The most terrible finds in the world. Unusual finds

01.07.2013

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No. 10. Terracotta Army Qin Shi-Huang

The famous Qin Dynasty's first emperor is about 700,000 soldiers cut out of stone, which were buried in one of the first halls of Tiran's tomb. This unique creation of human hands would remain unknown history and science, if in 1947, local farmers did not begin drilling wells, but instead of the water they found one of the brightest and most important finds in the entire history of archeology. Each warrior of this grave is individual and does not look like others. All of them are created by hand, and their processing techniques have sunk in the century along with the Great Emperor. But not only simple soldiers cut out old years old artisans: the statues of horses, officers, warriors were found in the tomb in the tomb, fully equipped with weapons (swords, crossbows, spears). Qin Shihuandy was from those people who know how to lead. Otherwise, this commander did not have to unite the huge territory into a single kingdom. Together with the warriors in the tomb, the scabs of the emperor were buried, and not in stone form. Ancient people believed that the army would help them with the emperor in the afterlife, protect him. The emperor also planned to pick up his riches on the light: jewels, valuable products, chariots, simple peasants (70,000 people who buried alive with him). Singles of the tombs are being carried out so far and switched to the final stage. Be that as it may, this army will remain the brightest example Culture Ancient China. And this amazing archaeological find Opens our list.

№ 9. Scrolls of the Dead Sea

Kumranian manuscripts are so called one of the greatest gifts of past millennia of mankind. Found from 1947 to 1956 in several caves of the Jewish desert. Posted predominantly on biblical themes, but apocryphas and a description of the Kumran community come across. Each text is complemented by fragments from the Book of the Old Testament. However, there is no book Esther. But I again saw the light of one completely preserved text of the book of Isaiah. Texts help to expand the ideas about many previously unknown details of the Old Testament, a variety of text traditions and other interesting linguistic discoveries. There are texts containing the rules of the then society, the rules of warfare, etc. These scrolls are believed that these scrolls are nothing like all the documentation, or the library, the Jewish sect, which was hidden during the first Jewish uprising (66-70 BD. AD) Scrolls of the Dead Sea discover some connection with Christianity: after all And the Kumran community itself was represented by a monastery in a Christian understanding, and this is despite the fact that before Christianity it was a few more centuries. And this ninth place among interesting finds.

No. 8. Royal Library Ashurbanipal

This archaeological Nakhodka, Found in the city of Nenevia in the middle of the 19th century. The Ashurbanipal Library is one of the irrevocably past past. By order of the Assyrian Tsar, more than 25 years were created. Since the king is most of all in the world, the management of the state occupied, and magic, fortune telling was considered the most effective ways of such a management, the texts of prophecies, all kinds of rituals, conspiracies, prophecies are occupied by the largest part of the library. The main part of the texts was taken from Sumerian and Babylonian texts, and rewritten again. The library has numbered a huge collection of texts on medicine. There were led lists (for example, Epos about Gilgamesh), and of course the signs that open the veil on the life of ancient people (this includes legal documents, songs, business entries)
It is thanks to the library of Ashurban to us a huge number of clinical texts have come to us, which helped it better to imagine the culture of Mesopotamia, and significantly facilitated the decryption of texts on Sumerian and Akkadian languages.

№ 7. Tombchamon Tomb

In 1922, one of the most remarkable events in the world of archeology occurred, amazing Nakhodka - Egyptologist Howard Carter was almost the most subsequently known tomb in history - the tomb of Tutankhamon. And although up to the 20th century, for historians, Tutankhamon did not imagine any interest, with the discovery of his tomb in our world hit the whole layer of ancient knowledge and things. The tomb of this young king is probably the most successful since that time, despite the fact that she was hacked by tombs. Since Tutankhamon died very early, it is obvious that he did not have time to build a tomb, which means he had to join someone else's grave. It consists of a funeral room, cameras, hallway, treasury. The hallway leads to an inclined corridor. Of course, treasurers had in the tsarist tomb. There archaeologists discovered statues, jewels, chariots - in a word, everything that according to the ancient Egyptians could need the king in the afterlife. Although this young king was not the most powerful and famous among the kings of Egypt, and his tomb is not the most ambitious architecture, its importance in the other - in the living and components of ancient culture that came out to this day.

No. 6. Pompeii

Sixth place in the top 10 are the most important amazing archaeological finds. Pompei ... There is probably such a person in the world, which would not hear about it and about the tragedy of what happened to him. It was founded in 6 T.N.E. As a Roman colony. The settlement flourished at the expense of the port and the resort zone. It is easy to understand the escaped houses, temples, theaters and baths conceded in the colony. As in any self-respecting, the city had an amphitheater, forum. Earthquakes began in 63 BC, and destroyed the city to a malfunctional day. Despite the efforts of residents to restore the city, his fate was predetermined. The ruthless forces of nature in the appearance of Vesuvius decided to erase the city from the face of the earth. It happened on August 24, 79. Lava completely destroyed the village. And so, under the cover of the ashes, the city was resting until 1599, but it was started to research only in 1748. Pompeii is a strongest copy, an example of Roman life embodied in practical application. It was for him that scientists managed to resolve many of the questions interested. The ashes managed to stop the time, and over the past century, to preserve everything as it was on that last day: people traveling from there animals.

