Lost "golden city" Archaeologists made a sensational discovery,
they managed to discover the long-lost "golden city", which was named after the sun deity
Aton Rising.
This city is considered the largest of all that scientists have ever found in Egypt.
Archaeologists literally caught their luck by the tail, since earlier about 60 missions
were sent to search for this city, but they all ended in nothing.
Excavations were carried out between the temples of Ramses III and Amenhotep III last fall,
and when archaeologists saw the first signs of a brick structure, they decided that they
had discovered the burial temple of Tutankhamun.
But upon further excavation, they discovered zigzag walls, buildings and rooms.
Seeing all this, they realized that they had discovered not a burial temple at all, but
a whole city.
For 7 months, archaeologists worked tirelessly, and during this time they were able to discover
and excavate several residential quarters and workshops, the administrative district
and premises in which food was made and stored.
They also found craft workshops in which they made decorations for temples and amulets.
In general, they found a lot of evidence that life was once in full swing here, discovered
vessels, dried meat and jugs with the remnants of wine confirm this.
Scientists believe that the foundation of the city took place during the reign of Amenhotep
III, scientists have already announced that it is the largest of the cities found, dating
back to the "golden age", which is approximately 3000 years old.
For them, this is a kind of "Aladdin's cave" since they do not know exactly how much more
they can make sensational finds there, their level is unpredictable.
They hope to find ancient writings, which will describe in detail all the information
they are interested in, and since the excavation continues, it is likely that sooner or later
they will find them.
Find in the ancient head of the Buddha It is not uncommon for treasure hunters to
find a valuable find, and then discover that it contains no less or even more valuable
artifact.
The ancient head of the Buddha can be attributed to such a find, and this head is made of wood,
and its age is estimated at 645 years.
It is surprising that for as long as 6 centuries, none of the previous owners was able to find
the cache, which was disguised by skilled craftsmen.
And only in 2016, art critics from Australia, who examined the head before the auction,
managed to notice a cavity, and in it a very curious and valuable find.
This find turned out to be a large banknote, and its size, in fact, corresponded to an
A4 sheet.
Upon careful examination of the banknote, it was found that it was issued in 1371, just
during the reign of the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang.
The 1 guan banknote was equivalent to 1000 copper coins or 1 ounce of pure silver (28
grams).
By the way, all this information was taken from the bill itself.
In addition, an inscription was found here, which said that for forgery of banknotes,
the person convicted of this was facing the death penalty by beheading.
It is worth noting that this find became a major event in the world of archeology, since
the banknote is, in fact, the very first copy of paper money in history.
In Europe, paper money began to appear only 300 years later in the 17th century.
At least earlier specimens have not yet been found.
So, due to the attentiveness of art critics, one auction lot turned into two different
lots.
Sleeping woman The art of sculpture flourished in Malta.
Archaeologists in a huge number find here ancient Venuses, characteristic of the entire
world of the Paleolithic era.
But there are other works here, much more skillful.
Of course, they were all religious in nature and were dedicated to the goddess.
They are usually small.
Of the large temple sculptures, only one has survived.
The most famous piece of ancient Maltese art is a small (12 cm) figurine of a sleeping
woman.
Pay attention to the abundance of details, elegance of lines and shapes.
And it was created two millennia before the first, still stepped, pyramid of Josser in
the Valley of the Falcons!
Let's talk now about the religion of Ancient Malta.
The foremother stood at the head of the pantheon of gods.
Her cult sometimes became monotheic, and the society itself was a matriarchy.
So one of the later temples was a necropolis for seven thousand deceased women.
No remains of the men were found.
The foremother personified the beginning, prosperity, therefore, serving her was directly
related to the cult of abundance, namely, the cult of food.
They ate a lot, ate greedily, brought food to the temples, filled up the altars with
it.
The main occupation of the islanders was agriculture.
Cotilorinh: Pie on the feet Imagine a creature of gigantic size.
Its barrel-shaped belly literally drags along the floor, and its head is almost invisible
against the background of its powerful body.
270 million years ago, nature was just beginning to sculpt full-fledged vertebrates on land.
As you know, the first pancakes are always lumpy.
