Fragments of meteorites with the remains of unknown life forms, metal parts from alloys unknown to science, spheres of incomprehensible purpose with unique physical properties - how to explain the appearance of all these amazing artifacts on our planet? Many scientists are inclined to a completely logical explanation and believe that such finds are of extraterrestrial origin, and they came to earth during the next visit of aliens. Others find such explanations frivolous and regard them as an attempt to "hide behind the backs of the aliens" from hopelessness. The debate about whether representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations visited our planet has been going on for hundreds of years. The amazing finds that the most ordinary people discover in various parts of the world are increasingly making us think that we are not alone in the universe.
Stone head from Guatemala, Guatemala
The impenetrable jungle of Guatemala, which has been inhabited by the Maya since ancient times, hides one of the most mysterious artifacts on earth. Here, among the dense thickets of exotic trees, rests huge statue from sandstone, which was discovered by researchers in the 30s of the last century. At first glance, the head of an impressive size is unremarkable and resembles the surviving part of the statue of some ancient deity, but is not at all like that.
The fact is that the facial features of the statue are strikingly different from the classical appearance of the Maya, the statue is absolutely unlike those stone statues that were found in the nearby territories of Guatemala. A more detailed study made it possible to find out that the area in which the statue was found was never inhabited. In addition, it is much older than the Mayan sculptures found nearby.
Discussing the version of the origin of the statue, the researchers disagreed, some of them hastened to note that the head can depict the face of an alien creature. A worthy alternative to this version is the assumption that the statue could have been created by more ancient peoples who inhabited the jungles of Guatemala even before the Maya. A few years after the discovery of a unique monument, its location became known to the general public. The troops used the stone head as a target for shooting, and therefore the unique monument was almost completely destroyed.
The mysterious enigmalite of Williams has been disturbing the minds of modern researchers for more than 15 years. The find was named after its discoverer, electrical engineer and traveler John J. Williams. In 1998, he managed to discover an unusual stone with a built-in element of incomprehensible purpose, which in appearance is a bit like a classic plug from an electrical appliance. Photos of the mysterious stone were published in UFO Magazine and Fortean Times, and the find itself was carefully examined.
One of the most amazing mysteries of the 20th century is the metal sphere, which is owned by the Betz family. In March 1974, a large fire broke out on the lands belonging to the Betz family, destroying more than 35 hectares of forest. On March 26, when the family went to inspect the farm area affected by the elements, they discovered a strange silver ball. The diameter of the sphere was about 20 cm, and the weight turned out to be quite impressive for its modest size - 9.6 kg.
An amazing scientific discovery was made by one of the inhabitants of Vladivostok. In a piece of coal that he wanted to use to start a fire, the man noticed a strange metal object that looked a bit like a gear wheel. The nature of the unusual metallic element found in a piece of coal is still a mystery. Initially, the man took his find for another detail from the car, of which there are many in the ground.
Each meteorite that has fallen to the ground is unique, not only in its shape, but also in composition. The latter is evaluated by researchers especially carefully, because the elements contained in the meteorite may be evidence of extraterrestrial life forms. An excellent confirmation of this theory is a meteorite found on the island of Sri Lanka, in which the fossilized remains of the most real alien algae were found.
In the 19th century, the scientific world was shocked by the discovery of the famous physicist Friedrich Adolf Gurlt, in 1885 he discovered a "strange metal meteorite" shaped like a parallelepiped. It stood out among the others precisely by its unusual shape, on four sides of the parallelepiped there were deep cuts.
In Azerbaijan, not far from Baku, there is the miniature island of Bulla, also known to the locals as Khyarya Zira. It was on this island that geologist Konstantin Mamedov discovered mysterious spherical formations in the 70s of the last century. In total, scientists discovered 21 balls, all formations had the same structure - they were clearly delimited into two equal halves by a deep incision.
The impenetrable jungle of Rwanda also hides many secrets. It was here that the so-called alien cemetery was discovered by Swedish scientists. Initially, archaeologists took the find for the ruins of another ancient settlement, but soon realized that they were wrong. The ancient cemetery had nothing to do with people; in its mass graves, the remains of strange creatures were found, the growth of which “during life” was at least two meters.
The crystal sarcophagus with the mummy of an alien creature, discovered by Turkish speleologists, is another unique artifact that has caused a lot of controversy among researchers and ordinary people. The opinion that the transparent sarcophagus was made of crystal turned out to be erroneous; the scientists failed to accurately determine the composition of the high-strength and transparent material. The age of the mummy, according to rough estimates, was more than 10,000 years, the growth of the creature, whose body was stored in the sarcophagus, during life was about 120 centimeters.
On the border of China and Tibet is the remote mountainous region of Bayan-Kara-Ula, which began to attract the first explorers in the early 20th century. The works of scientists were not in vain, in 1937 they discovered a complex of miniature caves in a mountain range, which in structure was a bit like a honeycomb of a bee hive. Strange caves turned out to be not empty, they contained the skeletons of creatures unknown to modern science.
