Interesting archeological artifacts. Ancient battery from Baghdad. The version of M. Kremo, who spoke about the "forbidden" archeology

A number of archaeological finds, doubtful from the point of view of logic, easily pass any checks, including radiocarbon analysis, and this confuses scientists. Here are 10 of the most mysterious artifacts past, each of which has already managed to acquire a whole heap of conjectures.

Piri Reis Map

The Piri Reis map is one of the most significant world maps ever found. The Ottoman admiral Piri Reis created the map in 1513 - and, apparently, parts of it could have been used by Christopher Columbus himself. The map was discovered in 1929 and became an international sensation.

Padilla stone head

Baghdad Battery

Giant stone balls of Costa Rica

Inca plane

Phaistos disc

Lizard people Al Ubaid

Kensington Runestone

Mayan artifacts

Enigmalith Williams

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Some researchers are sure that extraterrestrial forms of intelligent life has visited our planet in the past. However, such statements are not scientifically confirmed facts and remain only assumptions and hypotheses.

UFO almost always has quite reasonable explanation. But what to do with artifacts, ancient strange objects that are found here and there? Today we will talk about ancient objects, the origin of which remains a mystery. Perhaps these things are proof of the existence of aliens?

The mechanism of extraterrestrial origin

Cogwheel of aliens from Vladivostok

At the beginning of this year, a resident of Vladivostok discovered a strange piece of equipment. This object resembled a part of a cogwheel and was pressed into a piece of coal with which the man was going to heat the stove.

Although unwanted parts of old equipment can be found almost everywhere, this thing seemed very strange, so the man decided to take it to scientists. After a careful study of the subject, it turned out that the object is made of almost pure aluminum and indeed has an artificial origin.

But the most interesting thing is that he 300 million years! The dating of the object fueled interest, since such pure aluminum and such a shape of the object clearly could not have appeared in nature without the intervention of intelligent life. Moreover, it is known that mankind has learned to make such details not earlier than 1825.

The artifact is incredibly reminiscent of parts of a microscope and other fine technical devices. Immediately there were suggestions that the item is part of an alien ship.

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Stone head from Guatemala

In the 1930s researchers have discovered a huge sandstone statue somewhere in the middle of the jungles of Guatemala. The facial features of the statue were completely different from the features of the appearance of the ancient Maya or other peoples who lived in these territories.

Researchers believe that the facial features of the statue depicted representative of the ancient alien civilization , which was much more developed than the locals before the arrival of the Spaniards. Some have also suggested that the head of the statue also had a torso (although this has not been confirmed).

It is possible that later peoples could also sculpt the statue, but unfortunately, we will never know about it. The revolutionary Guatemalans used the statue as a target and almost completely destroyed it.

Ancient artifact or fake?

alien electric plug

In 1998 a hacker John J. Williams noticed a strange stone object in the ground. He dug it up and cleaned it, after which he found that it was attached to obscure electrical component. It was obvious that this device was created by human hand, and it was most similar to an electric plug.

The stone has since become well known in alien hunter circles and has been featured in some of the world's most famous publications. paranormal activity. Williams, an electrical engineer by profession, reported that an electrical component that was pressed into a granite stone has not been glued or welded to it.

Many believe that this artifact is just a skillful forgery, but Williams refused to give the item for a more detailed study. He intended to sell it for 500 thousand dollars.

The stone was similar to ordinary stones that lizards use to keep warm. The first geological analysis showed that the stone about 100 thousand years, which allegedly proves that the item inside it was not man-made.

In the end, Williams agreed to cooperate with scientists, but only if they will fulfill his three conditions: he will be present at all tests, will not pay for research and the stone will not be damaged.

Artifacts of ancient civilizations

ancient aircrafts

The Incas and other peoples of the Americas of the pre-Columbian era left behind a lot of very curious mysterious things. Some of them have been called "ancient planes" - these are small gold figurines that are very reminiscent of modern aircraft.

Initially it was assumed that these were figurines of animals or insects, but later it turned out that they have strange details, which are more like parts of fighter planes: wings, tail stabilizer and even landing gear.

It has been suggested that these models are replicas of real aircraft. That is, the Inca civilization could communicate with extraterrestrial beings that could fly to Earth on such devices.

The version that these figurines are just artistic image bees, flying fish or other earthly creatures with wings.

lizard people

Al-Ubayd- an archaeological site in Iraq - a real gold mine for archaeologists and historians. It was found here a large number of objects El Obeid culture, which existed in southern Mesopotamia between 5900 and 4000 BC.

