In the Sahara desert in Egypt lie the oldest known, astronomically aligned, rocks in the world: the Nabta. A thousand years before the creation of Stonehenge, people built a stone circle and other structures on the shore of the lake, which has long since dried up. Over 6,000 years ago, stone slabs three meters high were dragged over a kilometer to create this place. The depicted stones are only a part of the entire complex that has been preserved. Although the Western Egyptian Desert is completely dry at present, it was not so in the past. There is good evidence that there have been several wet cycles in the past (when up to 500 mm of precipitation fell per year). The most recent dates back to the interglacial period and the time of the beginning of the last glaciation, which was approximately 130,000 to 70,000 years ago. During this period, the area was a savannah and supported the life of numerous animals such as extinct bison and large giraffes, antelopes of various species and gazelles. Starting around the 10th millennium BC, this area of the Nubian desert began to receive more rainfall, filling the lakes. Early humans may have been attracted to the region by the sources of drinking water. Archaeological finds may indicate that human activity in the area is known from at least sometime between the 10th and 8th millennium BC.
Chinese mosaic of lines.
These strange lines are located at 40°27"28.56"N, 93°23"34.42"E. There is not much information available about this "strangeness", but a beautiful mosaic of lines does exist, it carved in the desert of Gansu Sheng province in China. Some records indicate that the "lines" were created in 2004, but nothing seems to be found to officially support this assumption. It should be noted that these lines are located near the Mogao Cave, which is a World Heritage Site. The lines stretch for a very long distance, and at the same time retain their proportions, despite the curvature of the rough terrain.
Inexplicable stone doll.
In July 1889, in Boise, Idaho, a small human figure was found during a well drilling operation. The find aroused intense scientific interest in the last century. Unmistakably man-made, the "doll" was discovered at a depth of 320 feet, which allowed its age to be dated far before the arrival of man in this part of the world. The find has never been disputed, but only said that such a thing, in principle, is impossible.
Iron bolt, 300 million years old.
It was found almost by accident. The expedition of the MAI-Kosmopoisk Center searched for fragments of a meteorite in the south of the Kaluga region, in Russia. Dmitry Kurkov decided to inspect an ordinary, it would seem, piece of stone. What he found is capable of turning our ideas about earthly and cosmic history upside down. When dirt was brushed off the stone, on its chip was clearly visible somehow got inside ... a bolt! About a centimeter long. How did he get there? A bolt with a nut on the end (or - what this thing also looked like - a coil with a rod and two disks) was tight. This means that he got inside the stone back in those days when it was only sedimentary rock, bottom clay.
Ancient rocket ship.
This ancient cave painting from Japan dates back to over 5000 BC.
Moving stones.
No one, not even NASA, has yet been able to explain this. It's best to just watch and marvel at the moving rocks in this dry lake in Death Valley National Park. The bottom of Racetrack Playa is almost flat, 2.5 km north to south and 1.25 km east to west, and is covered with cracked mud. The stones move slowly along the clay bottom of the lake, as evidenced by the long footprints left behind them. The stones move on their own without the help of others, but no one has ever seen or recorded the movement on camera. Similar movements of stones were recorded in some other places. However, in terms of the number and length of tracks, the dry Lake Racetrack Playa is unique.
Electricity in the pyramids.
Teotihuacan, Mexico. Large sheets of mica have been found embedded in the walls of this ancient Mexican city. The nearest place is a quarry where mica is mined, located in Brazil, thousands of kilometers away. Mica is currently used in energy production technology. In this regard, the question arises as to why the builders used this mineral in the buildings of their city. Did these ancient architects know some long forgotten energy sources to use electricity in their cities?
Dog Death
Suicide of dogs on a bridge in Overtown, near Milton, Dumbarton, Scotland. Built in 1859, the Overtown Bridge became famous for a number of unexplained cases in which dogs apparently committed suicide by jumping from it. These incidents were first recorded in the 1950s or 1960s, when dogs - generally of the long-nosed species, like collies - were observed to quickly and unexpectedly jump off a bridge and fall fifty feet to their death.
fossil giants
The fossilized Irish giants were discovered in 1895 and are over 12 feet (3.6 m) tall. The giants were discovered during mining in Antrim, Ireland. This image is from the British magazine Strand, December 1895. “Height 12' 2", bust 6' 6", arm 4' 6". There are six toes on the right foot." The six fingers and toes are reminiscent of some characters from the Bible, where six-fingered giants are described.
