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Sculpture Kryptos

Phaistos disc

The riddle of a simple shepherd

Mysterious death and the case of "Taman Shud"

"Big Ear"

What do you know about the Zodiac?

Monument of an unknown author in the USA, Georgia, city of Elbert

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There are so many unsolved mysteries and mysteries in the world that it even becomes a little uncomfortable! These secrets higher worlds constantly someone tries to comprehend, but once again fails. Ciphers, coded messages, mysterious signs on the margins, cryptograms, and so on - all this intrigues not only scientists, but also ordinary people. Each of us at least once in our lives, but think about one of the many mysteries of our universe. Or maybe someone else has yet to figure it out?

Secrets are all around us.

How many films have been made and books written about how to unravel these mysteries, but all these films are just fiction. In fact, neither the world-famous manuscripts nor the complex messages to descendants from their ancestors were ever completely unraveled.

Mystery of Voynich

It was not possible to unravel the unknown language in which the manuscript was written. In 1912, Wilfrid Voynich, a dealer in antique books, purchased a very strange book. All of its 240 pages contained completely new letters and numbers (if they were exactly these signs at all). In the book, in addition to words in an incomprehensible language, there were also diagrams, illustrations that demonstrated incomprehensible events, and also depicted unthinkable plants. Mystery? Also what! It was not possible to establish who the author of the manuscript was. But scientists were able to determine the time period in which the book was created - 1404-1438.

Whoever did not try to unravel the handwritten manuscript, and all in vain. But it does not seem that the author of the text simply decided to mock his descendants and drew scribbles in order to mislead everyone. Today there are a large number of theories in which the great scientists of the world are trying to solve the mystery of the book. Some think that this is a manual on alchemy, others are a pharmacopoeia, and still others generally see the intervention of other worlds in the creation of the manuscript and assign the book the status of an extraterrestrial manuscript. But whoever the author of the manuscript was, he definitely did not regret his personal time, effort and money for its creation!

Secrets of the higher worlds! Difficult to understand, encrypted and not fully solved the riddle on the sculpture located near the CIA in the USA - this is the sensational Kryptos! The sculpture was created by the master Sanborn and the four encryptions on its surface have not been completely unraveled (despite such a “neighborhood” with the CIA). The scientists managed to solve the first three riddles, but with the last one (despite the artist’s hints that the answer to it is encrypted in the first cipher), they are still tormented. In 2010, the most persistent researchers were still able to unravel one word in the code - Berlin, but what other words are nearby is still unknown.

Bail Treasure Search

Thomas Bale at the beginning of the 19th century was able to extract the treasure in the process of developing gold deposits in Colorado. It is not known what motivated this man, but the location of the real wealth from a large number precious metals and stones, he decided to encrypt. For this he used a set consisting of three ciphers. Of these, only the second was decoded, and the American Declaration of Independence became the key to it. This code indicated the area where the treasure is located, but the exact location of the cache is still unknown. Many seekers of adventure and mysterious treasures still hunt for untold wealth to this day.

How to find the Holy Grail?

In the UK, there is the famous Shepherd's Monument, created in the 18th century in Staffordshire. Many think that this is a message from the ancients to our contemporaries regarding the place where the Holy Grail is kept. The letters of the code have a certain sequence, only no one can decipher it. The author of the cipher is unknown, and this is another mystery of the surrounding world. Scientists suggest that in this way the secret of finding the Grail was encrypted by the Templars. Many celebrities have tried to decode this code, including Charles Dickens and Darwin.

Writing system or Rongorongo

On Easter Island, mysterious signs were found, depicted on artifacts and called Rongorongo. Scientists believe that these may be writing systems invented by different branches of mankind. It has not yet been possible to decipher the secrets of the ancient words, but there is an opinion that the encryption contains some information about the civilization that built the statues on this island.

Message from space

In 1977, as part of a program to search for signals from extraterrestrial intelligence, Jerry Eman recorded an incomprehensible signal, and it really did not come from Earth. Only 72 seconds continued human communication with an extraterrestrial civilization, which was supposedly located in the constellation Sagittarius, which is 120 light years away from our planet. On his transcript, the young man wrote the word "Wow", as an expression of delight about communicating with aliens. Perhaps the younger generation uses this word for a reason, but at the suggestion of other worlds!