Some of the artifacts found are especially strange. For example, some figurines depict humanoid figures in simple poses with lizard-like heads, which may indicate that these are not statues of gods, but images of some new race of lizard people.

There were suggestions that these figurines - images of aliens, which at that time flew to Earth. The true nature of the figurines remains a mystery.

Life in a meteorite

Researchers who studied the remains of a meteorite found on the island of Sri Lanka found that the subject of their research is not just a piece of stone that came from space. It was an artifact literally words created outside the earth. Two different studies have shown that this meteorite contains extraterrestrial fossils and algae.

Scientists reported that these fossils provide clear evidence panspermia(hypotheses that life exists in the universe and is transferred from one planet to another with the help of meteorites and other space objects). However, these assumptions have been criticized.

The fossils in the meteorite are actually very similar to the species that can be found in fresh waters Earth. It may very well be that the object was simply infected while it was on our planet.

Tapestry "Summer holiday"

Tapestry called "Summer Holiday" was established in Bruges (the capital of the province West Flanders in Belgium) in 1538. Today it can be seen in bavarian national museum.

This tapestry is famous for depicting very UFO-like objects that hovered in the sky. There are suggestions that they were placed on a tapestry, which depicts the ascension of the victor to the throne, in order to associate a UFO with a monarch. UFO in this case serves as a symbol of divine intervention. This, of course, raised more questions. For example, why did medieval Belgians associate flying saucers with deities?

Trinity with Satellite

Italian artist Ventura Salimbeni is the author of one of the most mysterious altarpieces in history. "Disputa of the Eucharist" ("Glorification of the Holy Communion")- a picture of the 16th century, which consists of several parts.

The lower part of the picture does not differ in something strange: it depicts saints and an altar. However, the upper part depicts Holy Trinity (Father, Son and dove - Holy Spirit), which look down and hold on to a strange object that looks like a space satellite.

This object has perfectly round shape with a metallic sheen, telescopic antennas and a strange glow. Surprisingly, it incredibly resembles the first artificial satellite of the Earth. "Sputnik-1" launched into orbit in 1957.

Although the alien hunters are sure that this picture is evidence that the artist saw a UFO, or traveled through time, the experts very quickly found an explanation.

This object is actually Sphaera Mundi, a representation of the universe. In religious art, such a symbol has been used more than once. Strange lights on the ball - Sun and moon, and the antennas are scepters, that is, symbols of the authority of the Father and the Son.

Mayan artifacts

Ancient images of UFO

In 2012, the Mexican government released several ancient Maya artifacts that it had been hiding from the public. last 80 years. These objects were found in a pyramid that was found under another pyramid in the area Calakmul- most mighty city ancient Maya.

These artifacts are notable for the fact that depict flying saucers, which can serve as evidence that the Mayans saw UFOs at one time. However, the authenticity of these artifacts is highly questionable in the scientific world, and even more so the pictures that appeared on the net. Most likely, these artifacts were created local artisans to cause a sensation fueling reports of the end of the world at the end of 2012.

Mysterious Artifact

Alien Sphere Betzev

This misterious story happened mid 1970s. When the Betz family was investigating the damage from a fire that destroyed a large amount of forest on their property, they discovered a surprising find: a silver ball about 20 centimeters in diameter, completely smooth with a strange elongated triangular character.

At first, the Betzes thought it was some kind of NASA space object or a Soviet spy satellite, but eventually decided that it was just a souvenir and kept it for themselves.

Two weeks later, Betzev's son decided to play the guitar in the room where the ball was located. Suddenly an object began to respond to the melody, producing a strange pulsing sound, causing anxiety in the Betz dog.

Further, the family discovered even more strange properties of the object. If he was rolled on the floor, the ball could stop and abruptly change direction, while returning to the person who abandoned it. It seemed that he draws energy from the sun's rays, as on sunny days the ball became more active.

Newspapers began to write about the ball, scientists became interested in it, although the Betzes did not particularly want to part with the find. Soon the house began to happen mysterious phenomena : the ball began to behave like a poltergeist. Doors began to open at night, organ music began to sound in the house.

After that, the family was seriously worried and decided to find out what this ball is. What was their surprise when it turned out that this mysterious object was just plain stainless steel ball.

While there are many theories about where this strange ball came from and why it behaves this way, one of them turned out to be the most plausible.

