The most interesting artifacts on earth. Ancient artifacts of Siberia that parasites hide from us and destroy. About the ancient stone map of Siberia found by Chuvyrov

What is impossible to talk about, what should be silent about?

Forbidden archeology - relics of past eras that do not fit into the worldview of modern people, but not because we - the people of the 21st century - will not be able to comprehend them, but in order not to change the history that has already been rewritten once, which took away the greatness from our ancestors .

However, sometimes strange finds are also silent because historians simply do not know how to explain the found artifact, for example, a microchip fused into a stone that is several hundred million years old. And instead of making such a significant fact of the find a sensation, and the relic itself - to the public, and make every effort to clarify the fate of the artifact, they are silent about the found object, and accounting archaeologists are not recommended to further study the “incomprehensible” object.

It is the material objects that archaeologists find that “put a spoke in the wheels” of the dogmas of historians, because no one has seriously considered intangible objects for a long time, classifying ancient history as mythology, and presenting mythology as a literary genre recommended for reading by lovers of fables. In the absence of ancient books that have been destroyed at all times as sources of “dangerous knowledge”, when nothing can be confirmed or refuted for certain based on ancient manuscripts, any fact can be manipulated. And only thanks to artifacts it becomes clear that the Earth has a different history of the development of intelligent life than the one we are taught.

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Dorchester riddle of history - the oldest vessel from Mount Meeting House (USA, Massachusetts)

In 1852, in the town of Dorchester, during the production of demolition work, a bell-shaped vessel made of metal alloy was removed from the rock of Mount Meeting House along with fragments of stone. Presumably, by the color of the vessel, it was determined that it was made of an alloy of silver with other chemical elements. Beautiful intricate inlay and engraving in the form of a wreath, a vine and a pattern of a bouquet consisting of six inflorescences was made of pure silver, and was the finest work of a skilled craftsman.

The Dorchester vessel was located in sandstone at a depth of no more than 5 meters from the surface in the Roxbury rock, the origin of which geologists attribute to the Precambrian era (cryptozoic) - the period in which the Earth lived about 600,000,000 years ago.

An artifact that does not fit into history - an "old" bolt

This find fell into the hands of researchers by chance - an expedition with speaking name Kosmopoisk was looking for fragments of a meteorite in the fields of the Kaluga region, but found a completely local, earthly object - a stone from which a part of a part that had long frozen in it, which looked like a bolt (coil), protruded.

With the most careful study of the find by serious scientists from a number of leading research institutes in the country, it was reliably found out only that the stone into which the bolt was poured has an age of origin of more than 300,000,000 years ago. The obvious fact was also voiced - the bolt had been in the body of the stone for a long time, perhaps when the substance of the cobblestone was soft. This means that at the time when official version history, the first reptiles appeared on Earth, such a technical thing as a bolt got into the ground, which became the basis of the stone.

A relic that refutes the theory of the origin of man on Earth

The human skull, devoid of superciliary ridges, has become a mysterious Siberian find. Archaeologists place its origin at 250,000,000 years old. The absence of brow ridges indicates that this is a humanoid skull, it has nothing to do with ancient primates. But according to official history, only the genus Homo, from which modern man descended further, appeared on Earth 2,500,000 years ago.

And this is not an isolated case of finding an unusual skull. Skulls of various shapes, large, with an elongated or rounded occiput, are continually found during excavations, undermining the theory of human origin and evolution with their appearance.

Other important finds are connected with this part of the human skeleton. Images of craniotomy operations, which researchers find in ancient manuscripts or carved on stones, indicate that the brain of ancient man was not small, like that of a primate. It turns out that knowledge about complex surgical manipulations with the human body arose at a time when, according to the official chronology, there was no Homo sapiens on Earth.

