Archaeologists are finding many objects and artifacts that indicate that our ancestors
believed in alien life. Ancient philosophers and medieval scientists
mentioned this more than once. I will tell you about the amazing
and unique finds of archaeologists in this video! Hi, friend. You are on the KirTop channel.
Giant head in the Aegean
A team of European archaeologists and divers found a giant marble head during
an underwater expedition at the site of the Antikythera shipwreck in the Aegean Sea.
Researchers have identified the head as a Heracles of the Farnese type. According to them,
it may belong to a headless statue of a demigod, which was found in the same place in 1900 during
a shipwreck. The statue is currently kept in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
Two human teeth were also found embedded in a hard agglomerate with traces of copper,
genetic material that could be analyzed to determine the sex of the person they belonged to.
The researchers also found several other artifacts belonging to the ship,
such as bronze, iron and nails, but these can only be identified using X-rays.
All items were handed over for conservation to the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities of Greece.
Early Iron Age swords The swords were discovered during the construction
of a new fire station in the Bavarian city of Andechs. These items were funerary, each sword was
buried in a separate grave along with the remains. Swords represent an important transitional stage
from the use of bronze to the use of iron in weapons. Both are made of iron, but the earlier
one was made in the shape and style of a Bronze Age sword. The later one, made in the same period,
had an adapted design to take advantage of the stronger and more stable metal.
The swords are 76 and 66 cm long and 6 cm wide. While the shorter one was probably mainly used
as a stabbing weapon in hand-to-hand combat, the longer and heavier one was more suitable
as a stabbing weapon that a fighter could wield from above - for example, from a horse.
At the Bavarian State Heritage Office in Munich, a team of restorers cleaned the
swords using micro-fine shot blasting technology and examined them more
closely. The restorers managed to find traces of a horn on one of the so-called hilt tongues,
and the hilt was probably made from this material. Two blades also contained the remains of a layered
linen-weave fabric, as well as the remains of a cord that must have been wrapped around
it in several places. Presumably, the weapons were wrapped in cloth and buried.
The oldest traces of human life in the Arctic Modern humans lived in the Arctic 40,000 years ago
at the beginning of the Late Paleolithic. This was found out by examining the bone remains
of animals found in the archaeological complex in the Lower Ob. It is believed
that a man of the modern type ended up in Europe and Asia 50-60 thousand years ago,
but scientists do not know where he lived before and how he passed the Ural Range. For a long time
it was believed that in the period 12-30 thousand years ago the north of Western Siberia was covered
by a glacier, and therefore it is pointless to look for archaeological traces in this region.
In 2020, at the Kushevat site, in the deposits of an ancient stream,
a cultural horizon full of bones was discovered, stretching for tens of meters.
“The stream existed for 20-40 thousand years, now it has shifted down several meters. There are
interesting finds that archaeologists periodically date. In particular, two deer antlers with traces
of processing were found. This is the first discovery in this region, indicating the presence
of man in this area 40 thousand years ago. To determine the age of the finds,
scientists use the method of accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS). This is an ultra-sensitive
method of isotopic analysis, in which a careful selection of the atoms of a substance
is carried out with isotope counting. It allows you to date organic objects
with an accuracy of up to 50 years. This work will allow us to understand
the migration routes of people in the Paleolithic era and find out how people settled on the Earth.
The complex language of communication in chimpanzees
Chimpanzees use a fairly rich language to communicate, the “words” of which they
are able to combine into “sentences,” experts from the Max Planck University of Evolutionary
Anthropology in Germany found out. The researchers analyzed almost 5,000
conversation recordings, totaling about 900 hours, between adult chimpanzees
in the Tai National Park in Côte d'Ivoire. They were able to isolate 390 unique vocal sequences.
Although it was obvious before that the sounds made by chimpanzees carry certain information,
such a wide range of vocalizations came as a surprise to scientists.
Vocalizations were both single and combined into chains of several and combined in different ways.
In total, scientists have identified 12 different types of vocalizations,
including grunts, lowing and whining. The use of vocalizations was influenced by
the context - for example, a single grunt of a chimpanzee was published at the sight of food,
and a series of grunts, more like a pant, as a sign of a submissive greeting.
