Archaeological artifacts that do not fit into history. Battery from Baghdad. Cogwheel of aliens from Vladivostok
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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 the shift of 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 (97%) - even modern people do not produce this.
And the next item can be admired by anyone - just by going to India. Near the Qutub Minar tower in Delhi rises iron column 7.5 meters high.
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 - the stone head of a man of enormous 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.
The researchers believe that the statue's facial features depicted a representative of an ancient civilization that was much more advanced 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 schematic representation 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 the San Agustin Archaeological Park 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
A large treasure trove of ancient artifacts was discovered by an 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 the tropical rainforests of 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 a giant island, roughly equal in size to modern Madagascar. Modern Japan enters the giant mainland, stretching to the shores of America and extending 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.
Updated on 20/09/14 18:27:
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.
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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 found huge statue from sandstone 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 an 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 looked like 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 aircraft
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. A large number of objects have been found here. 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- the most powerful city of the 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. scientific world, and the pictures that appeared on the network - even more so. 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 mysterious 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.
It is customary to represent people who lived hundreds of years before us less. It is known from school history lessons that our ancestors had primitive tools, lived in houses without electricity and running water, and considered the Earth to be a flat disk. Archaeological artifacts that do not fit into history indicate that we know too little about the people from whom we inherited the planet.
Anachronisms
There are several ways to determine the age of an artifact. But even the most modern methods will not be able to establish the exact date of creation of the object found during excavations. It is possible that some historical facts, which for many years were considered reliable and irrefutable, will have to be revised again. Scientists are only able to track human evolution over the past few thousand years. However, researchers are not able to explain the origin of everyday items, jewelry, etc., whose age dates back to millions of years. In scientific circles, 2 main versions of the origin of these artifacts are put forward:
Visitors from the future?
- Williams fork. One of the most famous artifacts that calls into question many historical theories is the Williams fork. This strange object got its name in honor of John Williams - the man who discovered it. Making a country walk, the discoverer bent down and accidentally noticed a stone from which something similar to the plug of a modern electrical appliance was sticking out. However, unlike most modern forks, Williams' find had not 2, but 3 prongs. There were no industrial enterprises or residential areas near the place where John walked. The stone, inside which the fork turned out, consists of natural quartz. It also includes feldspar granite. It took more than one century to form a cobblestone with such a composition.
- Metal rod inside a stone. The stone itself was found in the Chinese mountains by a well-known collector. The purpose of the rod found inside is unknown to scientists. On a strange object, you can see the thread, like a modern screw. When the pivot was created, it also failed to install. The age of the stone itself dates back to millions of years.
- P. Reis Map. The map was created on the skin of a gazelle several hundred years ago. On the artifact, you can see an inscription that says that the map was compiled on the basis of others created even earlier. Scientists were struck by the accuracy with which the plan of the globe was drawn up. Africa was depicted here, South America, Part North America and Antarctica. Considering that the map was created based on materials from an even more ancient source, the question arises: how were the compilers aware of the existence of continents in the Western Hemisphere and at the South Pole? Someone managed to get data that North and South America existed even before the famous voyage of Columbus. The existence of Antarctica, its shape and location was known before its discovery in the 19th century.
- Aluminum artifact from Romania. Archaeological artifacts that do not fit into history in any way are found in many countries. One such strange object of unknown purpose was discovered in Romania during excavations near the river. The item is made of an alloy of several metals. More than 80% of the alloy is aluminum. The metal device was created at least three hundred years ago. However, they learned how to process aluminum only in the 19th century.
- Metal screws and springs. These items were discovered in the mountains in the Urals at the end of the last century. Screws and springs are made so skillfully that it is almost impossible to distinguish them from modern analogues. The age of the artifacts is at least one hundred thousand years, which indicates that their creators not only could work with metal, but also probably had a foundry. At the same time, according to the official version, a few thousand years ago, a person barely learned how to use a digging stick.
- petrified footprint. The artifact was found in one of the American states. The footprint was left by the soles of modern shoes in a fossilized coal seam more than ten million years ago. There are suggestions that this is nothing more than a well-planned prank.
Archaeological artifacts that do not fit into history force scientists to consider the most unusual versions of the appearance of these objects at the wrong time and in the wrong place. Not all of these things are fake or someone's hoax, which means that humanity should reconsider its views on its own past.
Despite the level of technological progress and all the accumulated knowledge about the history of our planet and the civilizations that inhabited it, we still cannot figure out some mysterious discoveries.
Most of the finds allow scientists to learn something new about the past, but there are also such artifacts that contradict all logic and challenge the generally accepted knowledge about the capabilities of ancient peoples. For example, how exactly was Stonehenge built? Why were the Nazca geoglyphs drawn? Who wrote the Devil's Bible?