Footprints and shoes from the Mesozoic era - an interesting imprint of the past

Not far from the city of Carlson (USA, Nevada), during archaeological excavations, footprints were found - clear prints of the soles of well-made shoes. At first, archaeologists were surprised by the fact that shoe prints are several times larger than the size of a modern human foot. But after they carefully examined the site of this find, the size of the footprint was not important compared to its age. It turned out that time left an imperishable imprint of a boot from the Carboniferous period of the planet's development. It was in this archaeological layer of the Earth that traces were found.

Of the same ancient origin, about 250,000,000 years ago, were footprints found in California. A whole chain of prints was found there, left one after the other, with a step of about two meters, a foot, the size of which is about 50 centimeters. If we compare the proportions of a person with a reference point for a similar leg size, it turns out that a person 4 meters tall from the ground was walking there.

Similar footprints 50 centimeters long were also found on the territory of our country, in the Crimea. There, traces were left on the rocky rocks of the mountains.

Amazing Historical Finds in Mines Around the World

The finds that ordinary miners make while doing their daily work of mining amaze archaeologists - they are jealous that they did not find such relics.

As it turned out, coal is not only a fuel, but also a material on which and in which ancient traces are perfectly preserved. Among those found on pieces of coal of various sizes: an inscription in an incomprehensible language, a footprint of shoes with clearly visible stitches of a seam connecting parts of a thing, and even bronze coins that fell into the coal seam long before the era when, according to official history, a person learned to process metal and mint money from it. But these finds are insignificant in size compared to the one that was discovered in a mine in Oklahoma (USA): where the miners found a whole wall made up of cubes with a face of 30 centimeters, with perfectly drawn edges of the figure.

The fossil beds in which all of the above artifacts were found are classified as deposits, the age of which is from 5 to 250 million years.

3D map of the Earth from a Cretaceous cartographer

The Southern Urals, a storehouse of artifacts, gave the world an amazing find: a three-dimensional map of the area 70 million years old. The map has been perfectly preserved due to the fact that it was made on dolomite stone, combined with elements of glass and ceramics. Six whole huge and heavy dolomite slabs, covered with signs, were found by the researchers of the expedition led by Alexander Chuvyrov near Mount Chandur, but there is historical evidence that there were hundreds of them.

Everything about this find is amazing. First of all, a material that is not found in such a compound on our planet. A homogeneous dolomite slab, which is not found anywhere else today, was covered with a layer of glass fused to the stone by an unknown chemical method. On diopside glass, which allegedly began to be produced towards the end of the last century, the relief of the planet was skillfully depicted, which was characteristic of the Earth in the Cretaceous period, that is, about 120 million years ago. But, to the amazement of archaeologists, in addition to valleys, mountains and rivers, an interconnected chain of canals and dams was drawn on the map, that is, a hydraulic system of several tens of thousands of kilometers.

But even stranger is the fact that the slabs are sized so that it is most convenient to use them for people who are at least three meters tall. However, this fact was not so sensational for the find as the correlation of the size of the plates with astronomical values: for example, if you lay out this map from the plates along the equator, you will need exactly 365 fragments. And some signs of the map, which were able to decipher, indicate that their compilers are familiar with physical information about our planet, that is, they know, for example, its axis of inclination and the angle of rotation.

Encyclopedia of Knowledge on Dr. Cabrera's Oval Stones

Dr. Cabrera, a citizen of Peru, became famous throughout the world for having collected a huge amount, approximately 12,000, of stones with drawings of ancient people. However, unlike the well-known primitive rock art, these images were, in a way, an encyclopedia of knowledge. Stones of different sizes depicted people and scenes from their lives, animals, maps and much more in such branches of knowledge as ethnography, biology, geography. On par with dinosaur hunting scenes different kind, there were pictures in which the process of carrying out a surgical operation for transplanting human organs was clearly traced.

The place of discovery was the suburb of the small settlement of Ika, after which the stones got their name. Ica stones have been studied for a long time, but are still among the mysteries of archeology, because they cannot be entered into the history of the origin of mankind.