Pyramids of Atlantis?
Scientists continue to explore the ruins of megaliths in the so-called Yucatan channel in the Cuban region. They have been found for many miles along the coast. The American archaeologists who discovered this site immediately declared that they had found Atlantis (not for the first time in the history of underwater archeology). Now the place is sometimes visited by scuba divers to admire the majestic underwater structures. All other interested parties can only enjoy the filming and computer reconstruction of the millennium-old city buried under water.
Giants in Nevada
A Nevada Indian legend about 12 foot red giants that lived in the area when they arrived. According to American Indian history, the giants were killed in the cave. During excavations in 1911, this human jaw was discovered. Here's what an artificial human jaw looks like next to it. In 1931, two skeletons were found at the bottom of the lake. One of them was 8 feet (2.4 m) high, the other - just under 10 (3 m).
inexplicable wedge
This aluminum wedge was found in Romania in 1974, on the banks of the Mures River, near the city of Aiud. They found it at a depth of 11 meters, next to the bones of Mastodon - a giant, elephant-like, extinct animal. The find itself is very reminiscent of the head of a huge hammer. At the archaeological institute of Cluj-Napoca, where the artifact supposedly went, it was determined that the metal from which this wedge is made is an aluminum alloy coated with a thick layer of oxide. The alloy contained 12 different elements, and the find was classified as strange, since aluminum was discovered only in 1808, and the age of this artifact, given its presence in the layer along with the remains of an extinct animal, is determined at approximately 11 thousand years.
"Loladoff's Plate"
Loladoff's Plate is a 12,000 year old stone dish found in Nepal. It seems that Egypt is not the only place visited by aliens in ancient times. This clearly demonstrates the disk-shaped UFO. There is also a drawing on the disc. The character bears a striking resemblance to the aliens known as Grey.
Hammer made of the purest iron alloy
A puzzling riddle for science is ... an ordinary-looking hammer. The metal part of the hammer is 15 centimeters long and about 3 centimeters in diameter. It has literally grown into limestone about 140 million years old, and is stored along with a piece of rock. This miracle caught the eye of Mrs. Emma Hahn in June 1934 in the rocks near the American town of London, Texas. The experts who examined the find came to a unanimous conclusion: a hoax. However, further research conducted by various scientific institutions, including the famous Battele laboratory (USA), showed that everything is much more complicated. Firstly, the wooden handle on which the hammer is mounted has already petrified on the outside, and inside it has completely turned into coal . So, its age is also calculated in millions of years. Secondly, specialists from the Metallurgical Institute in Columbus (Ohio) were amazed by the chemical composition of the hammer itself: 96.6% iron, 2.6% chlorine and 0.74% sulfur. No other impurities could be identified. Such pure iron has not been obtained in the entire history of terrestrial metallurgy. Not a single bubble was found in the metal. The quality of iron, even by modern standards, is exceptionally high and raises many questions, since the content of metals used in the metallurgical industry in the production of different grades of steel (as, e.g. manganese, cobalt, nickel, tungsten, vanadium or molybdenum). There are also no foreign impurities, and the percentage of chlorine is unusually high. It is also surprising that no traces of carbon have been found in iron, while iron ore from terrestrial deposits always contains carbon and other impurities. Generally speaking, from a modern point of view, it is not of high quality. But here's the detail: the Texas hammer's iron doesn't rust! When in 1934 a piece of rock with an ingrown tool was chipped off the rock, the metal was badly scratched in one place. And over the past sixty-odd years, not the slightest sign of corrosion has appeared on the scratch ... According to Dr. K.E. Buff, director of the Museum of Fossil Antiquities, which houses this hammer, the find comes from the early Cretaceous period - from 140 to 65 million years ago. According to the current state of scientific knowledge, mankind learned to make such tools only 10 thousand years ago. Dr. Hans-Joachim Zilmer from Germany, who studied the mysterious find in detail, concludes: "This hammer was made using a technology unknown to us."