Three years before the Betzes found the ball, an artist named James Derling-Jones I drove through these places in a car, on the roof of which I was carrying several stainless steel balls, which I was going to use in a future sculpture. On the way, one of the balls fell out and rolled into the forest.

According to the description, these balls were the same as the Betz ball: they could balance and roll in different directions as soon as they are slightly touched. The Betzes' house had uneven floors, so the ball didn't roll in a straight line. These balls could also make sounds due to the metal shavings that got inside during the production of the ball.

Archaeologist Damian Waters and his team have discovered three elongated skulls in the Paille region of Antarctica, americanlivewire.com reports. The discovery came as a complete surprise to the world of archeology, as skulls are the first human remains.

Questions without answers . Three elongated skulls found in Antarctica.

Archaeologist Damian Waters and his team have discovered three elongated skulls in the Paille region of Antarctica, americanlivewire.com reports. The discovery came as a complete surprise to the world of archeology, as the skulls are the first human remains discovered in Antarctica, and it was believed that the continent had never been visited by humans prior to the modern era.

“We just can't believe it! We didn't just find human remains in Antarctica, we found elongated skulls! I have to pinch myself every time I wake up, I just can't believe it! This will force us to reconsider our view of the history of mankind as a whole!” M. Waters explains excitedly

As is known, earlier elongated skulls were found in Peru and Egypt.
But this discovery is absolutely incredible. It shows that there was contact thousands of years ago between civilizations in Africa, South America and Antarctica.

Giant footprint discovered in South Africa

It is located near the town of Mpalusi, close to the border of Swaziland. It is estimated that the time when this imprint was left is at least 200 million years. Geologists were surprised by this giant imprint legs about 120 cm long. This may be one of the best evidence that giants have existed on Earth since time immemorial. The fact that the track is now in the vertical plane is not surprising - this is due to a shift tectonic plates. Several similar formations are found in India and Australia.

Stone plate from Nepal

The Loladoff Plate is a stone dish that is over 12,000 years old. This artifact was found in Nepal. Images and clear lines carved into the surface of this flat stone have led many researchers to the idea of ​​its extraterrestrial origin. After all, ancient people could not process stone so skillfully? In addition, the "plate" depicts a creature that is very reminiscent of an alien in his well-known image

Figurines from Ecuador

Figurines very reminiscent of astronauts found in Ecuador, their age is over 2000 years.

lizard people

Al-Ubeyd - an archaeological site in Iraq - a real gold mine for archaeologists and historians. A large number of objects of the El Obeid culture were found here, which existed in southern Mesopotamia between 5900 and 4000 BC.

Some of the artifacts found are especially strange. For example, some figurines depict figures of creatures with heads similar to lizards. There were suggestions that these figurines are images of aliens who flew to Earth at that time. The true nature of the figurines remains a mystery.

Jade discs: a puzzle for archaeologists

IN Ancient China around 5000 BC, large jade stone discs were placed in the graves of the local nobility. Their purpose, as well as the method of manufacture, still remains a mystery to scientists, because jade is a very durable stone.

The Disc of Sabu: The Unsolved Mystery of Egyptian Civilization.

The mystical ancient artifact, supposedly part of an unknown mechanism, was found by Egyptologist Walter Bryan in 1936 during an inspection of the tomb of Mastaba Sabu, who lived around 3100 - 3000 BC. The burial is located near the village of Saqqara.

The artifact is a regular round thin-walled stone plate made of meta-aleurite (metasilt in Western terminology), with three thin edges bent to the center and a small cylindrical sleeve in the middle. In places where the petals of the edge are bent towards the center, the circumference of the disk continues with a thin rim of circular cross section about a centimeter in diameter. The diameter is about 70cm, the shape of the circle is not perfect. This plate raises a number of questions, both about the incomprehensible purpose of such an object, and about the method by which it was made, since it has no analogues.

It is quite possible that Saba's disk had some important role five thousand years ago. However, at the moment, scientists cannot accurately determine its purpose and complex structure. The question remains open.

Petersburg archaeologists found fossilized metal gear cylinders, which turned out to be parts of the mechanism. Their age is 400 million years.

This is not the first time that ancient artifacts have been found in this region.
This find is encrusted in stone, which is quite understandable, since there are numerous volcanoes on the peninsula. Spectral analysis showed that the mechanism was made of metal parts, and all parts were dated 400 million years old!

The creations of human hands, immured in rocks, whose age is estimated at millions of years, were ignored until recently. After all, the finds violated the generally accepted fact of human evolution and even the formation of life on Earth. What artifacts are found in rocks, in which, according to the existing theory of the origin and development of man, there should be absolutely nothing?