Secrets of the Phaistos Disc

This is the most difficult riddle that would be beyond the power of Indiana Jones himself if he actually existed, and not just on the TV screen. The disk was found at the beginning of the last century by an archaeologist from Italy named Luigi Pernier. There are some strange symbols on this disc. One can see their similarity with the hieroglyphs of the ancient Chinese written languages. It is believed that the secrets of the ancient world are contained in this message, because it is at least three thousand years old, it was made in the second millennium BC. The Phaistos disc is the most important of all the mysteries of archeology.

Mysterious underwater world

Secrets underwater world interesting to scientists and ordinary people on all continents. Learn about the ancient civilizations that lived before the Flood, uncover the secrets of the sunken Atlantis and solve other most challenging tasks related to the Hydrocosmos - this is important for understanding our history. And if earlier they devoted a lot of time to the study of the underwater world, now they have switched more to the study of space. But in the depths there are also many secrets that have not yet been comprehended!

Who are the NZOs?

Incomprehensible noises are recorded using modern acoustic devices (hydrophones). For the first time they were used by the American military services to track the movement of enemy submarines - the USSR. With the help of instruments, it was possible to listen not only to the songs of whales, but also to something more interesting. The secrets of the underwater world were not fully revealed to scientists from this, but they concluded that someone in the ocean was sending purposeful conscious signals. was named NSO - unidentified sound object. And who emits these signals to this day has not been established. Maybe these are the messengers of the ancient world, aliens, sea monsters or someone else?

"Quakers" of the oceans

Great scientists tried to answer the question of who makes interesting sounds “kva-kva” under water. Maybe it's a huge sea frog? Doubtful! It all started with the interest in this phenomenon of sailors who served on submarines. With the help of hydroacoustic devices, they picked up incomprehensible signals and called them Quakers. This name is even mentioned in the official documentation.

The sound came from objects that circled around the boats. This is exactly what was established thanks to direction finding. Incomprehensible creatures that could not be detected, as if they were trying to establish contact with the submarines, because they willingly responded to the signals of the submarine itself. And there was no aggression from the Quakers. The submarine was accompanied by creatures to a specific area and then they left it, saying goodbye to their usual “qua-qua”. What it was is still a mystery. So far, scientists have stopped working on it (or do it unnoticed by large masses of people so as not to sow panic), but the sounds have not disappeared and still inspire fear in sailors.

This anomalous zone does not reveal the secrets of the underwater world one iota, but only confuses researchers even more. Complex calculations, great research - and the mystery has not been solved. Since 1492, this place has been considered at least strange and frightening. The glow of water and sky, flames, a furious compass needle - all this is noted in the notes of the expedition of Columbus himself. In 1840, a place located near Bermuda, was given the unofficial name of the triangle. In this area, a self-moving vessel was then found, which was completely without a team. Where did the crew and thousands of other people who disappeared in the area after the strange find go is unknown. modern science.

In this place, not only ships have disappeared and are disappearing, but also aircraft. And to find at least some wreckage and remains has not yet succeeded even once. But scientists studying the seabed in the Bermuda region stumbled upon a huge pyramid, several times larger than famous pyramid Cheops. The walls of this structure are absolutely smooth - there is no plaque, no shells or algae on them, and they are made of a material that resembles glass ceramics. The secrets of the underwater world, even with this discovery, have not been fully explored. The ocean is still a mystery to us, which interested ancient scientists and our contemporaries. Many studies of great scientists are classified. But sooner or later, everything secret becomes clear, so let's wait!

Atlantis is out of sight

The world only after millennia learned that there was another continent. And it will take the same amount of time to search for and study it. The secrets of the underwater world are revealed only to the persistent! Among the representatives of the ancient world, Aristotle mentioned Atlantis. But words are words, but evidence of the existence of the continent in the form of the remains of civilization has not yet been found. They say that the Atlanteans did not die all and founded their city in Tibet. And Mount Kailash is nothing but one of the pyramids built by these giants. But where they lived before and what actually happened to their homeland is known only from myths. Whether to believe them or not is up to you!

Secrets of the ancient world sea ​​depths, from one generation to another - this has always aroused and is of interest to people. Great scientists have not yet been able to solve a lot of mysteries. Suddenly it is you who can do it, write in the comments!

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Despite the fact that scientists tirelessly unravel and discover, in the history of mankind, secrets, as if, do not decrease. Lots of mysteries and unsolved mysteries remains in the history of our civilization.

Science is applying more and more modern methods and technologies, history is gradually opening its curtains, but even billions of research budgets and brilliant researchers still cannot answer some very interesting questions, cannot explain the origin of a people or where an entire state has disappeared.