The highest technology of stone processing
The second group of finds that pose mysteries to scientists are artifacts created after the time of the appearance of man on Earth, accepted today. But the technologies that were used in their creation became known to us relatively recently or are still unknown. The most famous find of this group can be called a crystal skull, found in 1927 in Belize during excavations of the Mayan city of Lubaantuma. The skull is carved from a piece of pure quartz and measures 12x18x12 centimeters. In 1970, the skull was analyzed in the Hewlett-Packard laboratory. The results were stunning. The skull was created without respecting the natural crystal axis, which is impossible in modern crystallography. When working on the skull, no metal instruments were used. According to the restorers, quartz was first cut with a diamond chisel, after which silicon crystalline sand was used for more thorough processing. It took about three hundred years to work on the skull, which can be taken as an incredible example of patience or recognize the use of high technology unknown to us. One of the Hewlett-Packard experts said that the creation of a crystal skull is not a matter of skill, patience and time, but that it is simply impossible.
fossil nail
However, most often, objects are found in the rock that are similar in appearance to nails and bolts. In the 16th century, the Viceroy of Peru kept in his office a piece of rock, which firmly held an 18-centimeter steel nail found in a local mine working. In 1869, in Nevada, a metal screw 5 centimeters long was found in a piece of feldspar, raised from a great depth. Skeptics believe that the appearance of these and many other objects can be explained by natural causes: a special kind of crystallization of mineral solutions and melts, the formation of pyrite rods in voids between crystals. But pyrite is iron sulfide, and at the break it is yellow (which is why it is often confused with gold) and has a clearly defined cubic structure. Eyewitnesses of the finds clearly speak of iron nails, sometimes covered with rust, and pyrite formations can be called gold rather than iron. There is also an assumption that the rod-shaped NIOs are the fossilized skeletons of belemnites (invertebrate marine animals that lived at the same time as dinosaurs). But the remains of belemnites are found only in sedimentary rocks and never in bedrocks, such as feldspar. In addition, they have a pronounced skeletal shape, and it is impossible to confuse them with something else. It is sometimes argued that nail-like NIOs are molten fragments of meteorites or fulgurites (thunderbolts) obtained by lightning strikes into rocks. However, finding such a fragment or trace left millions of years ago is extremely problematic. If the origin of the nail-shaped NIOs can still be argued, then some of the finds can only be shrugged.
ancient battery
In 1936, the German scientist Wilhelm Koenig, who worked at the Archaeological Museum of Baghdad, was brought a strange object that was found at the excavations of an ancient Parthian settlement near the Iraqi capital. It was a small clay vase about 15 centimeters high. Inside it was a cylinder made of sheet copper, its base was closed by a cap with a seal, on top of the cylinder was covered with a layer of resin, which also held an iron rod directed to the center of the cylinder. From all this, Dr. Koenig concluded that he had before him an electric battery, created almost two thousand years before the discoveries of Galvani and Volta. Egyptologist Arne Eggebrecht made an exact copy of the find, poured wine vinegar into a vase and connected a measuring device that showed a voltage of 0.5 V. Presumably, the ancients used electricity to apply a thin layer of gilding to objects.
The Antikythera mechanism (other spellings: Antikythera, Andythera, Antikythera, Greek Μηχανισμός των Αντικυθήρων) is a mechanical device discovered in 1902 on an ancient sunken ship near the Greek island of Antikythera (Greek Ακαθτ). Dated to around 100 BC. e. (perhaps before 150 BC). It is stored in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. The mechanism contained 37 bronze gears in a wooden case, on which dials with arrows were placed and, according to reconstruction, was used to calculate the movement of celestial bodies. Other devices of similar complexity are unknown in Hellenistic culture. It uses a differential gear, which was previously thought not to have been invented before the 16th century, and the level of miniaturization and complexity is comparable to mechanical watches of the 18th century. Approximate dimensions of the mechanism assembly 33×18×10 cm.
Figurines of astronauts from Ecuador
Figurines of ancient astronauts found in Ecuador. Age > 2000 years. In fact, there are plenty of such testimonies, if you want, read Erich Von Denikin. He has many books, one of the most famous is "Chariots of the Gods", there are both physical evidence and deciphering of cuneiforms and so on, in general, quite interesting. True, it is contraindicated for ardent believers to read.
Here are collected the strangest events of the 20th century. Some of them raise doubts about their authenticity. However, judge for yourself.
1900
On Flannan Island (Great Britain), the entire watch of lighthouse keepers Eileen Moore (Eileen Moore lighthouse) disappeared without a trace. Pictured is the Eileen Moore lighthouse today.
1902
On the night of December 29-30, at 1:05 a.m., clocks stopped in many places in Paris. The causes of the "Paris crash" remained unclear. In the photo of the beginning of the last century - the clock tower that adorns the Gare de Lyon in Paris.
