In the cave, archaeologists have discovered a human skull in the rock that can change
our history, but an unpleasant situation happened to the explorer! What were the
children of the ancient Incas drugged with during the sacrifice and why the books of
Anglo-Saxon England are so valuable. A ship that could surprise. About these
finds and more - see in this video! Hi, friend. You are on the KirTop channel.
Bronze plate in the shape of a hand Let's start with a find discovered in warm Spain.
Archaeologists have begun excavations of the hill where the walls of the medieval castle still
stand. Near the fortification, they discovered the remains of a 2,000-year-old settlement. The
Sertorian Wars took place in this place and last year, at the site of destruction, archaeologists
discovered a unique bronze plate in the shape of a hand. And the dimensions of the plate were
similar to the palm of a person - 14.5 cm. After conducting a study in the laboratory,
scientists examined strange inscriptions, divided into four lines. There were 40 symbols in total.
When the bronze plate was first discovered, it was mistaken for part of the helmet. At first,
neither ornaments nor symbols were visible. After a detailed analysis, the scientists found out the
composition of the plate - it is 53% tin, 41% copper and 2% lead. What was considered the norm
for those times. A small notch was drilled in the metal hand for hanging on the front
door of the house as a talisman. The first word was "sorioneku",
which is easily translated into the modern Basque word "zorioneko",
meaning "good luck" or "good omen". The rest of the inscription has not yet been deciphered. This
seemingly primitive artifact can actually be attributed to an important archaeological and
linguistic discovery! Scientists are sure that people spoke the Bak language more than 2000
years ago! If this find did not surprise you, then the next one will definitely amaze you!
Drugs during the sacrifice
South America's interest in the ancient world is not inferior even to Egypt! The ancient
peoples living here did truly terrifying things. This time, scientists from the USA,
Peru and Poland have found a terrible proof! After conducting a lot of research to accurately
verify their guesses - they determined that the ancient Incas, before the sacrifices,
drugged children. In this way, they calmed them before the ritual, which was watched by hundreds
and thousands of people. And most likely the parents of their children watched this.
Archaeologists discovered the remains of two children in the area of ​​the Ampato volcano
in Peru, and based on their hair and nails, scientists found a small amount of cocaine
and the ayahuasca hallucinogen, which is very developed in this region today. At the same time,
they are sure that 500 years ago, the Incas used ayahuasca not as a hallucinogen,
but to calm children. Scientists believe that the children were well aware of what awaited them
in the near future and voluntarily they would not have agreed to the sacrifices. To do this,
the shamans gave them drugs for several weeks, constantly increasing the dosage.
This is confirmed by the Spanish colonialists who witnessed this terrible ritual. They wrote
that they saw how people were brought to the sacrificial ceremony and they
behaved completely calmly, as if they had been preparing for this all their lives.
The capacocha ritual was a common practice among the ancient Incas. It was only held on special
occasions. A victory in battle or the birth of a royal son was considered a special occasion.
What now seems like something incredible - literally 500-600 years ago was considered common!
To relieve some tension, I will tell you about one of the oldest trading settlements in Oman.
Ancient trading settlement On the western coast of the
Arabian Peninsula in Dahva there is a complex of five early Bronze Age sites. Archaeologists
have been excavating here for ten years. And during this time they managed to discover a lot
of valuable and interesting finds. Some of them confirm that an ancient trading settlement was
located on this site, and according to a number of analyzes, it is the oldest in the world.
Archaeological finds include building floor plans, industrial infrastructure, and
silver jewelry that tell new stories of ancient trade. The settlement dates back to Umm al-Nar,
which flourished from about 2600 to 2000 BC. Archaeologists have excavated Dahwa's stone
buildings, including warehouses, industrial copper processing centers, administrative offices, and
religious houses. All structures are "the first of their kind since prehistoric times found in Oman."
Researchers found a mass grave nearby. Many local and imported pottery and soapstone were found with
the remains. For the production of jewelry, silver was delivered from the territory of modern Turkey.
This proves that people in the Bronze Age were very smart and technologically advanced. More than
4,000 years ago, there were settlements on our planet that were in no way inferior to modern
states. Even then, people were thinking hundreds of years ahead, erecting structures and building
supply chains. And A little closer to our time in ancient Egypt, people were stigmatized.