1. Was there Atlantis?

Atlantis - the most famous of the legendary continents ancient world. Plato wrote about it in detail. She was mentioned in their writings by Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus, Posidonius, Strabo and Proclus. According to Plato, the island was located west of Pillars of Hercules, Opposite The Atlanta Mountains. During a strong earthquake, he went under water in one day. It happened around 9500 BC.

Atlantis has been searched all over the world, from Gibraltar to Peru and Brazil, but to date there is not a single scientifically based theory of its location.

2. Was there a global flood?

The Flood is mentioned not only in the canonical books of the Bible, but also in the later apocrypha. For example, in the Book of Enoch. There is a story about the flood in other books, in the Jewish Haggadah and Midrash Tanchuma, as well as in the Sumerian myth of Ziusudra. The first Sumerian flood poems that have come down to us date back to the 18th century BC.

There are references to the transgressions of the sea in the myths of all cultures, but was there really a flood? Historians cannot yet give a definite answer. However, it is known, for example, that around 5600 BC. in the Mediterranean there was a real flood, when due to earthquakes the level of the Black Sea rose by 140 meters, it increased by 1.5 times, the Sea of ​​\u200b\u200bAzov appeared. Perhaps, for the inhabitants of those places, this was the “global flood”.

3. Who built the pyramids?

No matter how modern reenactors and scientists struggle to solve the riddle of the construction of the pyramids, convincing versions of the way they were built have not yet been found. Some experts say that the pyramids were built from ready-made blocks hewn in the rock, others (Joseph Davilowitz) say that the blocks were already made at the construction site from a mixture of stone chips and “geopolymer concrete” based on limestone. The incredible complexity of the process casts doubt on all hypotheses. The question of who built the pyramids, slaves or civilian workers, and how many there were, also remains open.

4. Where did the Maya go?

The Mayan civilization was one of the most developed, but by the time the conquistadors arrived, only scattered forest tribes remained from the Mayans, underdeveloped and not representing a serious force. They lived in huts and did not build majestic temples with palaces. Where did the Maya go? The mystery is still unsolved. There are many versions, from epidemic and war to alien intervention, but none of them is proven.

5. Who were the Sumerians?

The world community learned about the Sumerians only in the middle of the 19th century, when scientists proved that there was a state in Mesopotamia, whose age reaches 6000 years. It was from him that Babylon and Assyria inherited their culture.

It is still unknown where the Sumerians came to Mesopotamia. It is assumed that this was a mountainous region, since the words "country" and "mountain" are spelled the same in the Sumerian language. It also had to be an area with advanced technology - the Sumerians were pioneers in many fields of knowledge, from astronomy to physics. Presumably, but not yet proven, that this could be the south of India.

6. Did the Vikings discover America?

The Norman version of the discovery of America is being voiced more and more often, but the Columbus version is still the official one. What is interesting about both of them is that both times America was discovered by mistake (a Scandinavian merchant named Bjarni Herjulfsson was thrown off course due to a storm, and Columbus sailed to India).

There is much less material on the Norman version than on the Columbus one, and not all of them are considered authentic, which greatly undermines its credibility.

7. Who were the Hyksos?

They are called "shepherd kings". It was during their reign that a two-wheeled war chariot appeared in Egypt, which changed the tactics of warfare. Little is known about them. The Hyksos are nomadic tribes, "rulers of the desert highlands", who invaded Egypt around 1700. BC e. They ruled it for over 100 years and even founded a whole dynasty of Hyksos kings. The Hyksos were expelled from Egypt only by the founder of the XVIII dynasty Ahmose I in 1587 BC. e. The question of who exactly the Hyksos were, where they came from and where they disappeared remains open.

8. Why did the Neanderthals die out?

The human and Neanderthal genomes are approximately 99.5% identical, but this does not mean that we are descended from Neanderthals. With monkeys, we have a genome similarity of 98%.

Contrary to popular belief that Neanderthals were semi-wild, they were not. It was a fairly advanced evolutionary branch, they even knew how to make musical instruments. Versions of their disappearance are as follows: 1) Assimilation; 2) Cro-Magnon genocide; 3) glacial period, which they could not stand, because they did not know how to make clothes as unnecessary.

None of these versions is yet scientifically validated.

9. Where did the Scythians disappear to?

It is believed that Scythia was the first state to disappear as a result of the Great Migration of Nations. The Scythians fought with the Sarmatians, Philip and Alexander the Great, with the Goths and Huns. It is believed that after the defeat of the last most of Scythians perished, but many became part of the victorious army. In history, because of this, there is a lot of confusion with the late definition of the Scythians. Some historians rank Chechens and Ossetians among the descendants of the Scythians.