The Narada River is located near the eastern border of the Ural Mountains, and for many years it has attracted enthusiastic gold prospectors. In 1991, another group of gold rush researchers managed to discover a unique artifact - miniature tungsten springs and other metal elements of unknown origin and purpose. At first glance, microscopic "garbage" is of no interest, if you do not take into account their more than impressive age - more than 200,000 years. 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 currently Western egyptian desert completely dry, 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 sources 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 the city of Cluj-Napoca, where the artifact supposedly went, it was determined that the metal from which this wedge was 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 to be 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. metal part 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 has been 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 metallurgical industry in the production of different steel grades (such as 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, humanity 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 an unknown technology."
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 were not used metal tools. 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 covered with 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 measuring device, which 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 shipwreck 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 XVIII 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.
The world is full of strange and mysterious artifacts. Some are almost certainly hoaxes, others are connected real stories. In our review of 10 real-life artifacts, the origin of which scientists cannot explain even today.
1. Sumerian king list
During excavations in Iraq on the territory of ancient Sumer was found manuscript, which lists all the kings of this state. Researchers initially thought it was a common historical document, but then it turned out that many of the kings are mythological characters. Some rulers who should have been included in the list were missing from it. Others were credited with incredibly long reigns or mythical events associated with them, such as the Sumerian version of the Great Flood and the exploits of Gilgamesh.
2. Codex Gigas (or "Devil's Bible")
The most famous is the ancient manuscript "Code Gigas", better known as " devil's bible". Only 2 people can lift this book, made of 160 skins. Legend has it that the Codex Gigas was written by a monk who, after being sentenced to death, according to which the monk was to be walled up alive, made a deal with the devil. With the help The devil's monk wrote the book in one night (moreover, the devil wrote a self-portrait. Strangely enough, the handwriting in the book is surprisingly clear and the same, as if it was really written within a short period of time. However, scientists believe that such a work would take from 5 years (if written without interruption) to 30. The manuscript contains seemingly incongruous texts: the complete Latin Vulgate Bible, the Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus, the collection of medical works of Hippocrates and Theophilus, the Chronicles of Bohemia by Cosmas of Prague, "Etymological Encyclopedia" by Isidore of Seville, exorcism rites, magic formulas and an illustration of the heavenly city.
3. Easter Island writing
Almost everyone knows about the famous statues of Easter Island, but there are other artifacts associated with this place, the mystery of which has not yet been solved. 24 wooden carved tablets were found that contain a system of symbols. These symbols are called rongorongo", and they are considered an ancient proto-writing form. To date, they have not been able to decipher.
Typically, archaeologists argue that religion, the building of temples, and the development of complex rituals are a by-product of human settlement. This belief was shaken by a discovery in the Urfa plain in southeastern Turkey. Göbekli Tepe temple. Its ruins may be the oldest organized place of worship known to man. The ruins of Göbekli Tepe date back to 9500 BC, meaning the temple was built 5000 years before Stonehenge.
In regions that were once in the sphere of influence of the Roman Empire - from Wales to the Mediterranean Sea - small strange objects are found that have been named " dodecahedrons". They are hollow stone or bronze objects, 4-12 centimeters in diameter with 12 flat pentagonal faces and holes of various sizes on each side. Small handles protrude from each corner. Twenty-seven theories have been put forward as to what it is, but none of which could not be proven.
Around 6,000 mysterious artifacts have been found in rivers and marshes across Ireland, which have come to be known as the Fulachtai Fia. In the UK, where they are also found, they are called " Burnt mounds". Fulacht fiadh - a mound of soil and stone in the shape of a horseshoe, in the center of which a trough filled with water is dug. Fulachtai Fia, as a rule, are found singly, but sometimes in groups of 2-6. At the same time, there is always a source of water nearby. Why they were built remains a mystery.
7. Big Zayatsky Labyrinth, Russia
Bolshoy Zayatsky Island, which is part of the Solovetsky archipelago in northern Russia, hides another mystery. Back in 3000 BC. not only villages and places of worship were built here, but also irrigation systems. But the most mysterious objects on the island - spiral labyrinths, the largest of which has a diameter of 24 meters. The structures are built from two rows of boulders overgrown with vegetation. What they were used for is unknown.
8. Witch bottles, Europe and the USA
In 2014, archaeologists excavating the site of an ancient battle in Nottinghamshire made a strange discovery: they found a 15-centimeter " witch bottle". Similar vessels were used in Europe and America for black witchcraft in the 1600s - 1700s. They were usually made of ceramic or glass. In total, about 200 such objects were found, and they often contained the remains of needles, nails, nails , hair, and even urine.Witch bottles are believed to have been used to protect the wearer from evil spells and the harmful effects of witches.
9 Ubaid Lizard Figurines, Iraq
Strange things are found in Iraq Ubaid figurines. They depict lizard-like and snake-like people in various poses. All figurines have abnormally elongated heads and almond-shaped eyes. Many of these figurines are found in human burials and are therefore believed to mark some form of status.
10 Rat King
Several museums around the world contain strange once-living exhibits of a legendary beast from the Middle Ages called " rat king". The rat king is formed when several rats intertwine or grow together with their tails. As a result, a kind of "nest" of rats appears, the muzzles of which are directed outward, and in the center a knot of tails. The largest of these artifacts contains 32 rats. Today, such mummified objects are found, but not a single living such anomaly has been found.