How people were stigmatized
Now you will not see anyone with a tattoo on the body. And many tattoos look like a real work
of art. Although the attitude towards them is completely different for everyone. Even animals
today are stigmatized, which indicates their belonging. But in ancient Egypt, tattoos were
done to people not at all for the sake of beauty. For a long time, humane researchers wanted to
believe that in ancient times only cattle were branded. Historians refused to believe
that people were stigmatized to indicate their belonging to a particular slave owner. It sounds
too animalistic. That's just an exhibit in the British Museum indicates that in ancient Egypt,
people were still branded without their consent. The ancient stamps located in
the museum are too small for cattle, and there is no point in branding small animals. And as
history shows, people were perfect for this! In ancient texts there were references to the
branding of slaves and prisoners of war in Egypt. For example, on the carving of Medinet Habu dating
back to 1185 BC, found in Luxor, scientists examined red-hot small seals. They were carried
in a portable heater. The citizens of Egypt should not have worried, usually nothing threatened them.
But foreign slaves and soldiers in a mandatory manner received a stigma with a red-hot seal.
The slaveholding practice in ancient Egypt was similar to serfdom. When the land was
sold together with the peasants. Land that consistently yields a crop was sold along
with the people who cultivated it. And people lived with this shameful stigma all their lives.
Human skull from Petralona Cave
The unique discovery of a human skull made in the middle of the last century has already
been forgotten by many. But its discovery can significantly shake the history of the origin
of man! Or maybe this is again the same find that historians are trying to turn a blind
eye to, so as not to rewrite our history? An interesting incident occurred in 1959 in
Greece, where a group of enthusiasts discovered a cave near the village of Petralona. In addition
to ancient stalactites, many interesting finds were found in the cave confirming the presence
of a person here - these are the remains of ancient wood, the wool of extinct animals
and tools. But this one find looked pretty creepy and was non-standard. The most important find in
the cave was a skull embedded in the rock. Such a find should have been made public. However,
Aris Poulianos intervened in this story. At one time he dealt with the topic "The Origin
of the Greeks." For many, his writings have been controversial and historians have dismissed his
evidence. As soon as the doctor found out about the Petralonian man, as the skull embedded in the
rock was called, he immediately went to study it. After analyzing the object, it was possible
to prove that this individual really developed separately in Europe and his relatives did not
come from Africa. Many scientists immediately challenged the opinion of Aris Poulianos,
stating that the skull is about 60 thousand, and not 750 thousand years old, as the doctor claims.
However, there is one thing. Scientists conducted a stratigraphic analysis of the cave and deposits,
as well as two more skeletons found later, and we are talking about a figure of about 700
thousand years. Researchers who have been working on studying the skull have confirmed
that it is different from Neanderthals and Homo sapiens. And this contradicts
the African theory of the origin of man. There was a large hole in the vault of the
Petralona cave, where various animals fell over the years. A huge mountain of bones and signs of
20 cultural layers were found at this place. In 2012, the doctor was attacked and beaten.
He was threatened with death if he continued to speak publicly about his research. And if
all this is true, then there is an opinion that we all did not come from one species.
Perhaps we differ in skin color and eye shape not because of evolution, but because of our origin.
I better not say too much on this topic, and rather tell you about the next find!
Viking silver stash Just north of Stockholm, archaeologists
have discovered a once-in-a-lifetime find! In the municipality of Teby, in one of the houses
located in the site of an ancient Viking settlement, researchers dug up a ceramic
pot with ancient decorations and silver coins. Inside were eight neck rings, two wrist rings,
a finger ring, a pair of pearls and 12 pendants in the form of coins in a linen bag. Most of all,
scientists were interested in the neck rings of the Vikings, which were worn by both women and
men. They were about a thousand years old, but the preservation shocked archaeologists! They looked
almost like new, despite the fact that they had been underground for a thousand years. This find
is part of a larger find at the site. More than 20 houses and buildings, arrows and rings for
amulets were identified here. However, these finds fade against the background of a pot with silver
ornaments. Silver treasures are very important - they speak of the wealth of their owner,
ancient jewelers, their religion and culture. In addition to ornaments, Arab and Norman coins
were found in the pot. Everything is clear with silver jewelry, it is not clear why
the Vikings stole Anglo-Saxon books, did they really love to read so much.
Books of Anglo-Saxon England We have often heard about the "dark ages",
but Anglo-Saxon England was not the same as we are told. Their books are considered valuable
assets. The first printed books would appear only after a couple of centuries,
and therefore the production of each new book required a huge effort. A team of craftsmen and
scribes worked on each book. The production of a new book required a huge amount of labor and
time. Therefore, the literature of the "dark ages" has become a symbol of power and wealth.