№ 5. Cave Lasco

This cave complex is located in the south-west of France. One of the oldest monuments of human culture. Inside the caves hundreds of drawings of dated Paleolithic era. This truly majestic treasury of the human heritage was discovered since everything is usually found all the great - quite by chance, with ordinary teenagers on September 12, 1940. On the walls of this stone complex, about 2,000 images of animals, people and unknown science characters are captured. Animals are represented by deer, cattle. There are quite recognizable figures of cats, feathered inhabitants of the sky, the kings of the current forests - bears. The cave of LASC was used mainly for painting, and in this its value. To date, this complex is one of the largest caves that have reached us with rock painting. Fifth place in the top 10 interesting finds.

№ 4. Sinantrophop.

This kind of man belonged to an unknown until the species of primitive man. In 1927, Her Majesty wished to enter this person to their pages, it was then that the Chinese anthropologist Pey Wenzhan discovered him in Zhoukudian's cave not far from Beijing. The anthropologist managed to discover parts of the skull, slices of the lower jaw, teeth and many well-preserved skeleton bones. It turned out that the cave was a shelter for 45 of our distant ancestors. Extensive and deep studies have shown that the Beijing man was spinning, he knew how to produce guns from stone, enjoyed fire. Peking man greatly complemented the picture and ideas about the ancient people. Thanks to him, we know more about our ancestors living in different parts Sveta.

№ 3. Rosett stone

One more interesting archaeological find. Rosett stone is a basalt stele, dated 196 by D.N.E. A lot of this archaeological monument is carved: from the Egyptian decree about reverence Ptolemy V to official Egyptian hieroglyphs. Designed for the temple, he found his place among the construction stone in Fort Rashid. I discovered this unusual, the Captain Pierre-Francois Bushar, the Captain of Pierre-Francois Bush, during the famous Widget of Napoleon to the Egyptian lands. Since the text on the stele is written in several languages, scientists, having studied them in detail. They were able to penetrate the riddles of the unknown civilization.

No. 2. Behistunskaya Rock

The rock is a unique monument of the Darius of the Great. The inscriptions on it are made in many languages. I discovered her Englishman Robert Shirley in 1958. This text begins the life of the king Daria, and captures the Cyrus Great and Cambiss II after the death. Behistunskaya Rock can be compared with Rosett Stone - the original inscription, and on that and on the other repeats several times, except for different languages. Text on a rock, for example, written in Old Persian, Elam and Babylonian. And just as a rosette stone allows you to understand the psychology of ancient people, look at the world by their eyes. Certainly is a unique sample of clinox literature. Thanks to this rock, the civilization of Mesopotamia, Sumer, Persia, Assyria was deeper with archaeologists.

№ 1. Olday George

First place in the top 10 interesting I. amazing archaeological finds. This is a major gorge in North Tanzania, formed at the expense of a pool of one lake discovered himself to the world in 1911. However, humanity has taken action for studying and excavations only after 20 years, in 1931. Three types of hominids were discovered in the gorge (a man-like monkey large sizes), such as Australopithecus Boisei, Homo Habilis and Homo Erectus. In addition to all there, they found the remains of ancient animals: large antelope, indigenous people of Africa - elephants, hares, etc. This historical monument of submissions to this day all the remains of various stages of development of our ancestors. Disproven any evidence that the cradle of mankind is not in Africa. Before us opened a source of gominids, their lives. And in 1975, as a result of the detection of traces of hominids, it was approved that they walked on two feet - one of the most noteworthy archaeological discoveries of the 20th century.

In the article about the most terrible finds We placed such exhibits that first shocked the participants of the expeditions, which they found them, and after the publication of the facts, caused shock and in the world community.

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Mummy Girls, which at the time of death was 13-14 years old, was found in the Andes at an altitude of 6,700 meters by the German archaeologist Johann Reinhard.

After the study, it became clear that the Inca brought a girl to the sacrifice, before this year it was fed with high-quality food, and at the same time he was punished with narcotic substances. Rather, terrible death and came as a result of an overabundance in the children's drug body.

We judge this from the position of the morality of today, and at the time terrible, as it seems to us, were the usual phenomenon heated by religious ideas. By the way, on our website you can see an interesting article about the most unusual in the world.

Cemetery of babies

What could be terrible toothbeat? In 1988, work was carried out on the study of aqueduct times of the Roman Empire in the Israeli city of Ashkelon. As a result of work, scientists stumbled upon a terrible burial ground in which only babies were buried.

Historians found out that in this place in the ancient period was the institution where children were killed. The fact is that according to the Roman law, if the father up to 2 years of age of the baby, did not recognize the child, he was killed.

Thus, they got rid of illegitimate children. The boys were killed immediately, but girls could save life, and, having matured, they replenished the ranks of the priests of the oldest profession.

In 1886, in the study of the Pyramids of Egypt, the Egyptologist Gaston Masperly found an unusual mummy at all of the tsarist origin. The buried washed in sheep the skin, and there was no accompanying inventory.

