10.
Moloch & the Ancient Bull There was no pagan deity quite as despised
by nearly every biblical prophet and Roman senator as Moloch.
Moloch was the Canaanite god of child sacrifice.
He had a bronze body with a furnace in his belly which was used for roasting children.
The people who worshiped this awful deity were known as the Cult of Moloch.
And it's been said, although no real physical evidence has ever been found, that they boiled
children alive inside of an enormous bronze statue.
The statue had the body of a man and the head of a bull and archaeologists are trying to
search for clues of actual sacrifice.
The Canaanites were not the only ancient people who worshiped a great bull god, nor were they
the only ones who practiced human sacrifice.
In Carthage, what is now Tunisia, child sacrifice was so common that they had a sacred grove,
and a temple dedicated to their god Baal Hammon.
Archaeological excavations in the 1920s uncovered evidence of child sacrifice in the region.
Moving over to ancient Egypt, they worshiped a bull deity named Apis.
He was actually one of the very first gods to be associated with an animal, originally
worshiped about 5000 years ago.
But unlike the bull god of the Canaanites, Apis wasn’t so murderous.
He instead represented the peaceful balance of the universe.
Some believe the Canaanites took the idea of Apis and twisted it into their terrifying
god, Moloch. 9.
Danish Dogs in South America Vikings may very well have been in South America
about 400 years before the Spanish.
The evidence is shaky, but it is possible.
One of the biggest contributors to this strange theory has to do with dogs.
In 1885, researchers discovered a very specific variety of sheepdogs buried in an Inca grave.
These dogs had been buried beside their mummified humans.
This is because prior to the conquest of South America, it was fairly common for groups like
the Inca to be buried with their best canine friends.
Now here comes the coincidence.
French scientists Madeleine Friant and H. Reichlen did an analysis of the sheepdog and
found it not to be a descendant of wild South American dogs.
Instead, it was directly related to the same dogs which have been discovered buried in
Denmark, where the Vikings lived 1000 years ago.
According to these researchers, anatomical coincidence is anything but.
These dogs are the same, there's no doubt about it.
The big question now is trying to figure out how Danish dogs reached South America before
the Spanish.
The only reasonable explanation seems to be that it was the Vikings who brought them.
Although, this hasn’t been proven beyond any doubt.
8.
The Spanish in Canada Captain James Cook reached the West Coast
of North America in 1778.
He sailed from England to what is now British Columbia and was thought to be the first foreigner
to touchdown in the soon-to-be country of Canada.
Part of that story might be wrong.
It may have actually been Spanish explorers who reached British Columbia first, and they
may have been killed by Native Americans in the Okanagan Valley.
For a long time, this theory has been a fringe conspiracy theory with locals in the valley.
But more recently, archaeological evidence has turned the conspiracy theory into an unusual
coincidence.
For example, a Spanish sword from the 16th century was discovered buried in British Columbia.
And unless that sword was dumped there coincidentally many years later, it would mean Spanish explorers
really arrived in North America 500 years ago.
According to Dr. Stan Copp from Langara College, it's 100% plausible.
Historical records show that Spanish explorers did, in fact, reach Alaska in the 1700s.
But overland expeditions never went farther north along the interior than Colorado or
Arkansas.
Dr. Stan Copp says the legend is that the Spanish explorers traveled up the Columbia
River from the Oregon coast, wintered in Kelowna, then were ambushed by native warriors as they
tried to head back south.
And considering the sword that was discovered in British Columbia, this could have been
a real thing.
All archaeologists need now are the bodies of those lost explorers to confirm it.
7.
The Tower of Babel The Tower of Babel, according to the Bible,
was built by united humanity.
Everyone had gotten together in harmony to build a massive tower that would reach heaven.
God, angry that humanity thought they could just work together and build a giant walkway
to heaven, destroyed the tower.
Not only that, he broke apart humanity’s single language into dozens of languages so
that the people of Earth could no longer communicate with one another.
God made it impossible for all humans to communicate through one central language.
But here's the thing about the Tower of Babel.
It wasn't only talked about in the Bible.