1908
The fall of the Tunguska meteorite, presumably, caused an air explosion that occurred in the area of the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, with a capacity of 40-50 megatons. The explosion at Tunguska was heard 800 km from the epicenter, the blast wave knocked down a forest over an area of 2100 sq. km, and the windows of some houses were shattered within a radius of 200 km. Shortly after the explosion, a magnetic storm began, which lasted 5 hours.
1911
On July 14, a pleasure train left the Rome railway station for a trip arranged by the Sanetti firm for wealthy Italians. Along the way, the three-car train and 106 of its passengers disappeared at the entrance to the tunnel.
1911
On January 31, the legendary Bulgarian clairvoyant Vanga was born, who received the gift of prophecy at the age of 12 after she was carried away and blinded by a tornado.
1913
Off the coast of Tierra del Fuego, the Marlborough sailing ship, the new Flying Dutchman, was discovered, leaving New Zealand at the beginning of 1890, but not calling at any port. The remains of 20 people were found on the bridge and in the premises.
1916
In the summer, during the melting of the glaciers on Ararat, pilot lieutenant Roskovitsky and his co-pilot on a reconnaissance aircraft of the imperial air force discovered something similar to the remains of Noah's ark on the mountainside.
1920
An ancient Slavic monument was found - the Book of Veles, the authenticity of which is disputed in our time.
1922
On the Paint River (USA), a huge animal with a snake-like neck and a large head, resembling a relic lizard, was seen. The photo shows the Paint River (Michigan, USA) today.
1924
Not far from the village of Taung (South Africa), the "skull of the child of Taung" was found, whose age is estimated at 2.5 million years, and which is attributed to extraterrestrial origin. In the photo, anthropologist Philip V. Tobias with the skull of the "child of Taung".
1928
Over the village of Shuknavolok near Vedlozero (Karelia), they observed the passage of a cylindrical ten-meter body, from the tail of which a flame came out. Having broken through the ice of the lake, the mysterious object went under water. Since then, local residents began to meet on the shore a strange big-headed creature a little more than a meter tall with thin arms and legs, which, when people appeared, dived back into the water. In the photo - Vedlozero (Karelia, Russia) today.
1933
The first documented sighting of the monster Nessie in the Scottish Loch Ness. To date, about 4000 observations and meetings with him have been noted. A sonar survey of the entire volume of the lake in 1992 found 5 giant lizards.
1943
In October 1943, in the United States, in an atmosphere of extreme secrecy on the destroyer Eldridge, the Philadelphia experiment, which had no analogues in history, was carried out to create a warship invisible to enemy radars. As a result of the creation of a very strong magnetic field around the ship, the ship allegedly disappeared, and then instantly moved in space for several tens of kilometers. Of the entire crew, only 21 returned unharmed. 27 people literally fused with the structure of the ship, 13 died from burns, radiation, electric shock and fear.
1945
Mass invasion of UFOs in Queensland (Australia).
1945
The mysterious disappearance of the leaders of the Third Reich (Müller, Bormann and others). No remains found. The emergence of versions of their escape to Latin America. The photo shows Martin Bormann and, presumably, his skull, whose identity was disputed.
1947
July 7 in Magdalena (New Mexico, USA) crashed an unknown aircraft. Among the wreckage, 6 corpses of creatures similar to humans were allegedly found. In the photo - presumably one of the humanoids who died in a UFO crash in Roswell (New Mexico, USA), July 22, 1947.
1952
July 1952 America is in shock. What is happening in the sky over Washington defies logical explanation and gives rise to the most incredible rumors. And the reason for this is the wave of UFO sightings that swept through the District of Columbia. Unidentified flying objects with enviable constancy appeared over Washington in the period from 12 to 26 July. In the photo: UFO squadron over the Capitol.
1955
An explosion of unknown nature that struck under the bottom of the battleship Novorossiysk on the night of October 29, 1955, claimed the lives of 608 sailors and officers. The huge ship capsized and sank in the Northern Bay of Sevastopol - in front of thousands of citizens.
1955
In Hopkinsville (Kentucky, USA), after the explosion of a UFO, a small luminous man with huge eyes was seen for some time. 
1956
In August, a UFO chased a fighter for 20 minutes at a British air base, after which it disappeared into the air. The photo is believed to be a UFO. USA, California, 1957.