10. What did Alexander the Great die of?

We still do not know where Alexander the Great is buried. This significantly reduces the chances of finding out main riddle- why he died in the prime of his life, at the age of 32. The Persians, whom he mercilessly defeated, claimed that the commander was punished by heaven for desecrating the grave of King Cyrus. The Macedonians who returned home said that the great commander died of drunkenness and debauchery (sources brought us information about his 360 concubines). Roman historians believed that he was poisoned with some kind of Asian slow-acting poison. According to the most common version, Alexander died of malaria. She does not explain why she delivered such a "single blow".

11. Did King Arthur exist?

Almost all of us know King Arthur from childhood. The Arthurian cycle was a bestseller in the Middle Ages, and in our time has become one of the cult phenomena. mass culture. Some critics argue that all fantasy literature came out of Arthuriana. However, the reliability of the existence of Arthur as a separate historical figure has not yet been proven. Probably, real prototype Arthur had a different name, or is it a collective image of several prototypes.

12. Why did the plague "mow down" Europe?

In the history of the European plague pandemic, which literally “mowed down” Europe in the Middle Ages, there is a lot of incomprehensible. So, wild rodents, known as such, whose ranges would also extend so far to the north, could not be established. There is no answer to the question of why the Black Death pandemic struck Europe in the same sequence and over the same territories, and at the same time as the first pandemic - the Plague of Justinian (531-589)? How did its centers flare up synchronously over very extended territories of Europe, for example, plague epidemics in Moscow and London in the middle of the 17th century?

13. Where did the gold of the royal family go?

By the beginning of the First World War, the Russian Empire had the largest gold reserves in the world, which was estimated at 1 billion 695 million rubles (1311 tons of gold, more than 60 billion dollars at the rate of the 2000s).

The fate of most of the gold reserves tsarist Russia is still unknown ("Kolchak's gold"). This was approximately 490 tons of pure gold in bars and coins worth 650 million. According to one version, the Czechoslovak corps stole it, according to another, it was hidden on the orders of Kolchak himself, according to the third, the funds settled in European banks.

14. Where did the Templar gold go?

The countless treasures of the Templars are still legendary. According to the historian Lozinsky, the chief treasurer of the order was the chief treasurer of France, and the king of France Philip IV the Handsome was the largest debtor of the order.

After the trial of the Templars, he discovered that there were not so many jewels and gold in the treasuries. Where the Templar gold went is a mystery. It is known that the surviving Templars transported part of the accumulated treasures on ships, but it is not known for certain where. According to the legends, the Templar gold ended up in Nova Scotia - the territory of modern Canada. Some of it is believed to have been transported to Canada's Oak Island, where the descendants of the Knights of the Temple hid it in a trap-filled cache.

15. Where did the 10 tribes of Israel go?

At the end of the 8th century BC, five-sixths of the Jews completely disappeared - 10 out of 12 ethno-forming genera. They have been searched for for 2500 years, and are sometimes found in the most unexpected places - from India to Europe. Even Japan claims to be related to the Lost Tribes. There is a religious movement Makuya, whose representatives claim that the imperial title "mikado" itself comes from the Jewish mi gadol (great). None of the versions to date is not official.

16. Who built Stonehenge?

Mystery megalithic complex Stonehenge has not yet been unraveled. According to one version, it was built by the Druids, according to another - by the Celts, according to the third - by the ancient Britons, according to the fourth - by Merlin himself. There are those who claim that Stonehenge is a hoax and was built in modern times.

It is also unknown how exactly Stonehenge was built. During the restoration of the complex, which began in 1901 and was completed only in 1964, the stones were moved using cranes, but in the Middle Ages there was no such technique.

17. How were the monuments built on Easter Island?

Among researchers, the most widely accepted theory is that moai on Easter Island were erected by settlers from the Polynesian islands in the 11th century. How they did it is still unknown. Thor Heyerdahl's experiments were only partially successful. His method of transportation was not suitable for multi-meter colossi weighing 50 tons or more. The Norwegian scientist also failed to explain how caps weighing up to two tons were put on the Maoi.

18. Where was the "cradle" of the Indo-Europeans?

This question is still open. It used to be believed that the "cradle" of the Indo-Europeans was in India, but linguistic analysis refutes this. As a rule, in the region of origin of any language family there are many different languages ​​and dialects of the same family, and in India there is only one Indo-Aryan branch of languages. In the Central and Eastern Europe on the contrary, there are hundreds of varieties of Indo-European languages.

