10: The Pleiades The Pleiades is an open star cluster of over
800 stars positioned 410 light-years from us.
The cluster is found within the Taurus constellation, and although there are nearly 1000 stars in
this group, there are 7 that stand out to us in the night sky.
These are known as the Seven Sisters.
Now, the Seven Sisters have been around for a long time, in both myth and reality.
To the Greeks, the Pleiades represented the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione.
After Zeus defeated Atlas in the war against the titans, the god of Olympus sentenced him
to hold the heavens on his shoulders.
His seven daughters were so distraught that Zeus gave them a place in the sky so they
could be closer to their dad.
But this is only one of many stories about the Pleiades.
The strange coincidence regarding this well-known grouping of stars is this: Just about every
ancient society came up with some great legend surrounding these stars, and in every myth
or legend created about them, the civilization named them the “Seven Sisters,” the “Seven
Maidens,” the “Seven Girls,” etc.
For thousands of years, civilizations that had no connection to each other came up with
the idea that these stars represented seven women.
There's almost no way this could be purely chance.
How could the Australian indigenous people have come up with the same myths as the Greeks
about some random objects
in the sky?
9: Hercules One of the most famous heroes in history may
very well have been a real person.
I'm talking about the Greek hero Heracles, also known as Hercules to the Romans and to
the rest of the world today.
But according to some historians, the legends of Hercules may have originated from one or
more real people in the very distant past.
In fact, most ancient legends start with real historical events and real historical people.
But as these stories are repeated over time, they become far more dramatic.
In the case of Hercules, it's believed his story may actually be the oldest in all of
the world’s mythology, with its root in the prehistoric Stone Age.
But here's the deal, Hercules may not have actually lived in Greece.
The legend of Hercules is strikingly similar to other heroes spoken of in Mesopotamia and
other parts of the Near East.
Experts think the old Stone Age heroes may have been exaggerated by the Mesopotamians,
then handed down to the Greeks thousands of years later.
It’s why Hercules is always seen wearing animal skin and carrying around a club – he’s
literally a caveman.
When the Romans came along they took Hercules and made him their own, and through the last
2000 years, the hero has continued to evolve.
There is no real coincidence here, just the amazing truth of how one Stone Age person’s
incredible life became a legend, a myth, and a popular icon over 5000 years after he lived.
I’m sure whoever he was, he would be shocked to learn that his story had so much impact
it even was a Disney Movie!
8: The Central Pyramid Most of us are familiar with the iconic Great
Pyramid of Giza- an amazing technological wonder, with mysteries surrounding how it
was built so long ago.
But what almost no one knows is that the pyramid is also a geological wonder.
It just so happens to be sitting in a rather geologically significant location: the exact
center of the Earth.
How this happened is beyond anyone’s current understanding.
But according to the experts, the Great Pyramid is one of the most accurately aligned buildings
ever made by human hands.
First of all, the pyramid faces due north with 3/60th of a degree of error.
However, this small margin of error is likely because by the time scientists were able to
study it, the position had shifted over thousands of years.
The really amazing thing is that the pyramid is positioned exactly at the intersection
of the longest line of both latitude and longitude, placing it at the bullseye, dead center of
the middle of the planet.
How did the ancient Egyptians do it?
For them to have done this on purpose would be impossible.
The ancient builders not only would have needed a sophisticated understanding of mathematics,
they also would have had to be experts in geometry.
And to take it a significant step further, they would have needed to know the exact dimensions
of the Earth.
Considering many people thought the earth was flat back then, this is highly unlikely,
making this world wonder’s location yet another amazing historical coincidence.
What do you think?
We're the ancient Egyptians that advanced?
Let me know in the comments below!!
7: Biblical Archaeology In 1846, an Assyrian obelisk was found in
northern Iraq.
On this obelisk was a reference to Jehu, the Hebrew king from the 9th century BC.
It was the first time that an archaeological discovery corresponded to something written
in the Bible.
Ever since, more and more archaeological discoveries have corroborated stories, people, or events
in the Bible.
