Modern artifacts found in ancient times. Ancient artifacts of Siberia. Sword and giant balls

Since the time of Darwin, science has more or less managed to fit into a logical framework and explain most of the evolutionary processes that took place. Archaeologists, biologists, and many other ...ologists agree and are confident that already 400 - 250 thousand years ago the rudiments of the current society flourished on our planet. But archeology, you know, is such an unpredictable science, no, no, and it keeps throwing up new finds that do not fit into the generally accepted model carefully put together by scientists. We present to you the 15 most mysterious artifacts that made the scientific world think about the correctness of existing theories.

1. Spheres from Klerksdorp.

According to rough estimates, these mysterious artifacts are about 3 billion years old. They are disc-shaped and spherical objects. Corrugated balls are found in two types: some are made of bluish metal, monolithic, interspersed with white matter, others, on the contrary, are hollow, and the cavity is filled with white spongy material. The exact number of spheres is unknown to anyone, since miners with help still continue to extract them from the rock near the city of Klerksdorp, located in South Africa.

2 . Stones Drop.

In the Bayan-Kara-Ula mountains, which are located in China, a unique find was made, the age of which is 10 - 12 thousand years. Drop stones, numbering in the hundreds, resemble gramophone records. These are stone discs with a hole in the middle and a spiral engraving applied to the surface. Some scientists are inclined to believe that the disks serve as carriers of information about extraterrestrial civilization.

In 1901, the Aegean Sea revealed to scientists the secret of a sunken Roman ship. Among other surviving antiquities, a mysterious mechanical artifact was found that was made about 2000 years ago. Scientists managed to recreate a complex and innovative invention for that time. The Antikythera mechanism was used by the Romans for astronomical calculations. Interestingly, the differential gear used in it was invented only in the 16th century, and the skill of the miniature parts from which the amazing device was assembled is not inferior to the skill of watchmakers of the 18th century.

4. Ica stones.

Discovered in the Peruvian province of Ica by surgeon Javier Cabrera. Ica stones are processed volcanic rock covered with engravings. But the whole mystery is that among the images there are dinosaurs (brontosaurs, pterosaurs and triceraptors). Perhaps, despite all the arguments of learned anthropologists, they were already flourishing and engaged in creativity at the time when these giants roamed the earth?

In 1936, a strange-looking vessel sealed with a concrete stopper was discovered in Baghdad. Inside the mysterious artifact was a metal rod. Subsequent experiments showed that the vessel performed the function of an ancient battery, since by filling a structure similar to the Baghdad battery with the electrolyte available at that time, it was possible to obtain electricity of 1 V. Now you can argue who owns the title of the founder of the doctrine of electricity, because the Baghdad battery is 2000 years older than Alessandro Volta.

6. The oldest “spark plug”.

In the Coso Mountains in California, an expedition that was looking for new minerals found a strange artifact, its appearance and properties strongly resemble a “spark plug.” Despite its dilapidation, one can confidently distinguish a ceramic cylinder, inside of which there is a magnetized two-millimeter metal rod. And the cylinder itself is enclosed in a copper hexagon. The age of the mysterious find will surprise even the most inveterate skeptic - it is more than 500,000 years old!

The three hundred stone balls scattered along the coast of Costa Rica vary in age (from 200 BC to 1500 AD) and in size. However, scientists are still not clear exactly how ancient people made them and for what purposes.

8. Planes, tanks and submarines of Ancient Egypt.

There is no doubt that the Egyptians built it, but could the same Egyptians have thought of constructing an airplane? Scientists have been asking this question since a mysterious artifact was discovered in one of the Egyptian caves in 1898. The shape of the device is similar to an airplane, and if it was given an initial speed, it could easily fly. The fact that in the era of the New Kingdom the Egyptians were aware of such technical inventions as an airship, a helicopter and a submarine is told on the ceiling of a temple located near Cairo.

9. Human palm print, 110 million years old.

And this is not at all an age for humanity, if you take and add here such a mysterious artifact as a fossilized finger from the Arctic part of Canada, belonging to a person and having the same age. And a footprint found in Utah, and not just a foot, but one shod in a sandal, is 300 - 600 million years old! You wonder, so when did humanity begin?

10. Metal pipes from Saint-Jean-de-Livet.

The age of the rock from which the metal pipes were extracted is 65 million years, therefore, the artifact was made at the same time. Wow, Iron Age. Another strange find was obtained from Scottish rock dating back to the Lower Devonian period, that is, 360 - 408 million years ago. This mysterious artifact was a metal nail.

Already within our memory, in the second half of the twentieth century, a discovery was made, which scientists still cannot explain. Near the American town with the loud name London, in the state of Texas, during the splitting of sandstone of the Ordovician period (Paleozoic, 500 million years ago), an iron hammer with the remains of a wooden handle was discovered. If we discard man, who did not exist at that time, it turns out that trilobites and dinosaurs smelted iron and used it for economic purposes. If we put aside the stupid mollusks, then we need to somehow explain finds, for example, such as this one: in 1968, the Frenchmen Druet and Salfati discovered in the quarries of Saint-Jean-de-Livet, in France, oval-shaped metal pipes, the age of which, if dated from the Cretaceous strata, it is 65 million years old - the era of the last reptiles.