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April 7th, 2009
From time to time, archaeologists (and sometimes ordinary people) make such wonderful discoveries. Overwhelmed, they are often unable to explain what they have found, how it came about, or to establish its value.
This is a comprehensive list of such artifacts; artifacts that many believe should never have existed at the time they were created, or be that old.
So let's go.
1 The London hammer is a tool older than history.
In June 1936 (or 1934 according to some accounts), Max Hahn and his wife Emma were out for a walk when they noticed a rock with wood sticking out from the center. They decided to take the quirk home and later cracked it open with a hammer and chisel. Oddly enough, they found in it something similar to an archaic hammer.
A team of archaeologists tested it, and as it turned out, the rock encasing the hammer was dated to be more than 400 million years old, the hammer itself was more than 500 million years old. Plus, the handle section has begun to convert to charcoal.
Creationists, of course, have been all over this. The iron part of the hammer, made from more than 96% iron, is much purer than anything nature has been able to achieve without the help of modern technology.
http://home.texoma.net/~linesden/cem/hamr/hamrfs.htm
2 Antikythera Mechanism - Ancient Greek Computer
The first known mechanical computer was named after the Antikytherian mechanism. Found in a shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikytheria, it was designed to calculate the positions of astronomical objects.
It is noteworthy that this mechanism was so accurate and unique that people could not surpass it in accuracy for more than 1000 years after the creation of the first Antikytherian mechanism.
Consisting of a box with discs on outside and very complex device wheels and mechanisms, it could compete in complexity with first-class clocks of the 18th century. The level of sophistication used by the device has forced scientists to admit that their perception of the ancient Greek design may be wrong. Nothing like this exists or is mentioned in any known records from the period of its creation. Based on our knowledge, we must conclude that this mechanism should not even exist.
According to Mike Edmunds, professor of astrophysics at Cardiff University (Wales, United Kingdom), the mechanism, in addition to basic astronomical operations, could also add, subtract, multiply and divide. In addition, the Antikytherian mechanism could determine the phases of the Moon and the Sun in accordance with the zodiacal accessories.
However, the most surprising thing is that the Antikythera mechanism could calculate the approximate time of the lunar or solar eclipse, and besides, with the help of it it was possible to understand that the Moon has an elliptical orbit.
"The discovery of this device, as well as unraveling the peculiarities of its functioning, makes us take a fresh look at the scientific potential of the ancient Greeks and Romans," says Edmunds.
3 Drop Stones
In 1938, an archaeological expedition by Dr. Chi Pu Tei to the Bayan-Kara-Ula Mountains in China made a stunning discovery in caves that retained the remnants of some ancient civilization. On the floor of the cave, buried under a layer of age-old dust, rested hundreds of stone disks. They were about nine inches in diameter, and in the center of each gaped round hole, from which the etched engraving diverged in a spiral, making them look like ancient gramophone records, created about 10 - 12 thousand years ago.
As for the spiral engraving, it is actually made up of tiny hieroglyphs that tell an incredible story about spaceships that came from a distant world and crashed in the mountains. The ships were driven by creatures who called themselves "dropa", and what appeared to be the remains of their descendants were found in the cave.
4 Bird from Saqqara
The bird from Saqqara is a figurine made of sycamore wood, discovered in 1898 during the excavation of one of the Saqqara burial grounds. In general terms, it resembles a feathered bird without a beak, plumage and lower extremities. Now exhibited in the Cairo Museum and dates back to the III-II centuries. BC e.
The Bird of Saqqara became widely known when Cairo amateur Egyptologist Khalil Messiha discovered the figurine in a museum store and claimed in 1972 that it was a model of an ancient flying machine (glider) which, in his opinion, was simply has not survived to this day or has not yet been found. He explained the absence of the horizontal tail necessary for flight by the fact that the corresponding detail was lost.
5 Baghdad battery - 2000 year old battery
Today, batteries can be bought at any kiosk, store, and even at the bazaar. Well, let me introduce you to a battery that is 2,000 years old. This find, known as the Baghdad Battery, was found in a Parthian settlement and is dated between 248 and 226 BC. The device consists of a 5.5-inch earthenware vessel containing an asphalt-reinforced copper cylinder with an oxidized iron rod inside. The experts who studied it came to the conclusion that the device needed only an acid or alkaline filling to produce an electric current. It is believed that this ancient battery could have been used in the electroplating of gold. If this is indeed the case, how did it happen that the technology became lost and the battery disappeared from the face of the earth for 1,800 years?
6 Misplaced metal objects
People not only did not know how to process metal 65 million years ago, they did not exist at all then. How then does science explain the discovery in France of semi-oval metal pipes in Cretaceous deposits dating back 65 million years? In 1885, splitting a piece of coal, they found a metal cube, undoubtedly created by the hands of a rational being, and in 1912, power plant workers broke a lump of coal and an iron pot fell out of it! And in a block of sandstone from the Mesozoic, a nail was found, and there are many similar finds.
How to explain all this? Here are some options:
- reasonable people appeared much, much earlier than we think.
- Other intelligent beings lived on Earth, having their own civilizations long before man.
- Our methods of determining age are fundamentally wrong, and those rocks, coal and fossils formed much faster than we think.