The most reliable, although not proven, is the version that the ancestral home of the Indo-Europeans was the Volga and Black Sea lands, where archaeologists have recorded the Yamnaya culture.

19. What caused the Great Migration of Europe?

The Great Migration destroyed ancient world, building on its ruins the Middle Ages. Despite many versions, it is still not clear what has become main reason barbarian movements. As is usually the case in such cases, scientists talk about the sum of the factors. Firstly, about overpopulation in Scandinavia, secondly, about changing climatic conditions (cooling and increasing humidity), and finally, about a shift in social strata - the tribal elite that came to power was interested in profit. The best target was the Roman Empire.

20. Who sponsored the Bolsheviks?

The question of who financed the revolution in Russia is still debatable. For a long time, the main version was that the German General Staff played the first role in financing, but today more and more historians are inclined to believe that there was support from both England and Wall Street, and even from the Old Believers, who had close business contacts with British industrialists.

Each of these mysterious stories could be called a detective. But in detective stories, as you know, all secrets are revealed by the last page. And in these stories, the solution is still far away, although humanity has been puzzling over some of them for decades. Perhaps we are not destined to find clues for them at all? Or will the veil of secrecy be lifted someday? And what do you think?

43 missing Mexican students

In 2014, 43 students from the teacher training college from Ayotzinapa went to a demonstration in Iguala, where the mayor's wife was supposed to speak to the residents. The corrupt mayor has instructed the police to rid him of this problem. On his orders, the police detained the students, and as a result of the harsh detention, two students and three bystanders were killed. The rest of the students, as it turned out, were handed over to the local criminal syndicate Guerreros Unidos. The next day, the body of one of the students was found on the street with the skin torn from his face. Later, the remains of two more students were found. Relatives and friends of the students organized mass demonstrations, provoking a full-blown political crisis in the country. The corrupt mayor, his friends, and the chief of police tried to escape, but were apprehended a few weeks later. The provincial governor resigned, and dozens of policemen and officials were arrested. And only one thing remained a mystery - the fate of almost four dozen students is still unknown.

Oak Island money pit

Off the coast of Nova Scotia, in Canadian territory, there is small island- Oak Island, or Oak Island. There is the famous "money pit". According to legend, local residents found it back in 1795. This is a very deep and complex mine, in which, according to legend, countless treasures are hidden. Many tried to get there - but the design is insidious, and after the treasure hunter digs to a certain depth, the mine begins to be flooded intensively with water. They say that the daredevils found at a depth of 40 meters a stone tablet with a scrawled inscription: "Two million pounds are buried 15 meters deeper." More than one generation tried to get the promised treasure out of the pit. Even the future President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in his student years at Harvard, with a group of friends came to Oak Island to try his luck. But the treasure is not given to anyone. And is he there?

Who was Benjamin Kyle?

In 2004, an unidentified man woke up outside Burger King in Georgia. He had no clothes on, he did not have any documents, but the worst thing is that he did not remember anything about himself. I mean, absolutely nothing! The police conducted a thorough investigation, but could not find traces: no missing people with such signs, no relatives who would identify him from a photo. Soon he was given the name Benjamin Kyle, under which he continues to live to this day. Without documents and certificates of any education, he could not find a job, but one local businessman, having learned about him from a TV program, out of pity, gave him a job as a dishwasher. He works there now. The efforts of the doctors to awaken his memory, and the efforts of the police to find his former traces, did not yield results.

Shore of Severed Legs

"Coast of Severed Legs" is the name given to the coast in the northwestern Pacific coast British Columbia. He got this terrible name because local residents several times found severed human legs here, shod in sneakers or sneakers. From 2007 to the present, 17 pieces have been found, most of them right. There are several theories as to why feet wash up on this beach - natural disasters, the work of a serial killer... some even claim that the mafia destroys the bodies of its victims on this remote beach. But none of these theories looks convincing, but no one knows where the truth is.

"Dancing Death" 1518

One day in the summer of 1518 in Strasbourg, a woman suddenly began to dance in the middle of the street. She danced wildly until she collapsed from exhaustion. The strangest thing is that gradually others joined her. A week later, 34 people were already dancing in the city, and a month later - 400. Many dancers died from overwork and heart attacks. The doctors did not know what to think, and the churchmen also could not exorcise the demons that inhabited the dancers. In the end, it was decided to leave the dancers alone. The fever gradually subsided, but no one ever found out what caused it. They talked about some special kind of epilepsy, about poisoning, and even about a secret, pre-coordinated religious ceremony. But scientists of that time did not find the exact answer.