600 million year old vase and 300 million year old bolt

A message about an extremely unusual find was published in a scientific journal in 1852. It was about a mysterious vessel about 12 cm high, two halves of which were discovered after an explosion in one of the quarries. This vase, with clear images of flowers, was located inside a rock that is 600 million years old.

In the Kaluga region, a fragment of a stone was found, on a chip of which a bolt about 1 cm long was discovered, it was not clear how it got into the rock. The find was examined in the laboratories of leading Russian institutes, museums, and simply well-known experts. The assessment is unequivocal: the bolt got into the rock in the process of its solidification, it happened 300 - 320 million years ago.

Hammer from Texas

In 1934, an ancient hammer was discovered in Texas. Its length was 15 cm, diameter - 3 cm. During storage in the ground, the hammer handle turned into coal - still - the age of the rock in which it was discovered was estimated at 140 million years. Another very interesting fact is that the hammer is made of almost pure iron(by 97%) - even modern people do not produce this.

And the next item can be admired by anyone - just by going to India. An iron column 7.5 meters high rises near the Qutub Minar tower in Delhi.

The diameter of its base is 41.6 cm, it is slightly narrower towards the top - the upper diameter is about 30 cm. This column weighs 6.8 tons. Who, when and where (it was not made in Delhi) created it remains a mystery to this day.

But the most interesting thing is the composition of the column. It is 99.72% iron and only 0.28% is impurities. There is almost no corrosion on the black-blue surface of the megalith (only barely noticeable specks).
The strange thing is that the production of pure iron is very difficult and is not done in large volumes. And iron of such purity, even with modern equipment, is simply not realistic to produce.

Stone head from Guatemala

Half a century ago, deep in the jungles of Guatemala, searchers found a gigantic monument - stone head a man of great size. The face depicted on the statue had beautiful features, he had thin lips and a large nose, his gaze was directed to the sky. The searchers were very surprised by their find: the face had the obvious features of a white man, and was sharply different from any representatives of the pre-Hispanic civilizations of South America. The find quickly attracted attention, but it was also quickly forgotten, and information about the statue disappeared from the pages of history.

Researchers believe that the facial features of the statue depicted a representative ancient civilization, which was much more developed than the locals before the arrival of the Spaniards. Some have also suggested that the head of the statue also had a torso. Unfortunately, we will probably never know for sure: the head was used as a training target for revolutionary troops and its features were destroyed almost without a trace.

However, the giant stone statue did exist and there is no reason to believe the photo is a fake. So where did she come from? Who created it? And for what?

Shigir idol

In 1890, on the eastern slope of the Middle Urals, northwest of Yekaterinburg, an idol was found in the Shigir peat bog, which later acquired the name of the large Shigir idol.

The Shigir idol is a completely unique archaeological site. It has no analogues, not only in the Urals, but also in the world! Shigir idol - the oldest wooden sculpture on our planet, made in the eighth millennium BC - in the Mesolithic era according to a carbon analysis made in 1997. This archaeological miracle has been preserved thanks to two factors. Firstly, the idol is made of durable larch. Secondly, the idol was found in a peat bog and peat, as a natural preservative, protected it from decomposition. Its height after reconstruction is 5.3 meters.

Stone atoms of antiquity?

There are five unusual carved stone balls in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum of Scotland. Archaeologists find it difficult to explain the purpose of these objects. They are made of various materials - sandstone and granite.

The age of the stones is dated approximately between 3000 and 2000 BC. In total, about 400 such artifacts were found in Scotland, but five of them, stored in the museum, are the most unusual. As you can see in the photo, strange symmetrical patterns are applied to the surface of the stones.

Most of the stones have the same diameter of 70 mm, with the exception of a few larger ones, which measure up to 114 mm in diameter. The number of bulges on the stones ranges from 4 to 33, with spiral patterns on the surface of some bulges.

The five stones of the Ashmolean Museum were formerly in the collection of Sir John Evans, who believed that they could have been used as projectiles for throwing weapons of antiquity. However, this explanation does not seem to be correct, since all the stones do not contain any damage, which would invariably happen if they were used during military skirmishes. And the very shape of the stones, the complexity of their manufacture suggest that it is pointless to use so much effort to make throwing devices.

Other versions suggest the use of these artifacts as cargo for fishing nets. Or as ritual objects, giving their owner the right to vote during various ceremonies. But all these versions do not explain why it was necessary to make stones of such a complex shape.