Or this: in the middle of the 19th century, blasting work was carried out in Massachusetts, and among the fragments of stone blocks a metal vessel was discovered, which was torn in half by a blast wave. It was a vase about 10 centimeters high, made of metal resembling zinc in color. The walls of the vessel were decorated with images of six flowers in the form of a bouquet. The rock in which this strange vase was kept belonged to the beginning of the Paleozoic (Cambrian), when life was barely emerging on earth - 600 million years ago.

It cannot be said that the scientists completely took water into their mouths: I had to read that a nail and a hammer could fall into the gap and be filled with soil waters, with the formation of dense rock around them over time. Even if the vase fell through with the hammer, there was no way the pipes in French quarries could have reached the depths by accident.

11. Iron mug in coal

It is not known what a scientist would say if in a lump of coal, instead of the imprint of an ancient plant, he found... an iron mug. Would a coal seam be dated by a man from the Iron Age, or still to the Carboniferous period, when there weren't even dinosaurs? And such an object was found, and until recently that mug was kept in one of the private museums of America, in Southern Missouri, although with the death of the owner, the trace of the scandalous object was lost, to the great, it should be noted, relief of learned men. However, there was a photograph left.

The mug contained the following document, signed by Frank Kenwood: “In 1912, while I was working at the municipal power plant in Thomas, Oklahoma, I came across a massive lump of coal. It was too big and I had to break it with a hammer. This iron mug fell out of the block, leaving behind a hole in the coal. An employee of the company named Jim Stoll witnessed how I broke the block and how the mug fell out of it. I was able to find out the origin of the coal - it was mined in the Wilburton mines in Oklahoma." According to scientists, the coal mined in Oklahoma mines dates back 312 million years, unless, of course, dated by circle. Or did man live together with trilobites - these shrimps of the past?

12. Leg on a trilobite

Fossilized trilobite. 300 million years ago.

Although there is a find that speaks exactly about this - a trilobite crushed by a shoe! The fossil was discovered by a passionate shellfish lover, William Meister, who was exploring the area around Antelope Spring, Utah, in 1968. He split a piece of shale and saw the following picture (in the photo - a split stone).

The imprint of the shoe of the right foot is visible, under which were two small trilobites. Scientists explain this as a play of nature, and are ready to believe in a find only if there is a whole chain of similar traces. Meister is not a specialist, but a draftsman who searches for antiquities in his free time, but his reasoning is sound: the imprint of the shoe was found not on the surface of hardened clay, but after splitting a piece: the chip fell along the imprint, along the boundary of the compaction caused by the pressure of the shoe. However, they don’t want to talk to him: after all, man, according to evolutionary theory, did not live in the Cambrian period. There weren't even dinosaurs back then. Or...geochronology is false.

13.The sole of the shoe is on an ancient stone

In 1922, American geologist John Reid conducted a search in Nevada. Unexpectedly, he discovered a clear imprint of a shoe sole on the stone. A photograph of this wonderful find has still been preserved.

Also in 1922, an article written by Dr. W. Ballou appeared in the New York Sunday American. He wrote: “Some time ago, the famous geologist John T. Reid, while searching for fossils, suddenly froze in confusion and surprise at the rock under his feet. There was what looked like a human print, but not a bare foot, but the sole of a shoe that had turned to stone. The forefoot has disappeared, but retains the contour of at least two-thirds of the sole. There was a clearly visible thread around the outline, which, as it turned out, attached a welt to the sole. This is how a fossil was found, which is today the biggest mystery for science, since it was found in a rock that is at least 5 million years old.”
The geologist took the cut piece of rock to New York, where it was examined by several professors from the American Museum of Natural History and a geologist from Columbia University. Their conclusion was clear: the rock is 200 million years old - Mesozoic, Triassic period. However, the imprint itself was recognized by both these and all other scientific heads... as a play of nature. Otherwise, we would have to admit that people wearing shoes sewn with thread lived alongside dinosaurs.

In 1993, Philip Reef became the owner of another amazing find. While digging a tunnel in the mountains of California, two mysterious Cylinders were discovered; they resemble the so-called “cylinders of the Egyptian pharaohs.”

But their properties are completely different from them. They consist half of platinum, half of an unknown metal. If they are heated, for example, to 50°C, then they maintain this temperature for several hours, regardless of the ambient temperature. Then they cool almost instantly to air temperature. If an electric current is passed through them, they change color from silver to black, and then return to their original color. Undoubtedly, the cylinders contain other secrets that have yet to be discovered. According to radiocarbon dating, the age of these artifacts is approximately 25 million years.

According to the most commonly accepted story, was found in 1927 by the English explorer Frederick A. Mitchell-Hedges among the Mayan ruins in Lubaantun (modern Belize).

Others claim that the scientist bought this item at Sotheby's in London in 1943. Whatever the reality, this rock crystal skull is so perfectly carved that it appears to be a priceless work of art.
So, if we consider the first hypothesis to be correct (according to which the skull is a Mayan creation), then a whole rain of questions falls upon us.
Scientists believe that the Skull of Doom is in some ways technically impossible. Weighing almost 5 kg, and being a perfect copy of a woman's skull, it has a completeness that would have been impossible to achieve without the use of more or less modern methods, methods that the Mayan culture owned and which we do not know about.
The skull is perfectly polished. Its jaw is a separate hinged part from the rest of the skull. It has long attracted (and will likely continue to do so to a somewhat lesser extent) experts from a variety of disciplines.
It is also worth mentioning the relentless attribution of supernatural abilities to him by a group of esotericists, such as telekinesis, the emission of an unusual aroma, and color changes. The existence of all these properties is difficult to prove.
The skull was subjected to various analyses. One of the inexplicable things is that made of quartz glass, and therefore having a hardness of 7 on the Mohs scale (a scale of mineral hardness from 0 to 10), the skull was able to be carved without hard cutting materials such as ruby and diamond.
Studies of the skull carried out by the American company Hewlett-Packard in the 1970s determined that in order to achieve such perfection, it would have to be sanded for 300 years.
Could the Mayans have deliberately designed this type of work to be completed 3 centuries later? The only thing we can say with certainty is that the Skull of Fate is not the only one of its kind.
Several such objects have been found in various places on the planet, and they are created from other materials, similar to quartz. These include a complete jadeite skeleton discovered in the China/Mongolian region, made on a smaller scale than human scale, estimated to be approx. in 3500-2200 BC.
There are doubts about the authenticity of many of these artifacts, but one thing is certain: crystal skulls continue to delight intrepid scientists.