Signal from aliens

On August 15, 1977, Jerry Eman, who was monitoring signals from space at the volunteer Extraterrestrial Research Center, picked up a signal on a random radio frequency that clearly came from deep space, from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. This signal was much stronger than the cosmic noise that Eman was used to hearing on the air. It lasted only 72 seconds and consisted of a very specific, in the observer's opinion, completely random list of letters and numbers, which, however, was reproduced with accuracy several times in a row. Eman dutifully wrote down the sequence and reported it to his colleagues in the search for aliens. However, further listening to this frequency did not give anything, as well as any attempts to catch at least some signal from the constellation Sagittarius. What it was - a prank of quite earthly jokers or an attempt by an extraterrestrial civilization to get in touch with us - still no one knows.

Stranger from Somerton Beach

And here is another perfect murder, the mystery of which has not yet been solved. December 1, 1948 in Australia, on Somerton Beach in South Adelaide, the body of an unknown man was discovered. He had no documents with him, only in one of his pockets was found a note with two words: "Taman Shud". It was a line from Omar Khayyam's rubaiyat meaning "the end". The cause of death of the unknown could not be determined. The forensic investigator believed that it was poisoning, but could not prove it. Others believed that it was about suicide, but this statement was also unsubstantiated. The mysterious case excited not only Australia, but the whole world. Almost all countries of Europe and America tried to establish the identity of the unknown, but the efforts of the police turned out to be in vain, and the history of Taman Shud remained shrouded in a veil of secrecy.

Treasures of the Confederates

This legend still haunts American treasure hunters - and not only them. According to legend, when the northerners were already close to victory in civil war, Treasurer of the Confederate government, George Trenholm, in desperation decided to deprive the winners of the legitimate booty - the treasury of the southerners. This mission was personally undertaken by Confederate President Jefferson Davis. He and his guard left Richmond with a huge cargo of gold, silver and jewels. Where they went, no one knows, but when the northerners took Davis prisoner, there were no jewels with him, and 4 tons of Mexican gold dollars also disappeared without a trace. Davis never revealed the secret of the gold. Some believe that he distributed it to the planters of the South, so that they buried it until better times, others that it was buried somewhere in the vicinity of Danville, Virginia. Some believe that a secret society of the "Knights of the Golden Circle" laid a paw on him, secretly preparing revenge in the Civil War. Some even say that the treasure is hidden at the bottom of the lake. Dozens of treasure hunters are still looking for him, but none of them can get to the bottom of money or the truth.

Voynich Manuscript

The enigmatic book, known as the Voynich Manuscript, is named after Wilfred Voynich, an American second-hand bookseller of Polish origin, who bought it from an unknown person in 1912. In 1915, after taking a closer look at the find, he told the whole world about it - and since then, many have not known peace. According to scientists, the manuscript was written in the XV-XVI centuries in central Europe. The book contains a lot of text written in small handwriting, hundreds of drawings depicting plants, most of which are unknown to modern science. The signs of the zodiac, medicinal herbs are also drawn here, accompanied by a text, apparently, of recipes for their use. However, the content of the text is only the speculation of scientists who have not been able to understand it. The reason is simple: the book is written in a language that is still unknown on Earth, moreover, it is almost impossible to decipher. Who wrote the Voynich manuscript and why, we may not know even after centuries.

Karst wells in Yamal

In July 2014, an inexplicable explosion was heard in Yamal, as a result of which a huge well appeared in the ground, the width and height of which reached 40 meters! Yamal is not the most populated place on the planet, so no one was hurt from the explosion and the appearance of the failure. However, such a strange and potentially dangerous phenomenon required an explanation, and a scientific expedition set off to Yamal. It included everyone who could be useful for studying a strange phenomenon - from geographers to experienced mountain climbers. However, when they arrived, they failed to understand the causes and nature of what had happened. Moreover, while the expedition was working, two more similar failures appeared on Yamal in exactly the same way! Until now, scientists have been able to express only one version - about periodic explosions of natural gas coming to the surface from underground. However, experts consider it unconvincing. The Yamal sinkholes remain a mystery.