But surprised by the researchers another. Overlooking the mummy, they saw that the hands of the deceased were connected, and on his face it was frozen asking for a cry. He was given the name "Unknown Man E", and later several more similar burials were discovered.

The opinions of scientists were divided. Some have talked about the terrible death that has suffered these people, and part of the scientific society now agrees that open mouth is a consequence of natural reasons.

Six-month infant

This discovery is just the age of buried boy-inuita. At the time of death, it happened about 1475, he was only 6 months old.

It was discovered during archaeological research on the island of Greenland, and 7 adults were buried next to him. The eternal Merzlota allowed not only the clothes, but also the skin of the buried.

This find allowed the archaeologists and ethnographers a lot to learn a lot about the lifestyle of the tribes of Greenland than they were fed, than they were hurting, and what caused death.

In the category of "The most terrible finds" according to the site, the cemetery of decapitated Vikings, found in 2010 as a result of archaeological studies in the English county Dorset.

The worst thing was that the body 54 soldiers were beheaded, and the heads lay aside from the phone. To the same, several skulls lacked, and people were killed were a blow of a sword in the front.

Perhaps it was a massive demonstration execution, or the sacrifice of the gods, and the missing skulls were taken in the form of trophies, or put on the flooring to edify to comrades.

Thanks archeology, it was possible to reveal the murder, perfect almost 3 thousand years ago. But perhaps a person discovered in Denmark was strangled as a ritual victim.

Those who lived in the III century BC, after suffocation was thrown into the swamp, so his body and face were well preserved, as the peat is a great preservative. It was possible to even remove the fingerprint.

Local boys found the body in 1950, and at first they thought that this was their friend, drowned earlier in these brake swamps. A terrible find gave a rich material to understand the history of the very beginning of the Iron Age.

This discovery made in 1952, also in Denmark swamps, shocked archaeologists not only preserved on the skull of hair, but also the causes of death.

According to scientists, it was slaughtered, most likely fellow villagers, and thrown into the swamp. In addition, he had a broken leg, but an injury was obtained during life or during the fall it is impossible.

After all, in the third century BC, cruel morals, and an innocent person aged about 30 years old, accused of a cripplence, and perhaps in some other troubles, and killed coldly.

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The nervous path to archaeologists is ordered, since not only ancient shards and historical relics can be extracted from the depth of the earth, but also human remains, buried very terrible way, skeletons of archaic unknown animals and other horrors covered by the smoke of centuries.

Scary human remains

Since the death of these people, centuries and millennia were held. What kind of riddles of the past keep their remains?

Screaming mummy

In 1886, the country of Pyramids and Pharaohs threw the next riddle to historians. The Egyptologist Gaston Massero came across unusual burial: it was very modest that it was not standard for luxurious Egyptian sarcophagus and burials - obviously not royal when he learned the mummy from the sarcophagus in order to be developed, examine and pass the museum, he discovered the body without any jewelry, Wrapped in a sheep skin. But the ancient Egyptians were considered sheep the skin with a symbol of vice. The limbs of the mummy were associated, and on her face, the mouth curved in the cry was frozen.

In the archaeology environment, this terrible find was called "Unknown Man E". Many experts put forward their opinions on the death of the late: poisoning, cruel torture, burial alive.

In the 20th century, the new generation of archaeologists dispelled the pessimistic guesses of the predecessors. After the "Mummy Masper", several more "screaming" copies in various tombs around the world were discovered. In the course of their research, it turned out that if during the mummification the dead did not sue the jaw, as required by the ritual, during the decay of tissues, the jaw was opened and such a "horror mask" was frozen on the face. It also happened that the strap or rope was moved from the jaw or rushed.

Headless Vikings

Another terrible find was made by archaeologists relatively recently, in 2010, on excavations in the British county Dorset. Researchers planned to find ancient shards, plows and other inventory ancestors. They were waiting for a surprise. Under the thick layer of the soil, the ancient fraternal grave of the Vikings was found. All warriors were beheaded, the skulls lay separately from skeletons.

After a more detailed study of the burial, archaeologists found out another terrible detail - the bodies were 54, but the heads are significantly less. Scientists came to the conclusion that there was a public execution or a ritual of mass sacrifice, since all the heads were disconnected from the body by hitting the sword in the neck. Apparently, several heads captured the killers as souvenirs.

The estimated date of burial: 8-9 century of our era, the time when the Anglo-Saxons suffered a robbery scandinavian raids. Therefore, a variant of the demonstrative reprisals with the offenders was not excluded in order to others were no strong.

Cemetery of babies

Literally the story for the horror movie was thrown into the history of archaeologists in 1988. During the excavations of the ancient sewage, the time of the Roman Empire near the Israeli city of Ashkelon workers stumbled upon a whole graveyard of babies - thousands of small bones.

It turned out that in this place there was a special establishment created for the extermination of disagreeable babies. The Roman law allowed the child to kill the child under 2, if his father did not recognize him, since before this age, the baby was considered his father's property. Among the dead babies could also be the extramarital children of local prostitutes.

Born boys were not lucky the most - they were killed immediately. Girls could wait for less cruel fate - they were left alive, so that in the future they could replenish the ranks of representatives of the most ancient profession.