What distinguishes the find from other surviving images of antiquity is that the man on the stones of Dr. Cabrera is depicted with a very large head. If now the head to the body of a person correlates as 1/7 part, then in the drawings from Ica, it is 1/3 or 1/4. Scientists suggest that these were not our ancestors, but a civilization similar to our human civilization - a civilization of intelligent humanoid beings.

Heavy and impossibly megaliths antiquities

Ancient structures made of huge, perfectly processed stone blocks are found everywhere on our planet. Megaliths were assembled from parts weighing several tons each. In some masonry plates, the connection is such that even a thin knife blade cannot be inserted between them. A number of structures are geographically located in places where the material from which they are assembled is not nearby.

It turns out that the ancient builders knew several secrets at once, which in the present can be associated with magical knowledge. For example, in order to give a stone block such an ideal shape, you need to be able to soften the rock and sculpt the required figure from it, and in order to then move the finished multi-ton block into masonry, you need to be able to change the gravity of the part of the future structure, moving the “brick” to where the builder needs it.

Some buildings of antiquity are so grandiose for modern times that even in our present there are no such cranes or other devices that could raise parts of the building to the height necessary from the ground in order to place a heavy block in masonry. For example, in Puri, in India, there is a local temple, the roof of which is made of a stone block weighing 20 tons. Other structures are so monumental that it is impossible to imagine how many material and labor resources they can be implemented in modern times.

Note that with their majesty, some structures are amazing not only for their size, but also for the fact that they are built in relation to certain laws of nature, for example, they are oriented to the movement of the Moon and the Sun, like the Pyramids, or are designed to observe many celestial bodies, like Stonehenge . Others stone buildings, for example, the labyrinth on the Solovetsky Islands, is a structure whose purpose remains a mystery.

Calligraphic "notches" on boulders and drawings of unknown purpose, as well as "magic" stones

Like megaliths, stones on which ancient writings or images with an incomprehensible purpose have been preserved can be found everywhere. A variety of elements served as a material for such messages from the past, such as trapped lava and marble, which were subjected to original preparatory processing before becoming the basis for applying signs and drawings.

For example, huge stones are found on the territory of Russia, which depict hieroglyphs that cannot be deciphered, or clearly recognizable figures of animals that still exist on earth, or images of God's creatures that no longer inhabit the planet. Finds are not uncommon in the form of perfectly polished slabs, on which lines are inscribed, the content of which is still incomprehensible.

And a completely extraordinary fact against the background of these recorded information is the information that in one of the Indian villages, in the town of Shivapur, near the local temple, there are two stones that can rise in the air under certain circumstances. Despite the fact that the boulders weigh 55 and 41 kilograms, if 11 people touch the largest of them with their fingers, and 9 people touch the other, and all together these people utter a certain phrase in the same key, the stones will rise to a height of two meters from the ground and several seconds hanging in the air.

The era in which metallurgy began to spread on earth, when people began to make tools and weapons for hunting from iron, has boundaries roughly established by scientists from 1200 BC to 340 AD. e. and is called the Iron Age. Knowing this, it is difficult not to be surprised by all the finds described below: iron, gold, titanium, tungsten, etc., in a word, metal.

Metal in ancient galvanic cells

A find that can be called the oldest electric battery. Ceramic vases were found in Iraq, in which there were copper cylinders, and in them - iron rods. From the alloy of tin and lead, on the edges of the copper cylinders, scientists determined that this device is nothing more than a galvanic cell.

After conducting an experiment, pouring a solution of copper sulfate into a vessel, the researchers received an electric current. The age of the find is approximately 4,000 years ago, and it does not allow galvanic cells to be included in the official theory of how mankind mastered the use of iron elements.

Stainless 16th century iron "Pillar of Indra"

And even if the finds are not so old, but have an age of origin of about 16 centuries, for example, like the "Pillar of Indra", there are many mysteries in their appearance and existence on our planet. The mentioned pillar is one of the mysterious sights of India. Construction from pure iron stands near Delhi in Shimaikhalori for 1600 years and does not rust.