There is another possible explanation. Perhaps these stones are a schematic representation of the nuclei of atoms? Such an image of atoms is widely used in modern world. Is it possible that the one who made these artifacts had a deep knowledge of chemistry and could depict various atomic structures?

At the very least, the method of making these artifacts leaves no doubt that the master was well versed in geometry, having a good understanding of complex polyhedra. However, it is generally accepted that during the Neolithic people did not have such knowledge. Or is it not?

"Genetic Disk"

This disk contains several images of those processes that in ordinary life can only be seen under a microscope.

This disc, which is 6,000 years old, was found in the jungles of Colombia. The disk has a diameter of 27 centimeters and is made of lidite or radiolarite material, which is not inferior in hardness to granite. However, it is layered and difficult to process. Nevertheless, the entire process of the birth of a human being is depicted with pinpoint precision along the circumference of the disk - on both sides - from the device of the reproductive organs of a man and a woman, the moment of conception, intrauterine development of the fetus through all its stages - to the birth of a baby. Scientists have seen many of these processes with their own eyes relatively recently, with the help of appropriate instruments. And here authors of a disk possessed this knowledge in perfection.

On the disk, images of a man, a woman and a child are visible, the strange thing here is how the human head is depicted. If this is not a stylistic image, then what species do these people belong to?

By the way, in the same Colombia there is a little-known "Valley of statues" or Archaeological park San Agustin with hundreds stone statues depicting some unreal creatures. In my opinion, they are similar to the images on the "genetic disk":

Elias Sotomayor's Mysterious Finds: Ancient Globe and Others

Large treasure ancient artifacts managed to discover the expedition led by Elias Sotomayor in 1984. In the Ecuadorian mountain range of La Mana, in a tunnel at a depth of more than ninety meters, 300 stone products were found.

It is currently impossible to determine the exact age of the finds. However, it is already known that they do not belong to any of the known cultures of this region. The symbols and signs carved on the stone clearly belong to Sanskrit, but not to its later version, but rather to its earlier one. A number of scholars have identified this language as proto-Sanskrit.

Prior to Sotomayor's discovery, Sanskrit had never been associated with the American continent rather, it was attributed to the cultures of Europe, Asia and northern Africa.

Among the finds was a pyramid with an eye and a stone cobra. The stone pyramid most of all resembles in its shape the pyramid in Giza. Thirteen rows of masonry are carved on the pyramid. In its upper part, the image of the "all-seeing eye" is applied. Thus, the pyramid found in La Mana is an exact image of the Masonic sign, known to most of mankind thanks to the US one dollar bill.

Unusual Items

Another striking find of the expedition of Sotomayor is the image of a king cobra made with great skill from stone. And it's not even the high level of art of ancient artisans. Everything is much more mysterious, because the king cobra is not found in America. Its habitat is wet rainforests India.

However, the quality of its image leaves no doubt that the artist personally saw this snake. Thus, either the object with the image of a snake applied to it, or its author, must have moved from Asia to America across the ocean in ancient times, when, as it is believed, no means for this existed.

Perhaps Sotomayor's third stunning find will be able to suggest the answer. In the tunnel of La Mana, one of the oldest globes on Earth, also made of stone, was discovered. On a far from ideal ball, for the manufacture of which, perhaps, the master simply spared no effort, but a rounded boulder, images of continents familiar from school times are applied.

But if many outlines of the continents differ little from modern ones, then from the coast South-East Asia towards America, the planet looks very different. Huge masses of land are depicted where now only the boundless sea splashes.

The Caribbean islands and the Florida peninsula are absent altogether. Just below the equator in the Pacific Ocean is located giant island, approximately equal in size to modern Madagascar. Modern Japan is part of a gigantic continent that extends to the shores of America and extends far to the south. It remains to be added that the find at La Mana appears to be the oldest map of the world.

No less interesting are other findings of Sotomayor. In particular, a "service" of thirteen bowls was discovered. Twelve of them have a perfectly equal volume, and the thirteenth is much larger. If you fill 12 small bowls with liquid to the brim, and then drain them into a large one, then it will be filled exactly to the brim. All bowls are made of jade. The purity of their processing suggests that the ancients had a stone processing technology similar to a modern lathe.

So far, Sotomayor's findings raise more questions than they answer. But they once again confirm the thesis that our information about the history of the Earth and mankind is still very far from perfect.

