The most inexplicable artifacts ever found. The most mysterious ancient artifacts
According to the interpretation of some fundamentalists, the Bible says that God created Adam and Eve several thousand years ago. Science reports that this is just fiction, and that man is a few million years old, and civilizations are tens of thousands of years old. However, could it be that conventional science is as wrong as the biblical stories? Exist a large number of archaeological evidence that the history of life on Earth may be very different from the one that we are told today by geological and anthropological texts.
Consider the following amazing finds:
Corrugated Spheres
Over the past few decades, miners in South Africa dug up mysterious metal balls. These balls of unknown origin are about an inch in diameter, and some of them are engraved with three parallel lines running along the axis of the object. Two types of balls have been found: one consists of a hard bluish metal with white spots, while the other is emptied from the inside and filled with a white spongy substance. Interestingly, the stone in which they were found belongs to the Precambrian period and dates back 2.8 billion years! Who made these spheres and why remains a mystery.
Artifact Koso
While searching for minerals in the mountains of California near Olancha in the winter of 1961, Wallace Lane, Virginia Maxey, and Mike Mikesell found what they thought was a geode—a nice addition to their gem shop. However, after cutting the stone, Mikesell found an object inside that looked like white porcelain. At its center was a shaft of shiny metal. The experts concluded that if it was a geode, it would have taken approximately 500,000 years to form, but the object inside was clearly a piece of human production.
Further examination determined that the porcelain was surrounded by a hexagonal body, and X-rays revealed a tiny spring at one end, similar to a spark plug. As you might have guessed, this artifact is surrounded by some controversy. Some argue that the object was not inside the geode, but was covered in hardened clay.
The find itself was identified by experts as a spark plug from the 1920s. Unfortunately, Koso's artifact has been lost and cannot be thoroughly studied. Is there a natural explanation for this phenomenon? Was it found, as the discoverer claimed, inside the geode? If this is true, how could a 1920s-era spark plug get inside a stone that is 500,000 years old?
Strange metal objects
Sixty-five million years ago there were no humans, let alone anyone who could work with metal. In that case, how does science explain semi-oval metal pipes dug in France from Cretaceous chalk?
In 1885, when a piece of coal was broken, a metal cube was discovered, clearly processed by a craftsman. In 1912, power station workers broke a large piece of coal from which an iron pot fell out. A nail was found in a sandstone block from the Mesozoic era. There are many more such anomalies. How can these findings be explained? There are several options:
Intelligent people existed much earlier than we think
-In our history there is no data about other intelligent beings and civilizations that existed on our Earth
-Our dating methods are completely inaccurate and these rocks, charcoal and fossils are forming much faster than we think today.
In any case, these examples - and there are many more - should prompt all curious and open-minded scientists to reexamine and rethink the history of life on Earth.
Footprint on granite
This fossil trace was found in a seam of coal in Fisher Canyon, Nevada. According to estimates, the age of this coal is 15 million years!
And lest you think that this is a fossil of some animal, the shape of which resembles the sole of a modern boot, examination of the footprint under a microscope revealed clearly visible traces of a double seam line along the perimeter of the form. The footprint is about a size 13 and the right side of the heel appears to be more worn than the left.
How did the imprint of modern shoes 15 million years ago end up on a substance that later became coal? There are several options:
The trail was left recently and coal is not formed for millions of years (which science does not agree), or ...
-Fifteen million years ago there were people (or something like people about whom we have no historical data) walking around in shoes, or ...
-The time travelers traveled back in time and inadvertently left a trail, or...
-This is a well thought out prank.
ancient footprint
Today, such footprints can be seen on any beach or muddy ground. But this footprint - clearly anatomically similar to that of a modern human - is frozen in stone, which is estimated to be about 290 million years old.
The discovery was made in 1987 in New Mexico by paleontologist Jerry McDonald. He also found traces of birds and animals, but found it difficult to explain how this modern trace appeared on the Permian rock, which, according to experts, is 290-248 million years old. According to modern scientific thinking, it was formed long before humans (or even birds and dinosaurs) appeared on this planet.
A 1992 Smithsonian Magazine article on the find noted that paleontologists refer to such anomalies as "problematica". In fact, for scientists they are big problems.
This is the white crow theory: all you have to do to prove that not all ravens are black is just to find one white one.
In the same way, to challenge the history of modern man (or perhaps our way of estimating the age of rock strata), we need to find a fossil like this. However, scientists simply shelve such things, call them “problematica” and move on with their unyielding beliefs because reality is too inconvenient.
Is this the right science?
Ancient springs, screws and metal
They are similar to the items that can be found in the scrap box in any workshop.
Obviously, these artifacts were made by someone. However, this set of springs, loops, spirals and other metal objects was found in layers of sedimentary rocks that are one hundred thousand years old! At that time, foundries were not very common.
Thousands of these things - some as small as a thousandth of an inch! - were discovered by gold miners in Ural mountains Russia in the 1990s. Excavated from 3 to 40 feet deep in layers of earth dating back to the Upper Pleistocene period, these enigmatic items may have been created some 20,000 to 100,000 years ago.
Could they be proof of the existence of a long-lost but advanced civilization?
Metal rod in stone
How to explain the fact that the stone was formed around a mysterious metal rod?
Inside the stone collector Gillyn Wang found in Chinese mountains The solid black stone mazong contained a metal rod of unknown origin for unknown reasons.
The rod is screw-threaded, suggesting that the item was made, but the fact that it was in the ground long enough for solid rock to form around it means that it must be millions of years old.
There were suggestions that the stone is a meteorite that fell to Earth from space, that is, the artifact may be of alien origin.