Would you say that there is no secret if a metal pole is 99.5% iron? Of course, but imagine that not a single metallurgical enterprise of our time can now cast a 7.5 meter pole with a cross section of 48 centimeters and a percentage of iron content of 99.5 without applying special efforts and means. Why was it that the ancient people who lived in those places in 376-415 were able to do this?

They also, in a way incomprehensible to today's experts, put inscriptions on the pillar that tell us that the "Pillar of Indra" was erected during the reign of Chandragupta, on the occasion of the victory over the Asian peoples. This ancient memorial is still a Mecca for people who believe in miraculous healings, as well as a place for constant scientific observations and discussions that do not give a single answer to the question about the essence of the pillar.

Chain of precious metal in a piece of coal three hundred million years old

Some of the archaeological mysteries that have been found pose questions to humanity not about how this or that unusual thing was created. This interest fades into the background before the mystery of how the object got to where it was found now. If a person used iron mainly for domestic purposes, then gold has a special history. This metal has been used to make jewelry since antiquity. But the question is - from what antiquity?

So, for example, in 1891, while collecting coal in her barn, in the town of Morisonville, Illinois, a lady named Kelp put too much fuel in a bucket. To use coal in business, she decided to split it. From the impact, a piece of coal split in half and a golden chain sagged between its two halves, the ends going into each of the formed parts. A piece of jewelry weighing 12 grams in a piece of coal that was formed in this area 300,000,000 years ago? Try to find a logical explanation for this artifact.

Unique metal alloys that are not found on the planet in a similar form

But sometimes scientists have no less questions than some man-made metal artifacts, but ordinary-looking stones. In fact, they are not stones at all, but a rare alloy of metals. For example, one such stone was found near Chernigov in the 19th century. Modern scientists have studied it and found that it is an alloy of tungsten and titanium. At one time, it was planned to use it in the technology of creating the so-called "invisible aircraft", but the idea was abandoned because the composition of these elements did not have sufficient plasticity. But, when it was still thought to be used, tungsten and titanium were artificially combined into a similar alloy, because in this form it is not found anywhere on earth, and the technology for its production is incredibly energy-consuming. Here is such an unusual Chernihiv metal "pebble".

However, why only Chernigov, when ingots of alloys are found here and there, which, when checked, turn out to be a combination of elements that are not found in nature in such a composition, but at the same time famous people alloy, for example, for aircraft manufacturing technologies.

Mysterious "Salzburg" hexagon made of pure iron

How do historians deal with the above "challenges" of archeology? Do you think they are trying to write the finds into the chronicles of human life on earth? At best, pundits shrug their shoulders, at worst - for unknown reasons, "evidence" that exposes scientific dogmas about the past of earthlings is lost. Well, or the history of a mysterious archaeological find can be reduced to the fact that objects that inexplicably found themselves on our planet are assigned the status of "meteorites".

So, for example, it was with the "Salzburg papallepiped". This is a metal hexagon with two convex and four concave faces. The lines of the object are such that it is impossible to even imagine that the object is miraculous. However, the hexagon, which consisted of pure iron, was “written off” as meteorites, although it was found in Salzburg in 1885 in a piece of brown tertiary coal. And we do not even try to shed light on the history of its appearance.

All of the above cases, as well as many other documented facts, speak only about one thing: at a time when, according to official history, a person only came to the idea of ​​using stone tools, and in some cases did not exist at all as a species, on earth, who - he has already cast high-strength metal, forged iron, used alloys to create electric batteries, etc. and so on. Impressive? Undoubtedly! The only pity is that it is impossible to find a reasonable explanation for the mysterious archaeological finds.

At times, people find items in places where they simply should not be. Or these objects are made of materials, before the discovery of which, judging by the geological layer in which the object was found, there were still hundreds, or even thousands of years. These "strange geological finds", which are of artificial origin, baffle scientists. AND most of These mysteries remain unsolved to this day.