In any case, these examples, and there are many more, should prompt any inquisitive and open-minded scientist to reconsider and rethink the true history of life on Earth.
7 Piri Reis Map
The Piri Reis map is a map by an unknown author-compiler belonging to the Turkish admiral Piri Reis, compiled by him in the sixteenth century on the basis of Greek maps from the time of Alexander the Great and the map of Christopher COLUMBUS, on which he sailed to the shores of America in 1492. Even seven years before the first circumnavigation of the world, the Turkish admiral compiled a map of the world, on which not only America and the Strait of Magellan were marked, but also Antarctica, which Russian navigators were to discover only 300 years later ... The coastline and some details of the relief are presented on it from such accuracy, which can only be achieved with aerial photography, and even shooting from space. The southernmost continent of the planet on the Piri Reis map is devoid of ice cover (!). It has rivers and mountains. The distances between the continents have been slightly changed, which confirms the fact of their drift.
Interested scientists conducted selective drilling of the ice shell and made sure that hidden under it coastline drawn on ancient map with amazing accuracy. In the 1970s, the Soviet Antarctic expedition established that the ice shell covering the continent is at least 20 thousand years old, it turns out that the age of the real primary source of information, Piri Reis, is at least 200 centuries.
A short entry in the diaries of Piri Reis says that he compiled his map based on materials from the era of Alexander the Great. This diary entry, answering one question (the source of information for compiling a specific geographical document), puts before us several others, even more complex. How did they know about Antarctica in the 16th century, where did this information come from almost 2 thousand years earlier, in the 4th century BC?
How many questions are raised after getting acquainted with a strange map!
http://www.vokrugsveta.com/S4/proshloe/piri.htm
8 Nazca Drawings
Nazca is a mysterious plateau that has haunted scientists all over the world for over a century. For almost a hundred years, the world's luminaries have been fighting over the mysterious drawings that cover the deserted Peruvian plateau.
The plateau or Pampa Nasca is located 450 km south of the Peruvian capital - the city of Lima. The plateau occupies 60 kilometers and approximately 500 square meters of its territory is covered with a tie of strange lines that form into bizarre figures. Main riddle Nazca - geometric shapes in the form of triangles and more than thirty huge drawings of animals, birds, fish, insects and people unusual look. All images on the surface of Nazca are dug in sandy soil, the depth of the lines varies from 10 to 30 centimeters, and the width of the stripes can reach as much as 100 meters. The lines of the drawings stretch for kilometers, while not changing at all under the influence of the relief - the lines rise to the hills and descend from them, while remaining almost perfectly smooth and continuous. Who and why created these drawings - unknown tribes or aliens from outer space - there is still no answer to this question. To date, there are many hypotheses, but none of them can be a clue.
What scientists managed to establish more or less accurately is the age of the images. Based on the ceramic fragments found here and the analysis of organic remains, they found that between 350 BC. and 600 AD there was a civilization here. However, this theory cannot be accurate either, since the objects of civilization could have been brought here much later than the appearance of images. One theory says that these are the works of the Nazca Indians who inhabited the regions of Peru before the formation of the Inca Empire. The Nazca did not leave behind anything but burial places, so it is not known whether they had a written language and whether they “painted” the desert.
The first mention of the Nazca drawings was found in the annals of the Spanish explorers of the 15th-17th centuries, but at one time they did not attract the attention of the public and the scientific world. A real explosion happened with the development of aviation - the fact is that the entire huge system of lines is visible only from the air, but the Peruvian archaeologist Mejia Xesspe is considered the first person to discover the drawings. In 1927, he saw some of the images from the steep slope of the mountain. But it was only in the 40s that Nazca began to be truly explored, it was then that the American historian Paul Kosok provided the public with photographs of figures taken from an airplane. They actually flew over Nazca to discover water sources in the desert, but they found the biggest secret of the planet ...
Kosok came up with one of the first theories that the Nazca drawings were a gigantic astronomical calendar. He drew analogies of drawings with the starry sky and it turned out that some lines indicate the constellations, as well as fix the points of sunrise and sunset. Kosok's theory was further developed by the German mathematician and astronomer Maria Reiche. For 40 years she devoted herself to studying and trying to systematize the Nazca lines in order to explain their meaning. She found that all the drawings in the desert area were done in the same way and most likely it was done by hand. The figures of birds and animals were the first to be “scratched” in the plateau, and only then, on top, additional lines were applied. In addition, Reiche found small sketches of some of the drawings, which were then repeated in full size. At the ends of some figures, wooden piles were driven into the ground. They served not as a drawing tool, but as coordinates for unknown artists. The fact that the figures can only be seen from a height prompted Reiche and other scientists to think that at the time of the creation of the drawings, people (if they were, of course, people) already knew how to fly. In this regard, there was a theory that Nazca was once an airfield for ancient civilizations.
A little later it was found out that Nazca is not the only painted plateau in the world. Just a dozen kilometers away, around the small town of Palpa, there are thousands of similar stripes, lines and patterns. And 1400 kilometers from the plateau, at the foot of Mount Solitari, a giant statue of a man was discovered, which is surrounded by lines and signs similar to those of Nazca. In the Western Cordillera near Nazca, another amazing phenomenon was discovered - two labyrinths, the spirals of which are twisted in different sides. It is surprising that a cosmic beam of light lasting 20 minutes descends there 1–5 times a year. They say that the lucky ones who fell into this beam were healed of incurable diseases ... Mysterious drawings on the ground were found in the state of Ohio in the USA, in England, in Africa and in the territory of Altai and the Southern Urals. The appearance and shape of the drawings were different everywhere, but they all had in common that the drawings were clearly not intended for public viewing.