1958
On December 14, the Youth of Yakutia newspaper wrote about a giant monster that lives in Lake Labynkyr. Local Yakut residents believe that some huge animal lives in the lake - the "Labynkyrsky Devil", as they call it. According to the descriptions of the Yakuts, this is something of a dark gray color with a huge mouth. The distance between the eyes of the "devil" is equal to the width of a raft of ten logs. According to the legend, the “devil” is very aggressive and dangerous, attacks people and animals, and is able to go ashore. In the photo - Lake Labynkyr (Oymyakonsky district of Yakutia, Russia).
1959
On February 1, a group of experienced tourists led by Igor Dyatlov began climbing to the top of "1079" (Mountain of the Dead). We didn’t manage to get up before dark and pitched a tent right on the slope. We started to settle down for the night. And then something terrible happened ... As the investigators later established, having cut the wall of the tent with knives, the tourists in panic horror rushed to run down the slope. They ran, who was in what: in underwear, half-dressed, barefoot. Later, the corpses of all nine members of the group were found down the slope. Most died of hypothermia. Several people had terrible internal injuries, while the skin was not damaged. The cause of the tragedy is still unknown. The last shot of the Dyatlov group on the Mountain of the Dead.
1963
During the maneuvers of the US Navy off the coast of Puerto Rico, a moving object was noticed, developing an unprecedented speed for a ship - about 280 km / h.
1963
On November 22, 1963, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Despite the fact that the Kennedy assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was captured a few hours later, the true motives and customers of the most high-profile murder of the 20th century have not yet been established.
1967
In the valley of Bluff Creek, a female "Bigfoot" was captured on film (the author of the film is Roger Patterson).
1968
The official date of the death of Yuri Gagarin. Few believed in his death. The soothsayer Vanga claimed that the first cosmonaut did not die, but "was taken."
1969
The landing of the Americans on the moon. The fact itself is still disputed. The version of falsification has many supporters.
1977
"Petrozavodsk wonder": September 20 at 4 o'clock in the morning a UFO in the form of a bright star, from which rays of red color departed, was seen above the main street of Petrozavodsk - Lenin Street. The phenomenon was accompanied by mass sightings of UFOs in the northern regions of the USSR and in Finland. Later, large holes with very sharp edges were found in the glass of the upper floors. In the photo is a copy of the only known photograph of the "Petrozavodsk diva" - the stage of fiery rain and fig. V. Lukyants "Solovki" (magazine "Technology - Youth" No. 4, 1980)
1982
In the Tsemess Bay (Black Sea), on one of the ships of the Black Sea Fleet, all the clocks stopped on board. In the photo - Tsemesskaya Bay today.
1986
On January 29, a UFO crashed near Dalnegorsk (Hill 611). The photo shows the crash site and part of the "exhibits" from the crash site: metal drops of various nature with holes inside, black vitreous particles weighing up to 30 mg, as well as loose scales in the form of a mesh of quartz fibers 30 microns thick, each of which is twisted from even thinner quartz flagella, each of which, in turn, is inserted with a gold thread.
1987
Mass suicide of 2000 dolphins - they threw themselves on the coast of Brazil. Pictured: pilot whale dolphins that washed ashore in New Zealand in 2009.
1989
140 whales have died off the southern coast of Chile. Mass suicide occurs for the fourth time.
1991
Explosion on April 12 in Sasovo (Ryazan region), when UFOs were observed over the city. Until now, anomalies have been recorded near the funnel - the reprogramming of calculators and the failure of electronic devices. In the photo - the place of the explosion in 91 and in our time.
1993
For 10 months, 48 ships and more than 200 sailors have disappeared in the so-called "Pacific Triangle" near Western Micronesia.
1996
A strange half-dead creature was discovered in a cemetery in the village of Kaolinovy near Kyshtym by a lonely pensioner Tamara Vasilievna Prosvirina. The creature became known as the "Kyshtym dwarf". The creature ate human food and looked and smelled strange. The body length of the creature was approximately 30 cm, it had a torso, arms, legs, a head with a high frontal lobe, a mouth and eyes. The pensioner gave the creature a children's name - "Alyoshenka". "Alyoshenka" lived in the pensioner's house for about a month.