It is noteworthy that this is not the only case of finding metal screws in hard rocks; there are many other examples:
In the early 2000s, a strange stone was found on the outskirts of Moscow, inside of which were two objects similar to screws.
-X-ray of another stone found in Russia found eight screws in it!
Williams fork
A man named John Williams said he found the artifact while walking through the remote countryside. He was wearing shorts, and as he passed through the bushes, he looked down to see if he had scratched his legs. It was then that he noticed a strange stone.
The stone itself is ordinary - despite the fact that some manufactured thing is built into it. Whatever it is, it has three metal prongs sticking out of it, like it's some kind of fork.
The location where Williams found the artifact was, he said, "at least 25 feet from the nearest road (which was muddy and barely visible), no urban areas, industrial complexes, power plants, nuclear power plants, airports, or military operations (of which I would know).
The stone consists of natural quartz and feldspar granite, and according to geology, such stones are not formed over decades, which would be required if the anomalous object was made by modern man. According to Williams, the stone was about a hundred thousand years old.
Who in those days could make such an object?
Aluminum artifact from Aiud
This five-pound, eight-inch long piece of solid, nearly pure aluminum would have been found in Romania in 1974. Workers digging a trench along the Mures River found several mastodon bones and this mysterious object, which still baffles scientists.
Apparently manufactured and not naturally formed, the artifact was sent for analysis, which found the item to be 89 percent aluminum with traces of copper, zinc, lead, cadmium, nickel, and other elements. In this form, aluminum does not exist in nature. It must have been manufactured, but such aluminum was not produced until the 1800s.
If the artifact is of the same age as the bones of the mastodon, this means that it is at least 11 thousand years old, because it was then that the last representatives of the mastodons died out. Analysis of the oxidized layer that covered the artifact determined that it is 300-400 years old - that is, it was created much earlier than the aluminum processing process was invented.
So who made this item? And what was it used for? There are those who immediately suggested the alien origin of the artifact ... however, the facts are still unknown.
It is strange (or maybe not) that the mysterious item was hidden somewhere and today it is not available for public viewing or further research.
Piri Reis Map
This map, rediscovered in a Turkish museum in 1929, is a mystery not only because of its amazing accuracy, but also because of what it depicts.
Drawn on the skin of a gazelle, the Piri Reis map is the only remaining part of the larger map. It was compiled in the 1500s, according to the inscription on the map itself, from other maps of the three hundredth year. But how is this possible if the map shows:
South America exactly located in relation to Africa
-Western coasts North Africa and Europe and East Coast Brazil
Most striking is the partially visible continent far to the South, where we know Antarctica is, although it wasn't discovered until 1820. Even more mysterious is that it is depicted in detail and without ice, although this land mass has been covered with ice for at least six thousand years.
Today, this artifact is also not available for public viewing.
petrified hammer
Near the city of London, Texas, in 1936, the head and part of the hammer handle were found.
The discovery was made by Mr. and Mrs. Khan near Red Bay when they noticed a piece of wood sticking out of a stone. In 1947, their son smashed the stone, revealing the head of a hammer inside.
For archaeologists, this tool presents a difficult task: the calcareous rock in which the artifact is located is estimated to be 110-115 million years old. The wooden handle is petrified like ancient petrified wood, and the hammer head, made of solid iron, is of a comparatively modern type.
The only possible scientific explanation was provided by John Cole, a researcher from National Center scientific education:
In 1985, the scientist wrote:
“The stone is real, and for someone unfamiliar with the geological process, it looks impressive. How could a modern artifact get stuck in Ordovician stone? The answer is that the stone does not belong to the Ordovician period. Minerals in solution can solidify around an object that has fallen into the solution, fallen into a crevice, or simply left on the ground, if the source rock (in this case, reportedly Ordovician) is chemically soluble.
In other words, the dissolved parts of the rock solidified around the modern hammer, which may be a miner's hammer from the 1800s.
And what do you think? A modern hammer...or an ancient civilization's hammer?
Oldowan tools
The most primitive human tools are called Oldowan (Olduvian) due to the fact that they were first found in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania.
The most ancient tools were found in Ethiopia. During excavations in the Afar Desert (central Ethiopia) in the Hadar area, tools were found 2.5 million years old. At excavations in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia, archaeologists have found tools that are about 2.4 - 2.5 million years old. The sites of ancient people were also found here.
Archaeologists believe that the proof of the non-randomness of the chips on the tools character traits processing: upholstery of stone from one or two edges, the presence of an impact tubercle, as well as the concentration of tools in places where they could not be formed naturally.
By the way, here, in Ethiopia, American archaeologists found a spearhead, the age of which was determined no less than 280,000 years. The tip is made of volcanic glass and is still very sharp.
Spanish petroglyphs
The most ancient rock paintings are petroglyphs found in Spain in the caves of El Castillo and Altamira. Among the most ancient images are handprints, animal figurines and dots. They are made with charcoal, hematite and ocher.
Scientists managed to establish the exact age of one of the palm prints, and it turned out that the drawing is 37,300 years old. The age of the large red dot near this drawing is even older - 40,800 years.
To determine the age of the drawings, scientists used calcite, which covered the images. The fact is that during the deposition of calcite on the drawings, radioactive uranium atoms fell into the mineral, which, during decay, form thorium. The scientists used the ratio of elements as a time clock, and calculated the time of the beginning of the formation of calcite.
True, archaeologists are still arguing who exactly left the drawings - Homo Sapiens or whether they belong to Neanderthals.