Although the chimpanzee language is poorer than the human language, it turned out to be
much richer and more diverse than previously thought. There are probably more possible
combinations and sounds in it than we have been able to identify. Scientists hope that further
research into the language of monkeys will help to learn more about the origin of language in humans.
Prehistoric "Swiss knife" South African archaeologists
have found that mid-Stone Age African Howiesons Port-type tools, which are functionally very
similar to "Swiss Army knives", looked almost the same over vast expanses. This
indicates that early humans actively exchanged information and communicated with each other.
The tools of the Hovisons-Port industry were produced in huge quantities over five millennia
and were very perfect for their time - at a later time there was a degradation of technology, and
after some time - a new take-off. The blades made 65-60 thousand years ago were in many respects
superior to the stone tools of the Late Stone Age, which came only 25 thousand years later.
Numerous highly versatile blades have been used for many different purposes, including the use as
hunting tools - hand-thrown spears, and possibly also a bow and arrow; felling trees and branches,
meat, bones, leather dressing, etc. At the same time, all the blades looked very similar
and were made according to a uniform pattern throughout the south of the African continent.
All this indicates that people of that time must have actively shared the secrets of their
manufacture and other information with each other - that is, they were all then socially connected.
Boar's jaw on the chest
The Skhul Grotto is now in Israel. For centuries, shepherds kept goats in this grotto.
Excavations began in 1928. And 3 years later, archaeologists found in the layers of the terrace
in front of the grotto the skeletons of 10 ancient people, as well as more than 10 thousand stone
tools belonging to the Middle Paleolithic. The culture is similar to the Neanderthal.
8 male skeletons, 2 presumably female. All but one of the skeletons had bent legs. Intentional
burials are suspected, although grave pits are not traceable. One of the iconic finds is 2 drilled
shells, one of the oldest jewelry in the world. On the chest of the skeleton of Skhul V,
between the arms, lay the lower jaw of a large boar. Sometimes they mistakenly
write that it is clamped in the hand. Skeletons combine progressive and archaic
features. At various times, they were identified as Neanderthals
or as mestizos of Neanderthals with sapiens. Now usually referred to as anatomically modern humans.
Skhul V - male 30-45 years old. The skull is massive, the forehead is sloping,
the brow is large, the face is low and very wide. The chin prominence is well defined,
but the chin does not protrude. The man was tall (about 179 cm) and had equatorial body
proportions. The teeth were badly worn, there was an abscess. In addition, this man suffered from
rheumatoid arthritis of the mandibular joint. Finds from Skhul have been repeatedly dated
by different methods. Thus, in 1998, the age of about 119,000 years was obtained by the method of
thermoluminescence; the paramagnetic resonance method gave dates of 81 - 101 thousand years.
Family mound in Denmark The remains of two of three people discovered in
1875 at the Borum-Eshöy burial mound in Jutland, Denmark. The finds belong to the Late Bronze Age.
The remains were buried in oak coffins, which allowed them to be dated by annual rings,
and are currently stored in the Moosgaard Museum. The barrow was over 7 meters high and almost 38
meters in diameter. At one time it was a large monumental building, with several internal stone
rooms, "setting stones" and a stone fence built in steps. Probably, it was used for a long time for
religious purposes, to commemorate the buried, who were highly respected by their fellow tribesmen.
There were several burials in the large barrow, including three oak coffins,
which were probably originally buried here. In the first burial, the oak is dated to approximately
1351 BC. The remains belonged to a woman 50-60 years old, a man of the same age and a young man
20-22 years old. Perhaps they were all relatives. The body of an elderly man is well preserved,
even the muscles remained. The study showed that the buried was freshly shaven and even monitored
the condition of the nails. The man lay on an ox-skin and was covered with a woolen blanket.
The buried elderly woman was of small stature and heavy build. Analysis of the
skeleton showed that she worked very hard. The young man was dressed in a woolen kilt
girded with a leather belt and shod in leather boots. He still has hair, probably cut "under
the pot". His burial is dated by the rings of the tree from which the coffin was carved to 1345 BC.
Aliens in antiquity
The concept of aliens has been around for a very long time. Long before human civilization
developed a scientifically based understanding of the cosmos, people around the world looked up
into the sky above and wondered what was there. Some ancient societies inhabited these vast,
mysterious expanses with gods: beings responsible for the creation of the sun, moon, and stars.