The Quran has an almost identical story, but with slight differences.
They don't mention the tower by name, saying only that an impressive construction was built
in Egypt by the pharaoh so that he could climb to heaven and talk to God.
But things get really crazy when we turn to Central America.
They have an almost identical story in which a giant named Xelhua built the Great Pyramid
of Cholula, which is an actual place and the biggest pyramid in the world, to storm heaven.
But when the gods learned of the giant’s plan, they destroyed the pyramid and fractured
the language of the builders so that they could no longer communicate.
This is almost identical to the biblical narrative, which is surprising considering the distance
between these two cultures.
The Mesoamericans of Central America had absolutely nothing to do with the Babylonians or Judeans
2000 years ago.
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6.
Gobekli Tepe & Easter Island There is one very interesting question that
scientists and archaeologists could never answer.
That question is: Why are there humanoid statues at prehistoric sites all over the world with
almost the same posture?
These are statues all the way from Gobekli Tepe in Turkey to the statues of Easter Island.
Many of these fantastic statues have very similar symbolic stances, almost as if the
sculptors were inspired by the same things.
Gobekli Tepe is one of the most mysterious archaeological sites that we know about.
It dates back to 9600 BC and comprises unbelievably advanced architecture.
There were also gigantic statues built here by people who didn't have sophisticated tools.
The faces may not be clear on these statues, but they’re obviously not human.
Gods, goddesses, or maybe even visitors from above.
The statues on Easter Island are significantly newer.
These were erected as recently as 500 years ago.
And yet they look surprisingly similar to the statues carved at Gobekli Tepe over 12,000
years ago.
It's highly unlikely that the Easter Islanders were a bunch of copycats.
And even if these statues aren't exactly the same, their positions are the same.
Standing erect, hands at the belly, a very distinct pose.
Others like it have even been found in Bolivia at Tiwanaku.
We don't know why so many cultures made strikingly similar statues throughout history.
But it does almost seem as if they came into contact with beings, human or otherwise, who
looked identical.
Do you think the posture is the same?
Let me know in the comments below!
5.
The Ancient Network There's a pretty interesting claim floating
around that says Stone Age people created an enormous underground network of tunnels
12,000 years ago.
These tunnels were supposedly used as ancient superhighways to connect various civilizations
all the way from Scotland on the island of Britain to Turkey on the border of Europe
and Asia.
According to German archaeologist Dr. Heinrich Kusch, there is evidence of this mysterious
tunnel system if you know where to look for it.
In Bavaria, archaeologists discovered an underground tunnel about 2100 feet (640m) long.
That's about twice as long as the Eiffel Tower is tall.
In Austria, they found another one about 1000 feet (304m) long.
This is not for the claustrophobic- most of the tunnels are only wide enough for a person
to slowly slide through.
There are all kinds of tunnels hidden underneath ancient Neolithic settlements.
The only problem is that these tunnels don't actually connect.
Most are just random tunnels a few hundred feet long, looking like enormous gopher holes.
Still, Dr. Kusch insists they once formed a complex network like an underground ant
nest across all of mainland Europe.
How in the world they dug all of it by hand is harder to explain.
Most archaeologists believe these tunnels were just niches used by local villagers to
escape in times of violence.
But seeing as they are indeed ancient, it’s hard to prove or disprove any specific theory.
4.
The Lady of Elche The Lady of Elche was discovered in 1897 in
Spain.
This location is now a famous archaeological site called La Alcudia.
This is a sculpture of a woman carved intricately out of limestone.
Archaeologists believe it dates back to the 4th century BC, yet nobody knows exactly who
she was supposed to be.
One theory is that she was the embodiment of an ancient deity known as Tanit, worshiped
in Carthage.
Tanit and her good friend Baal-Hamon were the two most important gods in Carthage.
She was a goddess of both war and fertility.
But here's where things get tricky.
In The Louvre Museum in Paris, there is an artifact from the 4th century BC that looks
a lot like the Lady of Elche.
But this artifact came from very far away, from West Bengal in India!
The artifact isn't a sculpture, but a small terracotta plaque with the image of a woman
on it.