German ancient figurine
The oldest image of a man was found in Germany by archaeologist Nicholas Conard. This tiny female figurine, carved from mammoth tusk, was discovered in karst cave Hole Fels in the Swabian Alb, which is only a kilometer from the city of Schelklingen.
Figurine dimensions: 59.7mm X 31.3mm X 34.6mm. Weight - 33.3 grams. The figurine was originally split into six pieces and is still missing an arm and shoulder.
The age of the figurine was determined using radiocarbon analysis, which was subjected to fragments of the remains of animals, next to which it was found. The scatter of the data was quite large. The age of the figurine is estimated at 44,000 years.
Conrad, the author of the find, believes that the woman figurine belongs to the Aurignacian culture and determines its age as 40,000 years.
Gyges stater
The oldest coin in the world is the Lydian stater. The coin was gold and had a mass of 14 grams. Even the historian Herodotus wrote about the Lydians: "They were the first of the people who began to mint coins and engaged in petty trade."
The stater was minted from 685 to 652 under the Lydian king Gyges, the ancestor of the Mermnad dynasty. On the reverse of the coin, a lion was depicted, personifying the capital of Lydia, Sardis, and on the obverse, incomprehensible rectangular symbols.
Later, staters spread throughout the Mediterranean and became widespread in Persia. The image of a running fox appeared on the staters, which has a sacred meaning.
Donetsk sundial
Sundial dating from 13th-12th centuries BC were found in 2011
in the burial ground "Popov Yar II", which is located northwest of Donetsk and belongs to the so-called Srubnaya culture, whose representatives were the ancestors of the Scythians.
The clock is a carved slab measuring 100 by 70 centimeters, weighing 130 kilograms, with lines and circles on both sides. Unlike ordinary sundials, which use a fixed vertical gnomon, the Donetsk clock was supposed to use a movable gnomon, which took into account the angle of inclination of the Earth's axis. At the same time, the clock was made for use exactly at the latitude at which they were found. Most likely, they belonged to a young man who was buried in the mound.
Antikythera mechanism
The Antikythera mechanism was found in 1900 by the Greek diver Lycopantis among the wreckage of a sunken Greek ship in the Aegean Sea. The artifact consists of several bronze gears fixed inside pieces of limestone. Scientists using X-rays, and then a tomograph, managed to find out that this is a unique mechanical calculator, with which the ancient Greeks determined the day of the week, year, time, and also calculated the paths of the Sun, Moon, Mars, Venus, Mercury, Saturn and Jupiter . back side mechanism was used to predict solar and lunar eclipses.
Most likely, the ancient ship came from the island of Rhodes, where the Greek astronomer and mathematician Hipparchus of Nicaea once lived. From the coins found at the shipwreck by Jacques Cousteau, it was determined that the mechanism was created around 85 BC. It is believed that the mechanism was invented by Archimedes himself.
Antediluvian Shigir idol
The oldest wooden artifact was found in 1890 on the territory of the Shigir swamp in the Urals in Russia. At the second Kuryinsky mine, miners dug out fragments of a mysterious artifact from under a four-meter layer of peat, which went down in history under the name of the Big Shigir Idol. In addition to it, more than 3,000 other finds were found - from arrowheads to wooden spoons, and even the burial of a woman.
The larch idol is well preserved thanks to peat. Unfortunately, later the lower part of it was lost. The artifact is covered with geometric patterns that meant natural elements, faces are carved on wide planes. It is crowned with a three-dimensional image of the head.
Now the idol is stored in the Sverdlovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore. In 1997, it began to collapse, and urgent conservation was needed. The scientists decided to carry out a carbon analysis of the wood. The analysis was carried out at the Institute of the History of Material Culture in St. Petersburg. He showed that the artifact was 9,500 years old. That is, in accordance with the ideas of Christians, it can be created even before the Flood.
Despite the efforts of scientists from various branches of knowledge to create a logical picture of the world and our civilization, strange finds periodically come to light, inexplicable artifacts that “blow up the brain” and destroy the “building of science” built with such difficulty. We offer you 10 of the most mysterious artifacts which science, failing to explain, simply ignores.
1. Grooved balls
Over the past decades, South African miners have been finding strange and mysterious metal balls. Their origin is unknown, they reach almost three centimeters in diameter, some of them have three parallel grooves in the middle. Balls of two types were found: the first were made from a single piece of bluish metal with white spots; the second are hollow and inside them is a porous white substance.
But the catch is that the rock in which these balls are found belongs to the Precambrian era, it is 2.8 billion years old! Who created them and for what purpose is unknown.
2. Ica stones
In the 1930s, Dr. Javier Cabrera received an amazing stone as a gift from a local farmer. He was so intrigued by the unusual nature of the stone that he collected more than 1,100 of these andesites, which experts believe are between 500 and 1,500 years old. This collection is collectively known as the Ica Stones. Images are etched on the stones, some of them are of a sexual nature (which is typical for ancient culture).
Among the images you can find idols, and some of the stones reflect such strange practices for antiquity as open-heart surgery and brain transplantation. But the most colorful and amazing are the images of dinosaurs, brontosaurs, three-horned creatures, stegosaurs and pterosaurs. Skeptics claim that the Ica stones are nothing more than a skillful fake, but scientists have never tried to verify their authenticity.
3. Antikythera mechanism
And here is another stunning find: off the coast of Antikythera, a small island located northwest of Crete, pearl divers discovered a sunken ship and raised several marble and bronze statues from the bottom, which were probably on the ship. Among the finds was a piece of oxidized bronze, inside of which a certain mechanism was found, consisting of several wheels and screws.