Excavations on the territory of Nazca gave scientists a few more mysteries - drawings were found on shards and fragments, indicating that the existence of penguins was already known in the desert of Peru many thousands of years ago. There is no other way to explain the image of a penguin on one of the vessels ... Under the plateau itself, many underground passages. Some of them clearly belonged to the irrigation system, and some were real underground city. There are tombs and the remains of underground temples.
The most exciting hypothesis associated with the drawings on the surface of Nazca is related to space aliens. It was first put forward by the Swiss writer Erich von Däniken. He put forward the idea that aliens from other stars visited the Nazca plateau, but does not insist that the guests themselves drew the lines. His theory is that with the help of the drawings, people called for aliens to return after they left Earth. The triangles informed the aircraft about a possible crosswind, and the squares about the best place landing. The lines could be filled with some kind of substance that could glow brightly in the dark and mark the runways. This theory is considered the most incredible and is not seriously considered, although von Däniken planted a seed of doubt in many minds. From this emerged a complex version of the energy flows through which the connection of the ancient tribes with the cosmic mind was ensured. According to another version associated with aliens, the key to the Nazca is a huge drawing on the 400-meter mountain slope of the Peruvian Paracas Peninsula, known as the “Paracas Candelabra”. It is believed that the Paracas Candelabra contains all the information about our planet. The left side of the picture represents the fauna, the right - the flora. And the picture entirely resembles a human face. There is a mark near the top of the mountain. This is a scale showing the "level of modern development of civilization" (there are six in total). These same scientists insist that our civilization was created by aliens from the constellation Leo. It is possible that the Nazca lines were drawn by the aliens for themselves and used as a coordinate system for landing their ships.
However, a study by an English anthropological journal speaks in favor of the version with other civilizations: analyzes of the muscle tissues of the preserved Inca mummies showed that their blood composition was very different from other inhabitants of the Earth of the same period. They had a blood type of the rarest combination.
Of course, there were also those who, in just two weeks, tried to refute all alien hypotheses. Back in the 80s of the last century, archeology students and their teachers armed wooden shovels and "painted" an elephant on the plateau, which from the air was no different from the ancient creations. Not everyone was convinced, and the theory of aliens in Nazca is still the most discussed in the world. True, anyone seriously discusses it, but not scientists ...
Some other theories say that:
... all the drawings of animals, birds and people were made in memory of a great flood - the Flood.
... lines and drawings are the oldest Zodiac with signs
... the figures were used for ceremonial dances of the cult of water, and the lines meant a system of underground aqueducts and sewers
... drawings were used for sprint races
... the Nazca lines - a system of numbers and measurements, a code in which the number "pi" is encrypted, radians of 360 degrees of a circle, 60 minutes of a degree, 60 seconds of a minute, decimal number system, 12-inch foot and 5280-foot mile.
... weavers stood along these lines. Fabrics were made from a single thread, but the Indians had neither a wheel nor looms, so hundreds of people stood along special lines and held the thread, while other people passed between them with its end and thus wove the material.
… the lines were drawn by shamans for their travels after using powerful hallucinogens. nasca, nasca, drawings in the desert.
But no matter how many theories are put forward, Nazca still keeps its secret. Moreover, she throws up more and more new riddles. All new expeditions are equipped here every year. Nazca is open to everyone, both scientists and tourists, but whether anyone will ever be able to solve the riddle with drawings on the ground is unknown to science.
9 Mysterious Nan Madol. The city was based on coral
Nan Madol is an artificial archipelago, with total area 79 hectares, consisting of 92 islands connected by a system of artificial channels. Also known as the Venice of the Pacific. Located in the southeast of the island of Ponape, part of the Caroline Islands, and until 1500 AD. e. was the capital of the ruling dynasty of So Deleur. Nan Madol means "gaps", referring to the system of channels that run through it.
The city of Nan Madol was built between 200 BC. - 800 AD, on a coral reef near Micronesia. It consists of approximately 100 artificial islands made from huge blocks of basalt and connected to viaducts. From the start it's dazzling with a mix of whimsical and grandeur. This seems inappropriate; 250 million tons of basalt offshore in the middle of the ocean. How these huge blocks were mined, transported, and placed in this great place? Even by today's standards, that would be an impressive technical feat.
10 Saxahuaman Walls
In the 16th century, Garcilaso de la Vega, in his History of the Inca State, described Sacsayhuaman as follows: “Its proportions cannot be imagined until you have seen it; seen up close and carefully studied, they make such an incredible impression that you begin to wonder if its construction is connected with some kind of witchcraft. Is it the creation of not people, but demons? It is built of such huge stones and in such quantity that a lot of questions immediately arise: how did the Indians manage to cut these stones, how did they transport them, how did they shape them and put them on top of each other with such accuracy? After all, they had neither iron nor steel to cut into the rock and hew stones, they had neither carts nor oxen for transportation. In fact, there are no such carts and oxen in the whole world, these stones are so large and the mountain roads are so uneven ... ”Here Garcilaso reports one interesting circumstance, how already in historical times a certain king of the Incas tried to compare himself with his predecessors, who built Sacsayhuaman. It was decided to bring another block to strengthen existing fortification. “More than 20,000 Indians dragged this block over rough terrain, up and down steep slopes ... In the end, it escaped from their hands and fell off a cliff, crushing more than 3,000 people.”