However, if we do not understand something, this does not mean that we still cannot try to learn something new thanks to mysterious finds. As a result, researchers will definitely find all the answers. In the meantime, let's just find out what kind of puzzles modern archaeologists are struggling with. Here is a selection of 25 such secrets of the past!
25. Roman dodecahedrons
Roman dodecahedrons date back to the 2nd and 3rd century AD and are still a real mystery to the scientific community. The diameter of these artifacts is usually from 3 to 11 centimeters, they are most often made of bronze and represent a polyhedron of 12 regular pentagons with round holes and balls at the top of each corner. According to some versions, dodecahedrons were used either for ritual purposes or as a measuring instrument. These were very valuable items, and throughout Europe, archaeologists have already found several hundred of these mysterious artifacts.
24. Giant circles
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On the territory of Jordan and Syria, with the help of satellite imagery, 8 huge circles were discovered. The diameter of the figures is from 220 to 455 meters, and no one knows exactly when they appeared here, or why they were drawn. Archaeologists are still digging at the discovery site mysterious formations, but already now they are suggesting that these objects belong to the period from the beginning of the Bronze Age to the time of the Roman Empire.
23. Copper scroll
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Among other scrolls found in the Dead Sea area, there is one manuscript that is different from all the others. The discovery was made in 1952, and unlike parchment or papyrus artifacts, this scroll is made of a metal alloy (mainly copper). The manuscript contains approximately the following text: “Nine hundred talents are hidden in a large cistern, which is located in the courtyard of the columned hall, in a recess opposite the door, in the corner. In the cistern under the wall on the east side are six hundred silver ingots. In the southern corner of the pillared hall near the tomb of Zadok and under the pillar in the assembly hall, there is a spruce vessel for incense and a similar vessel made of cassia wood. Yes, this is a real treasure map. Historians and ordinary treasure hunters have been trying in vain to find this treasure for many years. Some experts have even begun to suggest that the text is metaphorical in nature, or is more of a recommendation than a description of a cache already made.
22. Rongo-rongo writing
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Rongorongo writings were found on Easter Island in the 19th century. They are a collection of wooden planks covered with mysterious hieroglyphs of unknown origin. No one has been able to decipher the meaning of these ancient letters, but some scholars believe that deciphering these texts would help shed light on the mysterious disappearance of the ancient civilization that once inhabited Easter Island.
21. Scottish Pyramids of Clava
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This mysterious structures from stones almost 4000 years old, and found them on south coast River Nairn in Scotland. Piles of stones dilute vertically standing megaliths (stone blocks), and most of all scientists are puzzled by the question of how exactly the people of those years managed to collect all these heavy boulders in one place and set them up in the form of a ring monument. In addition, researchers do not quite understand why this ancient complex was built at all. Among most theories, the most common are related to funerary rituals, solstice observations, and even extraterrestrials.
20. Potbellied Hill or Göbekli Tepe
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Göbekli Tepe is the largest archaeological complex discovered in Turkey, whose age is approximately 11,000 years, that is, it is 6,000 years older than even the legendary Stonehenge. In the temple complex, many pillars were found, decorated with carved silhouettes of animals and other mystical creatures, as well as many others. places of worship. Initially hidden under a 15-meter hill, the complex was mistaken for an ancient cemetery, but archaeologists later realized that they were faced with something more grandiose. Most likely, it was just a temple, but research is still ongoing.
19. American Stonehenge
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American Stonehenge discovered in the town of Salem, New Hampshire (Salem, New Hampshire). This amazing monument is a system of caves and stone structures, and its origin is still unclear and causes a lot of controversy among experienced archaeologists. The area on which the complex is located belonged to the Pattees family, but the object remained unnoticed until William Goodwin bought the land in 1937. Since then, here it began archaeological excavations. Radiocarbon analysis showed that the creation of this mysterious place was worked on as far back as 2000 BC. But who exactly lived in this American Stonehenge is still unknown to science.
18. Stone balls of Costa Rica Las Bolas
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The locals call them Las Bolas (balls). These spherical artifacts are scattered along the coast of the Diquis Delta, on the Nicoya Peninsula and on the island of Caño in southern Costa Rica. Giant stone spheres date back to about 600 AD and consist mainly of gabbro (igneous rock). The purpose of the stone balls is still a mystery, but scientists suggest that they were either used as landmarks or to study the stars.