17. Lycurgus Cup

A Roman cup made about 1,600 years ago may be an example of nanotechnology, experts say. The mysterious Lycurgus Cup, made of dichroic glass, is able to change color from green to red, depending on the light.

The bowl, which is on display at the British Museum in London, was created using what is now called nanotechnology - the controlled manipulation of materials at the atomic and molecular level. These technologies, according to scientists, can be used in various fields - from diagnosing diseases to detecting bombs at airports.

Scientists managed to unravel the mystery of the changing color of the bowl only in 1990, after many years of fruitless attempts. After studying the shards of glass under a microscope, scientists discovered that the Romans had infused it with particles of silver and gold, which they crushed into extremely tiny particles - about 50 nanometers in diameter - a thousand times smaller than a crystal of salt.

The precise ratio of metals and such careful grinding led experts to conclude that the Romans were pioneers of nanotechnology because they actually knew what they were doing.

Archaeologist Ian Freestone of University College London, who examined the cup and its unusual optical properties, calls the creation of the cup an "amazing feat." The cup changes color depending on which side the observer is looking at it from.

The bowl was apparently used for drinking on exceptional occasions, and experts believe its color changed depending on the drink it was filled with.

Liu Gang Logan, an engineer and nanotechnology expert at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, said: "The Romans knew how to make and use nanoparticles to create works of art."

Of course, scientists could not examine a one-of-a-kind goblet and fill it with various liquids. Therefore, they were forced to recreate the Lycurgus Cup, applying microscopic particles of gold and silver to the glass. After this, the researchers experimented with different liquids to find out how its color would change. Scientists have found that a new cup filled with water glows blue, and when filled with oil it glows bright red.

How were these items created? By whom? And most importantly - why?

Eldar Khaliulin

As you know, a fact is a stubborn thing. And even more stubborn is an artifact (in the sense in which this word is used in computer games, that is, an artificially created object that exists despite scientific misconceptions about the world order). In general, any object made by man can be considered an artifact. Even an ordinary pushpin. Archaeologists around the world annually dig up hundreds of artifacts from the ground. And yet, for us, non-specialists, it is somehow more common to mean by this word mystical objects, sacred relics or objects of mysterious origin. By the way, many artifacts that are familiar to you from adventure films have caused nervous disorders among hundreds of scientists on the planet. After all, these things exist and are not really explained in any way! We tried to unravel their secrets. In this we were helped by the candidate of historical sciences Alexey Vyazemsky, who looked at our collection with a skeptical gaze, after which he bore to his heart’s content (his special opinion is encrypted in this article under the code words “Voice of a Skeptic”).

In scientific circles, this subject is better known as "Mitchell-Hedges". It was his story that formed the basis of Spielberg’s latest blockbuster about the anti-Soviet adventures of Indiana Jones. And it was like this: in 1924, in Central America, an expedition led by Frederick Albert Mitchell-Hedges excavated the ancient Mayan city of Lubaantuna in search of traces of the Atlantean civilization. Frederic's adopted daughter Anna Marie Le Guillon discovered an object under the rubble of the altar. When it was brought to light, it turned out that it was a skull skillfully made of rock crystal. Its dimensions are quite comparable to the natural dimensions of the skull of an adult woman - approximately 13 x 18 x 13 cm, but it is unlikely that this crystal contraption was lost by some absent-minded Cinderella. The find weighs a little more than 5 kg. The skull was missing a lower jaw, but it was soon found nearby and inserted into its proper place - the design included some kind of hinges.

What is the mystery

In 1970, the skull underwent a series of tests at the Hewlett-Packard research laboratory, which was famous for its advanced technologies in the processing of natural quartz. The results discouraged scientists. It turned out that the skull is made of a single (!) crystal, consisting of three splices, which in itself is a sensation, since it is impossible even with the modern development of technology. During the creation process, the crystal had to fall apart due to the internal stress of the material. But the most amazing thing is that no traces of any tools were found on the surface of the skull! It seems like he just grew on his own. It soon became clear that there were other artificial skulls made from natural quartz. All of them are inferior to the Skull of Fate in terms of quality of execution, but are also considered the heritage of the Aztecs and Mayans. One is kept in the British Museum, another in Paris, a third, made of amethyst, in Tokyo, the “Max” skull is in Texas, and the most massive one is in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. In addition, tireless researchers have unearthed a legend according to which, since ancient times, there have been 13 crystal skulls associated with the cult of the Goddess of Death. They came to the Indians from the Atlanteans (who would doubt it!). The skulls are guarded by specially trained warriors and priests, passing them on from generation to generation and ensuring that the artifacts are stored in different places. First they were among the Olmecs, then among the Mayans, from whom they passed to the Aztecs. And at the very end of the fifth cycle according to the long-term Mayan calendar (that is, in 2014), it is these objects that will help save humanity from imminent disaster, if people figure out what to do with them. The previous 4 civilizations did not think of it and were destroyed by disasters and cataclysms. It seems that the crystal skulls are some kind of ancient supercomputer that will come into operation if all its components are collected in one place. And more than 13 skulls have already been found. What to do?!