Alyoshenka was also seen by other people: Tamara Prosvirina's daughter-in-law, as well as some acquaintances. Subsequently, Tamara Prosvirina was placed in a psychiatric hospital due to an exacerbation of schizophrenia. In the end, the creature died, and the causes of death have not been finally established, among them death from improper feeding and lack of care, or murder under unclear circumstances, is most often indicated. Tamara Prosvirina died on August 5, 1999 - she was hit by two cars at night. At this time, representatives of a Japanese television company were going to interview her, who were filming a documentary about this phenomenon. The house where the Kyshtym humanoid lived.
The creature's mummy was discovered in August 1996 by police captain Yevgeny Mokichev (pictured) during his investigation of the theft of an electric cable. The policeman who discovered the mummy handed it over to his colleague, Vladimir Bendlin, who began his own investigation into the origin and nature of the creature, but soon the mummy "Alyoshenka" disappeared under strange circumstances. Her whereabouts are currently unknown.
1994
Near the Czech city of Celakovice, a "vampire cemetery" was found - a strange burial site dating back to the end of the 10th - beginning of the 11th century. In 11 pits lay the remains of 13 people, bound with leather straps and with aspen stakes stuck in the heart. Some of the dead also had their hands and heads cut off. According to pagan beliefs and rituals, this was done with vampires who rise from their graves at night and drink human blood.
1996
In the Movil cave (Romania), a closed ecosystem was first discovered, not connected with the earth. 30 species of plants and animals (crustaceans, spiders, centipedes and insects) have been found here, living in isolation in the dark for 5 million years.
Incredible Facts
History is a rather vast subject and it is impossible to fully study it, especially in the smallest detail.
Sometimes these seemingly insignificant details can become a very part of it.
Here are some interesting facts from history that will not be covered in class.
1. Albert Einstein could have been president. In 1952 he was offered the post of the second President of Israel, but he refused.
2. Kim Jong Il was a good composer and a lifetime Korean leader composed 6 operas.
3. The Leaning Tower of Pisa has always been tilted. In 1173, a team building the Leaning Tower of Pisa noticed that the base was warped. Construction was halted for almost 100 years, but the structure was never straight.
4. Arabic numerals were not invented by Arabs, but by Indian mathematicians.
5. Before the invention of alarm clocks, there was a profession that wake other people up in the morning. So, for example, a person had to shoot dried peas at other people's windows to wake them up for work.
6. Grigory Rasputin survived many assassination attempts in one day. They tried to poison him, shoot him and stab him, but he managed to survive. In the end, Rasputin died in a cold river.
7. The shortest war in history lasted less than an hour. The Anglo-Zanzibar War lasted 38 minutes.
8. longest war in history took place between the Netherlands and the Scilly archipelago. The war lasted 335 years from 1651 to 1989 with no casualties on either side.
People, stories and facts
9. This amazing view, known as " majestic argentine bird", whose wingspan reached 7 meters, is the largest flying bird in history. It lived about 6 million years ago in the open plains of Argentina and in the Andes. The bird is a relative of modern vultures and storks, and its feathers reached the size of a samurai sword.
10. Using sonar, the researchers found at a depth of 1.8 km two strange pyramids. Scientists have determined that they are made of a kind of thick glass and reach enormous sizes (larger than the pyramids of Cheops in Egypt).
11. These two men with the same name were sentenced to the same prison and look very similar. However, they have never met, are not related and are the reason why fingerprints began to be used in the judicial system.
12. Foot binding- an ancient Chinese tradition, when girls tied their toes to their feet. The idea was that the smaller the foot, the more beautiful and feminine the girl was considered.
13. The most strange and frightening mummies are considered mummies of Guanajuato. Their twisted faces make one believe that they were buried alive.
14. Heroin was once used as a substitute for morphine and was used to relieve coughs in children.
15. Joseph Stalin may have been the inventor of Photoshop. After the death or disappearance of some people, photos with him were edited.
16. Recent DNA tests have confirmed that The parents of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun were brother and sister. This explains many of his illnesses and defects.
17. The Icelandic Parliament is considered oldest functioning parliament in the world. It was founded in 930.
Unexplained and mysterious facts of history
18. For years, miners in South Africa have been digging mystery balls about 2.5 cm in diameter with three parallel furrows. The stone from which they are made belongs to the Precambrian period, that is, their age is about 2.8 billion years.
19. It is believed that Catholic saints do not decay. The oldest of the "non-decomposing" is Caecilia of Rome who was martyred in 177 AD. Her body remains virtually the same as it was 1,700 years ago when it was discovered.
