A comb from the 1500s, a set of crocodile teeth and an entire human thigh bone are among the things pulled from the river bed during a 15-year-long research project.
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