The voice of a skeptic

Almost every crystal skull was first thought to be Aztec or Mayan. And yet, some of them (for example, British and Parisian) were recognized as fakes: experts found traces of processing with modern jewelry tools. The Parisian exhibit is made of Alpine crystal and, most likely, was born in the 19th century in the German town of Idar-Oberstein, whose jewelers are famous for their ability to process precious stones. The problem is that there is no technology yet that can be used to confidently determine the age of natural quartz. So scientists have to navigate by traces of tools and the geographical origin of minerals. So all crystal skulls may ultimately turn out to be the creations of masters of the 19th and 20th centuries. There is a version that the Skull of Fate is just a birthday present for Anna. It could well have been thrown to her by her father in the manner of Christmas surprises, but not under the tree, but under the ancient altar. Anna, who died in 2007 at the age of 100, said in an interview that the skull was found on her 17th birthday, that is, in 1924. The author of this entire exciting story may be Mitchell-Hedges himself, the Atlantean treasure hunter.

They were found in Peru, near the city of Ica. There are a lot of stones - tens of thousands. The first mentions of them are found in the chronicles of the 16th century. Each of the stones has a drawing depicting in detail some scene from the life of ancient people.

What is the mystery

There are drawings that show horses that became extinct on the American continent hundreds of thousands of years ago. There are riders on the horses. Other stones depict scenes of hunting... dinosaurs! Or, for example, heart transplant surgery. As well as stars, the sun and other planets. At the same time, numerous examinations confirm that the stones are ancient; they are also found in pre-Hispanic burials. And official science does its best to pretend that the Ica stones do not exist, or calls them modern fakes. Who would think of putting images on tens of thousands of stones, and even carefully burying them in the ground?! This is absurd!

The voice of a skeptic

All journalistic publications about the Ica stones say that examinations confirmed the authenticity of these artifacts. But for some reason these examinations are never presented. It turns out that all sorts of ufologists and atlantologists propose to seriously study these cobblestones only on the grounds that no one would even think of counterfeiting them. But the sale of Ica stones is a profitable business, which the Ikians... Ikiots... in short, the local residents are willing to do. Well, some “scientists” too. Why not assume that they have jointly put the production of profitable goods on stream? Or is this also too absurd an idea?

First known as "Crown Diamond Blue" and "French Blue". In 1820 it was purchased by banker Henry Hope. The stone is now kept in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.

What is the mystery

The most famous diamond in the world has earned the unfavorable reputation of a bloodthirsty stone: almost all of its owners, starting from the 17th century, did not die a natural death. Including the unfortunate French queen Marie Antoinette...

The voice of a skeptic

Can you imagine, Russian great princes and tsars, from Ivan Kalita to Peter the Great, were crowned kings with the Monomakh cap. And they all died too! Many - not by their own death, but from various diseases! It's creepy, isn't it? Here it is, the curse of Monomakh! Moreover, the fact of life, death and contact with this killer hat in each case can be confirmed by documents, unlike the biographies of other Hope owners. Among which, by the way, there are those who lived quite prosperous lives, Louis XIV for example. You can also derive an equation in which the lifespan of a diamond owner is inversely proportional to the size of the gemstone. But this is from a different area...

In 1929, a fragment of a world map was found on the skin of a gazelle in Istanbul's Topkapi Palace. The document is dated 1513 and signed with the name of the Turkish admiral Piri ibn Haji Mamed, and later became known as the Piri Reis map (“reis” means “lord” in Turkish). And in 1956, a certain Turkish naval officer donated it to the American Marine Hydrographic Administration, after which the subject was thoroughly examined.

What is the mystery

The most amazing thing is not even that the map shows in detail the eastern coast of South America (this is only 20 years after Columbus’s first voyage!). Before the inquisitive gaze of scientists, a medieval document appeared - the authenticity is beyond doubt - on which Antarctica is clearly depicted. But it was opened only in 1818! And this is not the only secret of the map: the coast of Antarctica is depicted as if the continent is free of ice (which is between 6 and 12 thousand years old). At the same time, the outlines of the coastline are consistent with the seismographic data of the Swedish-British expedition of 1949. Piri Reis, when compiling the map, honestly admitted in his notes that he used several cartographic sources, including very ancient ones, from the time of Alexander the Great. But how could the ancients know about Antarctica? Of course, from the Atlantean super-civilization! This is exactly the conclusion that enthusiasts like Charles Hapgood came to, while representatives of official science remained bashfully silent. They remain silent to this day. Many other similar maps were also found, including, for example, those compiled by Orontheus Phinneus (1531) and Mercator (1569). The data presented in them can only be explained by the fact that there was some kind of primary source. From it, cartographers copied information about places that they simply could not know about. And the compilers of this ancient source knew that the Earth is a sphere, accurately represented the length of the equator and knew the basics of spherical trigonometry.