Strange finds

What are unusual finds, in addition to human remains, is the earth? Let's find out.

Unknown animal

In 1986, active recreation lovers were gaining impressions in the Kauranga National Park, New Zealand. Near the foot of Mount Owen, amateur researchers came across a karst cave, which they decided to visit.

In one of the winding cave corridors, the company came across a frightening find - the mountain of bones of a strange view, places covered with thick skin. It was not possible to determine the type of animal travelers, therefore, feeling a superstitious horror, young people decided that this is a certain inhabitant of hell escaped to earth to emit the spirit here.

Panic turned out to be in vain. Travelers stumbled upon the skeleton of the ancient bird of Moa, who lay down in a cave a lot of no one for 3 thousand years and surprisingly well preserved. It is saying that in the deserted regions of New Zealand, this bird can still exist.

Crystal Skull

In the middle of the XIX century, the adventurers of the old and new world were eager to get the subject created by the hands of the Indians of Central America - a skull of pure crystal, made with amazing for primitive technologies with naturalism. No one seen the skulls, but the press stubbornly heated interest.

In 1889, in search of skulls in the jungle, Guatemala went to the British Antiquarian Eugene Boban. And found the whole two!

40 years later in the jungle of Belize (Central America) Fearless researcher Frederick Mitchell Hedgees (by the way, it was he who became a prototype of Indiana Jones) found a chape of quartz weighing 5 kilograms.

In 2007, mysterious skulls were analyzed with the help of UV radiation and particle accelerator. The results were sorrified by lovers of unknown: Nakhodka and Boban, and Hedges were "Novyodel". Crystal was from Switzerland (in the second case from Germany), and traces of the milling machine were discovered on the surface.

Terrible finds of modernity

Barrels with embryos

In 2012 in Sverdlovsk region, not far from the village of Anik, the locals found four sealed in the overgrown ravine plastic barrels. Inside, human embryos were lying: 50 pieces treated with formal drugs with a tag on each.

Arriving policemen fusure the ravine and found about two hundred embryos and 113 tags with the names of the guide and names medical institutions. Before death, all embryos were on the 22-26 weeks of development.

The versions of the fact that the embryos were kept in barrels, there were several: negligently utilized abortion material, material for vaccines or drugs for research. Their origin has not been determined. Police opened a criminal case on the fact of pollution ambientSince formalin from the barrels got into the soil.

Bangkok Nakhodka

In 2010, a case similar to Nevyansky occurred in Thai Bangkok. 348 human embryos sealed in plastic bags discovered in a Buddhist temple. The guilty was found - 33-year-old Lanchakon Chantonanat did underground abortions to girls (in Thailand abortions are prohibited by law) and hid an aborted material in the temple.

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Perhaps the archaeologist is not the most exciting mind profession, but in it definitely have their exciting moments. Of course, not every day, archaeologists find valuable mummies, but periodically can be stumbled upon something really amazing, whether an ancient computers, huge underground army or mysterious remains. We offer you the 25 most striking archaeological finds In the history of mankind.

1. Venetian vampire

Today, every schoolboy knows that in order to kill the vampire, you need to put the Ospen's heart to him, but hundreds of years ago it was not considered the only method. Let me present you an ancient alternative - brick in your mouth. Think yourself. How best to force a vampire not to drink blood? Of course, to score his mouth with cement before the dump. The skull, which you look at this photo, was found by archaeologists on the outskirts of Venice in a mass burial.

2. Dwarf children

At the end of this post, you will probably realize that for a long history, people (at least in the past) were supporters of cannibalism, sacrifices and torture. For example, not so long ago, a few archaeologists spent excavations in the sewer channels under Roman / Byzantine bathing in Israel and stumbled upon something really terrifying ... on the bones of children. And there were a lot of them. For some reason, someone at the top decided to get rid of many childhood remains, simply throwing them into the sewer.

3. Sacrifice of Aztec

Although historians have long known that the Aztecs held many bloody holidays with sacrifice, in 2004, a terrible thing was found near the modern city of Mexico City - a lot of dismembered and mutilated bodies of both people and animals that shed light on terrible rituals that were practiced here several hundred years ago.

4. Terracotta Army

This huge terracotta army was buried along with Qin Shihuandi's body - the first emperor of China. Apparently, the soldiers were to guard their earthly ruler in the afterlife.

5. Screaming Mummy

Sometimes the Egyptians did not take into account the fact that if you do not bind the jaw to the skull, then in the end it will open as if the person shouted before his death. Although such a phenomenon is observed in many mummies, he does not become less terrible. At times, archaeologists find mummies, which as if they really shouted before death on somehow (most likely, not the most pleasant) reasons. In the photo of the mummy, which was called "Unknown Man E". She was found Gaston Masparo in 1886.

6. First leisure

The leprosy (leprecha), also called Hansen's disease, is not infection, but people suffered from her often lived beyond the country because of their external deformity. Since on the Hindu traditions, the corpses are cremat, the skeleton in the photo, which is called the first lepers, was buried outside the city.