Anglo-Saxon books were highly valued by the Viking invaders. You can read it in
the famous Codex Aureus, one of the most sumptuous surviving gospel books from the Anglo-Saxon era.
The surviving text of the code mentions that a noble Saxon family bought it from the "Great
Pagan Army" in the middle of the 9th century. Some of the pages in the book are purple. In
Anglo-Saxon times, making purple dye required a painstaking process that involved obtaining ink
from sea slugs. It is also highly likely that the manuscript originally had a gold, jeweled cover.
Thus, you begin to understand the painstaking effort that went into making the book, why it is
so attractive to the Vikings, and why the Saxon nobility supposedly paid a huge sum to buy it.
Since books became a symbol of wealth and power, the rulers of those times carried books with them,
even to wars. And later, books began to be given and used as an exchange for other
books or jewelry. The book was an ideal gift during diplomatic acts. The only pity is that
although books were valued in those days, it was not because of the meaning that it carried,
but because of the difficulty of production and high cost.
The ship that was able to surprise Sometimes the forces of nature seem to
laugh at us, throwing us new finds that ask a lot of questions. It's good when archaeologists find
something and it immediately explains this or that moment in our history. It's good when they find
the remains of ancient animals that were missing in the evolutionary chain. But it's much worse
when you manage to find something that defies any logic, and when scientists determine the age of
an object, it breaks the whole history. A similar story happened after the melting of the glaciers.
A couple of years ago in Naryan-Mar, Russia, melting glaciers exposed an
unusual soil consisting of humus and black soil. The researchers said that in this place there was
a riverbed. A ship was found in the middle of this fertile layer! This was a boat or a small ship,
about 10 meters long. The wooden parts of the ship were connected with metal nails.
And it seems to be nothing out of the ordinary. But this river was navigable about 20 thousand
years ago! And after the permafrost covered this area. And only now the ice has melted.
The preliminary age of the nails is 6 thousand years, but how then did the ship end up here 20
thousand years ago, where it was built, how it was brought here, to whom it belonged, why, apart from
the ship, nothing else was found nearby. I told you there would be more questions than answers.
If you believe the alternative history, then at the time of the Cro-Magnons there already
existed a civilization that could quite easily produce metal products. According to the legends
of some northern peoples, a semi-mythical people of metallurgists once lived here,
who knew how to build furnaces, melt various metals and combine them with
each other. It sounds like a fairy tale, but we know that every lie and fiction
hides at least a little truth. While we are waiting for new archeological finds that will
help us explain the origin of the old ones, I will tell you a story about a unique person.
A person who weighed less than 20 kg Freak shows were very popular in the
19th century. The most unusual and sometimes even strange people were taken there. Unfortunately,
almost everyone got there out of desperation. Usually it is difficult for such people to find
a job, make friends, and even more so a family. And the money in such shows paid good. But the
hero of our video did not even think about going there to work, if not for a terrible illness.
Isaac Sprague, after a severe illness, became practically a walking skeleton. With a height
of 186 cm, he weighed less than 20 kg. However, in order to support his family,
he performed in freak shows at fairs. The famous entrepreneur Taylor Barnum gathered a unique
troupe of those times. He had a human dog, Siamese twins, and the living skeleton of Isaac Sprague.
The guy was born in a normal healthy family and until the age of 12 nothing foreshadowed
trouble. He had an excellent appetite and good nutrition. But at some point he began to lose
weight catastrophically. He continued to help his father at work, only his strength became less and
less. Doctors could not explain the reason for the sharp weight loss. At the end of adolescence,
he lost his parents, he could not work physically, for this he had to look for non-standard part-time
jobs. Once at the fair, Taylor Barnum accidentally noticed him and offered him a job. He was making
$80 a week, which is about $1,400 in modern times. After three years working for Barnum, he decided
to take a break from his career and during this time he met his future wife. Tamara Moore bore him
three children, who grew up to normal size and had no health problems. The family had to be fed and
Sprague had to return to the freak show again. He hated his job, his health was deteriorating, and
for a while he carried a flask of milk with him to replenish his energy. From complete impotence,
he fell asleep on the go. At some point, he was diagnosed with "aggressive muscular atrophy" - a
disease due to which muscle tissue was depleted. When he realized that he did not have long to
live, he signed a contract with one university that after death his body would be opened and
studied. After that, his body can be viewed in a museum. For the so-called service,
he was to be given $1,000. However, it is not known for sure whether he managed to carry out
this deal and how he left for the next world. At the end of the video, by tradition, I want to
ask you for a big fat thumb up and write a kind comment. Thanks for your views, bye everyone!