In fact, in 1959, Rabbi Dr. Nelson Glueck declared that not a single archaeological
discovery has contradicted a reference from the Bible.
What this means is that nothing ever found has disproved a biblical story.
Archaeology has done nothing except confirm stories and myths spoken of in the most popular
book ever written.
Now, is this a coincidence?
If it is a coincidence, it's the biggest one in history.
Back in 1968, an ancient home from the 1st century was identified as the real house of
the apostle Peter.
And in 1990, there was an ossuary discovered with the inscription of the name of Caiaphas,
the high priest who instigated the execution of Jesus.
In 2021, scientists learned of a cataclysmic event in which an asteroid decimated an ancient
city from the Middle Bronze Age, which likely inspired the tale of the Biblical city of
Sodom.
Dr. Steven Collins, who was involved in the investigation, says the ancient city was literally
melted by an exploding cosmic airburst, resulting in destruction equivalent to 1000 Hiroshima
bombs.
But because the ancient people hadn’t known that, they simply thought it was God smiting
the whole city.
Basically, all these archaeological coincidences point to one truth: the stories in the Bible,
though probably not 100% accurate, were often at least inspired by real historic events.
6: Egypt & Mesopotamia Egypt and Mesopotamia rose to power just after
the Neolithic Period, with each civilization growing alongside a mighty river.
And while there were some serious differences between Egypt and Mesopotamia, the largest
being the fact that Egypt was governed by a single pharaoh while Mesopotamia was a group
of autonomous city-states, there were some real coincidental similarities.
The biggest similarities had to do with the culture of the civilizations.
Both Egypt and Mesopotamia created their own systems of writing that looked eerily similar.
Both these ancient places started writing using pictograms, and they used these pictograms
primarily for keeping records.
In both places at around the same time, they developed schools in which young boys were
trained as scribes.
They were taught how to use the pictograms, which ultimately turned into hieroglyphic
systems of writing.
The language was completely different, yet composed of the same characters and ideas.
The thought was to take images that meant something and use them to convey information.
But keep in mind, even though there are coincidences to be found between these civilizations, they
were quite different.
Even their religions were dramatically different from one another.
Mesopotamians believed in angry gods that frequently plagued humanity with calamities,
while the Egyptians believed in gods based on nature and the environment that granted
prosperity and harmony to humans.
However it looks like they both strongly believed in the power of writing things down or at
least drawing them, for future generations.
5: Ancient Tongues The tongue is a very weird organ.
In ancient Tibet, monks would stick their tongues out as a kind of greeting.
It revealed to other people that you were good and that you weren't a demon with a secret
black tongue.
For cultures like the Maya and the Aztec, sticking out one’s tongue could be a gesture
of violence.
No matter where you go in the world, all ancient cultures associated sticking your tongue out
of your mouth as a way of conveying meaning- which could be either a good thing or a bad
thing.
There's no better evidence of how important tongues were to ancient people than in the
artwork they left behind.
The Aztecs, Mayans, Celts, Indians, and so many others left behind countless depictions
of gods and men sticking out their tongues.
In fact, many statues of their gods have their tongues sticking out, usually as a symbolism
for bloodlust.
But even though the tongue has been so important for so long, archaeologists and historians
still don't quite understand why.
What do you think the human fascination is with sticking out the tongue?
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4: The Indian Sphinx When we think of the sphinx, we think of the
huge mythical creature depicted sitting in front of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
But even though sphinxes are synonymous with Egyptian culture, they have been found in
other places on Earth too.
There have been plenty of ancient sphinxes found throughout Greece – but this isn't
really a surprising coincidence.
Greece and Egypt have had a long and sometimes violent history, with their cultures and artistic
styles often getting mixed together.
A really strange coincidence is that in India, you can also find carved sphinxes from ancient
times that look shockingly similar to the ones in Greece and Egypt.
Particularly, you can find mysterious sphinx idols at the famous Nataraja Temple in Chidambaram.
The sphinxes here have the bodies of a lion and the faces of humans, believed to represent
sacred and secret knowledge.