Artifacts of Tertaria

50 years ago, in 1961, in the town of Tartaria (Romania), archaeologist Nicolae Vlassa discovered three unbaked clay tablets dated to the middle of the 6th millennium BC. The Tartarian tablets are the earliest written evidence, being at least a millennium older than the Sumerian writings in Mesopotamia.

The discovery remained practically unknown even after similar tablets were found in other areas of the Balkans: in Bulgaria (Karanovo, Grachanitsa), Greece (the shores of Lake Orestiada), Serbia, Hungary, Ukraine, Moldova.

Thus, over the past decades, a number of arguments have emerged in support of the hypothesis that pictographic writing appeared in southeastern Europe long before the Sumerian writing system in Mesopotamia.

Over the past hundred years, many artifacts have been discovered that cause at least bewilderment. In other words, these are those objects that, by their existence, do not fit into any of the accepted general theories of the origin of human life on Earth and the entire earthly history as a whole.

Based on biblical sources, you can find out that God created man in his own image just a few thousand years ago. According to orthodox science, the age of a person (say, erectus - erectus man) can be dated no deeper than 2 million years, and the beginning of the formation of the most ancient civilization is only tens of thousands of years old.

But could it be that the Bible and science are wrong, and the age of civilizations is much deeper in the centuries than it seems? There are many archaeological finds that indicate that the development of life on the blue planet may not be as we know it. Here are some artifacts ready to break the usual pattern of opinions.

1. Spheres of the sphere.

Over the past years, miners in South Africa have raised strange spheres made of metal from the bowels of the earth. The origin of objects several centimeters in diameter is completely unknown. And what is curious, one of the balls has an engraving of three grooves parallel to each other, encircling the entire ball.

The amazing artefact balls can be classified into two varieties: some are made of metal interspersed with white, others are hollowed out inside and filled with a spongy white composition.

How it was cast and what purpose is unclear. But what irritates some scientists even more is the date of origin - 2.8 billion years! Erectus, for example, learned how to fry food only 1.8 million years ago. It is difficult to imagine who could make spheres during the Precambrian period (rock layers speak about this). - unless, of course, this is the terrible weapon of the mythical aliens who destroyed the dinosaurs.

By the way, criticism about these areas is also curious. Some believe that it is clearly made by an intelligent being. But others claim the natural origin of these unwanted artifacts. By the way, it is precisely such finds that are also called “forbidden archeology” - such objects do not fit into the framework of the outlined theories about the origin of man.

2. Incredible stone balls of Costa Rica.

As you can see more than once, our ancestors liked spherical shapes. So, pushing through the impenetrable thickets of Costa Rica in 1930, which was justified by the development of the territory, they unexpectedly stumbled upon the ideal roundness of the balls.

The sizes of spherically flat objects vary, from giant ones weighing 16 tons, to small ones, the size of a tennis ball. Dozens of stone balls of Costa Rica lay as if the giants with children had arranged a bowling game here.

turned from whole piece stone balls are certainly made by a reasonable, able to think creature, which was in the not so distant past, but the mystery of the unknown is present - who, why, and with what help is unknown. How did the masters of antiquity manage to achieve the perfect circle without the name of a bunch of necessary gadgets?

3. Incredible fossils.

Archeology, paleontology, very important sciences that reveal to us the secret of the life of the planet in the past. However, sometimes the bowels of the earth give out something amazing. Fossils - as each of us knows, this formation occurred thousands and millions of years ago, and it is pointless to object to this, but it is also difficult to believe in the finds stuck in them.

Here, for example, is a fossilized human palm print found in limestone, whose age

is about 110 million years old. The question is, who could imprint his imprint on the Walk of Fame, when there was no human yet? Here is another case from the same category of forbidden archeology: an "abnormal" find of a fossilized human hand was discovered in Bogota (Colombia).

The rock formation, which “fixed” the remains for centuries, dates back to 100-130 million years - an unthinkable date, since then a person could not yet live. This is really an artifact from the category of "forbidden archeology."

4. Metal objects before the Bronze Age.

A piece of pipe 65 million years old is kept in a private collection. According to all theories, man is a young creature on earth, and, in theory, could not process metal. But then who made the flattened metal pipes they dug up in France?

And in 1912, shop workers saw a metal pot fall out of broken coal. But they also found nails in sandstone from the Mesozoic era.

However, there are many other anomalies of this kind, which it is not clear how to deal with, since they clearly fall out of the general idea of ​​human development.

5. Disks of the Dropa tribe, ordinary stones or an alien artifact.

The history of the Drop disks is very, very mysterious (also known as Dzopa, who calls Dropas), their origin is unknown, and often the very existence is denied for some reason despite the facts.