The inscription on the body indicates that the mechanism was made in 80 BC, many experts are sure that the device is nothing more than an astrolabe, an instrument used by astronomers. X-ray examination of the mechanism showed that it was much more complex than expected, it had a set of intricate gears of various sizes. Chronicles of a later period indicate that such mechanisms have been known to mankind since 1575! It is still unknown who designed such a complex device more than 2000 years ago, and why humanity lost this technology.
4. Baghdad Battery
Today, rechargeable batteries are sold on every corner. But there is only one, which, according to scientists, is 2000 years old. This curiosity, called the Baghdad Battery, was discovered in the ruins of the Parthian period, and is dated between 248 BC. and 226 AD The device consists of three components - a clay vessel 14 cm high, inside which a copper cylinder containing an oxidized iron core was inserted and fixed with resin.
The experts who examined the artifact came to the conclusion that this device could only be filled with an acid or alkaline solution, and it would be possible to obtain an ordinary battery that produces an electric charge. It is believed that this ancient battery could have been used for gilding objects by electrolytic deposition. If this is indeed the case, where could such advanced technology have gone, and why hasn't at least one more similar battery been found in 1800 years?
5. Artifact from Koso
In the winter of 1961, Wallace Lane, Virginia Maxey, and Mike Mikesell, searching for valuable minerals in the mountains of California near Olanchi, found a stone that was no different from other geodes - a good addition to their store selling semi-precious stones. However, upon cutting open the stone, Mikesell discovered an object inside that appeared to be made of white porcelain. And in the center of the object was a metal rod. The scientists who conducted the study of this amazing find concluded that it would take at least 500,000 years for such an inclusion in the rock to form naturally. But this is not the main thing. The main thing is that the object inside the geode is of artificial origin. In other words, it was not nature that worked on its creation, but someone's hands.
Further analysis showed that the porcelain core was inside a hexagonal case. X-ray examination of the object suggested that at one end of the object there is a thin spring, as in a modern spark plug. You can imagine how many conflicting opinions have been expressed about this artifact! The most ardent skeptics have come to the conclusion that the outlandish find is just a Champion brand spark plug from the early 20th century.
But how could she get inside a stone that is half a million years old?
6An Ancient Airplane Model
The find, discovered in the tomb of Sacquar in Egypt, in 1898, is a wooden object about 15 cm long, outwardly resembling a miniature model of an airplane, with a fuselage, wings and tail. Experts are sure that the object was created according to all the canons of aerodynamics and is quite capable of flying like a glider. And a small object found in Central America and dating back about 1000 years is cast in gold and looks exactly like aircraft with delta wings, namely, like the Space Shuttle. It even has something very similar to the cockpit.
7. Giant stone balls of Costa Rica
In the 1930s, workers hacked their way through the impenetrable jungles of Costa Rica looking for a site suitable for a banana plantation. Quite unexpectedly, they stumbled upon an amazing find: in front of them were several dozen stone balls, most of which had an almost perfect round shape. The balls differed in size - there were small ones, no larger than a tennis ball, there were also huge ones, about 250 cm in diameter and weighing almost 16 tons! There is no doubt that these balls are the creation of human hands, who made them, for what purpose and, most importantly, how the master managed to achieve extreme accuracy is unknown.
7 Strange Fossils
Fossils, we were taught in school, can be found in rocks that formed many thousands of years ago. However, there are fossils, the occurrence of which neither geologists nor historians can explain. For example, how to explain the imprint of a human hand found in a limestone rock, which, according to scientists, is at least 110 million years old? An imprint resembling that of a human finger has also been found in the Canadian Arctic, also dated to 100 or 110 million years. And near Delta, Utah, they stumbled upon the imprint of a human foot wearing a sandal. It was found in a layer of shale clay, which, according to scientists, is from 300 to 600 million years old.
8 Unexplained Metal Objects
65 million years ago, people did not yet appear on earth, not to mention people who can work metal. How then, from a scientific point of view, to explain that in France, when drilling a rock dating back to the Cretaceous period, workers discovered a piece of an oval metal pipe? And in 1885, miners, having split a block of coal, found a metal bar, created, no doubt, by the hands of a rational being. An amazing incident occurred in 1912 at one of the power plants: a metal pan was found in a piece of coal, and a real nail was found in a piece of sandstone from the Mesozoic era. And these are not isolated cases, well-known stories!
9. Shoe print on granite
When mining a coal seam in Fisher Canyon (Pershing County, Nevada), a clear shoe print was discovered: a completely modern boot with double stitching on the sole. The imprint is so distinct that every stitch is visible. It can be understood from the print that this boot is size 13, the heel is worn more on the right side.
Looking at amber with a midge frozen in it, we understand that millions of years ago this unfortunate, sitting on some prehistoric Christmas tree, stuck to the resin and remained in it forever. For example, recently an international team of paleontologists led by Frauk Stebner from the University of Bonn discovered a midge frozen in amber in India, which is about 54 million years old.
What about the boot print?
10. Ancient footprint of modern man
Geologists have repeatedly found fossilized footprints ancient man. However, the trace that will be discussed undoubtedly belongs to modern man. One problem: it was imprinted in a stone that is about 290 million years old. The find was discovered in New Mexico by paleontologist Jerry McDonald in 1987.
All these strange finds raise more questions than answers. So we can only assume that:
1. Human civilizations existed much earlier than is commonly thought;
2. There were other intelligent beings on the planet who had their own civilization long before the appearance of man;
3. Our dating methods, methods of determining the age of rocks, are completely wrong, and rocks, coal seams and fossils were formed much earlier than we think;
Throughout the history of mankind, there have been people whose favorite pastime was to forge artifacts. However, the question - how they managed it - remains open.