The voice of a skeptic

If you believe the Piri Reis map (or rather, the mysterious primary source), Antarctica was located differently in ancient times, and this difference is about 3000 kilometers. Neither paleontologists nor geologists have information about such a global continental shift that occurred about 12 thousand years ago. In addition, the ice-free coastline of Antarctica simply cannot match modern data. During icing, it should have changed significantly. So the map of an unknown continent is most likely the speculation of an ancient author, which, by luck, approximately coincided with reality, or another modern fake.

From time to time, perfectly round balls are found in different places on the planet. Their sizes are different - from 0.1 to 3 meters. Sometimes the balls have strange inscriptions and drawings on them. The most mysterious are the balls found in Costa Rica.

What is the mystery

It is unknown who made them, why and how. The ancient people clearly could not sharpen them to such a round shape! Maybe these are messages from other civilizations? Or maybe the balls were carved by Atlanteans, who encoded important information into them?

The voice of a skeptic

Geologists believe that such round objects may well be obtained naturally. For example, if a stone falls into a hole located in the bed of a mountain river, the water will grind it down to a round state. And inscriptions with drawings can be found not only on stones, but also on the walls of elevators and fences. And, as a rule, they are autographs of contemporaries.

The rests were discovered in the 19th century in Quintana Roo (Yucatan). It is known that the Mayans, long before the appearance of Christians in Mesoamerica, revered their symbol; in any case, the ancient Temple of the Cross was preserved in Palenque. By the way, this is why the aborigines reacted favorably to Christianity during Spanish colonization.

What is the mystery

According to legend, a huge cross carved from wood suddenly spoke in 1847 in the village of Chan. He called on the Indians - descendants of the Mayans - to a holy war against the whites. He continued to lend his voice, leading the Indians during combat operations. Soon two more similar talking objects appeared. The village of Chan became the Indian capital of Chan Santa Cruz, where a sanctuary of the crosses was erected. In 1901, the Mexicans managed to capture the sacred capital, but the Mayans managed to take their legs and crosses to the jungle. The struggle for independence continued. Historians call these events the war of the Mexican government with the state of the Crusob Indians - “The Country of Talking Crosses.” In 1915, the Indians recaptured Chan Santa Cruz, and one of the crosses spoke again. He called for killing every white who wandered onto Indian lands. The war ended only in 1935 with the recognition of the independence of the Indians on the terms of broad autonomy. The descendants of the Mayans believe that they won thanks to the talking crosses, which still stand in the sanctuary of the current capital of Champon, but in silence. The official religion of the free Indians is still the cult of the three “talking crosses”.

The voice of a skeptic

There may be at least two explanations for this phenomenon. First: it is known that the Indians of Mexico often used the narcotic substance peyote in their rituals. Under its influence, you can conduct conversations not only with a wooden cross, but also with your own tomahawk. But seriously, the art of ventriloquism has been known for a long time. Among many nations it was owned by priests and clergy. Even an inexperienced ventriloquist is quite capable of uttering a couple of simple phrases like: “Kill all white people!” or “Bring me some more tequila!” We must also not forget that none of the modern scientists have yet heard a single word, even an obscene one, from the “talking crosses”.

What is the mystery

On a four-meter canvas (length - 4.3 meters, width - 1.1 meters) a clear image of a person is visible. More precisely, two symmetrical images located “head to head”. One of the images is a man lying with his hands folded just below his stomach, the other is the same man, viewed from the back. The images are similar to photographic film negatives and appear clearly on the fabric. There are visible traces of bruises from blows from whips, from a crown of thorns on the head and a wound in the left side, as well as bloody marks on the wrists and soles of the feet (presumably from nails). All details of the image correspond to the Gospel testimonies about the martyrdom of Christ. Both physicists and lyricists (in the sense of historians) struggled with the mystery of the shroud. Some of them later became believers. The shroud was illuminated with infrared rays, studied under powerful microscopes, plant pollen found in the tissue was analyzed - in a word, they did everything, but so far none of the scientists have been able to explain how and with what help these images were made. They are NOT painted. They did NOT appear as a result of radiation exposure (there was such a fantastic hypothesis). Radiocarbon dating carried out in 1988 showed that the shroud was created in the 12th–14th centuries. However, Russian doctor of technical sciences Anatoly Fesenko explained that the carbon composition of linen could be “rejuvenated.” The fact is that after the fire, the fabric was cleaned with hot oil or even boiled in oil, so carbon from the 16th century got into it, which was the reason for the incorrect dating. There are other facts confirming that this is not a medieval, but a more ancient and generally miraculous thing. Miracle?!

The voice of a skeptic

It's time to be like Rene Descartes, who once logically reasoned that being a believer is safer than being an atheist, since you can get a posthumous ticket to heaven. After all, God (if he exists) will be pleased that you believed in him. But while you are still alive, look into scientific articles and read that the Jews wrapped their dead not in shrouds, but in burial shrouds. That is, they bandaged them with tapes using aromatic resins and substances. This is exactly what they did with Christ after his death, as recorded in the Gospel of John. Therefore, there is no need to talk about the absolute correspondence of the images of the shroud with the gospel testimonies. Moreover, the deceased sons and daughters of Israel were never laid out in the position of a football player standing in the “wall.” The tradition of drawing people with their hands shyly folded over their genitals appeared after the 11th century, and in Europe. It remains to add that many serious scientists do not doubt the data of radiocarbon analysis carried out by three independent laboratories. Taking into account all Fesenko’s calculations, we can add another 40 years, even 100, to the age of the shroud, but not more than a thousand. And one more interesting detail: shortly before the appearance of this artifact, that is, in the 13th–14th centuries, there were 43 (!) shrouds in Europe. The owner of each one probably swore that he had the same, true one, handed over personally into the hands of almost Joseph of Arimathea himself.