17. Treasures and the mysterious disappearance of the people of Sanxingdui (Sanxingdui)
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This archaeological mystery lies not so much in the artifacts themselves, but in the creators of the finds. In 1929 and then in 1986 in Chinese province Sichuan, a pit with jade artifacts was discovered. A simple peasant was the first to find it, and after several decades, full-fledged excavations were finally carried out here. Bronze and stone artifacts, elephant tusks and other amazing finds. Apparently, the Sanxingdui culture lived in these lands on the banks of the Minjing River about 3,000 years ago, but suddenly they literally disappeared from the face of the Earth, and scientists are still wondering why. Wars and famines are mentioned among the probable causes. One of the most recent speculations is related to a large earthquake. Perhaps, during the next powerful shock, a serious landslide occurred, blocking the riverbed and changing its course, which forced the ancient settlement in a hurry to change their place of residence in search of a new source of water.
16. Geoglyphs of Nazca
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Lines and geometric patterns in the Nazca Desert (Peru) are one of the greatest archaeological mysteries in the world. Scattered throughout the Peruvian plateau are a great many of these mysterious inscriptions, which appeared between 500 AD and 500 BC. The unusual size, huge number, plot and structure of these geoglyphs puzzled the most prominent scientists. The main version says that these lines and drawings are associated with some ancient rituals or were used by ancient scientists to observe the starry sky.
15. Baghdad Battery
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This artifact is almost 2000 years old. The Baghdad battery was found in the suburbs of the Iraqi capital. Before you is an earthenware vessel with a bitumen stopper and an iron rod passed through the stopper into the vase itself, inside of which there is also a copper cylinder. Filled with vinegar, this battery is capable of producing an electrical voltage of 1.1 volts. However, no written confirmation that these vessels were used in this way has been found. Scientists have not found any other devices that would work at the expense of these ancient galvanic cells. Skeptics believe that these were ordinary vessels for storing manuscripts.
14. underground city Derinkuyu
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In the Turkish province of Nevsehir (Nevsehir), right under the ground for many years, the most real city. There are many similar dungeons in Turkey, but Derinkuyu is the largest of them. The shelter consists of 8 levels and descends to a depth of 80 meters. The cave kingdom was built around the 8th century BC, and the first inhabitants were the ancient Phrygians, and then the early Christians, who hid here from persecution. However, the original purpose of such a grandiose underground structure is still unknown.
13. Shroud of Turin
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The Shroud of Turin is a 4-meter linen cloth with the imprint of the body of a man executed on a cross. The shroud is kept in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin and is recognized as one of the most important Christian relics, since believers believe that the body of Jesus Christ was wrapped in it when he was buried in the tomb of a Jewish elder. Scientific research has not yet shed light on the age of the canvas, since some experts believe that the fabric was produced during the Middle Ages, while others attribute it to the time of Jesus Christ. The Catholic Church does not recognize the shroud as genuine, and the Orthodox Church has so far abandoned its official position on this matter.
12. Underwater cairn
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In Lake Tiberias, using the echolocation method, scientists recently discovered an entire underwater pyramid. The pile of stones stretched about 70 meters in diameter, but archaeologists have not yet been able to determine its age or purpose. There are a lot of tilapia swimming in this lake, and this has led some experts to believe that this structure was once used for fishing.
11. Stonehenge
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Stonehenge is a very famous archaeological complex, which has long been considered a real mystery. The largest stone blocks weigh about 25 tons each and rise 9 meters above the ground. Some of these giant boulders were brought from West Wales, which means they were dragged as much as 225 kilometers. How exactly the ancient inhabitants of these places managed to transport such heavy stones is still. It probably took the coordinated work of several thousand people at the same time to carry them. If this was the case, then the creation of this complex should have marked the real unification of England in those years, because the construction required very serious resources and the involvement a large number working hands.
10. Sound effects in the hypogeum (sanctuary) Hal Saflieni (Hal Saflieni)
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Hal Saflieni Temple is located in Malta and this prehistoric complex is almost 5000 years old. In addition, it is one of the very few underground sanctuaries dating back to the Bronze Age. No one knows exactly why this hypogeum was built, but the main version is that it served as a refuge for the prophet, and subsequently a burial ground was organized here. This place becomes even more mysterious due to its unusual properties, due to which sounds are perceived here in an unusual way. There is a special room in the dungeon where all the lowest sounds resonate as loudly as if you are in the center of a giant bell, but outside of this room you can hardly hear anything. Was it so conceived by ancient people during the construction of the complex, or is it an unforeseen effect?
9. Khatt Shebib
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Sir Ales Kirkbride discovered Hutt Shebib in 1948. This ancient wall, stretching for 150 kilometers through almost all of Jordan. Since its opening, the building has been shrouded in mystery and will captivate the minds of prominent archaeologists. No one still knows how ancient Hutt Shebib is, and what it was intended for. Today, only modest ruins remain of the wall, although it was presumably not too high before, which means that the wall was certainly not conceived for defensive purposes. It is possible that it was used by ancient farmers, or that it was some kind of boundary symbol.