20. Cipher from Chaboro in the UK is one of the unsolved mysteries so far. If you look closely, you can see the inscription in the form of letters on the monument: DOUOSVAVVM. No one knows who carved this inscription, but many believe it is the key to finding holy grail.
This list includes the most famous "mysteries of the century", from stones sliding through the desert to incomprehensible underwater sounds that people still managed to solve.
Richard III's grave found
The remains of Richard III, the last English king to die in battle, have been discovered under a car park in the British city of Leicester. It was one of the most striking archaeological finds of recent decades.
Source of the Nile
This may seem too obvious, but even a response like "Lake Victoria" was not that easy to get. It took the most modern technology to get the final clue, because the true location of the source of the Nile for a long time remained a mystery.
Why is the temperature of the "solar atmosphere" higher than the temperature of the surface of the Sun
The answer sounds too scientific, however, one way or another, the mystery was solved in 2009 thanks to a study by a group of European scientists. They managed to find an explanation for the fact that the temperature of the solar "atmosphere" reaches several million degrees Celsius, while the surface of the sun is much "colder" - only 5 thousand degrees Celsius. The answer is that it is the magnetic field that is the source of energy that causes solar flares and coronal plasma ejections.
Finding the flooded
The discovery in 1985, more than 70 years after the disaster, of a sunken ship was completely accidental and can only be explained by the greatest luck of the researchers.
Loch Ness monster
After decades of countless controversy and speculation, the photographer behind the world-famous original image of the Loch Ness Monster recently admitted that it was a hoax.
Troy
For centuries, mankind considered Troy a mythical city and the Trojan War mostly a legend. This was before the discovery by the self-taught German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann of the remains of the ancient city, also called Ilion
"Magic" circles in the Namib Desert
For a long time, people have associated this phenomenon with anything from radioactive radiation to space alien camps. Only relatively recent studies have led to the final conclusion that the "culprits" of such a long intrigue are ... termites! (However, there are other explanations that we wrote about earlier)
The fate of Martin Bormann
One of the top leaders of the Nazi Reich was not located after World War II, despite intensive searches around the world. According to the most famous version, he managed to escape retribution and hide somewhere in South America, which there were numerous evidences that were exaggerated in the press for many years. However, in 1999 his corpse was found in an unmarked grave near the bunker where Hitler committed suicide.
"Fish flatulence" instead of Russian submarines
In the 1980s, Swedish sailors discovered underwater sounds of unknown origin. Many experts attributed them to Russian submarines threatening the free world. The answer caused an explosion of ... laughter - the source of mystical underwater sounds turned out to be the release of digestive gases from clusters of fish. The Swedes were subsequently awarded the so-called. Shnobel Prize.
Tomb of Tutankhamun
With this most "popular" ancient Egyptian pharaoh, a story reminiscent of the "Trojan" was associated. Until the discovery in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings of the completely untouched tomb of Tutankhamen, it was the subject of countless legends and hoaxes.
Eternal Roar
When researchers from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration discovered a low-frequency sound of unknown origin in the South Pacific in the summer of 1997, at first its origin was attributed to some mysterious, incredibly large and loud animal. Later, however, most scientists agreed that this roar (The Bloop) was caused by the movement of ice masses.
Why do corals pulsate
The pulsation of coral colonies remained an unassailable mystery and the subject of much conjecture for several decades of the last century. This movement could not be explained by any pressing need. In the end, scientists were able to establish that in this way the corals maintain a low oxygen content in the surrounding waters and thereby attract a certain type of migratory algae, which forms the basis of their diet.
In what direction is the Earth's core spinning?
For a very long time, scientists could not understand how the solid inner core of our planet rotates in one direction, while the liquid outer core rotates in the other. Researchers from the University of the British city of Leeds have finally found the answer: the reason lies in the "equiopposite" interaction of near-Earth magnetic fields.
Do women blush in the dark
This question may sound stupid to you, but even Charles Darwin tried to get an answer to it. After all, if you think sensibly, in the dark it is impossible to see if she blushed, and if you turn on the light, then what happens next will no longer take place in the dark, regardless of the result. Fortunately, German researchers have thought of using special cameras that react to thermal radiation to put an end to painful doubts. Yes, women blush in the dark, how!