They are located near the entrances of shrines and temple gateways, acting as guardians for
these ancient sites.
This is much in the same way that the Sphinx in Egypt guards the great pyramids.
The big issue here is trying to understand how a hybrid beast made of a human and a lion
was thought up by both Egyptians and the earliest Indians, and why each culture used these specific
mythical creatures to protect their most sacred places.
3: Race of Giants Humans have long told stories of giants walking
the Earth.
The wildest part is that the stories of giants have been told by civilizations on all sides
of the globe, at just about every major global intersection.
Additionally, proof of giants has been found all over the world as well.
For example, as recently as 2016, researchers in China uncovered giant human skeletons in
over 200 tombs.
These skeletons weren't too enormous, only up to a maximum of 6’ 2” in height.
But still, considering they were from 5000 years ago, they were ridiculously tall.
Even at just six feet, you would be insanely tall today.
But in Neolithic China, where people generally only grew to be about 5 feet tall, these people
would have been considered literal giants.
According to Fang Hui, head of the Shandong University’s school of history and culture,
the individuals may have grown so large because they had access to better food than other
people.
However, if this were true, why aren't people growing over 6-feet-tall today?
Now we need to go across the planet to a favorite American vacation spot.
Just 40 miles north of the Ozarks in Missouri, seven skeletons were discovered in April of
1934.
These skeletons measured over 8 feet in height.
And it's not the only place in the western hemisphere where this kind of discovery was
made.
Giant skeletons have also been found in South America, in Ecuador.
So, either there really was a race of giants once living on just about every continent,
or there were just a few hotspots where giant people thrived and eventually went extinct.
2: The Code of Hammurabi vs. Laws of Today The Code of Hammurabi was written sometime
between 1792 and 1750 BC, under the Babylonian king Hammurabi.
Coincidentally, this very first complete written legal system had a lot in common with our
own code of laws today.
The code is a collection of approximately 282 rules, which established a standard of
social interactions, with a set list of fines and punishments depending on what a person
did.
The code, so that nobody could miss it, was carved onto a giant black pillar – which
was discovered by archaeologists in 1901.
At the very top of the pillar was a carved relief of Hammurabi himself receiving the
list of laws from the Babylonian god of justice, Shamash.
And yes, this is quite similar to the story of Moses receiving the Ten Commandments in
the Bible.
It's just that this happened several thousand years earlier.
The rest of the pillar, about 7’ 6” of black stone, is covered in cuneiform script
detailing the complex legal system.
And while some of the punishments for breaking laws were pretty harsh, like the guilty person
having their tongue cut off or their hands removed – one thing is identical to the
United States legal system of today.
After a person was accused of a crime, even 4000 years ago, they were considered innocent
until proven guilty.
But at the same time, if a man was caught stealing an ox, the punishment was that he
would have to pay back 30 times the value of the ox.
So, not exactly like the laws of today, but pretty close.
1: Bucket & Cone What is the symbolic significance of the bucket
and cone, depicted in art that is widespread throughout the ancient world?
Archaeologists seem to have no idea.
The bucket and cone are seen with deities represented in old Mesopotamian structures
and in art from the more recent Neo-Assyrian Empire.
There are dozens of reliefs showing a wide variety of deities holding what appears to
be a pinecone in their right hand and a bucket or handbag in their left.
Some have actually claimed these deities are Anunnaki, a supposed race of ancient aliens
that once enslaved humanity and forced our ancient ancestors to mine gold for them.
But of course, there is no proof of this.
A more logical explanation for the widespread bucket and cone symbology is that they were
both objects used in purification rituals going back over 5000 years.
The cone was dipped in a bucket of water, then shook over a person to purify them.
There's a lot of speculation that the bucket and cone are clues to a more complex human
history, but the truth is probably quite simple.
The reason these symbols are seen throughout so much of the old world is simply because
the purification ritual was quite popular.
As for the pinecone – well, it’s been a symbol of fertilization for thousands of
years.
What do you think is the meaning behind the bucket and the cone?
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