Each disk, 30 cm in diameter, has two grooves radiating towards the edges in the form of a double helix.

Hieroglyphs are applied inside the grooves, as a kind of marking carrying the source of encoded information. According to various sources, at least 716 stone discs were found, about 12,000 years old.

The discovery of Dropa stone disks occurred in 1938 and belongs to a research expedition led by Dr. Chi Pu Tei in Bayan-Kara-Ula, a place lying between Tibet and China. It is believed that the disks belonged to an incredibly ancient and grandiosely developed civilization.

From conversations with local residents, it is known that earlier stone disks belonged to the ancestors of the Dropa tribe - which were aliens from distant star worlds! According to legend, the discs contain unique recordings that could be played back if there was a “phonograph” - the discs are unusually similar to small vinyl records.

According to the legends of the tribe, about 10 - 12 thousand years ago, an alien ship made an emergency landing in these places - (the event successfully echoes the Flood). So, the ancestors of the present Dropa tribe arrived on this ship. And the stone discs are all that survived from those people.

Briefly speaking about this find, the following can be noted; disks were found in rocky caves-burials, in which the remains of small skeletons lay, whose growth during life did not exceed 130 centimeters. Big heads, brittle thin bones - all those signs that are formed from a long stay in weightlessness.

6. Ica stones.

From the beginning of the 1930s, the father of Dr. Javier Cabrera, studying the burials of the Incas, found stones with engravings on the sides in the tombs (now there are over 50 thousand stones and boulders). Dr. Cabrera, continued his father's hobby and by cataloging andesite artifacts, he collected a huge collection of amazing objects of distant antiquity. The age of the finds is estimated to be between 500 and 1500 years old, and later they became known as the “Ica stones”.

Quite amusing and curious stones, it must be said, were found near the Peruvian town of Iki, small, weighing 15-20 grams, large, half a ton in weight - on some there are paintings of erotica, the sides of others are decorated with idols. On the third, the absolutely impossible is depicted at all - a clearly traced battle between a man and dinosaurs. It is completely incomprehensible how the ancients found out about brontosaurs and stegosaurs in order to draw animals that died out hundreds of millions of years ago so clearly.

It's scary to even think about how it relates to other images - these are heart operations, as well as the practice of transplantology. Agree, such finds are shocking, and of course contradict the modern chronology of events, or rather, such pictures completely destroy the entire chronological chain of earth history. This can be explained by one, listen to the opinion of Professor of Medicine Cabrera, who says that a powerful and developed culture once lived on Earth.

Doctor's pebbles, and over a decade the collection has grown to 11 thousand copies, have not received recognition, and are considered a modern fake, but this does not apply to all copies, some actually came from ancient times. And yet, the paintings on them do not fit into the framework of the current theories about the age and development of civilizations on Earth, which means that they also fly into the "forbidden archeology" basket.

By the way, Dr. Cabrera is a descendant of Don Jeronimo Luis de Cabrera and Toledo, the Spanish conquistador and founder of the city of Ica in 1563. It was M.D. Cabrera who made the artefacts widely known.

7. Millennial Ford spark plug.

Of course, the internal combustion engine is not a new device. Although when in the California mountains in 1961, Wallace Lane, Maxey and Mike Mikesell stumbled upon an unusual stone, they did not think that the artifact lying inside was about 500,000 years old. At first it was an ordinary beautiful stone, for sale in a store.

This was later, something made of porcelain was found inside, in the center of which was a tube of light metal. It is not clear with the help of what technology this could have been done about half a million years ago. But the experts saw one more thing - some strange formation in the form of a knot.

As further work with the artifact, including X-ray examination, revealed, a small spring is located at the end of the found riddle. Those who have studied this find say that it is very similar to a spark plug! - and this is a little thing which counted half a million years.

However, the investigation conducted by Pierre Stromberg and Paul Heinrich, with the help of American spark plug collectors, can be traced back to the 1920s. Allegedly very similar ones were used in Ford Model T and Model A engines, made of stainless metal. So, in principle, this artifact can be considered critical in terms of age and origin. Although it is surprising how she managed to petrify in such a short time of 40 years?

8 Antikythera Mechanism

This artifact, which caused bewilderment, was recovered by divers from the shipwreck of a ship in 1901 off the coast of Antikythera, a place lies to the north-west of Crete. Divers, mining bronze figurines, and looking for a different cargo of the ship, found an unknown mechanism covered with moldy corrosion with a bunch of gears - which was called Antikythera.

