The phrase "astonishing find" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a surprising or remarkable discovery, often in contexts related to archaeology, science, or exploration.
Example: "The archaeologists were thrilled by their astonishing find of ancient artifacts buried beneath the sand."
Alternatives: "remarkable discovery" or "incredible discovery".
Peter Pist'anek's novel Rivers of Babylon (Garnett Press) is an astonishing find.
Ötzi, the five-thousand-year-old mummified mountaineer discovered in 1991, remains the most astonishing find.
There are two immediate questions about this astonishing find – and it really is one of the most astonishing finds in the history of human palaeontology, certainly on the continent of Africa.
After the New York discovery, it was unclear whether the astonishing find in a postal depot at the busiest time of year for parcels was random good fortune by customs or part of a special operation.
Barry includes tales of one astonishing find after another — a 500-year-old "Nuremberg Chronicle" that surfaced in Utah, a Jack Kerouac bibliography annotated by Kerouac himself, a copy of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" inscribed to Lord Byron and even, so its owners argue, Shakespeare's own 16th-century dictionary.
Elaine Showalter, an English professor at Princeton University, was browsing a used-book stall in Paris in the early 1990's when she came upon an astonishing find: an Old West romance, replete with whorehouses, lesbian affairs and attempted rapes, written by an author whose name was all too familiar to academics in the humanities.
The Jefferson bottles were the first in a series of astonishing finds.
But people hear about astonishing finds at garage sales or watch television series like "Antiques Roadshow" and feel that same kind of good fortune can strike them online.
One of Mr. Capo's most astonishing finds was an antique sword tucked beneath a bed in a West Village home that had already been picked over by the major galleries.
Just as over the last 20 years the Jehol has produced some astonishing finds (giant feathered tyrannosaurs, gliding dinosaurs, badger-sized carnivorous mammals, seed-eating birds) and in huge numbers, the Daohugou Biota is now threatening to do the same.
Yet it is astonishing to find out how rudimentary communications between them still were in 1914.