Are you looking for grandma?

There are also artifacts that have not yet been found by anyone. It's up to you!

Holy Grail

In theory, this is a simple cup into which the blood of the crucified Christ was collected. In fact, it can look like anything, because it is a classic something-that-cannot-be. Most likely, the Grail simply does not exist, it is a literary myth.

Ark of the Covenant

Something like a massive box with the Tablets of the Covenant stored inside and the 10 Commandments on them. Be especially careful with this item: it is believed that anyone who touches it immediately dies.

Golden woman

According to the medieval geographer Mercator, it is located somewhere in Siberia. This is a figurine (or maybe a statue) of the Finno-Ugric goddess Yumala. She is credited with supernatural properties. Adventure seekers are also attracted by the metal from which it is made. Yes, yes, this is pure gold. One might say, not a woman, but a treasure!

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Mysterious artifacts of ancient civilizations are located in the Nazca desert, represented by huge drawings. Amazing geoglyphs appeared in 200 BC, covering vast areas off the coast of Peru. Engraved into sandy soil, they illustrate animals and geometric shapes.

The images, also represented by lines, are very similar to landing strips. The Nazca people, who created the wonderful drawings, did not leave any records about the purpose of the large-scale images. Perhaps, due to their prehistoric era, they had not yet discovered the advantages of a written language, or something else held them back.

Not advanced enough for a written language, they nevertheless left a great mystery to future civilizations. We still wonder how such complex projects were implemented at that time.

Some theorists believe that the Nazca lines represent constellations and correlate with the location of stars. It is also suggested that the geoglyphs must have been viewed from the heavens, with some lines forming runways for alien visitors to Earth.

Another thing amazes us: if the “artists” themselves did not have the opportunity to view images from the sky, then how did the Nazca peoples create absolutely symmetrical images? In the absence of records from that time, we have no plausible explanations other than the involvement of extraterrestrial technology.

GIANT FINGER OF EGYPT.

The 35-centimeter-long artifact, according to legend, was discovered in the 1960s in Egypt. Unknown researcher Gregor Sporri, meeting the owner of the artifact in 1988, paid $300 to photograph the finger and conduct an x-ray. There is even an x-ray image of the finger, as well as a stamp of authenticity.

Original photo taken in 1988

However, not a single scientist studied the finger, and the person who owned the artifact left no opportunity to hear the details. This may contribute to the fact that the giant's finger is a hoax, or indicate a civilization of giants that lived on the earth before us.

STONE DISCS OF THE DROPA TRIBE.

As reported in the history of the artifact, Cho Pu Tei, a professor of archeology (an actual archaeologist) of Beijing, was on an expedition with his students to explore caves deep in the Himalayan mountains. Located between Tibet and China, a number of caves were clearly man-made as they consisted of tunnel systems and rooms.

There were small skeletons in the cells of the rooms, speaking of a dwarf culture. Professor Tay suggested that they are an undocumented species of mountain gorilla. The truth was that the ritual burial was very confusing.

Hundreds of disks with a diameter of 30.5 centimeters with perfect holes in the center were also found here. Researchers, having studied the paintings on the walls of the cave, came to the conclusion that the age is 12,000 years. The discs of mysterious purpose also date back to the same age.

Sent to Peking University, the Dropa disks (as they were called) were studied for 20 years. Many researchers and scientists tried to decipher the writings engraved on the disks, but they were not successful.

Professor Tsum Um Nui from Beijing examined the disks in 1958 and came to the conclusion about an unknown language that had never appeared anywhere before. The engraving itself was done to such an elaborate level that it required a magnifying glass to read. All the results of the decryptions went into the area of the extraterrestrial origin of artifacts.

Tribal Legend: Ancient dropas descended from the clouds. Our ancestors, women and children hid in caves ten times before sunrise. When the fathers finally understood the sign language, they found out that those who came had peaceful intentions.

ARTIFACT, SPARK PLUG AT 500,000 YEARS OLD.

In 1961, a very strange artifact was discovered in the Coso Mountains, California. Looking for additions to their display, the owners of a small gem store set out to collect several specimens. However, they were lucky to find not just a valuable stone or a rare fossil, but a real mechanical artifact of deep antiquity.

The mysterious mechanical device looked like a modern car spark plug. Analysis and X-ray examination revealed a porcelain filling containing copper rings, a steel spring and a magnetic rod on the inside. Adding to the mystery is an unidentifiable powdery white substance inside.

After conducting research on the artifact and the marine fossils covering the surface, it turned out that the artifact “fossilized” about 500,000 years ago.

However, scientists were in no hurry to analyze the artifact. They were probably afraid of accidentally disproving generally accepted theories by saying that we are not the first technologically advanced civilization. Or the planet really was a popular place among aliens, often being repaired on Earth.

MECHANISM OF ANTIKYTHERA.

In the last century, divers have been clearing ancient Greek treasures from the site of the Antikythera shipwreck, which dates back to 100 BC. Among the artifacts they found 3 parts of a mysterious device. The device had bronze triangular teeth and is believed to have been used to track the complex movements of the Moon and other planets.