To date, many artifacts have been found indicating that highly developed civilizations lived on Earth in ancient times. Scientists cannot find an explanation for themselves, because it does not fit into their recognized and fanatically replicated Darwin's theory of the origin of man from apes ... therefore, they simply do not recognize these findings, and hush up their existence, so as not to rewrite the history books.
MECHANICAL COMPUTING ARTIFACT
A shocking discovery was found at the bottom of the sea in 1901! A mechanical computing artifact estimated to be approximately 2,000 years old...
The study of this artifact completely crosses out our ideas about the past of mankind.
A 2,000-year-old mechanical computing artifact was found on a Roman ship that sank in the Aegean Sea in 1901. Scientists managed to restore the original image of the mechanism and suggest that it was used for complex astronomical calculations. The mechanism contained a large number of bronze gears in a wooden case, on which dials with arrows were placed, and was used for mathematical calculations and calculations. Other devices of similar complexity are unknown in Hellenistic culture. The differential gear involved in it was invented in the 16th century, and the miniaturization of some parts is comparable to that which was achieved only in the 18th century by watchmakers. Approximate dimensions of the mechanism assembly 33x18x10 cm.
If you look at this artifact from the standpoint of modern accepted history, then the problem is that at the time when this mechanism was invented, the laws of gravity and motion of celestial bodies had not yet been discovered. In other words, the Antikythera Mechanism has functions that none a common person I would not have understood that time, and no goals of that era (for example, navigation of ships) can explain the functions and settings unprecedented for that time that this device has.
If we take into account that in ancient times people had knowledge, then there is nothing surprising in this. After all, humanity develops cyclically, and not linearly, as we are taught in school. And before our this civilization, on Earth there were already developed civilizations that possessed knowledge, understood and studied the sky.
FIGURINES FROM ECUADOR
Figurines very reminiscent of astronauts found in Ecuador, their age is over 2000 years.
STONE PLATE FROM NEPAL
The Loladoff Plate is a stone dish that is over 12,000 years old. This artifact was found in Nepal. Images and clear lines carved into the surface of this flat stone have led many researchers to the idea of its extraterrestrial origin. After all, ancient people could not process stone so skillfully? In addition, the “plate” depicts a creature that is very reminiscent of an alien in his well-known image.
BOOT TRACK WITH TRILOBITE
"... On our Earth, archaeologists discovered a once living creature called a trilobite. It existed 600-260 million years ago, after which it died out. An American scientist found a trilobite fossil, on which a human footprint is visible, and with a clear boot print. Doesn't Is this a joke among historians? Based on Darwin's evolutionary theory, how could a person exist 260 million years ago?"
IKI STONES
"The museum of the State University of Peru keeps a stone on which a figure of a man is carved. The study showed that it was carved 30 thousand years ago. But this figure in clothes, in a hat and shoes holds a telescope in his hands and observes a celestial body. Like 30 thousand years ago, people knew how to weave? How can it be that people even then walked in clothes? It is completely incomprehensible that he holds a telescope in his hands and observes a celestial body. It means that he still has certain astronomical knowledge. For us, it has long been known that a European Galileo invented the telescope just over 300 years ago, who invented this telescope 30,000 years ago?"
An excerpt from the book Falun Dafa.
Jade discs: a puzzle for archaeologists
In ancient China, around 5000 BC, large jade stone discs were placed in the graves of the local nobility. Their purpose, as well as the method of manufacture, still remains a mystery to scientists, because jade is a very durable stone.
The Disc of Sabu: The Unsolved Mystery of Egyptian Civilization.
The mystical ancient artifact, supposedly part of an unknown mechanism, was found by Egyptologist Walter Bryan in 1936 during an inspection of the tomb of Mastaba Sabu, who lived around 3100 - 3000 BC. The burial is located near the village of Saqqara.
The artifact is a regular round thin-walled stone plate made of meta-aleurite (metasilt in Western terminology), with three thin edges bent towards the center and a small cylindrical sleeve in the middle. In places where the petals of the edge are bent towards the center, the circumference of the disk continues with a thin rim of circular cross section about a centimeter in diameter. The diameter is about 70cm, the shape of the circle is not perfect. This plate raises a number of questions, both about the incomprehensible purpose of such an object, and about the method by which it was made, since it has no analogues.
It is quite possible that Saba's disk had some important role five thousand years ago. However, at the moment, scientists cannot accurately determine its purpose and complex structure. The question remains open.
Vase 600 million years old
A message about an extremely unusual find was published in a scientific journal in 1852. It was about a mysterious vessel about 12 cm high, two halves of which were discovered after an explosion in one of the quarries. This vase, with clear images of flowers, was located inside a rock that is 600 million years old.
Corrugated Spheres
For the past few decades, miners in South Africa have been digging up mysterious metal balls. These balls of unknown origin are about an inch in diameter, and some of them are engraved with three parallel lines running along the axis of the object. Two types of balls have been found: one consists of a hard bluish metal with white spots, while the other is emptied from the inside and filled with a white spongy substance. Interestingly, the stone in which they were found belongs to the Precambrian period and dates back 2.8 billion years! Who made these spheres and why remains a mystery.
Fossil giant. Atlant
The 12-foot fossil giant was found in 1895 while mining in English city Antrim. Photographs of the giant are taken from the British magazine "Strand" for December 1895. He is 12 feet 2 inches (3.7 meters) tall, 6 feet 6 inches (2 meters) chest, and 4 feet 6 inches (1.4 meters) long. It is noteworthy that there are 6 fingers on his right hand.