Antikythera mechanism

Discovered by treasure hunters on a sunken ancient Greek ship at the beginning of the 20th century, this device, which at first seemed like just another artifact, turned out to be nothing less than the first analog computer in history! A complex system of bronze discs, made with precision and accuracy unthinkable in those distant times, made it possible to calculate the position of stars and luminaries in the sky, time in accordance with different calendars and dates. Olympic Games. According to the results of the analyzes, the device was made at the turn of the millennium - about a century before the birth of Christ, 1600 years before the discoveries of Galileo and 1700 before the birth of Isaac Newton. This device was more than a thousand years ahead of its time and still amazes scientists.

sea ​​people

Bronze Age, which lasted approximately from the XXXV to the X century BC, was the heyday of several European and Middle Eastern civilizations at once - Greek, Cretan, Canaan. People developed metallurgy, created impressive architectural monuments tools became more complex. It seemed that humanity was advancing by leaps and bounds towards prosperity. But everything collapsed within a few years. The civilized peoples of Europe and Asia were attacked by a horde of "people of the sea" - barbarians on countless ships. They burned and destroyed cities and villages, burned food, killed and took people into slavery. After their invasion, ruins remained everywhere. Civilization was thrown back at least a thousand years ago. In the once powerful and educated countries, writing disappeared, many secrets of construction and work with metals were lost. The most mysterious thing is that after the invasion, the "sea people" disappeared as mysteriously as they appeared. Scientists are still guessing who and where this people came from and what was their fate. But there is no clear answer to this question yet.

Murder of the "Black Dahlia"

Books were written about this legendary murder and films were made, but it was not possible to unravel it. On January 15, 1947, 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short was found brutally murdered in Los Angeles. Her naked body was subjected to cruel abuse: it was practically cut in half and bore traces of many mutilations. At the same time, the body was washed clean and completely devoid of blood. This story was widely disseminated by journalists, giving Short the nickname "black dahlia". Despite an active search, the police could not find the killer. The Black Dahlia case is considered one of the oldest unsolved murders in Los Angeles.

Motor ship "Ourang Medan"

In early 1948, the Dutch ship Ourang Medan gave an SOS signal while in the Mallak Strait off the coast of Sumatra and Malaysia. According to eyewitnesses, the radio message said that the captain and the entire crew were dead, and ended with the chilling words: "And I'm dying." The captain of the ship "Silver Star", having heard a distress signal, went in search of "Ourang Medan". Having found the ship in the Strait of Malacca, the sailors from the Silver Star boarded and saw that it was indeed full of corpses, and the cause of death was not visible on the bodies. Soon, the rescuers noticed suspicious smoke coming from the hold and, just in case, preferred to return to their ship. And they did the right thing, because soon the Ourang Medan spontaneously exploded and sank. Of course, because of this, the possibility of investigation became zero. Why the crew died and the ship exploded is still a mystery.

Baghdad Battery

Until recently, it was believed that mankind mastered the production and use of electric current only at the end of the 18th century. However, an artifact found by archaeologists in the region ancient Mesopotamia in 1936 casts doubt on this conclusion. The device consists of a clay pot containing the battery itself: an iron core wrapped in copper, which is believed to have been filled with some kind of acid, after which it began to generate electricity. For many years, archaeologists have been arguing about whether the devices were really related to the generation of electricity. In the end, they assembled the same primitive products - and managed to get an electric current with their help! So, did they really know how to arrange electric lighting in ancient Mesopotamia? Since there are no written sources of that era, this mystery will now probably haunt scientists forever.

The world is full of mysteries and secrets. Some of them have been unraveled. But there are also such, reasonable explanation, which has not yet been found. Below is a list of ten unsolved mysteries of the world.

D. B. Cooper is the pseudonym of an unknown criminal who on November 24, 1971 hijacked a Boeing 727 with 42 passengers on board, flying from Portland to Seattle. After receiving a $200,000 ransom, he released the passengers, forced the pilots to take off, and bailed out. Despite an extensive investigation by the FBI, it was not possible to obtain any information about the whereabouts of the perpetrator, his real name and further fate. Of the ransom received, only $5,800 was found on the banks of a river in Washington state.
There are several theories regarding the circumstances of the crime and further fate D. B. Cooper. According to the FBI, Cooper died after the jump, but no physical evidence was found to support this theory. The terrorist act remains the only unresolved case of air piracy in American history aviation.

The Taman Shud case is an unsolved criminal case involving the murder of an unknown man who was found dead on December 1, 1948 on Somerton Beach in Adelaide, Australia. There were no visible wounds on the body of the deceased. In addition, an autopsy showed that before his death he was completely healthy. In the men's pockets, they found a bus ticket, chewing gum, cigarettes, coins, matches, and several other things. The greatest resonance was caused by a piece of paper discovered with him, torn from a copy of a very rare edition of Omar Khayyam, on which only two words were written - Tamam Shud (“Tamam Shud”). The investigation has so far failed to establish either the identity of the deceased, or to accurately determine the method of his killing.