The mechanism used a differential gear consisting of over 30 gears of different sizes with triangular teeth that were always counted down to prime numbers. It is believed that if all teeth are proven to be prime numbers, then they can clarify the astronomical secrets of the ancient Greeks.

The Antikythera mechanism had a knob that allowed the user to enter past and future dates and then calculate the positions of the Sun and Moon. The use of differential gears made it possible to calculate angular velocities and calculate lunar cycles.

No other artifacts discovered since this time are advanced. Instead of using a geocentric representation, the mechanism was built on heliocentric principles, which were not common at the time. It seems that the ancient Greeks managed to independently build the world's first analog computer.

Alexander Jones, a historian, deciphered some of the inscriptions and said the device used colored balls to represent the Sun, Mars and Moon. Okay, from the inscriptions we found out where the device was created, but no one said how it was made. Is it possible that the Greeks knew more about the solar system and technology than we previously thought?

PLANES OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS.

Egypt is not unique to theories about ancient aliens and high technology. Small gold objects dating back to 500 AD have been discovered in Central and South America. era.

More precisely, dating is a bit of a challenge, since the items are entirely made of gold, so the date was estimated using stratigraphy. This may fool some people into thinking it's a hoax, but the artifacts date back at least 1,000 years.

The artifacts are interesting because of their amazing similarity to ordinary airplanes. Archaeologists have designated the finds as zoomorphic for their resemblance to animals. However, comparing them with birds and fish (which have similar characteristics from an animal point of view) seems to lead to the desired conclusion. In any case, such a comparison raises serious doubts.

Why do they look so much like airplanes? They have wings, stabilizing elements and landing mechanisms, which have called on researchers to recreate one of the ancient figures.

Being created to scale but precise in proportions, this ancient artifact appears very similar to a modern fighter. After the reconstruction, it was documented that the plane, although not very good aerodynamically, flew wonderfully.

Is it possible that 1000 years ago ancient astronauts visited us and left design solutions for what we now call “airplanes”? In addition, the aerodynamic characteristics on the home planet of the “guests” may be different from terrestrial conditions.

Perhaps this is a model of a space shuttle (by the way, we are designing the same shape). Or is it more plausible to think that the artifact represents an overly inaccurate representation of the birds and the bees?

The ancient world may have been in contact with many alien races, as evidenced by the rich collection of stories detailing the encounters. Many cultures, separated by thousands of years, contain tales of flying objects and technologies so advanced that they seem like hoaxes to us.

Since the time of Darwin, science has more or less managed to fit into a logical framework and explain most of the evolutionary processes that took place on Earth. Archaeologists, biologists, and many other ...ologists agree and are sure that already 400 - 250 thousand years ago the rudiments of the current society flourished on our planet.

But archeology, you know, is such an unpredictable science, no, no, and it keeps throwing up new finds that do not fit into the generally accepted model carefully put together by scientists. We present to you the 15 most mysterious artifacts that made the scientific world think about the correctness of existing theories.

Spheres from Klerksdorp

According to rough estimates, these mysterious artifacts are about 3 billion years old. They are disc-shaped and spherical objects. Corrugated balls are found in two types: some are made of bluish metal, monolithic, interspersed with white matter, others, on the contrary, are hollow, and the cavity is filled with white spongy material. The exact number of spheres is unknown to anyone, since miners with the help of kmd still continue to extract them from the rock near the city of Klerksdorp, located in South Africa.

Stones Drop

Antikythera Mechanism

Unique stones were discovered in the Peruvian province of Ica by surgeon Javier Cabrera. Ica stones are processed volcanic rock covered with engravings. But the whole mystery is that among the images there are dinosaurs (brontosaurs, pterosaurs and triceraptors). Perhaps, despite all the arguments of learned anthropologists, the ancestors of modern man were already thriving and creative in the times when these giants roamed the earth?

Baghdad battery

Stone balls of Costa Rica

Planes, tanks and submarines of Ancient Egypt

There is no doubt that the Egyptians built the pyramids, but could the same Egyptians have thought of constructing an airplane? Scientists have been asking this question since a mysterious artifact was discovered in one of the Egyptian caves in 1898. The shape of the device is similar to an airplane, and if it was given an initial speed, it could easily fly. The fact that in the era of the New Kingdom the Egyptians were aware of such technical inventions as the airship, helicopter and submarine is told by the fresco on the ceiling of the temple located near Cairo.

Human palm print, 110 million years old

Metal pipes from Saint-Jean-de-Livet

In 1844, the Englishman David Brewster reported that an iron nail had been discovered in a block of sandstone in one of the Scottish quarries. His cap was so “grown” into the stone that it was impossible to suspect the falsification of the find, although the age of the sandstone dating back to the Devonian period is about 400 million years.
Already within our memory, in the second half of the twentieth century, a discovery was made, which scientists still cannot explain. Near the American town with the loud name London, in the state of Texas, during the splitting of sandstone of the Ordovician period (Paleozoic, 500 million years ago), an iron hammer with the remains of a wooden handle was discovered. If we discard man, who did not exist at that time, it turns out that trilobites and dinosaurs smelted iron and used it for economic purposes. If we put aside the stupid mollusks, then we need to somehow explain finds, for example, such as this one: in 1968, the Frenchmen Druet and Salfati discovered in the quarries of Saint-Jean-de-Livet, in France, oval-shaped metal pipes, the age of which, if dated from the Cretaceous strata, it is 65 million years old - the era of the last reptiles.

