number nine the alien pharaoh
akhenaten was the first pharaoh to
change the religion of the whole kingdom
of egypt forcing his people to abandon
their old gods and worship just one god
aten he ruled for about 17 years and
during that time he erased the monuments
of amun and moot and replaced them with
the sundisk god
previously known as ammon hotep iv he
changed his name and built a whole new
capital called amarna out in the desert
during this time it's believed he
married queen nefertiti and she became
his queen consort ruling alongside him
besides these drastic religious changes
akhenaten was known for his very strange
almost alien appearance he was portrayed
as having large almond eyes a very small
protruding abdomen weirdly thin limbs
and a skull much larger than any normal
human
egyptologists have been mystified about
this strange representation of the
pharaoh but it seems that he may have
suffered from a severe physical
deformity that he was trying to hide
other artwork showing him does not make
him look like an alien
assistant professor of comparative
genomics at cairo university stuart
fleishman mapped the genome of nine
egyptian pharaohs eight of the genomes
were normal but the dna from akinaten
was unusual his dna demonstrated unusual
growth in his cerebral cortex which
meant he had a mutation which caused his
brain to grow far larger than normal
based on his looks his dna and his weird
behavior as a pharaoh some believe he
was actually an alien human hybrid
so what his mission was on earth nobody
can say
it didn't go well for him in the end he
was quite hated and when his own son
king tut took the throne he erased much
of what his father had done and returned
egypt to the old gods
number 8. the grand canyon forbidden
zone
the grand canyon has also been home to
many controversies and wild speculations
in recent years
over 100 years ago in 1909 a local
phoenix newspaper in arizona reported
that archaeologists had discovered an
egyptian cave in the grand canyon
this is obviously insane because as far
as we know no egyptians ever made it to
north america
if true the discovery of an egyptian
party of explorers in the americas would
flip the world of history on its head
here's what happened an explorer was
floating down the colorado river when he
saw a strange cave carved into the side
of one of the cliffs he alerted the
smithsonian who then sent their very own
scientists to investigate the local
press got hold of the story and they
sent their own men to investigate the
reporters were shocked when it turned
out the cave was filled with egyptian
artifacts at the time it was suggested
that the smithsonian hauled about 40
full truckloads of artifacts out of the
cave and then erased any proof the
egyptians were ever there
naturally the smithsonian denies all of
these claims why would they want to
erase evidence they say there never was
a cave no egyptian people ever made it
to north america thousands of years ago
and they never took away any mysterious
artifacts all these years later there is
no way to really know but rumors like
this always persist perhaps egypt and
the nile and arizona and the colorado
river are linked by a historical chain
and mysterious tablets
but perhaps during this time early
propaganda in the united states wanted
to promote manifest destiny and didn't
really want to promote advanced
indigenous people so any artifacts and
objects left over were hidden or
destroyed to make it seem like the land
was empty and up for grabs apart from
all this ancient origins reports there
is truth to the fact that many
geological formations of the grand
canyon were named after hindu and
egyptian gods and temples but no one
really knows who named these places
there is an alleged forbidden zone in
grand canyon national park where hikers
can't enter and researchers can't
explore
it is a place full of ancient tunnels
carved out by the hopi people and no one
can enter any of the caves or old salt
mines and no permits will ever be issued
some speculate this forbidden zone could
be hiding the secrets that scientists
don't want us to know about a rogue
group of egyptians living in the grand
canyon what do you think about this let
me know in the comments below
number 7. the code of urnamu the code of
ornamu is considered the oldest
surviving code of law the text was
written on several clay tablets by
ancient sumerians the code was
transcribed sometime in the 3rd century
bc discovered in the 1900s by
archaeologists excavating the ancient
city of nippor in modern iraq they found
the law book split into two pieces one
detailing the origins of the code and
the other proclaiming the five main laws
in 1952 these laws were translated by
samuel cramer world-renowned expert on
ancient mesopotamian cultures by 1965
more fragments of the code were found
and translated by the time all was said
and done archaeologists had revealed 40
laws put down by the sumerians to be