According to one of the legends, the fortress of Sacsayhuaman, the cities of Cusco and Machu Picchu were built by viracochas - white bearded demigod aliens who owned the art of softening and hardening stone. But how they delivered these blocks here, for tens of kilometers, remains incomprehensible.
In the fortress there are stones of 50-200 tons. Saxayuman was built 1.5 kilometers up the slope, 3650 meters above sea level, from tightly fitting blocks that could not be moved by the most modern machines. The Incas, however, not only brought these giant slabs to the top of the mountain, but also erected three shafts from them. Now no one can say how they built the fortress. Construction was completed a few decades later, already under Pachacuti's son, Huayna Capac. Each shaft stretches for 360 meters and consists of 21 bastions. Some of these bastions have been pushed forward, some have been pushed back. The most powerful is the first fortress wall. It is made up of stone blocks nine meters high, five meters wide, and four meters thick. The walls had several trapezoid-shaped gates that could be locked with stone blocks. The fortress had three large towers, which housed troops whose task was to guard and defend Cuzco. The conquistadors destroyed them in the first place - so that they would not turn into a base for the rebel Indians.
In Quechua, "Sacsayhuaman" means "grey-colored bird of prey". Indeed, if you look from above, the outlines of the fortress really resemble a bird. But first of all, another analogy suggests itself - the walls of the fortress are made in the form of zigzags, which is very similar to lightning.
Sacsayhuaman was the military and religious center of the Incas, the main fortress that guarded the then still Indian city of Cuzco. During excavations in the central square of the fortress, more than 300 figurines were found, apparently serving cult purposes.
The main element of the citadel, which speaks of its purpose as a defensive structure, is three towers, each of which could accommodate up to 1000 soldiers. According to historians, they had the height of a seven-story building. The entrance to the fortress was located at the end of one of the ledges, and it is not visible from the front.
The whole fortress is built of huge boulders. The weight of many of them exceeds tens of tons, but, nevertheless, they are so tightly fitted to each other that even a small gap is not visible. A favorite, but no less true comparison: you can’t insert a needle or a knife blade between stones. Moreover, even a trace of the solution is not visible between the stones! They seem to be stacked on top of one another by a giant hand, and held in place solely by a magic word, or, more logically, their own weight. But, even so, they are surprisingly strong. The greatest destruction of the fortress was caused by the same Spaniards, who used the stones of Sacsayhuaman as a building material for Catholic churches in the conquered Cusco.
The rest of the time, despite the fact that more than 500 years have passed, the fortress was practically not destroyed. The area in which the capital and the citadel are built is quite seismically active, but the builders of Sacsayhuaman took this into account and built their brainchild resistant to earthquakes - researchers of the mysterious Machu Picchu, which stands on top of the mountain of the same name, came to a similar conclusion. The outer edges of the stones are slightly convex, like fluffy down pillows. This was probably done to prevent the besiegers from clinging to the walls in an attempt to take possession of the strategic structure. But it is much more interesting to know how this effect was achieved - were they turned and polished by hand?
A number of scientists suggest that the rock was previously softened or melted in a way unknown to us, and already in place stones were cast from them - a kind of bricks - required form. The largest stone weighs approximately 360 tons and has at least 12 corners. He is tall more human standing in full growth.
Did Sacsayhuaman have a function other than defensive? The found 300 cult figurines suggest that there was also a religious function. There are suggestions that the whole complex had a religious purpose and was one big House of the Sun.
Since the time of Darwin, science has more or less managed to fit into the logical framework and explain most of the evolutionary processes that have taken place on Earth. Archaeologists, biologists, and many other ... scientists agree and are sure that already 400 - 250 thousand years ago, the beginnings of the current society flourished on our planet.
But archeology, you know, is such an unpredictable science, no, no, and it throws up new finds that do not fit into the generally accepted model neatly folded by scientists. We present you the 15 most mysterious artifacts that made the scientific world think about the correctness of existing theories.
Spheres from Klerksdorp
According to rough estimates, these mysterious artifacts are about 3 billion years old. They are disc-shaped and spherical objects. Corrugated balls are of two types: one of bluish metal, monolithic, interspersed with white matter, the other, on the contrary, is hollow, and the cavity is filled with white spongy material. Nobody knows the exact number of spheres, since miners with the help of kmd still continue to extract them from a rock near the city of Klerksdorp, located in South Africa.
Drop Stones
In the mountains of Bayan-Kara-Ula, which are located in China, a unique find was made, the age of which is 10-12 thousand years. Drop stones, numbering in the hundreds, are like gramophone records. These are stone discs with a hole in the middle and a spiral engraving applied to the surface. Some scientists tend to believe that the disks serve as carriers of information about an extraterrestrial civilization.
