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Do you feel the itch for adventure? That’s great because we have a special treat for you to celebrate the arrival of the new Tomb Raider titles to GOG.COM!

So, don’t simply wait for an adventure of a lifetime to happen all by itself – join our contest for a chance to win 1 of 15 bundles of all Tomb Raider titles available on our store!

To enter, all you have to do is tell us which ancient artifact or civilization you’d like to unearth and why.

Submit your answer before the contest ends on August 27, 2021, at 3 PM UTC. After that time, we will choose the most creative answers and award winners with HUGE collections of Lara Croft’s adventures we have mentioned above.
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2. Competition Description. You may enter the competition by posting which ancient artifact or civilization would you like to unearth and why. This has to be an original entry in the forum thread under the contest announcement on GOG.COM or in response to the contest post on Twitter or Facebook. Following @GOGcom Twitter / Facebook is also required for a valid Twitter / Facebook submission. We will pick 15 of the most creative and unique entries and award them.

3. Prize(s).
a) 15 winners (5 on Facebook, 5 on Twitter and 5 on the GOG.COM Forum) will receive one of 10 a redeem code for a collection of 7 digital games (total retail value of 72 USD).

b) The game collection's redeem code includes the following digital games available on GOG.COM: Tomb Raider 1+2+3, Tomb Raider GOTY, Tomb Raider: Anniversary, Tomb Raider: Legend, Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness, Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation + Chronicles and Tomb Raider: Underworld.

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Thanks for the contest!

I'd check out Greenland's Vikings out of natural curiosity and a vacation excuse. Some time after Erik the Red was exiled for manslaughter, he found Greenland in 985 AD. Several centuries later, European Protestant missionaries arrived in 1721. But all they found were ruins and zero written records about what happened. Some historians believe it was a mini ice age, conflicts with the Inuits, depleting the soil from intensive agriculture, the Black Death, or whether market demand for walrus ivory dropped after African elephant ivory supplies increased so their main export was toast and they all just left.

The ruins are now a part of the UNESCO World Heritage List. And they're incredibly beautiful.

https://www.greenland-travel.com/inspiration/norse-ruins/
https://visitgreenland.com/about-greenland/hvalsey-church-ruin/
https://www.thetravel.com/visiting-viking-ruins-greenland/
Post edited August 20, 2021 by MeowCanuck
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GOG.com: To enter, all you have to do is tell us which ancient artifact or civilization you’d like to unearth and why.
I would look for the lost dick of Osiris and then use it to beat the shit out off people Saints Row style.
I heard about a tribe of cannibals in an island deep in the Caribbean, something about Primate Island? Apparently they hold much knowledge about navigation, getting ahead of other navigators would surely be useful!
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ancient artifact ? the oldest, most efficient dildo pls k pls

...too much?
Unearth means sunken civilizations do not participate in contests :D?

I would keep devil where it is until Pap is back :D he might have too much to say if unearthed

I guess this is a humans contest after all... humans are good in tunnels... Were humans on Mars before?

God knows, maybe Mormons know something too.

Is this a serious question?

The greatest artifact is knowledge/compassion, it will lead you everywhere you really want.
The most beautiful artifact is kindness/charity, it will make everything easy.
The most valuable artifact is love/mercy, it will connect you to right ... circumstances.

I would not focus too much on civilizations that are gone, they must have lacked those artifacts :D
I would unearth our civilization artifacts ^ well before we are an ancient one.
Would have to go for R'lyeh

Simply so this can happen

Me: I discovered R'lyeh
Them: Oh really!
Me: Yes R'lyeh


(I also posted this on Twitter)
If it can be a fictional civilization, then I'd pick the Atmorans from Elder Scrolls lore. What caused their continent to freeze over? What were the origins of their respective deities? What is its connections, if any, to its Elven counterpart Aldmeris?
That one is easy: The Holy Grail.
All i needed is to scan the planet for that crescent moon shaped canyon and hire Armageddon's drill team to reach the spot. Perhaps then i could catch up to my *cough* reading.
I'd like to go into stasis until humanity inevitably almost-destroys itself going back into the dark age, then wake up in the new primitive society and start re-activiating the undamaged machines, creating an empire based on free knowledge, shared wealth and complete suppression of atavism.

A human utopia where I start as a God-Emperor and end up shaping the planet and its inhabitants at my will.

Nothing better to unheart than future ancient technology!

Edit- So, in a sense... unhearting myself?
Post edited August 20, 2021 by Enebias
I would investigate the Kingdom of Kush in Nubia, in search of the Lost Pipe of King Kashta. In the 8th century BCE, Kashta promoted advances in language, economy, math, archery, and social advances and equality in urban society. He was also very chill. I believe this finding could help us to learn more about his lessons, and apply them to our reality. And we all would become as chill as him.
Mine is kinda boring compared to the others so far...

I'd just like to see the rest of the Mayan city of Tikal, in Guatamala, restored (like Chichen Itza in Mexico).
I would like to find the Golden Fleece from the myth of Jason and the Argonauts, a magical artifact with healing and protective abilities.
Why? Because it would be great to use it's healing properties to cure people, and create new medicines to help overcome new diseases.
Ancient artifact? I'd go with the Monkey Paw, if only to use it to troll the new Call of Duty and FIFA releases.
Post edited August 20, 2021 by edgydude