As it was possible to determine, an ancient device with many gears and wheels was made from 100 to 200 years before the birth of Christ. At first, experts decided that this was some kind of astrolabe instrument. But as the x-ray study showed, the mechanism turned out to be more complicated than it was thought - the device contained a system of differential gears.

But as history shows, at that time such solutions did not exist, they appeared only 1400 years later! So it remains a mystery who calculated this mechanism, who could make such a thin instrument about 2,000 years ago. However, it can be assumed that once it was quite a common technology for manufacturing complex devices, it was just forgotten about it once, and then rediscovered.

9. An ancient battery from Baghdad.

The photo shows an amazing artifact of rather deep antiquity - this is a battery 2 years old.

000 years! This curious artifact was found on the ruins of a Parthian village - it is believed that the battery dates back to 226 - 248 BC. Why a battery was needed there and what was connected to it is unknown, but a tall vessel made of clay had a copper cylinder and a rod of oxidized iron inside.

As the experts who studied the find concluded, in order to obtain an electric current, it was necessary to fill a vessel with an acidic or alkaline liquid - and here, please, electricity is ready. By the way, there is nothing surprising in this battery; according to experts, it was most likely used for galvanic work with gold. Maybe it was so, as experts say, but then how could this knowledge be lost for a long 1800 years?

10. Ancient plane or toy?

Yes, looking through the artifacts from the “forbidden archeology” section, one never ceases to wonder how developed the civilizations of antiquity were - for example, the Sumerians owned the world 6,000 years ago - and where, and most importantly how, these technologies important for the development of life were forgotten.

Look at the artifacts of the ancient Egyptian civilization and Central America, they strangely resemble the planes we are used to. It is possible that only a wooden toy was found in an Egyptian tomb in 1898, but it painfully resembles an airplane with wings and a fuselage. In addition, according to experts, the object has a good aerodynamic shape, and is likely to be able to stay in the air and fly.

And if the issue with the Egyptian "Saqqara bird" is quite controversial and criticized, then a small artifact from America made of gold about 1000 years ago can easily be mistaken for a desktop model of an airplane - or, for example, a space shuttle. The object is so carefully and carefully worked out that there is even a pilot's seat on an ancient plane.

A trinket of an ancient civilization, or a model of a real aircraft from ancient times, how can one comment on such finds? - Knowledgeable people speak simply; intelligent beings lived on Earth much earlier than we think about it. Ufologists offer a version with an extraterrestrial civilization that allegedly came to Earth and gave people many technical knowledge. Did our ancestors really possess the greatest secrets and knowledge, which, under the influence of a mysterious factor, were forgotten / erased from the memory of mankind?

April 7th, 2009

From time to time, archaeologists (and sometimes ordinary people) make such remarkable 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 the outside and a very complex arrangement of 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 amazing thing is that the Antikythera mechanism could calculate the approximate time of a lunar or solar eclipse, and in addition, 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 discs. They were about nine inches in diameter, and in the center of each gaped a round hole from which an etched engraving spiraled out, making them look like ancient gramophone records, created about 10 - 12 thousand years ago.

As for the spiral engraving, it actually consists of tiny hieroglyphs that tell an incredible story about spaceships that arrived from a distant world and wrecked 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 in general terms resembles a feathered bird without a beak, plumage and lower limbs. 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 aircraft (glider), which he believed 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 belonging to the Turkish admiral Piri Reis, compiled by him in the sixteenth century on the basis of Greek cards the times of Alexander the Great and the map of Christopher COLUMBUS, according to 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 an 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 unusual people. 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 Nazca drawings was found in the annals of 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 1940s 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 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 ten kilometers away from her around small town Palp, 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 Western Cordillera not far from Nazca, another amazing phenomenon was discovered - two labyrinths, the spirals of which are twisted in different directions. 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 were found. Some of them clearly belonged to the irrigation system, and some were a 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, archaeologists and their teachers armed themselves with wooden shovels and “painted” an elephant on the plateau, which from the air was no different from 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, in the whole world there are no such carts and such oxen, these stones are so large and so uneven. mountain roads... "Here Garcilaso reports one interesting circumstance, as already in historical times, a certain king of the Incas tried to compare with his predecessors, who built Sacsayhuaman. It was decided to bring another block to strengthen the 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 a military man and religious center 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 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 on the spot stones were cast from them - a kind of bricks - of the required shape. 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 Sun.