Grabovetsky sword

One of the relatively recent sensational discoveries that stirred up scientific world, was made in the 80s of the XX century in the town of Grabovo (Poland), a few kilometers from the city of Kielce. In a quarry where limestone was mined, some metal object was discovered by workers. When it was carefully cleaned from the ground and examined, it was found out that it was a perfectly preserved iron sword. The find was handed over to the archaeological institute. Scientists after the study found that this weapon was made around 400 BC. e.

The skill of the gunsmith who made this sword caused admiration. But the special attention of archaeologists was attracted by a mysterious ornament on the handle of the sword. Some strange notches, lines, circles, ovals. Very unusual inlay. And spectrographic analysis gave absolutely incredible results: 10% copper, 5% magnesium and 85% aluminum. But how can this be? After all, it is generally accepted that pure aluminum was first obtained only in 1825 by the Danish scientist Hans Oersted.

If the age of the blade has been established correctly, then the question arises: where could the ancient blacksmith get aluminum? Surely people who lived more than 2,000 years ago knew about the existence of this metal and even knew how to get it in some way unknown to us? If so, why was the technology forgotten by the next generations of craftsmen?

There is a version that aluminum could get to our planet from space, in a meteorite. But in all the meteorites found so far there is no trace of aluminum. They are either stone or iron-nickel. According to another hypothesis, aluminum could have been brought to Earth by a space expedition of aliens. One should not discount the version that our civilization is not the first on Earth (and, most likely, not the last). Perhaps the former civilizations in technical terms not only were not inferior to modern humanity, but also surpassed it.

The mysterious sword continues to be studied by scientists around the world. But there are no fewer questions.

Surprises of the earth's interior

The Grabovetsky sword stands somewhat apart in the list of artifacts - objects of artificial origin, found inside undisturbed geological layers, because it was found relatively close to the surface. Most of the "strange things" are found in the depths of the earth's bowels. For example, in the 16th century, the Spanish Viceroy of Peru, Francisco de Toledo, kept in his office an 18 cm long steel nail, firmly seated in a piece of rock, raised from a 20-meter depth in a Peruvian mine working.

1844 - in Northern Britain, a 12-sided 30-centimeter nail made of titanium alloy was found in a block of petrified sand. Experts estimate the age of this artifact at 360-408 million years!

1851 - Nevada gold digger Hiram Witt brought home a piece of gold-bearing quartz the size of a man's fist. While showing the stone to his friends, Witt accidentally dropped it. Having fallen, the stone cracked, and those present saw inside ... a screw. How did he end up in a rock that was at least a few million years old?

1880 - A farmer from Colorado came to a coal mine to collect some coal for the fireplace. There was a large pile of this fuel, which was mined from a depth of about 90 meters. Returning home, the farmer began to chop large pieces of coal, so that it would be more convenient to heat the fireplace. In one of them he found a metal ring, which later went down in history as Eve's ring. The coal in which it was found is 60 million years old.

1891, July 11 - The newspaper "Morrison-Wiltime" published a note: "On Tuesday morning, Mrs. Capp made public absolutely incredible find. When she broke a piece of coal for kindling, she found in it a small ... golden chain 25 cm long, ancient and bizarre work. The piece of coal split almost in the middle, and since the chain was located in it in the form of a circle and its two ends were next to each other, when the piece burst, its middle was freed, and the two ends remained fixed in the corner. The chain is made of 8 carat gold and weighs 192.3 grams.”

1894 - an unusual object was found near the American town of Dorchester. Scientific American magazine described the find as follows: “A few days ago powerful explosion destroyed the rock. This explosion scattered huge fragments weighing up to several tons and numerous small fragments in all directions. Among them were picked up two fragments of a metal object, torn in half by the explosion. When connected, these parts formed a vessel 11.4 cm high and 16.5 cm wide at the base. On the surface of this vase are deeply engraved six images of outlandish flowers, covered with an alloy of silver and bismuth, and the lower part of the vessel was surrounded by a delightful relief wreath of the same alloy.