7. Ancient chemical weapon

In 1933, the archaeologist Robert Du Mesanil Door Bewson spent excavations under the remnants of the ancient Roman-Persian battlefield, when it came across some siege tunnels, stealing under the city. In the tunnels, he found the body of 19 Roman soldiers who died, desperately trying to escape from something, as well as one Persian soldier clinging to the chest. Most likely, when the Romans heard that the Persians were digging the tunnel under their city, they decided to divert their own to counterattack them. The problem was that Persians were aware of this and installed the trap. As soon as Roman soldiers descended into the tunnel, they met the burning sulfur and bitumen, and this hellish mixture is known to turn into human lungs into the poison.

8. Rosett stone

Detected in 1799 by the French soldier who sobs in the Egyptian sand, the Rosett stone became one of the greatest archaeological finds today and the main source of modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Stone is a fragment more large stonewhere the decree of King Ptolemye V (about 200 years BC), translated into three languages \u200b\u200b- Egyptian hieroglyphs, demotic letter and ancient Greek.

9. Divis balls

They are also called the stone balls of Costa Rica. Scientists believe that these Petrosphere, almost ideal balls that are now at the mouth of the Ducks River, cut out at about the turn of the Millennium. But no one may certainly say for which they were used and for what purpose were created. It can be assumed that these were the symbols of the heavenly luminaries or the designations of the boundaries between the lands of various tribes. Paranuchant authors often argue that these "ideal" spheres could not be made by the hands of ancient people, and associate them with the activities of cosmic aliens.

10. Man from the chalk

Mummified bodies found in swamps are not so rare for archeology, but this is a body called by a person from the challenge, unique. It is not only perfectly preserved with intact hair and nails, scientists were also able to establish the cause of his death on finds collected on the body and around it. Judging by the big wound on the neck from the ear to the ear, it seems to be sacrificed to ask the gods about a good crop.

11. Desert snakes

At the turn of the twentieth century, pilots found a series of low stone walls In the Israeli desert Negev, and since then they are confused by scientists. Walls could be more than 64 km in length, and they were called " aerial snakes"Since they are very similar from the air to reptiles. But recently, scientists have come to the conclusion that the walls used hunters for the corner of large animals into enclosures or throw them from the rocks, where they could easily be killed several times.

12. Ancient Troja

Troy is a city well known for its history and legends (as well as valuable archaeological finds). He was located in the north-west Anatolia in the territory of modern Turkey. In 1865, the English Archaeologist Frank Calvert found a trench in the field he bought from a local farmer in Gissarlyke, and in 1868, a rich German businessman and archaeologist Henry Schliman also began to carry out excavations in this area, after he met Kalvert in Chankkale. As a result, they found the ruins of this ancient city, the existence of which many centuries were considered a legend.

13. Akambaaro figures

This collection of more than 33 thousand miniature clay figurines, which were discovered in 1945 in Earth next to Akambairo, Mexico. Nakhodka includes many small figures, reminiscent of people, and dinosaurs. Although most of the scientific society now agree that these figures were part of the exquisite scam, at first their find was produced by Furore.

Found on the wreckage of the ship at the Greek Island Andikitir at the turn of the twentieth century. This device to which 2000 years is considered the world's first scientific calculator. With the help of dozens of gears, it can accurately determine the location of the sun, the moon and the planets by simply entering data. Although disputes about its accurate use continue, he definitely proves that even 2,000 years ago civilization has already made huge steps to mechanical engineering.

15. Rapa Nui

Known as Easter Island, this place is one of the most isolated places in the world. It is in thousands of kilometers from the Chilean coast. But the most amazing in this place is not even the fact that people generally managed to get to it and observed, but what they managed to build huge stone heads around the island.

16. Tomb of sunken skulls

Conducting excavations on the drying day of the lake in Motale, the Swedish archaeologists came across several skulls with sticks sticking out of them. But this, apparently, it was not enough: in one skull, scientists found pieces of other skulls. Whatever happened to these people 8,000 years ago, it was terribly.

17. Map of Piri-Risa

This card is dated to the early 1500s. It shows the outlines with striking accuracy. South America, Europe and Africa. Apparently, it was general and cartographer Piri Reis (hence the name of the map) from the fragments of tens of other cards.

18. Geoglyphs of Naski.

Hundreds of years, these lines were practically under the legs of archaeologists, but they found them only at the beginning of the 1900s for the simple reason that it was impossible to see if not to look from a bird's eye view. The explanation was much - from the UFO to the technically developed civilization. The most believable explanation is that Nasquas were amazing farmers, although the reason they painted so huge geoglyphs are still unknown.

19. Dead Sea Scrolls

Like the Rosett stone, the Dead Sea scrolls are one of the most important archaeological finds of the last century. They contain the earliest copies of biblical texts (150 years BC).

20. Moa Mount Owen

In 1986, the expedition was increasingly deepened into the caves of Owen Mountains in New Zealand, when suddenly stumbled upon a huge part of the paw, which you are now looking at. She was so well preserved, which seemed like her owner died quite recently. But later it turned out that the paw belonged to Moa - a huge prehistoric bird with a terrible set of sharp claws.