Antikythera mechanism
In 1901, the Aegean Sea revealed to scientists the mystery of a sunken Roman ship. Among other surviving antiquities, a mysterious mechanical artifact was found, which was made about 2000 years ago. Scientists managed to recreate the most complex and innovative invention for that time. The Antikythera mechanism was used by the Romans for astronomical calculations. Interestingly, the differential gear used in it was invented only in the 16th century, and the skillfulness of miniature parts from which the amazing device was assembled is not inferior to the skill of watchmakers of the 18th century.
Unique stones were discovered in the Peruvian province of Ica by the surgeon Javier Cabrera. Ica stones are processed volcanic rock covered with engravings. But the whole mystery is that among the images there are dinosaurs (brontosaurs, pterosaurs and triceraptors). Perhaps, despite all the arguments of scientific anthropologists, the ancestors of modern man were already flourishing and engaged in creativity at the time when these giants roamed the earth?
Baghdad Battery
In 1936, a strange-looking vessel was found in Baghdad, sealed with a concrete plug. Inside the mysterious artifact was a metal rod. Subsequent experiments showed that the vessel performed the function of an ancient battery, since by filling a structure similar to the Baghdad battery with electrolyte available for that time, it is possible to obtain electricity of 1 V. Now one can argue who owns the title of the founder of the doctrine of electricity, because the Baghdad battery is 2000 years older than Alessandro Volta.
Ancient "spark plug"
In the mountains of Coso in California, an expedition that was looking for new minerals found a strange artifact, with its appearance and properties, it strongly resembles a “spark plug”. Despite the dilapidation, one can confidently distinguish a ceramic cylinder, inside of which there is a magnetized metal two-millimeter rod. And the cylinder itself is enclosed in a copper hexagon. The age of the mysterious find will surprise even the most inveterate skeptic - it is more than 500,000 years old!
Stone balls of Costa Rica
Three hundred stone balls scattered along the coast of Costa Rica vary both in age (from 200 BC to 1500 AD) and in size. However, scientists are still not clear how exactly the ancient people made them and for what purposes.
Planes, tanks and submarines of ancient Egypt
There is no doubt that the Egyptians built the pyramids, but could the same Egyptians have thought of constructing an airplane? Scientists have been asking this question since a mysterious artifact was discovered in one of the Egyptian caves in 1898. The shape of the device is similar to an airplane, and, given its initial speed, it could well fly. That in the era of the New Kingdom the Egyptians knew such technical inventions how the airship, helicopter and submarine tells the fresco ceiling of the temple, located near Cairo.
Human palm print, 110 million years old
And this is not the age for humanity at all, if we take and add here such a mysterious artifact as a petrified finger from the Arctic part of Canada, which belongs to a person and has the same age. And the footprint found in Utah, and not just a foot, but shod in a sandal, is 300-600 million years old! You wonder, so when did humanity originate?
Metal pipes from Saint-Jean-de-Livet
The age of the rock from which it was extracted metal pipes, is 65 million years, therefore, the artifact was made at the same time. Wow Iron Age. Another strange find was mined from a Scottish rock dating back to the lower Devonian period, that is, 360 - 408 million years ago. This mysterious artifact was a metal nail.
In 1844, the Englishman David Brewster reported that an iron nail had been found in a block of sandstone in one of the Scottish quarries. Its hat was so "grown" into the stone that it was not possible to suspect the falsification of the find, although the age of the sandstone, dating back to the Devonian period, is about 400 million years.
Already in our memory, in the second half of the twentieth century, a discovery was made, which scientists still cannot explain. Near the American town with the loud name of London, in the state of Texas, when splitting sandstone of the Ordovician period (Paleozoic, 500 million years ago), an iron hammer with the remains of a wooden handle was found. If we discard a person who did not exist at that time, it turns out that trilobites and dinosaurs smelted iron and used it for economic purposes. If we discard stupid mollusks, then we need to somehow explain the finds, for example, such as this one: in 1968, the French Druet and Salfati discovered in the quarries of Saint-Jean-de-Livet, in France, oval-shaped metal pipes, whose age, if dated by the Cretaceous layers, is 65 million years - the era of the last reptiles.
Or this one: in the middle of the 19th century, explosive work was carried out in Massachusetts, and a metal vessel was found among the fragments of stone blocks, which was torn in half by an explosive wave. It was a vase about 10 centimeters high, made of metal resembling zinc in color. The walls of the vessel were decorated with images of six flowers in the form of a bouquet. The rock, in which this outlandish vase was kept, belonged to the beginning of the Paleozoic (Cambrian), when life was barely born on earth - 600 million years ago.
Iron mug in the corner
It is not known what the scientist would say if in a coal block, instead of an imprint ancient plant, would have found ... an iron mug. Would the coal seam be dated by humans from the Iron Age, or still, the Carboniferous, when there weren't even dinosaurs? But such an object was found, and until recently that mug was kept in one of the private museums in America, in South Missouri, although with the death of the owner, the trace of the scandalous object was lost, to the great, it should be noted, relief of pundits. However, the photograph remains.
