You might think, given the intervening millennia, that we would already have found most of the world's ancient treasures, but new artefacts and monuments are still being unearthed every year. From Iron Age hoards and rare biblical inscriptions to lost desert cities and even the skeletons of huge sea dragons, the past few years have shed dazzling new light on the distant past.

Read on to see incredible recent archaeological discoveries that have changed the way we look at our ancient ancestors...