Centennial mummies Well-preserved mummies have been put on display
at the San Bernardo Mausoleum in Colombia.
12 mummies were found in the Andes, 60 kilometers southwest of the country's capital, Bogotá.
Experts have determined that the samples are about 100 years old.
Why they are so well preserved remains a mystery, although some experts believe it is because
of the local climate and altitude, which may have affected the chemical composition of
the land.
Arguing what else could have preserved the mummies so well, the locals put forward their
theories.
In the region where the remains were found, there is a lot of chayote or guatila, fruits
rich in vitamin C, which are often added to salads.
According to the residents, it was thanks to the diet that many of these people enjoyed
excellent health during their lifetime, and that is why their bodies are so well preserved.
The first mummified bodies on display were first discovered in the 1950s, when the local
cemetery was moved to another location due to flooding.
In addition to well-preserved bodies, some of the samples have preserved clothing.
Unfortunately, some of the bodies belong to children.
Above each grave were plaques with the names of the deceased, for example: "Margarita.
She was a very devoted housewife, and always treated everyone to corn tortillas and coffee."
Local residents visit the museum and study information about mummies with interest.
Even their relatives come to look at their ancestors in the mausoleum.
However, there are those who disagree with such an initiative: a Roman Catholic bishop,
for example, said that such a demonstration of mummies is a sign of disrespect for the
dead.
A flower 100 million years old In Myanmar, scientists have discovered amber
in which a flower has been preserved.
The plant is about 100 million years old.
Its diameter is only 2 mm, but at the same time you can see under a microscope about
50 stamens arranged in a spiral.
Scientists suggest that the fragment found was part of a large inflorescence.
The authors attributed the find to a previously unknown genus and species of angiosperms of
the Cretaceous period, giving it the name Valviloculus pleristaminis.
Studying the ancient flower will help shed light on the evolution of plants.
And maybe learn more about geological processes.
The fact is that the tectonic plate on which Myanmar is located separated from the ancient
supercontinent of Gondwana, in which it bordered the northwestern tip of present-day Australia.
This happened, according to various estimates, from 200 million to 500 million years ago.
The flower, preserved in amber, apparently grew in the forest on Gondwana.
And if we consider that it is 100 million years old, it means that the split of the
continents occurred later than geologists assume.
Statues that are over 2,000 years old In Greece, at the construction site of the
town hall in the city of Payania near the international airport of Athens, archaeologists
have found two ancient statues, which are estimated to be approximately 2,300 years
old.
The found complex of white marble consists of two female figures.
The statues have survived only in fragments, but it is obvious that the women had different
social status.
A sick woman sits on the right side, her legs resting on a low stand.
She is dressed in a tunic and robe.
To the left is a maid or a doctor, supporting her head with her left hand.
According to scientists, such gravestone reliefs are characteristic of the 4th century.
The found statues were transferred to the Archaeological Museum.
Archaeologists continue to search for relics at the construction site.
The largest sword on earth One of the most famous and at the same time
the largest combat two-handed swords is kept in the Museum of the Netherlands, the city
of Leeuwarden Frisia.
This amazing sword is 2150 mm long and weighs 6600 grams.
He has the stamp "Inri" (Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews).
It was forged in the middle of the 15th century in Germany.
The handle of this sword is made of oak and trimmed with goatskin.
Scientists speculate that these weapons were the property of Pierre Donia ("Big Pierre"),
a French pirate and a fierce independence fighter.
Legend has it that he could cut off several of their heads in an instant.
It is believed that Pierre got the sword as a trophy from the Landsknechts, who revered
him as a banner, and only he could use it due to his physical abilities.
His height was equal to the length of the sword - 2.15 m.
In 1515, his possessions were destroyed and burned by the military from the so-called
"Black gang".
His wife was brutally deprived of her life, and this hatred of murderers prompted him
to contribute his share in the Geldern War.
Two-handed swords occupy a significant and important place among other types of cold
bladed weapons.
This magnificent weapon is the pride of any modern museum.
And we can only guess how much effort “Big Pierre” had to use to swing this sword.
Orbs from Klerksdorp These mysterious artifacts are considered
by some researchers as the final and irrevocable evidence of the existence of advanced civilizations
on Earth billions of years ago.
However, official science behaves in this case as usual.
Boring academics argue that mysterious realms are a product of Mother Nature's activities.
Mysterious artifacts have been discovered in Africa.
Their age is estimated at about 2.8 billion years.
Modern science believes that there were no people on Earth at that time.
Mysterious objects are elliptical with jagged protrusions in the center.
Some especially zealous lovers of anomalies claim that the mysterious spheres are the
fruit of the labor of some intelligent creature.
Assumptions that the Earth was inhabited by various forms of life in the distant past
are expressed quite often.
Proponents of such ideas have been endlessly arguing with proponents of traditional ideas
about earthly history for many years.
Tests carried out on the spheres have yielded conflicting results.
At the moment, this is what is known.
According to legend, a man named John Hund acquired one of the orbs and took it to the
California Space Institute at the University of California.
He wanted to know as much as possible about this curious artifact.
And it turned out that the sphere has a perfect shape and perfect balance!
Hund stated that the only way to create something exactly balanced is to use zero gravity.
Andris Biskhoff, a former professor at Potchefstroom University, claims that these curious objects
are nothing more than limonite nodules.
These are such mixtures of iron hydrates.
Antique "refrigerator" I will start the story about archaeological
finds from Bulgaria, where in the camp of Roman legionnaires in Nova, archaeologists
found a unique container made of ceramic plates, which was most likely used as a refrigerator.
This camp was built in the 1st century AD.
The territory of the ancient camp has been studied by Bulgarian and Polish archaeologists
for decades.