1899 - An object resembling a large coin was discovered in a well near Pawn Ridge, Illinois. Using radiocarbon analysis, it was determined that the artifact is about 400,000 years old. On the coin were images of certain creatures and inscriptions in an unknown language.

1903 - in Nampa (Mexico), while drilling a well under a layer of sedimentary rocks of basalt and sand at a depth of 91 meters, a two-inch figurine of a woman was discovered, extremely finely made of gold. On the stand of the artifact there is an openwork inscription, which scientists are still trying to decipher.

So what comes out: all these found objects existed on Earth long before the generally accepted time of the appearance of man? Official science tries to ignore the very existence of such inexplicable artifacts. And the most popular explanation is, they say, falsification. Or what is taken for nails or other metal objects is only natural mineral melts. Pieces of metal fall into the rock and are formed there due to the replacement of plant residues. Sometimes they take on the shape of familiar objects.

Another explanation is the displacement of the layers. Artifacts in the ground are constantly moving, just like the soil itself. Either groundwater will wash them away, or they will fall into a crack. In some places, objects can "go" very deep. Archaeologists even conducted an experiment - they placed a broken earthenware jug in the ground. So, its fragments "dispersed" into the lower layers.

Golden hairs of Antarctica

In this case, where did the inexplicable artifacts found in Antarctica “fail” from?

1997, summer - another expedition of the Research Institute of the Arctic and Antarctic returned to St. Petersburg. She was brought samples of deep sea ice, taken during deep drilling from a geological formation that was more than 20,000 years old. Among the samples, scientists were most interested in the one in which some filamentous inclusions were visible.

When the ice melted, several threads two centimeters long and as thick as a human hair appeared in the field of view of the microscope. At a hundredfold magnification, they appeared as pieces of golden-hued metal wire, which had almost no elasticity. A chemical analysis of the hairs showed that they were of pure gold. After 7 years, the American Scientist magazine published material about what American researchers found in Antarctic ice a whole bunch of the same golden hairs.

First galvanic battery

Also, an inexplicable artifact discovered during excavations cannot fit into any theories. ancient city Seleucia (Iraq). These are well-preserved small vessels made of clay, each of which was fitted with a copper cylinder with an iron core. Soldering was carried out with an alloy of lead and tin, while the proportions coincide with modern ones, which are used in electrical engineering.

Models created in the image and likeness, when filled with copper sulfate, gave a voltage of about six volts at the terminals. Thus, the researchers found that the ancient Sumerians could receive electricity in an electrolytic way. Before us is the oldest galvanic battery. And if there was a current, then there were devices for which it was used.

The discovery of these inexplicable artifacts once again shows how little we know about the scientific and technical progress previous civilizations, as well as their possible contacts with extraterrestrial intelligence.

Of course, not all the important artifacts found on planet Earth are collected here, but at least some of them. It should be noted that for some reason most of the artifacts disappear in an unknown direction. Or maybe the disappearance of artifacts is not at all accidental?

The Lolladoff Plate is a 12,000-year-old stone disc found in Nepal. It clearly depicts a UFO in the shape of a plate. Also on the disk there is a drawing of a creature that resembles aliens. I would like to note that there is no data on the storage of this artifact. It is not known where this item is currently located. The origin of this image also raises many questions, there are doubts about its authenticity. There is not a single image where the artifact is depicted against the background of any objects.

Giants from Nevada
In 1931, two skeletons were found at the bottom of the lake. One was 8 feet (2.4 m.) tall, and the other was just under 10 feet (about 3 m.)
fossil giant
A 12-foot fossil giant was found in 1895 during mining V English city Antrim. He is 12 feet 2 inches (3.7 meters) tall, 6 feet 6 inches (2 meters) chest, and 4 feet 6 inches (1.4 meters) long.

Ancient spaceship.
This ancient rock painting from a cave in Japan dates back to over 5000 BC.