The mug had the following document, signed by Frank Kenwood: “In 1912, when I was working at the municipal power plant in Thomas, Oklahoma, I came across a massive block of coal. It was too big and I had to smash it with a hammer. This iron mug fell out of a block, leaving behind a recess in the coal. An eyewitness of how I broke a block and how a mug fell out of it was an employee of the company named Jim Stoll. I managed to find out the origin of coal - it was mined in the mines of Wilburton, in Oklahoma. According to scientists, the coal mined in the mines of Oklahoma is 312 million years old, unless, of course, dating by a circle. Or did man live with trilobites - those shrimp of the past?
Foot on a trilobite
Fossilized trilobite. 300 million years ago!
Although there is a find that speaks precisely about this - a trilobite crushed by a shoe! The fossil was discovered by a passionate lover of shellfish, William Meister, who in 1968 examined the vicinity of Antelope Spring, in Utah. He split a piece of shale and saw the following picture (in the photo - a split stone).
One can see the imprint of the shoe of the right foot, under which there were two small trilobites. Scientists explain this by the play of nature, and are ready to believe in the discovery only if there is a whole chain of such traces. Meister is not a specialist, but a draftsman, in free time looking for antiquity, but his reasoning is sound: the imprint of the shoe was not found on the surface of hardened clay, but after splitting the piece: the chip fell along the imprint, along the border of the compaction caused by the pressure of the shoe. However, they do not want to talk to him: after all, man, according to evolutionary theory, did not live in the Cambrian period. There weren't even dinosaurs back then. Or... geochronology is false.
In 1922, American geologist John Reid conducted a search in the state of Nevada. Unexpectedly for himself, he found a clear imprint of the sole of the shoe on the stone. A photograph of this wonderful find is still preserved.
Also in 1922, an article by Dr. W. Ballou appeared in the New York Sunday American. He wrote: “Some time ago, the famous geologist John T. Reid, while searching for fossils, suddenly froze in embarrassment and surprise at the rock under his feet. There was what looked like a human print, but not of a bare foot, but of the sole of a shoe that had turned to stone. The forefoot is gone, but retains the contour of at least two-thirds of the outsole. A well-defined thread ran around the contour, which, as it turned out, attached the welt to the sole. This is how the fossil was found, which is today the biggest mystery for science, since it was found in a rock that is at least 5 million years old.
The geologist took the cut piece of rock to New York, where it was examined by several professors from the American Museum of Natural History and a geologist from Columbia University. Their conclusion was unequivocal: the rock is 200 million years old - the Mesozoic, the Triassic period. However, the imprint itself was recognized, both by these and by all other scientists, as a game of nature. Otherwise, one would have to admit that people in shoes sewn with thread lived with a number of dinosaurs.
Two mysterious cylinders
In 1993, Philip Reef was the owner of another amazing find. When tunneling in the mountains of California, two mysterious Cylinders were discovered, they resemble the so-called "cylinders of the Egyptian pharaohs."
But their properties are completely different from them. They consist half of platinum, half of an unknown metal. If they are heated, for example, to 50 ° C, then they retain this temperature for several hours, regardless of the temperature. environment. Then they cool almost instantly to air temperature. If an electric current is passed through them, they change color from silver to black, and then again acquire their original color. Undoubtedly, the cylinders contain other secrets that have yet to be discovered. According to radiocarbon analysis, the age of these artifacts is about 25 million years.
crystal skulls Mayan
According to the most common story, the "Skull of Destiny" was found in 1927 by the English explorer Frederick A. Mitchell-Hedges among the Mayan ruins in Lubaantun (modern Belize).
Others claim that the scientist bought this object at Sotheby's in London in 1943. In any case, this rock crystal skull is so perfectly carved that it appears to be a priceless work of art.
So, if we consider the first hypothesis correct (according to which the skull is a Mayan creation), then a whole rain of questions falls upon us.
Scientists believe that the Skull of Destiny is, in some ways, technically impossible. Weighing almost 5 kg, and being a perfect copy of a female skull, it has a completeness that would not be possible without the use of more or less modern methods, methods that the Maya culture owned and that we do not know about.
The skull is perfectly polished. Its jaw is a hinged part separate from the rest of the skull. It has long attracted (and probably will continue to do so to a somewhat lesser extent) specialists from various disciplines.
Mention should also be made of the relentless attribution by a group of esotericists of supernatural powers, such as telekinesis, the emission of an unusual fragrance, color changes. The existence of all these properties is difficult to prove.
The skull was subjected to various analyses. One of the inexplicable things is that, made of quartz glass, and therefore having a hardness of 7 on the Mohs scale (a scale of mineral hardness from 0 to 10), the skull could be carved without such hard cutting materials as ruby and diamond.
Studies of the skull, conducted by the American company Hewlett-Packard in the 1970s, determined that in order to achieve such perfection, it would have to be sanded for 300 years.
Could the Maya have deliberately designed this type of work, which was scheduled for completion in 3 centuries? We can only say with certainty that the Skull of Destiny is not the only one of its kind.
Several of these items have been found around the world and are made from other quartz-like materials. Among them is a whole jadeite skeleton found in the region of China/Mongolia, made on a smaller scale than a human, according to estimates, approx. in 3500-2200 BC.
There are doubts about the authenticity of many of these artifacts, but there is something that is certain: crystal skulls continue to delight daring scientists.