obeyed by all what's quite interesting
is how similar the laws of sumer
thousands of years ago are to our own
laws today the capital offenses were
things like murder and robbery with
punishment almost always being death
for less serious offenses punishment
usually included imprisonment or hefty
fines these were things like kidnapping
knocking out another man's tooth and
even practicing sorcery they also had
laws about accusing somebody who wasn't
guilty
if he were to accuse a man of committing
a crime and that crime turned out not to
be real you instead would be the one who
was punished
while there are earlier codes of law in
history it was this code of urnamu that
survived on stone tablets this code may
have been written by king ornamu or his
son and this period in sumerian history
in the third millennium bc
is believed to have been generally
peaceful and prosperous
number six neolithic egypt
in the year 3100 bc the great dynasty of
what we think of as ancient egypt began
this was the beginning of the pharaohs
and the pyramids but what happened
before that who were the mysterious
people who gave rise to the powerful
kingdoms of ancient egypt according to
the experts neolithic activity was going
on in egypt somewhere around 6000 years
before the first pharaoh it was the
lifestyle and technological advancements
made by these unnamed humans that
allowed egypt to blossom into the
advanced civilization we think of today
but who are these people and how did any
of this happen or maybe an even more
important question why does it seem
mainstream archaeologists have ignored
the egyptian ancestors
the answer is they haven't they actually
are trying but it is extremely difficult
there are changes in human migration
patterns and advances in technology and
changes in the land and environment that
will just make you bored
however recent analysis of six ancient
burial sites may shed some light that
will grab your attention
one of the problems with trying to
research prehistoric egypt is that the
sites created by the even earlier people
are either completely gone or hidden
under the sand
these six newest sites were excavated in
the western desert and researchers
uncovered proof that whoever lived here
before the egyptians did things like
domesticate cattle and goats buried
their dead in complicated tombs and they
built megalithic structures we don't
have an exact identity for them yet but
judging by the handful of skeletons
recently uncovered and a small
assortment of artifacts we can safely
say there was an entire civilization
living in egypt before the pharaohs ever
took over we just don't know who they
were where they learned new technologies
or where they even came from
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number five chamber of secrets in 2010 a
group of archaeologists working in
kolkata india formerly calcutta stumbled
upon a mysterious chamber of secrets in
the national library
this library is over 250 years old built
back in the 1760s as a palace and then
converted into a library in 1891.
after the mysterious chamber was
discovered there was a lot of
speculation as to its purpose
some claimed it was installed by british
lords and used for torture
others said it was a secret treasure
vault where the british masters kept all
the priceless artifacts that they stole
from the local people
unfortunately for all of us the chamber
of secrets turned out to be pretty
boring after all the speculation
archaeologists came out and admitted
that the chamber was actually just a
pocket in the structure probably used by
the architects to strengthen the
foundation of the building it was
basically empty so if it did ever hold
anything interesting it was long gone
either that or a more fun theory
promoted by conspiracy theorists is that
the archaeologists discovered something
so heinous about the secret chamber's
history that they lied to the world
after all the national library is a
pretty mysterious building on its own
rumored to be haunted with spirits
breathing down your neck and making you
feel cold while you are trying to read
there are other rumors that the library
has other rooms that cannot be opened
chairs that move on their own and
tortured spirits dropping books
number four forbidden worship
for hundreds of years the most important
place of worship in israel was the holy
temple a pair of amazing structures atop
the temple mount in the heart of
jerusalem it is written in the bible
that the holy temple is where god will
dwell alongside his people
however the holy temple is no more it
was destroyed by the babylonian conquest
in 587 bc
rebuilt then destroyed for good by the
romans in 72 a.d
according to tom meyer from the shasta
bible college there was actually a
secondary secret temple in israel during
the days of the holy temple
it was hidden in the negev desert and if
the bible is to be believed this was a
forbidden place where nobody was
