 For Poland and her history that stretches over a thousand years of recorded historical events and half a million years of human activity that can be dated on her soul. The events in Poland, the struggles and tribulations are documented from the Iron Age period when a host of tribes came together to create a Polish culture. But the wealth of what we don't know can be realized in the things that have been forgotten. Incredibly, hundreds of forts have been discovered in an area that was well known historically and archaeologically to modern-day researchers, and this means there is a massive lapse in the history of this land that is only being recognized with the birth of new technologies. Wait till you hear this. It is thought that some of the newly discovered sites may have appeared in historical literature, but their locations have remained unknown, as many monuments in the region have been leveled in recent decades due to high levels of farming as Poland emerges from the ashes of the 20th century. The archaeologists who made these discoveries was quoted as saying, in the region we have over 100 forts of various forms from different periods. The discovery is a surprise because this area was quite well recognized in terms of archaeology. This is due to the availability of increasingly new methods we use. Most of the recently documented forts have been examined by archaeologists carrying out field observations. The research team found pottery shards from various periods that date from the early Iron Age to the late Middle Ages. The foundations of Polish history are dating to these periods, so these structures of unknown origin were probably the handiwork of the earliest settler tribes that continued a cause and culture through the Middle Period of Poland. The first ruling dynasty emerged in the 10th century. The first ruler of this dynasty is considered the de facto creator of the Polish state and is widely recognized for the Christianity that followed his Catholic baptism in the year of our Lord 966. This dominion was formally reconstituted as a medieval kingdom in 1025 when a military expansion took place under this rule. The most successful monarch presided over a brilliant period of economic prosperity and territorial aggrandizement before his death in 1370 without male heirs. The period of the 14th through 16th centuries brought close ties with Lithuania, a cultural renaissance in Poland and continued territorial expansion as well as colonization that culminated in the establishment of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1569, one of Europe's largest and most successful countries at the time. These structures are dating to the prosperous period up until 1370 when a successful heir was not produced. This followed a 200-year societal withdrawal until the Lithuanian Alliance saw the nation emerge from the ashes as it was so used to doing. Just when Poland seems to get going, something is always there to pull them back to the brink and it is from the brink that they seem to emerge stronger than ever before and of course modern Poland is experiencing the same cultural clawback that had happened so often before. One of the forts has indications that it was destroyed by fire on the plowed surface where traces of burnt wood and scorched clay in the remnants of the fort's embankments. Scientists not only tracked down unknown strongholds but they also documented known monuments and determined the state of preservation. The preliminary analysis of the collected data shows that this is not the end of the discoveries. Further places have been selected that may hide relics of former fortifications. The work was carried out as part of a project co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Cultural Promotion Fund. The project's partners was the Monument Protection Foundation in Poznan and we just wanted to share this little snippet of history with our subscribers as lockdown draws to a close. How are you guys all doing out there anyway? Feel free to exercise your thoughts in the comments section below and as always thank you for watching.