8. Giant Codex or Devil's Bible
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Codex Gigas (in Latin) is a medieval parchment manuscript, recognized as the largest and heaviest handwritten book in the whole Western Europe. The arch is so heavy that only 2 people can move it at the same time, because the weight of this block is about 75 kilograms. The Giant Codex includes the Old and New Testaments, as well as several other texts - the works of Josephus Flavius, the "Etymology" of Isidore of Seville, the "Czech Chronicle" of Cosmas of Prague and other books in Latin. The author of the codex is unknown, but presumably he was a single person - a hermit monk who worked on the creation of the manuscript for several decades in a row. This collection is called the Devil's Bible because it also contains a full-page image of Satan.
7 Puma Punku
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Puma Punku is a Bolivian complex of huge megaliths carved from stone with the finest precision. The most main riddle today - not so much the purpose of some of the local objects, but their age. The opinions of experts are divided, and very different from each other. So some scientists believe that the complex appeared around 500-600 BC, while others believe that the artifacts are almost 17,000 years old. Another amazing feature of Puma Punku is the incredible precision with which the stones were processed. The blocks look like they were cut with a diamond cutter, but this technology is unlikely to have existed in such ancient times.
6. Longyu Caves
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Discovered in 1992 near the village of Longyu, amazing caves Longyu is a whole system of man-made dungeons that have been in a flooded state for a long time. They were discovered during the cleaning of local ponds, and in the end it turned out that the height of some of the rooms reaches 30 meters. None of the 24 has a connection with the neighboring one, but they all have common walls. The dungeons are simply huge, executed with incredible craftsmanship and require considerable effort to create them, but for some reason not a single historical document mentions their existence. The age of the structures was determined by a number of indirect signs (for example, by stalactites) and is approximately 2200 years old.
5 Superhenge
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Not far from the famous Stonehenge, archaeologists have discovered an even larger complex, hiding deep underground. It was called Superhenge, and this monument consists of 90 huge stone blocks, reminiscent of the megaliths from Stonehenge. Scientists have discovered this complex thanks to ground-based penetrating radar, and the monument has not yet been excavated. Experts find it difficult to answer the question about the purpose of the object, but they are sure that all these stones were buried here with some special intent.
4. Stone labyrinths of Bolshoi Zayatsky Island
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A small Russian island, lost in the White Sea, no more than 2.5 square kilometers- this is an almost uninhabited piece of land that keeps many secrets. For example, did you know that stone labyrinths decorate this place for almost 32 thousand years? All these piles and outlandish mounds cover the main part of the island, but archaeologists still have not figured out who exactly built the mysterious labyrinths, and for what purpose. Perhaps these were religious altars or other ritual objects.
3. Stone slab Cochno
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In Scotland, archaeologists have unearthed a 5,000-year-old stone slab decorated with unusual geometric patterns. The Kochno stone (from the name of the farm near which the artifact was found) is 13 meters long and 7.9 meters wide, and scientists called the drawings carved on its surface "bowls and ring marks." Similar patterns are found around the world and in other prehistoric locations. The meaning of these drawings remains unknown until now, as well as who created them. In addition, it is not clear how exactly the ancient people managed to leave these marks in places so remote from each other. The Kochno slab was transported to another place not only for further research, but also to protect it from vandal encroachments.
2Microscopic Copper Findings Almost 300,000 Years Old
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In 1991, on the banks of the rivers Narada, Kozhim and Balbanyu in the area Ural mountains mysterious artifacts were discovered. The microscopic spiral-shaped copper and tungsten parts are amazing because experts are still arguing about their age. Some scientists suggest that these finds are somehow connected with rocket tests at the nearby Baikonur and Plesetsk cosmodromes. However, other researchers argue that the rocks in which these mysterious springs were found are too old, and analysis of these layers has shown that the finds could be about 300,000 years old.
1. Tomb with skulls from Sanken
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In Sweden, archaeologists have discovered a burial site of human remains that are almost 8,000 years old. The researchers found there 11 skulls of men, women, children and babies. Probably, scientists stumbled upon a tomb, equipped here during the Stone Age, when hunters and gatherers strung the heads of the dead on one common pole and buried them in lakes. How exactly and why the ancient people came up with such a terrible ritual, no one knows.
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 items 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 starry 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. Large heads, fragile thin bones - all those signs that are formed from 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.
Visible in the photograph amazing artifact quite ancient - 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.
See artifacts from the ancient Egyptian civilization and Central America, they strangely resemble the planes familiar to us. 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?