And our hero, if not a pancake, then certainly a pie on his paws.
The dimensions of this giant are up to 6 meters in length, up to 2 tons in weight.
In the Permian period, Cotilorhynchus was the largest land creature!
You ask, what about dinosaurs?
And dinosaurs at the time of Cotilorhynchus were not even in sight.
The animal defended itself from the Permian predators by two things: first, by giant claws
- they reached 5-8 centimeters in length.
Secondly, the gigantic size - to hunt our hero was as unrealistic as modern elephants
or hippos.
Cotilorhynchis are not a species, but a whole genus of giant lizardmen.
Some of them reached only 3 meters, some were twice as large.
But it was difficult to hunt both those and others because of their gigantic size.
In general, our body-positive friend occupied a similar niche.
Only not in Africa, but on the territory of modern America.
There he peacefully nibbled grass along the banks of reservoirs, swam in lakes, conquered
predators and generally lived in a high.
So, the first attempts of evolution to do something vertebrate, terrestrial and large
came out not painfully functional.
Why is a cotilorhynchus such a large body?
Why such powerful paws?
And, most importantly, why such a small head?
After all, such proportions did not give any advantage.
But despite this, the beast became the biggest animal of its period!
The oldest meteorite from the Sahara Experts have studied the EC 002 meteorite,
discovered last year in the Sahara Desert.
This stone weighs about 32 kg and is estimated to be 4.6 billion years old.
It has been identified as a piece of a protoplanet that formed before Earth.
Achondrites are a fairly common type of meteorite, accounting for about 8% of all found.
These are stone meteorites without rounded inclusions - chondrules.
They are similar in composition and structure to terrestrial basalts.
All achondrites to one degree or another underwent melting, which destroyed the chondrules.
A team of scientists determined that this 32-kilogram piece of rock was once liquid
lava, then cooled and solidified for 100,000 years, and, eventually, came to our planet.
Until now, no asteroids with similar properties have been found.
It is likely that the protoplanet from which it originated has since disappeared, becoming
part of larger bodies or "just collapsing."
EC 002 is composed primarily of volcanic rocks rich in sodium, iron and magnesium.
The mystery of the "book-head" from the sunken ship
The strange object, resembling a head of cabbage, lifted from the board of the Archangel Raphael
in 2020 is nothing more than a book.
The most valuable find is an impressive volume that has survived almost completely.
But it has yet to be determined what kind of publication it is - the pages heavily contaminated
with lard, grease and tar, swollen from sea water, have not yet given up their secrets.
"The book has survived in its entirety, there are more than 1000 pages in it.
The paper fibers have swollen, the book is fully opened because of this.
It, of course, will require a very careful and thoughtful approach to restoration.
The book has a leather cover, under the cover there is a backing, most likely made of wood
veneer.
All this will have to somehow be dried separately, disassembled and separately dealt with the
book block.
The book will certainly be readable.
"
Ancient books were recognized as authentic The historical document "Velesova Book" was
found to be fake according to the results of the analysis of linguistics.
That is, during the study of old documents, a lot of attention is paid to the writing
language and spelling rules that guided our ancestors.
But experts were able to prove the authenticity of the books about Jesus not only due to this.
The found books were in the spotlight in 2008.
It was then that they first fell into the hands of scholars and posed a difficult question
before them: are these apparently ancient texts actually the same age as Christ?
Or is it just another fake, created by a particularly zealous enthusiast or fraudster.
As shown by isotopic analysis, the books were created from metal plates, similar to another
long-found book, whose age is also approaching 2 thousand years.
Similar traces of corrosion, as well as an almost identical composition of the alloy,
which demonstrates the work of not one master, but somewhere in the same period of time,
since the technology of metal production has changed over the centuries.
In addition, some pages of a kind of "Bible" contain very unusual information.
So, the father of Jesus, that is, God, according to what was written, embodied both male and
female sex at the same time.
Also, the teaching of Christ was called not a new religion, but, on the contrary, ancient
Hebrew.
However, researchers cannot yet reliably say what this means.
Underwater settlement over 6,000 years old Underwater archaeologists from Croatia have
discovered a Neolithic settlement that existed more than six thousand years ago in the region
of the island of Korcula in the south of the country.