300 million year old iron bolt
In the summer of 1998, Russian scientists exploring a 300-kilometer site southwest of Moscow in search of meteorite fragments found a stone encased in an iron bolt. According to geologists, the age of the stone is 300-320 million years.

Mysterious stone doll
In 1889, while drilling a well in the town of Nampa, Idaho, a discovery was made that excited the scientific world of the last century. At a depth of 320 feet, a small figurine of a man was found, which was definitely created by human hands. The whole mystery is that the figurine, judging by the depth at which it was found, was here long before the appearance of people in this part of the world. Scientists simply stated that this could not be.

Horned human skull
At the very end of the 19th century, in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, a scientific expedition found an ancient mass grave. Judging by the skeletons, the buried were real giants, their average height was more than two meters! However, the researchers were most struck by the skulls: on some of them, bone outgrowths of decent size protruded on the sides. The discovery has not received a worthy scientific explanation so far.

Texas hammer or London hammer
In 1934, an ancient hammer was discovered in Texas. The hammer consists of almost pure iron (97%) - even modern people cannot produce this. The age of the reservoir in which it was found is up to 140 million years. Dr. Hans-Joachim Zilmer from Germany, who studied the mysterious find in detail, concludes: This hammer is made using a technology unknown to us!

Crystal skull.
In the jungles of Belize back in 1927, archaeologist Frederick Mitchell found a skull made of rock crystal in perfect condition.

stone artifact recent history finds, was found at a coal mine in Kuzbass on January 31, 2015. Until the find was destroyed or dissolved in time, you can watch it in a real video footage filmed by the person who found it. There have been no official expert opinions on it yet.

The oldest calendar in the form of the letter "Omega" was found in Ireland in 1688. In essence, it is a huge calendar. Only once a year, namely on December 22, on the shortest day - the day of the winter solstice, a ray of sunshine penetrates the central room of the building.

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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 still remain a real mystery to 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 them. 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 temple complex found many pillars, 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, archaeological excavations have begun here. 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 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 around 600 AD and are composed predominantly 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 were hidden in the treasury. 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 electrical voltage at 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 Derinkuyu Underground City


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In the Turkish province of Nevsehir (Nevsehir), a real city was hiding right under the ground for many years. 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 is an 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 have been decorating 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.

Fragments of meteorites with the remains of unknown life forms, metal parts from alloys unknown to science, spheres of incomprehensible purpose with unique physical properties - how to explain the appearance of all these amazing artifacts on our planet? Many scientists are inclined to a completely logical explanation and believe that such finds are of extraterrestrial origin, and they came to earth during the next visit of aliens. Others find such explanations frivolous and regard them as an attempt to "hide behind the backs of the aliens" from hopelessness. The debate about whether representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations visited our planet has been going on for hundreds of years. The amazing finds that the most ordinary people discover in various parts of the world are increasingly making us think that we are not alone in the universe.

Stone head from Guatemala, Guatemala

The impenetrable jungle of Guatemala, which has been inhabited by the Maya since ancient times, hides one of the most mysterious artifacts on earth. Here, among the dense thickets of exotic trees, rests huge statue from sandstone, which was discovered by researchers in the 30s of the last century. At first glance, the head of an impressive size is unremarkable and resembles the surviving part of the statue of some ancient deity, but is not at all like that.

The fact is that the facial features of the statue are strikingly different from the classical appearance of the Maya, the statue is absolutely unlike those stone statues that were found in the nearby territories of Guatemala. A more detailed study made it possible to find out that the area in which the statue was found was never inhabited. In addition, it is much older than the Mayan sculptures found nearby.

Discussing the version of the origin of the statue, the researchers disagreed, some of them hastened to note that the head can depict the face of an alien creature. A worthy alternative to this version is the assumption that the statue could have been created by more ancient peoples who inhabited the jungles of Guatemala even before the Maya. A few years after the discovery of a unique monument, its location became known to the general public. The troops used the stone head as a target for shooting, and therefore the unique monument was almost completely destroyed.