According to AO, archaeological discoveries are usually of little interest to many people. But there are exceptions, such as the discovery of a mother still holding her baby after 4,800 years in Taiwan.

PH๏τos of the mother holding her baby went viral, winning the hearts of millions of people because of the sacred motherly love.

In fact, the excavation began in 2014 and took about a year to complete. A team of archaeologists led by Chu Whei-Lee of the Taiwan Science Museum conducted excavations at a Neolithic archaeological site 10km off the west coast of Taiwan.

Today, the area is called Taichung City, but experts believe it was once an ancient coastal village called An-ho. Evidence is that 200 shark teeth were found here, although it is unclear whether these teeth were for decoration or spiritual purposes.

The inhabitants of Anho are believed to be the Dabenkeng people – the first farmers in Taiwan. They may have come from the southern and southeastern coasts of China around 5,000 years ago.

“This culture is the earliest Neolithic culture found in Taiwan so far,” said Chengwha Tsang of Academia Sinica (Taiwan).

The Dabenkeng people in Taiwan are believed to have existed only until around 4,500 BC. However, from Taiwan, the Dabenkeng people spread throughout Southeast Asia and Oceania.

At the archaeological site that once belonged to the Neolithic village of Anho, 48 graves were discovered, including five children. The most interesting is the joint grave of a mother still looking lovingly at the baby she was holding. It is unclear how they died, but they were buried together in the same grave.

“The young mother holding her child surprised us the most. I guess they were buried by relatives. When the grave was excavated, all the archaeologists were shocked. Why? Because it was a mother looking lovingly at the baby she was holding in her arms,” ​​said archaeologist Chu Whei-Lee.

Archaeologists said the mother was about 160cm tall and the baby was about 50cm long. Carbon dating showed that they were buried around 4,800 years ago, suggesting they lived during the island’s Stone Age. The mother and child were placed on their backs (instead of face down like other graves at the site). Notably, the mother’s face was tilted to the right and facing down to look at the baby she was holding in her arms, even in skeletal form nearly 5,000 years later.