Atlantis

One of the unsolved mysteries of the world is "Atlantis" - legendary island, perhaps a civilization (an archipelago or even a continent) whose existence and location are uncertain. The lost city became known thanks to the mentions and comments of the ancient Greek historians Herodotus, Posidonius, Strabo, Diodorus Siculus, Proclus. According to the records of the philosopher Plato, Atlantis was located west of the Pillars of Hercules, opposite the mountains of Atlanta, and was swallowed up by the sea in one day (probably by an earthquake or tsunami) around 9500 BC. e. However, most modern historians believe that Atlantis is a typical philosophical myth.

The Voynich Manuscript is a mysterious, undeciphered book written in the 15th century (1404-1438) by an unknown author in an unknown language using an unfamiliar alphabet. The thickness of the book is 5 cm, it contains about 240 pages, measuring 16.2 by 23.5 cm. During its existence, the manuscript was intensively studied by many professional cryptographers, including those recognized all over the world, and none of them managed to decipher a single word . There is a theory that this book is just a collection of meaningless random characters that make no sense, but there are those who believe that the manuscript is a ciphered message.

In sixth place in the ranking of unsolved mysteries of the world is the signal "Wow!" - a strong narrow-band space radio signal recorded by Dr. Jerry Eyman on August 15, 1977 while working on the Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio State University. The anomaly lasted 72 seconds and never happened again. There are many versions explaining the origin of the signal. The most interesting of these is the theory that the signal was sent from an alien starship that was moving.

"Taos rumble"

"Taos hum" - unsolved anomalous sound phenomena coming from the desert near the city of Taos, New Mexico, USA. The sound is similar to the movement of heavy equipment on the highway, although there are no major roads in the area of ​​​​the town. It is interesting that only local residents hear it and extremely rarely visitors. The scientists who investigated it failed to find the source of the hum.
Similar phenomena have been known since the beginning of the 60s of the XX century and have been observed almost all over the world, but most often they hear it in North America, Europe and Australia. Sometimes "noises" are accompanied by other sounds, hissing, whistling, etc. With prolonged listening, they can cause headaches, dizziness, nausea, indigestion and other unpleasant sensations.

The Loch Ness Monster (Nessie) is a mysterious animal or group of animals supposedly living in the mysterious Scottish lake Loch Ness, the depth of which in some places reaches 250 meters. Numerous eyewitness accounts describe this mysterious creature as an animal 40 feet long, with four fins and a long neck with small tubercles, which occasionally appears on the surface of the lake. There are several theories explaining the nature of the alleged animal, one of them says that the Loch Ness Monster is nothing more than a plesiosaur that has survived to this day. Today, scientists can neither confirm nor deny its existence.

Amelia Mary Earhart is an American pilot, journalist, and poet. The first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932. In 1937, while trying to make a round-the-world flight, Amelia went missing in the central part of Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Despite an immediately organized search and rescue operation, for which the US government spent about $ 4 million (the most expensive and massive operation in the history of the US Navy), no trace of either the aircraft or the pilot was found. The search for the famous female pilot continues today, but the mystery of the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, her navigator and the plane remains unsolved to this day.

Jack the Ripper is the nickname of an unknown serial killer (or killers) active in the Whitechapel area of ​​London in the second half of 1888. His victims were prostitutes from poor neighborhoods, mostly middle-aged, whose throats were slit by the killer before opening the abdominal cavity. The cutting out of some organs from the bodies of the victims was explained by the assumption that the killer had some knowledge of anatomy or surgery. However, all the names, the exact number of victims, as well as the identity of Jack the Ripper are still a mystery.

The first place in the list of unsolved mysteries of the world is occupied by the Bermuda Triangle - a geographical area of ​​​​4 thousand km2. sq. in the Atlantic Ocean. Considered a place of many (over 100) unexplained disappearances ships, yachts and aircraft. To explain the mysterious accidents, most put forward various hypotheses from unusual weather phenomena, magnetic anomalies, giant rogue waves, to abductions by aliens or the inhabitants of Atlantis. Most famous case associated with bermuda triangle is the disappearance of five Avenger-class torpedo bombers. These aircraft took off on December 5, 1945 from the US Naval Forces base in Fort Lauderdale and did not return back. Their wreckage has never been found.