How many amazing things and ancient artifacts are found in India. And this time, one man
had a real hysteria when a treasure was found on his site. Gold, silver and even a huge
ruby! Why this man was hysterical and laughed without stopping, you will find out in this
video! Watch it to the end! You will also see a pregnant mummy, an ancient Roman safe
and the heads of the Gods! Hi Friend. You are on the KirTop channel.
The world's first pregnant mummy The ancient Egyptian mummy, along with the
sarcophagus, were donated to the University of Warsaw in 1826 (found in Thebes in Upper
Egypt), and since 1917 have been kept in the National Museum of Warsaw.
The mummy had a difficult fate: at first it was attributed to the female sex (probably
due to the complex sarcophagus), and in 1920, on the contrary, was identified as a man - on
the sarcophagus they found the male name Khor-Dzhekhuti, who held a high position in society, was a
scribe, priest and son of a certain Padiamonemipet. But a 2016 computed tomography showed that
a completely different mummy may be lying in the Khor-Dzhiguti sarcophagus. Its bones
turned out to be too fragile for a man, there were no male genitals, but, probably, there
was a breast. Scientists have suggested that another mummy was deliberately placed in the
sarcophagus in order to pass it off as a more expensive artifact, which were so prized in
the market for antiquity lovers in the 19th century.
Therefore, the identity of the woman cannot be established. However, according to its
remains, scientists from the Polish Academy of Sciences and Warsaw University were able
to understand that the woman was mummified with great care and a rich set of amulets.
This suggests that she also held a high position in society.
In addition, scientists have found that the woman died a little over 2,000 years ago,
around the 1st century BC. At the time of her death, she was between 20 and 30 years
old, but most importantly, she was pregnant, at about 26-30 weeks. The tomography showed
the tiny feet of the fetus in the womb of the mummy.
The researchers say this is the first such find. The fact is that in the event of the
death of a pregnant woman, the fetus was probably removed from the body before mummification
(otherwise how else to explain the absence of such finds). The cause of death of the
mysterious lady, according to experts, could have been the same pregnancy - the main factor
in the death of young women in those days.
Safe over 1600 years old The find was made during excavations of the
Roman villa Casa del Mitreo. The villa was located near the ancient city
of Augusta Emerita, the former capital of the Roman Lusitania. The complex of buildings
was built at the end of the 1st - the beginning of the 2nd century, in the following centuries
the building was rebuilt and expanded several times.
The archaeologists named the villa Casa del Mitreo, because next to it there was a temple
dedicated to the god Mithra. In the fourth century, the villa was destroyed by fire and
has not been rebuilt since then. According to experts, the villa belonged to
a very wealthy family. During excavations in 1994, scientists found the remains of a
chest bound with metal. However, the condition of the tree caused them concern, so they decided
to leave the chest in place, postponing its extraction. For several years, they prepared
for a more thorough excavation and continued their research in 2017.
The chest was deformed due to the effects of fire when the burning roof of the villa
collapsed on it. The current dimensions of the chest are 3 by 1.5 meters, experts cannot
restore the original appearance of the product. Similar chests in ancient Rome were called
"arch of ferrata", they were used as safes to store jewelry, coins and important documents.
So far, only four such boxes have been found, with three in Pompeii and one in northeastern
Spain.
Mausoleum of Emperor Augustus The mausoleum, built two millennia ago for
the first Roman emperor Augustus, is finally reopened to the public after 14 years of restoration.
The restoration project cost $ 12.25 million. The first emperor of Rome, Augustus, ruled
the empire for a total of 40 years. In 28 BC. NS. he built for himself and his relatives
a huge mausoleum in the very center of the city - on the Champ de Mars.
The structure was a round tomb with a diameter of 87 meters, consisting of several cylindrical
"pancakes", planted one on top of the other. The tiers of the tomb were decorated with
cypresses, and a bronze statue of the emperor towered at the very top. The height of the
structure was 44 meters. At the beginning of the 5th century, Rome
was captured by the Visigoths and the tomb was plundered, urns were stolen, and the ashes
were scattered, but the invaders did not destroy the building. Time gradually destroyed it.
In the 30s of the 20th century, during the reign of Mussolini, who considered himself
the successor of Augustus, it was decided to revive the former glory and grandeur of
the mausoleum, and to restore it. The work was started, but then the war came and the
large-scale restoration had to be forgotten for a long time.
The city authorities seriously returned to this issue only five years ago, as part of
a $ 12.5 million mausoleum restoration project. The restoration was completed in December
last year, and from March 1, visitors began to enter the tomb.
Augustus was the first Roman emperor and spearheaded the transformation of the republic into an
empire after his great-uncle and adoptive father, Julius Caesar, was assassinated. The
last words of Augustus were: "I took Rome as a city of brick; I leave it to you as a
city of marble."
The greatest blacksmith of Japan Master Masamune was considered the greatest
blacksmith of Japanese swords. The exact years of his life are not known, but he made most
of his blades between 1288 and 1328. Masamune became famous for creating a fundamentally
new technique for making blades, in which four strips of steel welded together, folded
together five times. The result was a steel package consisting of 128 layers. It is believed
that Masamune refused to sign his blades because they could not be counterfeited.
