Physical Discoveries GK

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1. Christopher Columbus, who discovered America, was Italian.
2. Machu Picchu was first discovered by Hiram Bingham.
3. Cricket was discovered in England.
4. The South Pole was discovered by Roald Amundsen.
5. Abel Tasman discovered New Zealand.
6. Kot Diji archaeological site was discovered in 1955.
7. The world’s oldest known intact shipwreck was discovered under the Black Sea.
8. The historic site “Mehrgarh” was discovered on the right side of the Bolan river.
9. Spanish archaeologists in Luxor, Egypt, recently discovered an approximately 3000-year-old Human Mummy.
10. Female astronomer Caroline Lucretia Herschel discovered six comets.
11. Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a 20,000-year-old village under the mud of the Dead Sea.
12. William Janszoon discovered Australia.
13. Vasco de Gama discovered the sea route to India.
14. Vasco da Gama, the Portuguese explorer, discovered the direct sea route from Europe to India.
15. Moenjodaro historical site was discovered by John Marshall in 1922.
16. Vasco da Gama discovered the sea route to India via the Cape of Good Hope in 1498.
17. Vasco Da Gama, the Portuguese explorer, discovered the sea route from Europe to India.
18. Java Man is a human fossil discovered in 1891.
19. A mummy discovered near the Iranian capital was of Muzaffar-ud-Din.
20. Columbus discovered America in the year 1492 AD.
21. The Great Bath of the Indus Valley Civilization was discovered in Mohenjodaro.
22. The Indus Valley Civilization was discovered in 1922.
23. Archaeologists discovered the world’s biggest flooded cave in Mexico.
24. Water has been discovered on the potentially habitable super-Earth K2-18b.
25. Nicolaus Copernicus discovered that the earth was not the center of the universe.
26. Discovered in 1930, Pluto was originally considered the ninth planet from the Sun.