This year under the guidance of Professor Peter Dichek, a “refrigerator” was discovered,
which was located in military barracks.
In it, the legionnaires kept the remnants of food.
Similar refrigerators have been found before, but they are still considered rare.
In addition to the refrigerator, archaeologists have found dozens of coins.
Mayan giant mask In Mexico, during excavations on the Yucatan
Peninsula, archaeologists have discovered a giant image of an unknown Mayan deity.
Archaeologists have only just announced the discovery now, although the artifact itself
was discovered back in 2017.
A giant mask the size of a man was found at the archaeological site of Ucanya, near the
modern city of Motul.
Since then, researchers at the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico (INAH)
have painstakingly worked to restore it.
The discovery was not reported for the safety of the artifact itself.
There was a risk that it could be reached and destroyed by "treasure hunters".
The artifact itself puzzled researchers.
It is dated to the late pre-classical Maya period (about 300 BC - 250 AD).
The mask is an image of the face of an unknown deity or some very important person, a representative
of the elite of society of that period of time.
Interestingly, after the restoration, archaeologists again "buried" the mask.
INAH explained this by the fact that this monument and archaeological site do not yet
have legal protection.
A new species of human A 146,000-year-old (or possibly older) skull
dubbed "Dragon Man" found at a construction site in the Harbin region of northeast China
may represent a new species of human.
The scientists, who published their findings in three separate papers in The Innovation
in June 2021, said their analysis of the skull suggests it "represents a new lineage of Homo
sapiens" called Homo longi.
The term "Dragon Man" refers to the Dragon River in the area where the skull was found
in 1933.
The worker who discovered it hid it until 2018, when he told his family about the skull,
and they donated it to the Hebei GEO University Museum.
The well-preserved fossil from the Middle Pleistocene is "massive ... with a large skull......
falling within the range of modern humans ... combined with a mosaic of primitive and
derived features," the scientists said.
According to them, unlike other Homo species, the skull has a broad, low face, nearly square
eye sockets, flat cheekbones, and a shallow palate with large molars.
Paleoanthropologist Xijun Ni believes that Homo longi may be even more closely related
to humans than Neanderthals.
The largest stones displaced by man All over the world we find massive cut stones.
Which weigh, at times, more than 1000 tons!
But how exactly did our distant ancestors move these stones to the right place?
Did they only use the strength of their hands?
Or, perhaps, as some researchers suggest, our ancestors used some now lost technology?
Common sense dictates that all of these stones were too heavy to move without the aid of
some kind of assistive device.
But it is believed that in those days people did not have the necessary means to transport
huge blocks over long distances.
Many similar objects have been found in Egypt.
Let's talk about them, and at the same time think about how exactly they were delivered
to their current location.
This is perhaps one of the most interesting of its kind.
Nowadays, only fragments of the foundation remain of the once majestic structure.
Experts estimate that the Ramesseum once weighed about 1,000 tons.
But even more incredible, the massive boulder appears to have been moved to where it is
now from a different location.
Which is located 200 kilometers from the Ramesseum.
This object is considered one of the largest stones ever displaced by man.
In the image you can see the side of one of the Colossi of Memnon.
It is the last surviving structure of the burial temple of Amenhotep III, known as Kom
el-Khetan.
The picture was taken around 1900.
The Colossi of Memnon are two supermassive statues, each carved from a single piece of
stone.
The statues are oriented towards the winter solstice point.
It is believed that the total weight of the statues once reached 1200 tons!
Incredibly, these statues were somehow magically transported over 600 kilometers overland.
Without using the waters of the Nile River.
Another incredibly interesting ancient site is in Lebanon.
In the ancient architectural ensemble of Baalbek, in the Temple of Jupiter, there is the so-called
Trilithon.
It is a group of three stones about 19 meters long, 4 meters high and almost 4 meters wide.
It is believed that these stones were carved from limestone.
It is believed that before being transported to their location, they weighed from 1000
to 1200 tons.
And they somehow managed to be transported over a distance of one kilometer.
The stones were later processed to fit exactly the temple wall.
The Western Stone is a massive block that forms the lower level of the Western Wall
in Jerusalem.
And this is another supermassive boulder laid in ancient times.
It is considered one of the largest building blocks on the planet's surface.
Its estimated weight is 570 tons.
In Ethiopia, we find even more evidence of ancient megalithic madness.
The large stele, the stele of King Ezana and the Aksum obelisk weigh 520, 170 and 160 tons
respectively.
The steles were once transferred from a quarry located about 4 km from their location.
How it was done remains a mystery ...
Straight-toothed Elephant Tusk Two years ago, in Germany, between Hanover
and Leipzig, archaeologists discovered the bone of a straight-toothed elephant.
It was a huge cervical vertebra.
Later, archaeologists discovered other bones of this animal.
Finding a complete skeleton of a 4 meter high elephant is a rarity.
After numerous studies, scientists have established that this elephant was eaten by ancient people.
However, he died of natural causes.
After all, he was about 50 years old and found him near an ancient lake where elephants went
to drink.
And already this year in September in Israel, Biologist Lee Perry-Gal found a well-preserved
tusk of a straight-toothed elephant.
Its length is 2.6 meters and 20 cm in diameter.
It has not yet been possible to completely get the tusk, so it is still impossible to
accurately determine the type of elephant.
But, as you know, archaeologists like to rush and draw their conclusions ahead of time!
According to them, it is a straight-tusked forest elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus).
It was often hunted by our ancestors and in certain regions elephants of this species
were the main source of meat.
Growth exceeded 4 meters, and weight reached up to one and a half tons.
As you already understood, the meat of such an elephant could feed a very large family!
We no longer need to hunt elephants and cave bears.
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