In the past, people were also often persecuted for thinking differently. This was the case even
in ancient Greece, despite the fact that it was famous for its innovative philosophers.
When the philosopher Anaxagoras, who was trying to give a scientific explanation
for such seemingly supernatural phenomena for those times as eclipses and rainbows,
suggested that “the moon is not a god, but a large stone, and the sun is also a stone,
but hot”, he was arrested and sentenced to death. Anaxagoras also considered the possibility
that the Moon might be habitable, which was a highly controversial suggestion,
contradicting the dominant view of the cosmos as outlined by Plato and Aristotle.
The belief in the existence of other worlds was taken up by many philosophers, including Epicurus,
who once wrote to the historian Herodotus that "there are an unlimited number of cosmoses,
and some of them are like ours, and some are not." This belief, however weak, was preserved
in ancient Rome. “Nothing in the Universe is unique ,” ​​wrote the Roman poet Lucretius,
“and therefore in other distant spaces there must be other lands inhabited by various tribes
of people and breeds of animals.” Although Plato and Aristotle
lived in a pre-Christian world, their ideas about the universe helped shape the doctrine of the
Christian faith. In the Middle Ages, this belief proclaimed that the Earth was created by God as
the center of the universe. The story of Jesus Christ, who sacrificed himself to forgive the
sins of man, established humanity as the most significant of all creations. If other worlds
existed, they could not be inhabited. After all, if they existed, it would automatically
reduce the significance of the crucifixion. Dominican monk, mathematician and cosmological
theorist Giordano Bruno did not wait until his death to share ideas about the universe.
In three dialogues published between 1584 and 1591, Bruno suggested that some distant stars
might be suns like ours. That planets also revolve around these suns, and, finally, that some of
these planets may be inhabited by life similar to the earth. These views irritated the church,
and in addition Bruno's interest in magic and the occult led to his arrest in 1592. Refusing
to renounce heresy, he was burned at the stake after seven years of imprisonment and torture.
Not all participants in the scientific revolution believed in the existence of aliens. Galileo,
a devout Catholic, considered the talk of extraterrestrials “blasphemous.” British
polymath William Whewell opposed the theory of many worlds, defending a special relationship
between God and humanity. But, oddly enough, his religiously motivated thesis,
set forth in an 1853 book called On the Plurality of Worlds, turned out to be more scientifically
accurate than the pagan astronomers he criticized. Whewell found an ally in Alfred Russel Wallace,
a British naturalist credited with formulating the theory of evolution by natural selection
along with Charles Darwin. “Our Earth is almost certainly the only habitable planet
in our solar system,” Wallace wrote in 1903. But even if life exists somewhere in the universe,
Wallace was adamant that it could never reach the level of sophistication we find on Earth.
Despite the fact that life outside the Earth may well exist, there has never been any evidence
of this. Our telescopes do not allow a good look at potentially habitable planets, and
radio observation of space does not give anything. The aliens also seem to be in no hurry to contact
us. This situation is known as the Fermi paradox. It can be formulated as follows:
alien civilizations must exist, but why haven't they made contact yet?
Two ancient Roman temples in the Netherlands The temple complex was found at a clay mining site
in the village of Herwen-Hemeling, located in the eastern province of Gelderland
near the German border. In ancient times, the border of the Roman state
passed in this area, and therefore scientists were especially surprised by this find. Nearby
is Limes - a fortified border line of the state. Research teams have discovered the remains of
at least two Roman-era temples that were in use between the first and fourth centuries.
One of them was of the Gallo-Roman type, had a tiled roof and richly painted walls,
a slightly smaller temple stood a few meters away. Among the artifacts found in the ruins were the
remains of statues of deities, as well as pits where Roman soldiers lit sacrificial fires.
Among the finds were also painted fragments of plaster and tiles with inscriptions.
Based on the types of inscriptions on the tiles, archaeologists believe
that the temple complex was used by soldiers, since it was the military who made the tiles.
In addition, several dozen small stone altars were found, where Roman
soldiers brought offerings to the gods. Rate this video with your thumb up and
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