The Rosetta Stone
Napoleon Bonaparte failed his mission to search for relics in Ancient Egyypt, and if he hadn't overlooked the Rosetta Stone, he would have realized what an important discovery he'd made. An institude examined the stone with several different languages of writing on it and determined that it was the starting place to study linguistics....
The Dead Sea Scrolls
The Dead Sea Scrolls hold some of the earliest known Biblical writings. It was discovered in 1947 by a group of sheepherders who were chasing a lost goat that had discovered a cave. The goat knocked over what sounded like a clay pot, and the herders discovered the scrolls had been hidden there. The scrolls are considered to be one of the most significant discoveries of the 20th century...