supposed to be worshiping anything
in the old testament it's written that
god designated only one temple for
worship the holy temple but this
secretive temple in the desert first
uncovered by archaeologists in the 1960s
was fully operational for at least 300
years in spite of the one temple rule in
other words
people were disobeying god's law at
least they were until king josiah
destroyed the forbidden temple for good
in the 7th century bc
leaving behind nothing but a ruin
number 3 ancient olympic champion
kyniska of sparta was one of the most
legendary women of ancient times and yet
she's conveniently been left out of
history books kyniska was a spartan
princess the daughter of king arkhadamus
ii and the sister of king adjace
and the first woman ever to participate
in the olympic games
according to historical records kyniska
was probably between the age of 40 and
50 when she participated in the olympics
in the year 396 bc
this was no ordinary princess as a royal
spartan she had her very own stable
where she could breed raise and train
horses and since spartan society
actually encouraged both men and women
to train in areas of physical strength
it wasn't at all a big shock when
kyniska entered the olympics
this is in stark contrast to neighboring
greece where girls were essentially shut
away from the public and kept more
isolated popular culture may show the
spartans as fierce male warriors but
there were plenty of tough women too as
it was an entire warrior society
kyaniska was so tough that she competed
in what's called a tethrapon a type of
ancient triathlon involving chariot
racing she won the games in both 396 and
392 bc
this is in direct conflict with what
you'll find online with almost every
major news source claiming the first
olympic games to allow female athletes
was in 1900 in paris
wrong it was sparta over 2000 years ago
and she won twice
number 2 the nampa image
the nampa image was allegedly discovered
in 1889 during the construction of a
water well
this was in the small town of nampa
idaho the workers uncovered a small
figurine no more than 1.5 inches long
inside the sand pump at an incredible
depth of 300 feet below the surface the
figurine was made of baked clay and had
clearly been fashioned by intelligent
hands to look like a human
the issue with the discovery was that it
was impossible the rock where it was
found was dated back to 2 million years
ago way before humans were even around
let alone in north america
how would a figurine be lost and then
buried under 300 feet of earth 2 million
years ago there's no way
the discovery was quickly dismissed as a
hoax scientists didn't look into it
thoroughly and the figurine was simply
called a fake over time people lost
interest and the object was forgotten
but ancient astronaut theorists and
others remember this object
and use it as an example of just one of
many out-of-place artifacts left behind
by an ancient civilization that lived in
north america way before human beings
had even moved out of africa the more
likely story is that ancient people did
make the figurine but then it got lost
and it could have just been swept away
by water and the elements until it
turned up again
it's apparently still on display at the
idaho state historical society in boise
number 1. the necronomicon
the necronomicon also known as the book
of the dead is a grimoire spoken of by
the famous author h.p lovecraft it also
appears in the evil dead movie franchise
but it was first mentioned in 1924 in
lovecraft's short story the hound
lovecraft claims the book was written by
a real person someone named the mad arab
abdul al-azrad the necronomicon
allegedly contains the history of the
old ones god-like beings such as cthulhu
it also tells the reader exactly how to
summon them to the physical plane
but just how much truth is there to this
mysterious book probably just like the
lost city of atlantis not much
lovecraft claimed he came up with the
name necronomicon with the help of a
dream but modern historians believe
lovecraft was influenced by a collection
of short stories written by robert w
chambers titled the king in yellow
when asked about the authenticity of the
necronomicon lovecraft himself admitted
there never was any person named abdul
al-azrad a.k.a the mad arab he also said
that he invented everything about the
book himself
still there are some hardcore believers
that say h.p lovecraft knew more than he
admitted lovecraft wrote that there are
still five original copies of the
necronomicon worldwide one at the
british museum another at the university
of buenos aires harvard university one
in france and the final copy in the
fictional town of arkham massachusetts
if the necronomicon is truly real these
are the places to start looking thanks
for watching which of these examples of
forbidden history shocked you the most
what would you like to learn more about
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