21. Manuscript Warusich

It is called the most mysterious manuscript in the world. The manuscript was created at the beginning of the 15th century in Italy. Most of the pages are occupied by the recipes of herbal infusions, but none of the presented plants coincides with now known, and the language on which the manuscript is written is not possible to decipher.

22. Göbekley-Tepe

At first it seems that these are just stones, but in fact it is an ancient settlement found in 1994. It was created approximately 9,000 years ago, and now it is one of the oldest examples of complex and monumental architecture in the world, which appeared much earlier than the pyramids.

23. Saksayuaman

This room surrounded by the wall of the city of Cusco in Peru is part of the so-called capital of the Inca Empire. The most incredible lies in the details of the construction of this wall. Stone plates lie so tightly to each other, which is impossible to push even hairs between them. This suggests what exactly the architecture of the ancient Incans was.

24. Baghdad Battery.

In the mid-1930s. Next to Baghdad, Iraq, there were several simple views of the jugs. Nobody gave them much importance while the curator of the German Museum did not publish a document in which she stated that these pitchers were used as galvanic cells, or, speaking simple languageBattery. Although this opinion was criticized, even the "destroyers of myths" connected to this case and soon came to the conclusion that such a probability exists.

25. Headless Vikings Dorset

Locking the railway to the English city of Dorset, the workers stumbled upon a small group of Vikings buried in the ground. They were all without heads. At first, archaeologists thought that, perhaps, one of the inhabitants of the village survived in Wiking raids and decided to take revenge, but after careful analysis everything became more foggy and confusing. The beheading looked too clear and neat, which means it was carried out only from behind. But scientists cannot say with confidence that it really happened.

Despite the level of technological progress and all accumulated knowledge about the history of our planet and ingoing civilizations, we still cannot figure out some mysterious discoveries.

Most finds allow scientists to learn about the past something new, but there are also such artifacts that contradict any logic and challenge generally accepted knowledge about the possibilities of ancient peoples. For example, how exactly was Stonehenge? Why were the Naski geoglyphs been drawn? Who wrote the Devil Bible?

However, if we do not understand something, it does not mean that we still cannot try to learn something new due to mysterious finds. As a result, the researchers will definitely find all the answers. In the meantime, let's just find out what kind of puzzles are the modern archaeologists be fighting. Before you a selection of 25 such secrets of the past!

25. Roman dodecahedra

Roman dodecahedra refers to 2 and 3 century of our era and still remain a real mystery for the scientific community. The diameter of these artifacts is usually from 3 to 11 centimeters, they are most often made of bronze and are a polyhedron of 12 regular pentagons with round holes and balls on the top of each angle. According to some versions, dodecahedra was used either to ritual purposes or as a measuring device. These were very valuable subjects, and throughout Europe, archaeologists have already found several hundreds of such mysterious artifacts.

24. Giant Circles


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On the territory of Jordan and Syria, 8 huge circles were found using satellite filming. The diameter of figures ranges from 220 to 455 meters, and no one knows when it appeared here, or for what they were drawn. Archaeologists still carry out excavations at the site of the detection of mysterious formations, but now they express assumptions that these objects relate to the period from the beginning of the Bronze Age before the Roman Empire.

23. Copper scroll

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Among other scrolls found in the Dead Sea area, there is one manuscript that differs from all others. Nakhodka was committed in 1952, and unlike parchment or papyrus artifacts, this scroll is made of metal alloy (mainly from copper). The manuscript contains approximately the following text: "In a large tank, which is in the courtyard of the column hall, in the deepening opposite the door, in the corner, hidden nine hundred talents. In a tank under the wall with eastern - Six hundred silver bars. In the southern corner of the column hall at the grave of Tsadoka and under the column in the hallway hall - a spruce vessel for incense and the same vessel from the cassia tree. " Yes, this is the most real treasure map. Historians and simple treasure hunters are trying in vain to find this treasure for many years. Some experts even began to assume that the text has a metaphorical nature or is rather a certain recommendation than a description of the cache already implemented.

22. Writes of Rongo Rongo


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Ronggo-Rongo writing was found on Easter Island in the 19th century. They represent a collection of wooden tables covered by mysterious hieroglyphs of unknown origin. It was not possible to decipher the meaning of these ancient letters, but some scientists believe that deciphering these texts would help shed light on the mysterious disappearance of ancient civilization, once in the Easter Island.

21. Scottish pyramids of clavs (CLAVA)


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These mysterious structures from the stones for almost 4,000 years, and found them on the southern bank of the Narn River (Nairn) in Scotland. Piles of stones dilute vertically standing megalites (stone blocks), and most of all scientists are puzzling the question, as it is precisely those who managed to collect all these heavy boulders in one place and establish them in the form of an annular monument. In addition, researchers do not quite understand why this old complex was erected at all. Among the majority theories are the most common associated with the funeral rituals, observations of the solstice and even with aliens.

20. Puzzled hill or Goebekley


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Goebekley-Tepe is a huge archaeological complex, discovered in Turkey, whose age consists of about 11,000 years, that is, it is 6,000 years older than even the legendary Stonehenge. A set of pillars decorated with carved silhouettes of animals and other mystical creatures, as well as many other cult facilities, was found in the temple complex. Initially hidden under the 15-meter hill, the complex was accepted for an ancient cemetery, but later archaeologists realized that they were faced with something more ambitious. Most likely, it was the temple, but the research is still continuing.