This woman not only looks like the Lady of Elche but has the same hairdo and everything.
They could be twins, and yet they were found worlds apart.
The artifact in the museum is a depiction of Ladies with Auspicious Hairpins.
They were Indian goddesses of war and battle, just like Tanit in Carthage was the goddess
of war.
Whether this is just a coincidence or if the goddesses are linked, historians do not know.
The true identity of the Lady of Elche is also still a mystery.
3.
Dolphins in Gaza A statue from 2000 years ago recently surfaced
during archaeological excavations near Kibbutz Magen, which is near the Gaza Strip.
The statue is of a dolphin clutching a fish in its mouth.
It was discovered in the ruins of an old Byzantine site and was crafted during the era of the
Romans.
It stands only about 6 inches high and was probably part of a larger sculpture.
It may even have been part of a gigantic statue depicting a god or goddess, probably incorporated
into a much newer building prior to the whole thing being mostly destroyed.
Researchers say the statue could be a depiction of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, who according
to legend was born from sea foam.
Or it could be Poseidon, lord of all the seas.
The mystery now is that nobody knows how such a statue ended up all the way over near the
Gaza Strip.
Sure, there was a temple to Aphrodite in the ancient port city of Ashkelon, but not here.
Somebody must have taken the statue from somewhere else, brought it to this old Byzantine town,
and then incorporated it into their own decorations.
But how and why is still completely unknown.
2.
Egyptians & the Maya The Egyptians and the Maya never met.
These people lived thousands of years apart and thousands of miles apart.
As far as history is concerned, it was impossible for either civilization to have had an impact
or influence on the other.
And yet they have an amazing number of similarities.
Starting with the pyramids!
Over 2000 years after the Egyptians built their pyramids, the Maya built their own.
It was part of both people’s cultural identities.
But whereas the Egyptians used their pyramids for tombs, the Maya used theirs as temples
and for ceremonies.
They used the pyramids for totally different things, but it's still amazing to think they
built similar structures, pulling the idea out of thin air.
And then there's the thing with the hieroglyphics.
Both these people developed a series of handwriting that used glyphs and pictures that convey
an important meaning.
But yet again, the hieroglyphics were different for each culture.
For the Egyptians, you read the script from left to right.
But for the Maya, you read it in a zigzag pattern.
One pair of glyphs, then down to the next glyphs, then back up to the next two.
This boggled researchers because they were trying to read the script left to right when
that was all wrong.
Both these cultures probably came up with all this stuff on their own, with no influence
from some divine third party.
It's just a major coincidence that with architecture, writing, and even religion, these two cultures
were practically twins.
1.
What do all early civilizations have in common?
Almost every ancient civilization had five things in common.
These aren't necessarily coincidences so much as they are the basic building blocks of human
civilization.
In the Paleolithic age, in the millennia following the end of the Ice Age, human beings were
hunters and gatherers.
They looked for plants, hunted animals, and wandered around following the seasons.
The Neolithic age changed all that, and human society evolved.
Nearly every early civilization on Earth started when they figured out how to plant their own
food and domesticate their own animals.
Goats, cows, pigs.
Most crops were things like wheat, beans, and maize.
Around this same time, most societies formed a hierarchy of power.
People lived in groups of between 20 and 30 until they figured out farming.
This was when groups of humans began moving into the triple digits.
This was also when people realized somebody needed to be in charge, and this led to war
and power struggles.
The third thing civilizations had in common was industry.
People had food now and they had a safe place to sleep.
They started trading their extra goods to create commerce.
Pieces of pottery, shiny jewels, clothing, and weapons.
Then comes the architecture.
Every major society went from living in huts and caves to actual houses.
And then, when religion came about, as it did in most places on the planet, humans began
building impressive monuments to their gods and goddesses.
Oddly enough, most of the early civilizations worshiped the same things.
A goddess of fertility, a god of rain, and a god of agriculture.
And as time went on and society advanced, they came up with more deities to reflect
their growing view of the world.
Do you really think there’s a hidden connection between the ancient Egyptians and the Maya
people?
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