Six fingers and toes are reminiscent of people mentioned in the Bible (2nd book of Samuel): “There was still a battle in Gath; and there was one tall man who had six fingers on his hands and on his feet, twenty-four in all.
Giant femur.
In the late 1950s, during road construction in southeastern Turkey in the Euphrates Valley, a number of burials were excavated with gigantic remains. In two, femurs about 120 centimeters long were found. Joe Taylor, director of the Crosbyton Fossil Museum (Texas, USA), carried out the reconstruction. The owner of a femur of this size had a height of about 14-16 feet (about 5 meters) and a foot size of 20-22 inches (almost half a meter!). When walking, his fingers were above the ground at a height of 6 feet.
Huge human footprint.
This footprint was found near Glen Rose, Texas, in the Palaxie River. The print is 35.5 cm long and almost 18 cm wide. Paleontologists say the print is female. The study showed that the person who left such an imprint was about three meters.
Giants from Nevada.
There is a Native American legend about 12-foot (3.6 m) red-haired giants who lived in the Nevada area. It talks about American Indians killing giants in a cave. During the excavation of guano, a huge jaw was found. The photo compares two jaws: found and normal human.
In 1931, two skeletons were found at the bottom of the lake. One was 8 feet (2.4 m.) high, and the other was just under 10 feet (ca. 3 m.).
Ica stones. Dino Rider.
Figurine from the collection of Voldemar Julsrud. Dino Rider.
1944 Acambaro - 300 km north of Mexico City.
Aluminum wedge from Ayud.
In 1974, an aluminum wedge covered with a thick layer of oxide was found on the banks of the Maros River, which is located near the city of Aiud in Transylvania. It is noteworthy that it was found among the remains of a mastodon, which is 20 thousand years old. Usually aluminum is found with impurities of other metals, but the wedge was made of pure aluminum.
It is impossible to find an explanation for this find, since aluminum was discovered only in 1808, and began to be produced in industrial quantities only in 1885. The wedge is still under research in some secret place.
Piri Reis Map
This map, rediscovered in a Turkish museum in 1929, is a mystery not only because of its amazing accuracy, but also because of what it depicts.
Drawn on the skin of a gazelle, the Piri Reis map is the only surviving part of a larger map. It was compiled in the 1500s, according to the inscription on the map itself, from other maps of the three hundredth year. But how is this possible if the map shows:
-South America, exactly located relative to Africa
-West coasts of North Africa and Europe, and east coast of Brazil
Most striking is the partially visible continent far to the South, where we know Antarctica is, although it wasn't discovered until 1820. Even more mysterious is that it is depicted in detail and without ice, although this land mass has been covered with ice for at least six thousand years.
Today, this artifact is also not available for public viewing.
Ancient springs, screws and metal.
They are similar to the items that can be found in the scrap box in any workshop.
Obviously, these artifacts were made by someone. However, this set of springs, loops, spirals and other metal objects was found in layers of sedimentary rocks that are one hundred thousand years old! At that time, foundries were not very common.
Thousands of these things - some as small as a thousandth of an inch! - were discovered by gold miners in the Ural Mountains of Russia in the 1990s. Excavated from 3 to 40 feet deep in layers of earth dating back to the Upper Pleistocene period, these enigmatic items may have been created some 20,000 to 100,000 years ago.
Could they be proof of the existence of a long-lost but advanced civilization?
Footprint on granite.
This fossil trace was found in a seam of coal in Fisher Canyon, Nevada. According to estimates, the age of this coal is 15 million years!
And lest you think that this is a fossil of some animal, the shape of which resembles the sole of a modern boot, examination of the footprint under a microscope revealed clearly visible traces of a double seam line along the perimeter of the form. The footprint is about a size 13 and the right side of the heel appears to be more worn than the left.
How did the imprint of modern shoes 15 million years ago end up on a substance that later became coal?
Elias Sotomayor's Mysterious Finds: Ancient Globe.
Large treasure ancient artifacts managed to discover the expedition led by Elias Sotomayor in 1984. In the Ecuadorian mountain range of La Mana, in a tunnel at a depth of more than ninety meters, 300 stone products were found.
In the tunnel of La Mana, one of the oldest globes on Earth, also made of stone, was discovered. On a far from ideal ball, for the manufacture of which, perhaps, the master simply spared no effort, but a rounded boulder, images of continents familiar from school times are applied.
But if many outlines of the continents differ little from modern ones, then from the coast South-East Asia towards America, the planet looks very different. Huge masses of land are depicted where now only the boundless sea splashes.
caribbean and the Florida peninsula are absent altogether. Just below the equator in the Pacific Ocean is a giant island, roughly equal in size to modern Madagascar. Modern Japan is part of a gigantic continent that extends to the shores of America and extends far to the south. It remains to be added that the find at La Mana appears to be the oldest map of the world.
Ancient jade service for 12 persons.
No less interesting are other findings of Sotomayor. In particular, a "service" of thirteen bowls was discovered. Twelve of them have a perfectly equal volume, and the thirteenth is much larger. If you fill 12 small bowls with liquid to the brim, and then drain them into a large one, then it will be filled exactly to the brim.
Some claim that alien life forms have visited the Earth throughout its history.
However, such claims are difficult to prove. Most cases of sightings of unidentified flying objects and kidnappings can be easily refuted,
like "ducks" or simple misunderstandings of what is happening.
But what about those times when the little green men actually left something behind?
Or what about those artifacts that people of ancient times built in honor of what can only be called guests from other planets?