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 many controversy among experienced archaeologists. The territory on which the complex is located belonged to the family of Pattees (Pattees), but the object remained unnoticed until in 1937 he did not bother William Goodwin (William Goodwin). Since then here and started archaeological excavations. Radio carbon analysis showed that over the creation of this mysterious place worked as 2,000 years before our era. But who just lived in this American Stonehenge, science is still unknown.

18. Stone balls of Costa Rica Las Bolas


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Local residents are called their Las Bolas (balls). These spherical artifacts are scattered throughout the coast of the Divis River delta, on the Niko Peninsula and on Canyo Island in the south of Costa Rica. Giant stone spheres date back to 600 years of our era and consist mainly of Gabbro (Magmatic rock). The purpose of stone balls is still a secret, but scientists suggest that they are either used as travel guidelines or in order to study stars.

17. Treasures and mysterious disappearance of the Sanxindui people (Sanxingdui)

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This archaeological mystery is not so much in the artifacts themselves, as in the creators of findings. In 1929 and then in 1986, a pit with jade was found in the Chinese province of Sichuan (Sichuan). It was first to find her a simple peasant, and a few decades later, there was finally full-fledged excavations. In the treasury hid bronze and stone artifacts, elephant toddles and other amazing finds. Apparently, Culture Sanxinduy lived in these lands on the banks of the Minzhin River (minjing) about 3,000 years ago, but suddenly she literally disappeared from the face of the earth, and scientists still guess why. Among the likely reasons are mentioned wars and hunger. One of the most recent assumptions is associated with a strong earthquake. Perhaps during the next powerful push there was a serious landslide, the riverbed of the river and changed its move, which forced the ancient settlement in a hurry to change the place of residence in search of a new source of water.

16. Geoglyphs of Naski.


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Lines and geometric images in the desert of Naska (Peru) is one of the greatest archaeological mysteries in the world. On the entire Peruvian plateau, the great many of these mysterious designs were scattered, which appeared between 500 of our era and 500 to our era. Unusual sizes, a huge amount, the plot and the structure of these geoglyphs puzzled the most prominent scientists. The main version states that these lines and drawings are associated with any ancient rituals or used 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 suburb of the Iraqi capital. Before you, a clay vessel with a bitumen cork and an iron rod conducted through the plug into the vase itself, inside which is also a copper cylinder. This battery filled with vinegar can produce electrical voltage in 1.1 volts. However, no written confirmation that these vessels were used in this way, was not found. They did not find scientists and no other devices that would work at the expense of these ancient electroplating elements. Skeptics believe that this was the usual vessels for storing manuscripts.

14. Underground Derinkuy City (Derinkuyu)


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In the Turkish province of Nevsehir (Nevsehir), right underground, many years hid the real city. There are many similar dungeons in Turkey, but Derinka is the largest of them. Refuge consists of 8 levels and descends to a depth of 80 meters. The cave kingdom was built in about the 8th century BC, and the first inhabitants were the ancient Frigians, and then early Christians hiding here from the persecution. However, the initial purpose of such a grand subterranean structure still remains unknown.

13. Turin Cloak


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Touris Cloak is a 4-meter linen fabric with a man's fingerprint executed on the cross. The glooring is kept in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin and is recognized as one of the most important Christian relics, because the believers believe that it was in her the body of Jesus Christ that was buried in the tomb of the Jewish elder. Scientific research Until the light was shed at the age of the canvas, as some experts believe that the fabric was produced during the Middle Ages, and other scientists belong to the times of Jesus Christ. The Catholic Church does not recognize the reservoir of genuine, and the Orthodox so far refuses the official position on this.

12. Underwater pyramid of stones


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In the Tiber Lake, with the help of the echolocation method, scientists recently discovered a whole underwater pyramid. A pile of stones stretched about 70 meters in diameter, but the archaeologists are not yet possible to determine its age or purpose. There are a lot of thylapia in this lake, and this brought some experts to the idea that this construction was once used for fishing.

11. Stonehenge.


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Stonehenge is a very famous archaeological complex, which is already for a long time It is considered a real mystery. The largest stone blocks weigh by about 25 tons and tower over the ground for 9 meters. Some of these giant boulders were brought from Western Wales, which means that they were dragged as many as 225 kilometers. As precisely the ancient inhabitants of these places managed to transport such heavy stones - so far. On their carrying, it was probably the coordinated work of at the same time several thousand people. If so it was, then the creation of this complex should marked this unification of England for those years, because the construction required very serious resources and attracting large number Hands.

10. Sound effects in the hypogoe (sanctuary) of Hal-Saflinion (Hal Saflieni)


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The Khal-Saflinion Temple is located in Malta, and this prehistoric complex has been almost 5,000 years. In addition, this is one of the very few underground sanctuations related to the times of the Bronze Age. Nobody knows exactly what this hypohy was built, but the main version is that he served as a shelter for the Prophet, and later the burial ground was organized here. Even more mysterious, this place becomes due to its unusual propertiesbecause of which the sounds here are perceived in an unusual way. In the dungeon there is a special room where all the lowest sounds resonate so loudly, as if you are in the center of the gigantic bell, but outside this room is almost nothing to hear. Was it so conceived by ancient people during the construction of the complex or is it an unforeseen effect?