There is a legend that tells of a test in which the famous gunsmith and student of Masamune
Senzo Muramasa challenged his teacher to find out whose swords were the best. Both worked
tirelessly and when the blades were ready, they decided to check the results. The test
was that each of them thrust his sword into the bottom of a stream overgrown with lotus,
so that the blade, washed by the flowing water, was facing upstream. Muramasa's sword, Juuchi
Yosamu ("10,000 cold nights"), cut through everything that came his way: leaves floating
in a stream, fish and even air. Very impressed by the work of his disciple, Masamune also
lowered his blade named Yavarakai-te ("Gentle Hands") into the stream and began to wait
patiently. However, the blade cut only the leaves floating in the water, without harming
either the fish or the wind. After a while, Muramasa began taunting his teacher, chiding
him for his apparent lack of skill. Smiling to himself, Masamune drew his sword from the
water, dried it and put it in its sheath. Then a monk approached them, all this time
observing the test, and bowed deeply to both masters. Then he told them what he had seen.
The first sword was beautiful, but it is a bloodthirsty, evil blade, since it does not
distinguish between whom and what to cut. It will be equally successful in chopping
butterflies and cutting off their heads. The second sword was much better, since it did
not unnecessarily cut what was innocent and unworthy. Since then, it is believed that
the naked blade of Muramasa will not return to its scabbard until it tastes blood, even
if it is the blood of its own owner.
Hysteria over a treasure This incident took place in early April in
India, in a village called Pembarty, in the state of Telingana. During construction work,
an excavator unscrewed a copper vessel filled with jewels from the ground. After research,
it turned out that there were 20 gold earrings and 51 gold beads, as well as 11 chains of
the same noble metal. The total weight of gold items was 189.8 grams. In addition, the
vessel also contained 1.72 kilograms of silver, as well as a ruby ​​weighing 6.5 grams.
The treasures, of course, evoke different emotions among the diggers, but the Hindu,
the owner of the land where the treasures were found, threw a real hysteria. He laughed
hysterically like a man possessed, and local onlookers tried to calm him down. Of course,
if you look at the situation in more detail, then the hysteria of the owner of the land
can be easily explained. The fact is that if the examination confirms that the jewelry
is more than a hundred years old, then the treasure will be completely transferred to
the state's ownership. And there is no doubt that they are over a hundred years old. It
is noted that experts have already begun excavations at the place where the treasures were discovered,
but so far, nothing else has been found. There are suggestions that an ancient temple once
stood on this piece of land, and the jewelry was a kind of offering to the local goddess.
Naturally, the indigenous people immediately organized a place of worship, brought flowers,
incense and began to pray, India is India. But the one who found the treasure is really
a pity.
Cleared the Cross of 1000 Years of Plaque In 2014, treasure hunter Derek McLennan found
a silver artifact with an Anglo-Saxon design in a field in the southwest of Scotland.
The artifact turned out to be the “tip of the iceberg”. In total, the friends unearthed
over 100 gold and silver objects. Galloway Hoard turned out to be the largest collection
of Viking artifacts in the UK. In 2017, the artifacts were donated to the
National Museums of Scotland. Since then, curators and restorers have been working with
the finds. And so they published another cleaned up artifact.
This Anglo-Saxon cross has lain in the Earth for about 1000 years. It was very difficult
to clean because of the silver chain - the wire wound around the intestines of the animal.
In the end, the restorers decided to use a sharpened porcupine needle that was sharp
enough to scrape off dirt, but not hard enough to damage the elaborate ornamentation.
The ornament was made in niello and gold. The cross depicts the four apostles of the
Christian New Testament: Matthew as a man (below), Mark as a lion (left), Luke as a
calf (right), and John as an eagle (above). The find is unique. From the ninth century,
only one other Anglo-Saxon cross has been found, and it is made much less skillfully.
Most likely, such a beautiful cross belonged to a king or a very high-ranking member of
the clergy. Probably the Vikings stole it and all the other artifacts of the Galloway
Treasure during a raid on a monastery.
Head of the god Hermes The Greek Ministry of Culture reported that
during the planned work to clean up the sewage collector under the Athenian Saint Irene Square,
a well-preserved marble head of the god Hermes was found. The sculpture dates back to around
300 BC. NS. The find was transferred to the Athenian epora of antiquities.
Herms - tetrahedral pillars with the head or bust of Hermes on top - were ubiquitous
in ancient Greece. They were installed at the borders of land plots, along roads, at
intersections, on city streets and squares. Over time, images of other gods began to be
placed on the herms, but still Hermes appeared on them most often. The head found in Athens
was also once the upper part of a herm. It is made in the style of the famous sculptor
of the second half of the 5th century BC. NS. Alkamena, one of whose famous works was
Hermes Propylus (Gateway) at the entrance to the Acropolis of Athens. In the future,
his works were reproduced many times, and the heads of Hermes in the style of Alkamen
are now in the Getty Museum, Istanbul Archaeological Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum. There
are two such sculptures in the State Hermitage Museum (1, 2), both of them are Roman copies
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