There are a huge number of strange objects in the world, both mysterious and made by human hand,
which are supposedly evidence of visits by alien life forms to our Earth.
10. Russian UFO Tooth Wheel
A man from Russia found a strange part of the mechanism in Vladivostok, the administrative capital of the Primorsky Territory. The object looked like a piece of gear and was in a piece of coal that the man used to start the fire. Although discarded parts of old cars are not uncommon in Russia, the man became interested and showed his find to scientists. Testing revealed that the jagged object was composed almost exclusively of aluminum and was almost certainly of man-made origin.
In addition, its age was 300 million years. In connection with this discovery, a number of interesting questions arose, since aluminum of such purity and form does not occur in nature, and people did not know how to obtain it until 1825. It is also curious that the object also resembles parts used in microscopes and other delicate technical devices.
Despite the fact that conspiracy theorists did not fail to immediately declare that a part of an alien spaceship was found, scientists studying the object are in no hurry to draw conclusions and want to conduct a series of tests to find out more information about the mysterious artifact.
9. Stone head from Guatemala (Guatemala Stone Head)
In the 1930s, in the middle of the jungles of Guatemala, researchers found a huge, expressively made sandstone statue. The features of the face carved into the stone did not resemble those of the Mayans or any other people known to have inhabited these lands. Moreover, the elongated skull and delicate facial features, it would seem, did not appear at all in the history books.
Scientists have said that the statue's unique facial features depict a member of an ancient alien civilization, which was far more advanced than any of the pre-Hispanic races of the Americas that we know of. Some have even suggested that the head may be just part of a much larger structure located at the bottom of the head (it has been found that this is not the case). Of course, there is a chance that the statue could be the work of an artist of a later date, or even a complete hoax. Unfortunately, we will probably never know for sure: the head was used as a training target for revolutionary troops and its features were destroyed almost without a trace.
8. Enigmalit Williams (Williams Enigmalith)
In 1998, a traveler named John J. Williams noticed a strange metal protrusion in the mud. He dug up a strange stone, which, after cleaning, was found to have a strange electrical component attached to it. The electrical device was clearly man-made and looked a bit like an electrical plug.
Since then, this stone has become a well-known mystery in UFO enthusiast circles. He has been featured in UFO Magazine and (according to Williams) in Fortean Times, the famous magazine devoted to mysterious phenomena. Williams, an electrical engineer, says the electronic component embedded in the stone was not glued or cut into the granite. In fact, the stone most likely formed around the device.
Many consider Williams' Enigmalite to be a "duck", as Williams refuses to split the stone but agrees to sell it for $500,000. In addition, the stone device is similar to heating stones that are commonly used to keep tame lizards warm. However, geological analysis has apparently determined that the stone is about 100,000 years old, and if this is true, then the device inside it cannot be the work of man. Williams is so confident in his find that he agrees to allow Enigmalite to be examined under three conditions: he must be present at the examination, the stone must remain unharmed, and he will not pay for the study.
7 Ancient Planes
The Incas and other pre-Columbian people left behind extremely mysterious trinkets. One of the strangest probably are the so-called Ancient Planes, these are small, golden figurines that resemble modern jet aircraft. Initially they were thought to be zoomorphic (meaning they were made in the shape of animals), however it was soon discovered that the figurines had strange features that looked very much like fighter jet wings, tail stabilisers, and even landing gear legs. The figurines were quite aerodynamic, and when people who believe in ancient astronauts (supposedly) made model aircraft according to the proportions of the figurines, and equipped them with propellers and (again, presumably) jet engines, they flew great. All of this has led to the suggestion that the Incas most likely had contact with people (most likely of extraterrestrial origin) who were able to build modern jet aircraft, and who may even have the technology themselves.
Well, there is also the possibility that these wonderful figurines could simply be artistic representations of bees, flying fish, or other winged creatures. As always, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
6 Ubaid Lizard Men
The Al Ubaid archaeological site is a cornucopia for archaeologists and historians. It was there that countless objects from the pre-Sumerian period, known as the Ubeid period (5900 - 4000 BC), were found. However, some of these items are quite intimidating. A number of statues from the Ubeid period depict strange, lizard-like humanoids in unique, mundane poses, which seems to indicate that these beings were not gods (such as the animal-headed Egyptian gods), but rather were a race of lizard people.
Of course, these statues have spawned countless stories and theories about lizard aliens that once inhabited the earth (and, according to conspiracy theorists, still inhabit it). Although it seems unlikely, their true nature remains a mystery.
5. The remains of meteorites on the island of Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka Meteorite Fossils)
After analyzing the remains of a meteorite that fell in Sri Lanka, the researchers found that the object they found was something more than a simple piece of space rock. It was an alien artifact in the most literal sense: an artifact made up of real aliens. Two separate studies showed that the meteorite contained fossils and algae that were clearly of extraterrestrial origin.
Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, leader of the first study, says the remains provided strong evidence for panspermia (the hypothesis that life exists in the universe and spreads through meteorites and other solid rocks). However, his statements, as one would expect, were criticized. Wikramasingha is an avid panspermia enthusiast, with a tendency to claim that nearly everything he finds is of unearthly origin. What's more, the traces of life on the meteorite actually contain freshwater animal species commonly found on Earth, indicating that the remains were contaminated by organisms during the time they spent on our planet.
4. Tapestry "Summer's Triumph" (Summer's Triumph Tapestry)
The tapestry known as "Summer Triumph" was created in Bruges (the capital of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium) around 1538. On the this moment tapestry is located in Bavarian national museum(Bayerisches National Museum).