9. Hatt Shebib (Khatt Shebib)


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Sir Ales Kirkbride found Hatt Shebib in 1948. It is an ancient wall stretching 150 kilometers almost through the whole Jordan. From the discovery itself, the construction of the mystery and captivates the minds of outstanding archaeologists. No one still knows how Hatt Shebib ancient, and for which he was intended. Today, some modest ruins remained from the wall, although it was previously allegedly not too high, which means that the wall was intended to certainly not for defensive purposes. It is possible that the ancient farmers used it, or that it was a certain symbol of borders.

8. Giant Code or Devil Bible

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Codex Gigas (on Latin) is a medieval parchment manuscript recognized by the most surround and severe handwritten book in the whole Western Europe. The alt is so heavy that only 2 people can move it at the same time simultaneously, because the weight of this block is about 75 kilograms. The Gigantic Code includes dilapidated and New TestamentAlso a few other texts are the works of Joseph Flavia, "etymology" of Isidore Seville, "Czech chronicle" Kozma Prague and other books in Latin. The author of the Code is unknown, but allegedly it was one only person - Monk-hermit, who worked on the creation of a manuscript a few decades in a row. The Devil Bible is a meeting called because there is also a complete-page image of Satan.

7. Puma Punch


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Puma Punch is a Bolivian complex consisting of huge megalites carved from a stone with a careful accuracy. The main mystery today is not so much the purpose of some of the local objects, how much is their age. Expert opinions were divided, and very different from each other. So some scientists believe that the complex appeared at about 500-600 to our era, while others believe that artifacts are almost 17,000 years old. Another amazing feature of the Puma Bunction is the incredible accuracy with which stones were treated. The blocks look as if they were cut with a diamond cutter, but such ancient times could hardly exist in such ancient times.

6. Caves Lunju


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Discovered in 1992 near the village of Lunju, amazing caves Luna is a whole system of man-made dungeons, which for a long time stayed in a flooded state. They were found during the cleaning of local ponds, and in the end it turned out that the height of some of the premises reaches 30 meters. None of 24 has messages from the neighboring, but they all have common walls. The dungeons are simply huge, made with incredible skill and suggest significant efforts to create them, but for some reason no historical document mentions their existence. The age of the facilities was determined for a number of indirect signs (for example, in stalactitams) and there are approximately 2,000 years.

5. Super-Henge (Super-Henge)


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Not far from the famous Stonehenge, archaeologists discovered an even larger complex hiding deep underground. He was called superhenchinem, and this monument consists of 90 huge stone blocks resembling Megaliths from Stonehenge. Scientists have discovered this complex due to the terrestrial penetrating radar, and the monument is still not excavated. Experts are hampered with the answer to the question of the purpose of the object, but they are confident that all these stones were buried here with some special intent.

4. Stone labyrinths of the island big hale


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A small Russian island, lost in the White Sea, the value of no more than 2.5 square kilometers is a practically uninhabited block of land, storing a lot of secrets. For example, did you know that the stone labyrinths decorate this place for almost 32 thousand years? All these piles and wicked mounds cover the main part of the island, but the archaeologists have not yet figured out the one who struck the mysterious labyrinths, and with what purpose. Perhaps these were religious altars or other ritual objects.

3. Stone slab Cocchno


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In Scotland, archaeologists started 5000-year-old stone slabdecorated with unusual geometric patterns. The stone is cuous (from the name of the farm in which the artifact was found) has 13 meters in length and 7.9 meters wide, and scientists called "bowls and ring marks" cut out on its surface. Such patterns are found worldwide and in other prehistoric locations. The value of these drawings remains unknown so far, as well as those who created them. In addition, it is not clear exactly how the ancient people managed to leave these marks into places such as remote from each other. The Kochennskaya stove was transported to another place not only for further research, but also to protect it from Vandalov's encroachment.

2. Microscopic finds from copper, which are almost 300,000 years


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In 1991, mysterious artifacts were found on the shores of Narada, Speed \u200b\u200band Bowls in the Ural Mountains area. Microscopic spiral copper and tungsten details are amazing that experts are still arguing about their age. Some scientists suggest that these findings are somehow connected with the tests of missiles on the nearest cosmodroms of Baikonur and Plesetsk. However, other researchers argue that rocks in which these mysterious springs were discovered, too ancient, and analyzing these layers showed that the finds can be about 300,000 years.

1. Tomb with Sanna skulls


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In Sweden, archaeologists have discovered the burial place of human remains, which are already almost 8,000 years. Researchers have found 11 skulls of men, women, children and completely babies. Probably, scientists stumbled upon the tomb equipped here in the time of the Stone Age, when hunters and collectors rushed the head of the departed for one common pole and buried them in the lakes. How exactly and why ancient people came up with such a terrible ritual, no one knows anyone.