Iron mug in coal

Foot on a trilobite

Fossilized trilobite. 300 million years ago!

The imprint of the shoe of the right foot is visible, under which were two small trilobites. Scientists explain this as a play of nature, and are ready to believe in a find only if there is a whole chain of similar traces. Meister is not a specialist, but a draftsman who searches for antiquities in his spare time, but his reasoning is sound: the imprint of a shoe was found not on the surface of hardened clay, but after splitting a piece: the chip fell along the imprint, along the boundary of the compaction caused by the pressure of the shoe. However, they don’t want to talk to him: after all, man, according to evolutionary theory, did not live in the Cambrian period. There weren't even dinosaurs back then. Or...geochronology is false.

Two mysterious cylinders

Mayan Crystal Skulls

According to the most widely accepted story, the “Skull of Destiny” was found in 1927 by English explorer Frederick A. Mitchell-Hedges among the Mayan ruins of Lubaantun (modern Belize).

Candidate of Historical Sciences reports facts that are carefully hushed up

We continue the theme of artifacts that break out of the usual paradigm. The information was received from a candidate of historical sciences, famous archaeologist Andrei Zhukov.

Colombia is a country with a rich archaeological past. But the most famous to the general public are works of gold created by ancient Indian craftsmen. The richest collection of such artifacts is presented in the Gold Museum in the capital of the country, Bogota. This is the only gold museum in the world, with a collection of about 24,000 ancient gold items and precious stones. Archaeological research of the monuments of Colombia was not carried out as intensively as in Peru. Accordingly, there are a lot of “blank spots” and mysteries in the history of ancient Colombia.

However, attempts to explore these “blind spots” are met with a painful reaction from representatives of science who work within the framework of an established paradigm. As an example, I’ll tell you about the famous collection of Indian antiquities by Columbia University professor Hame Lehi. For decades, Lega collected artifacts, and in 1997 his collection of finds attracted the attention of Austrian researcher Klaus Dona. Together with his colleague Habeck, he organized an exhibition in Vienna in 2001 called “Unsolved Mysteries.”

Among the exhibits were unique instruments made with amazing skill and having no analogues in other ancient cultures of South America. Among the instruments there are those with a clear obstetric purpose. For example, a knife with a shaped handle carved in the shape of a stylized female figure and a baby’s head entwined with an umbilical cord.

Another instrument is a spoon, the shaped handle of which depicts a woman with a baby’s head emerging from it. The obstetric purpose of this item is also obvious.

The functions of other tools are much more difficult to determine. These objects vary in shape, but most of them are small and sometimes miniature in size.

Klaus Dona consulted various specialists, all of whom emphasized the extremely high degree of ergonomics of these tools. They were made in such a way that, regardless of the size of a person’s hands, they fit into it “like a glove.” All experts agreed that these were surgical instruments.

It is noteworthy that all these objects, as determined by Austrian mineralogists, were made of lydite. According to experts who examined these instruments, modern technologies do not allow making such artifacts from this type of stone precisely because of the specific structure of the mineral.

The set of objects that Lega gave to Klaus Dona for the exhibition included two truly unique pieces. One is a small figurine of a man sitting in a chair. The very shape of this chair is amazing – it is completely modern.

The second artifact was called the “genetic disk.” This is a lidite disk with a diameter of 27 cm and a thickness of 2 cm. It weighs about 2 kg. Both sides of the disc are covered with relief images (using the low-relief technique); there is a through hole in the middle. Analogues of the expansate were not found either in America or in other cultures of the Ancient World. The fact that the images on the disc are dedicated to the processes of human conception and the evolution of the embryo is clear at first glance. That is why the disc got its name.

It has not yet been possible to fully decipher the meaning of the message on the disk, although some things are quite obvious. Thus, in the upper part of the front side (here the choice of sides is arbitrary) there is a number of images illustrating the process of evolution of the human embryo. The last figurine already depicts a fully formed baby.

At the bottom of the disk there are schematic images of a man and a woman with clearly defined genitals, and above these figures there is an embryo. A sperm is depicted next to a man. It is noteworthy that the style of the human images corresponds to what we saw on the Lydite obstetric instruments and the figurine of a seated man.

In European science, spermatozoa were first described in 1677 by the Dutch naturalist, founder of scientific microscopy, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. And the development processes of the human embryo were studied much later. On the other side of the disk there are figures of people, embryos, sperm and eggs in various stages of development.

It is worth mentioning another interesting artifact from the Lehi collection - a small (30 cm) anthropomorphic figurine made of porous rock, similar to the giant statues of Fr. Easter. There is a hypothesis that representatives of the ancient cultures of Peru and Bolivia had contacts with the population of this island. But Colombia is located from about. Easter is another thousand kilometers further.

How did the scientific community react to the collection? Dr. Hammer, a specialist at the Department of Mineralogy and Petrology at the Natural History Museum in Vienna, having examined the disk, clearly stated that this is a modern craft.

At the same time, the results of any special analyzes were not published, for example, traceological analysis, with the help of which one can detect microparticles of the tool with which the stone was processed. However, the expert's verdict has been made, the issue can be considered closed.

Although even from the point of view of common sense, a logical question arises: what kind of hoaxer would create the most complex, in fact, jewelry works in order to pass them off as Indian antiquities? Counterfeiters produce objects from known archaeological cultures, styles, artists, etc., since only in this case the fakes have commercial value. But to produce extremely labor-intensive products of types unknown to science and in a completely original style...

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