Mate Parica of the University of Zadar, together with Croatian archaeologists, while studying
satellite images of the coastline, discovered a large and deep area on the seabed protruding
from the eastern coast of the island of Korcula.
Scientists decided to conduct an underwater survey of this site and identified a supposed
Neolithic settlement that existed around 4500 BC.
Archaeologists believe that this settlement was built on a small piece of land that used
to be connected to the main island by a narrow passage.
They managed to find the ruins of the stone walls that surrounded the village, as well
as pottery, flint knives and some other household items used by the residents.
The location of the settlement seems to be very unusual.
Scientists noted that they were not aware of such finds in this region, and the main
discoveries of the Neolithic era, as a rule, were made during excavations in caves.
In their opinion, the neighboring islands protect the area from large sea waves, which
allowed the settlement to avoid natural destruction.
$ 22 billion cache The Indian temple of Padmanabhaswamy gained
worldwide fame in July 2011, when caches with countless treasures were uncovered in its
basements - totaling more than $ 20 billion.
These findings can only be compared with the values ​​of the tombs of the Egyptian
pharaoh Tutankhamun, discovered in 1922.
The temple was built back in 1750.
The history of the appearance of treasures in the temple is rooted in the culture and
customs of ancient India, when the rajahs, upon accession to the throne, gave the ancient
sanctuary as much gold as their own weight.
At all times, merchants who visited the city made generous offerings to the deity of the
Padmanabhaswamy temple in order not only to receive a blessing for successful trade from
higher powers, but also to enlist the favor of the local authorities.
For centuries, riches have been accumulating in the temple, which the believers brought
as gifts.
The priests of the temple collected all these gifts and took them to storage in six underground
caches.
In six chambers, two of which were sealed about 130 years ago, gold bars with a total
weight of 1 ton and bags of precious stones: rubies, sapphires and diamonds were found.
It is noted that among the most amazing items in the hiding places were: a full-size throne
made of pure gold, studded with diamonds and other precious stones, 536 kilograms of gold
and silver coins, a golden sheaf weighing more than 500 kilograms, dishes and crowns
inlaid with rubies, golden figurines and a gold chain 5.5 meters and weighing 36 kilograms.
And also a golden statue of Vishnu 1.2 meters high.
"Ring of Death" Treasure hunters in Wales have unearthed nine
valuable medieval artifacts in the kingdoms of Powys and Vail.
One of the most valuable finds was a gold ring found in Powys with the inscription Memento
Mori ("Remember death") and a skull.
In addition, they found gold and silver coins and a medieval double hook clasp.
All values ​​belonged, according to historians, to the Welsh nobility and were made in the
period from the 9th to the 17th century.
The treasure hunters donated their finds to the National Museum of Wales.
As the authorities of Wales said, it will become part of the national treasury.
"This is an early example of the late Tudor-early Stuart death ring," said Dr. Mark Redknapp,
National Museum's deputy director for collections and research.
The popularity of these rings was associated with the high mortality rate in that era,
their main idea was to remind of the transience and futility of life.
These findings allowed us to learn more about the attitude towards death in that period.
" Finds also included a medieval silver ring fibula, Tudor coins and a silver hook clasp.
The oldest map of Europe A Bronze Age stone slab, found by archaeologists
in France in 1900, has been re-examined by experts.
A new analysis showed that the drawings in stone are the first ever map of Europe.
According to French scholars, the pattern was made 4000 years ago and depicts the area
of ​​western Brittany.
According to scientists, the stone contains elements that would be logical to find on
a prehistoric map - in particular, a repetitive image of parallel lines, denoting a similarity
of a coordinate grid on the map.
After analyzing the surface of the map, scientists assumed that it was made in three dimensions,
taking into account the height - in their opinion, using the third dimension, ancient
topographers designated the heights in the valley of the Odet River.
Several lines adjoining it seem to indicate the tributaries of the river.
The stone, measuring 1.8 by 1.5 meters, probably depicts a territory that at the beginning
of the Bronze Age was under the rule of a single ruler.
According to scientists, perhaps it symbolizes the alienation of a given territory from one
leader to another.
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