Antikythera mechanism
The fact that this ancient Greek "computer" was probably used for navigation purposes was known for a very long time (since the device was discovered among the wreckage of a ship). But the fact that a device of a comparable level of complexity was next built by people only a thousand years later is true hard to explain.
Causes of stomach ulcers
For many years, the pharmaceutical industry has made very good money selling anti-stress drugs to treat stomach ulcers. This continued until Australian scientists discovered that ulcers are often caused by a bacterial factor and are very easily cured.
The nature of absolutely black bodies is inexplicable within the framework of classical physics
Classical physics states that an ideal black body in a state of thermal equilibrium will radiate an infinite amount of energy. This is inconsistent with what is actually happening in the real world. To explain this phenomenon, the laws of quantum mechanics were required.
sliding stones
If you don't know, there are rocks in different deserts around the world that "slide", that is, move on their own. After several experiments, this effect was explained as follows: the movement of the stones, in all likelihood, is caused by the wind and the presence of ice on the desert surface.
A huge network of 36 caves that appeared over 2000 years ago. So you can safely exclude from the guesswork of the ancient Chinese Batman.
The entertainment portal site would like to tell you more about the ancient Chinese caves, but they do not know anything more about them. No documents, no artifacts - nothing to shed light on the truth of the underground structures. 900,000 cubic meters of cut rock and not a drop of information. This is especially strange, given that the ancient Chinese meticulously recorded absolutely everything. If we immediately rejected the Batman theory, then only one explanation remains - this is the place for the Predator to hunt.
Drill marks, ladders, support columns - all this cannot be the result of tectonic shifts. But the true reason for the appearance of these caves, as well as their purpose, is still not known to anyone.
4. We can't read one of the most important languages in history. If we ask you to name the most important and influential civilization of the ancient world, you will probably point to the Romans or the Greeks. Just because they had a written language, architecture, philosophy and other shit. And only the most colorful botanists said "Etruscans". Yet, and they were not the most powerful guys.
In any case, the Etruscans were a small civilization in what is now Tuscany, creating aqueducts, urban planning, sewers, bridges, and metallurgy. In principle, everything that we mistakenly attribute to . But no matter how scientists understand the Etruscan civilization, we are still not able to decipher their language.
The problem with decoding an ancient language is that no one speaks it anymore. Moreover, famous modern researchers were only able to translate Egyptian hieroglyphs thanks to the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, a handy Egyptian-Greek travel dictionary that was created by King Ptolemy V. The reason for the appearance of this stone was the desire of the king to issue his decrees simultaneously in three languages.
We had no luck with the Etruscans. By the way, they wrote a lot, and none of these works was ever translated into the language of any other civilization known to us. As a result, we have several thousand inscriptions in the Etruscan language, but to this day only about a hundred words have been deciphered. At the same time, a lot of people know the Dothraki language - the language of a non-existent civilization from the series "".
5. "Peoples of the Sea". They destroyed almost every major city in the Ancient World... And we have no idea who they are.
1200 BC was a terrible period for people living around the Mediterranean. The main empires of that time - the Hittites, Mycenae and Egyptians - they all experienced a hard release, after the golden age. Huge armies of bloodthirsty barbarians poured salt on the wound, which appeared out of nowhere, burned, robbed and destroyed everything. We named these barbarians "Sea Peoples" but that's just a guess because we don't fucking know who they really are. Here is how they were portrayed by the ancient peoples:
The Sea People were so strong and aggressive that their invasion was akin to an attack by Hitler. The only ones who could hold them back were the ancient Egyptians. Prior to that, they had destroyed most of the ancient world. Scientists believe that the Sea Peoples could have come from Europe, or from the Balkans, or Asia Minor, or God knows where. The problem is that people were too busy dying to ask the Sea Peoples where they came from.
All this seems to be painfully reminiscent of the stories of Lovecraft, about the underwater civilization of lizard people who demolished the most powerful city in the world, on the eve of its 1000th anniversary.
In the age of the Internet, the reluctance of people to strive for new knowledge seems a little strange, because when it was difficult to get a book, we sought to learn a lot, while trying to put our knowledge into practice. Now, when you can find out about everything in the world without raising your ass, no one wants to know anything. Not to mention the desire of the governments of some countries to loop the self-development of their people. We have become lazy, allowing progress to operate only in order to facilitate our existence. Our bodies produce fewer actions, and our brains are less and less able to cope with tasks. Useful stump to you!