"Summer Triumph" is famous (or infamous) among conspiracy theorists because it depicts a number of distinctive objects flying through the sky that appear to be unidentified flying objects. Although their presence is confusing, some people believe that they may have been added to the tapestry (which depicts the ascension of a victorious ruler to power) to associate the UFO with the ruler as a symbol of divine intervention. This, of course, raises more questions than it answers, for example: Why did 16th-century Belgians recognize flying saucers and mentally associate them with a deity?
3. Glorification Of The Eucharist
An Italian artist named Ventura Salimbeni painted one of the most enigmatic altar paintings in history. The Disputa of the Eucharist, a 16th-century painting also known as The Celebration of the Mystery of the Eucharist (the Eucharist is a synonym for Holy Communion), consists of three parts. The lower two parts are relatively ordinary: they depict a number of representatives of the clergy and an altar. However, the top shows the Holy Trinity (Father, Son and a dove depicting the Holy Spirit looking down on them)… and in their hands they hold what looks very much like a space satellite. The object is large and has a spherical shape with a metallic coating, telescopic antennas and strange lights. In fact, it is very similar to the old Sputnik 1.
While UFO enthusiasts and ancient astronaut theorists have often cited "Celebration of the Mystery of the Eucharist" as an argument in support of their theories of extraterrestrial life (or possibly travel), experts have quickly dismissed such claims. According to them, the sphere is the "Sphere of the World" (Sphaera Mundi), a spherical representation of the universe, which was often used in religious art. The strange lights on the "satellite" are just the sun and moon, and its antennas are actually scepters that symbolize the power of the Father and the Son.
2. Mexican Government's Maya Artifacts
The story is this: In 2012, the Mexican government released a number of Mayan artifacts that they had kept secret for 80 years as state secrets. These items were taken from an unexplored pyramid that was found under another pyramid at Calakmul, the site of one of the most powerful ancient Mayan cities. AT documentary, sanctioned by the Mexican government and filmed by Raul Julia-Levy (son of famous actor Raul Julia) and financier Thieriot (ex-wife of the former publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle), a number of these findings were published, most of which clearly depict UFOs and aliens.
This case may seem rather intriguing, but as soon as you look closer, a strange pattern of fraud begins to emerge. It seems that both documentarians are lying about something. Julia-Levi doesn't appear to be who he claims to be, and Raul's widow Julia publicly called the man a fraud named Salvador Alba Fuentes. According to her, Salvador is trying to use the fame of her late husband and tells everyone that his real name is Raul Julia-Levi. Meanwhile, Thierrier shut down the production of the documentary and sued her partner, accusing Julia-Levy of stealing her documentary and misusing filming equipment (which Julia-Levy vehemently opposes). Moreover, there seems to be very little scientific evidence the authenticity of the exhibits, and the photographs that have appeared on the Internet are less than conclusive evidence.
Perhaps the artifacts were cheap fakes made by a local artisan. Perhaps the officials changed their minds about the documentary and ordered Thierry to stop making it at all costs. Whatever the truth behind these strange artifacts, their authenticity is far from convincing.
1. Betz Mystery Sphere
When the Betz family was examining the aftermath of a strange fire that destroyed 35.6 hectares of their forest, they found a strange object: a silvery sphere, about 20 centimeters in diameter, perfectly smooth except for a strange, elongated triangle symbol. Thinking it might be a NASA instrument or even a Soviet spy satellite, they eventually decided it was most likely just a souvenir. Without thinking twice, they decided to take him with them.
Two weeks later, their son was strumming a guitar in the same room as the sphere. Suddenly, the sphere began to respond to his melodies, making strange pulsing sounds and resonances that greatly alarmed the family's dog. The family soon discovered that the sphere had other strange qualities as well. She could stop and change direction when she was allowed to roll on the floor, eventually returning to the person who pushed her like a faithful dog. It seemed to be powered by solar energy, becoming noticeably more active on sunny days.
It began to give the impression that something (or someone) was controlling the sphere: from time to time it emitted low-frequency vibrations and noises, as if a motor was running inside it. She avoided falling or being hit at all costs, as if to protect what was inside her. She was even able to completely overcome gravity by climbing up a tilted table to keep from falling.
Naturally, these reports were followed by a madness in the means mass media. Respected and serious newspapers such as the New York Times and the London Daily sent reporters to see the miracle sphere in person as it repeated its tricks in front of countless people. Even scientists and the military were impressed, although the Betz family did not allow them to take the sphere for more detailed study. However, this soon changed when the orb began misbehaving. She began to exhibit behavior similar to a poltergeist: at night the doors of the house slammed tightly and strange organ music filled the house for no reason. At that moment, the family decided to find out what the orb really was. The Navy analyzed it and found that it was... a perfectly normal (albeit high quality) stainless steel ball.
To this day, this alien sphere and its purpose remain a mystery. However, there were many theories by which people tried to explain its nature. By the way, the most likely of them is the most common explanation: three years before the Betz family discovered the sphere, an artist named James Durling-Jones drove through the area where it was found. There were several stainless steel balls in the roof rack of his car for a sculpture he was making. Some of these balls fell out while the car was driving over potholes. These balls matched accurate description Betz spheres, and were balanced enough to roll at the slightest provocation (the Betz family lived in an old house with uneven floors, so it could seem that such a ball behaves chaotically). These balls could even make a rattling sound thanks to tiny bits of metal shavings stuck inside during the manufacturing process.
While it doesn't explain all of the phenomena people have reported, it certainly casts a shadow over all the "mysterious ghostly sphere from space" rhetoric.
