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Explorers and archeologists have uncovered some of the most mysterious sights, markings
and riddles that our ancestors left upon the earth, but despite our best efforts many of
them remain mysteries to this day.
So here’s the most mysterious ever found.
1.
The Nazca Lines are a series of ancient geoglyphs in the Nazca Desert in Southern Peru.
Scholars believe these mysteries markings were created by the Nazca culture around 400
AD.
The designs range from simple lines and geometric shapes to animals, trees and flowers.
The geoglyphs were created by removing the reddish pebbles on the surface to uncover
the white ground below.
The largest figures are over 200 metres across.
The Nazca Lines have been preserved for so long due to the extreme dryness and lack of
wind on this huge plateau.
Changes in weather are extremely rare in this region and the area is highly isolated which
has enabled these archaeological masterpieces to survive for thousands of years.
2.
If you think the Nazca lines are impressive, you will be blown away my the Sajama Lines
in Bolivia.
Similar to the Nazca lines the Sajama lines are too, a set of gigantic lines carved into
the earth’s surface.
But the difference is the Sajama lines completely dwarf any other geoglyph on earth, they are
roughly 15 times larger than the Nazca lines.
The Sajama lines cover an area of roughly 22,525 square kilometres.
And the largest lines are up to 18 kilometres in length.
The most mysterious thing about the Sajama lines is that they’re nearly perfectly straight,
which is an incredible feat considering the line’s primitive nature and enormous length.
Many believe that the lines were originally used by indigenous people when they made sacred
pilgrimages and where the lines intersected used to be shrines and burial towers.
3.
When one thinks of ancient and unexplainable landmarks in England, Stonehenge might be
the first that comes to mind.
But there are many many more, and the mysterious White Horse in Uffington is a peculiar one.
The White Horse is a 115 meter figure carved into a hillside.
It was created by digging deep trenches then filling them with white chalk.
Carbon dating on the chalk suggests it was created in the late Bronze Age, around 700
BC.
Beyond this, very little is known about the origins of the horse, including who built
it and why.
4.
Perhaps the most baffling archaeological mystery of all is the legendary Emerald Tablet, because
unlike others, nobody is sure if it still exists, where it came from, who wrote it or
even what it looked like.
But researchers have found transcriptions of the tablet’s text in sixth century Arabic
books.
The original text was in the ancient Syriac language.
It was later translated to Latin in the 12th century, then later into english by Sir Isaac
Newton who had a penchant for alchemy.
The text is considered to be the single most important document in the field of alchemy
because it supposedly contains the secrets of the Philosopher’s Stone, a substance
able to transmute base metals into gold.
5.
In 1999 a Russian man by the name of Vladimir Krainov called a professor at the Bashkir
State University in Russia named Alexander Chuvyrov because he had found a strange slab
buried in his backyard.
Little did Krainov know, that he had stumbled upon one of the most baffling Archeological
Discoveries on Earth.
The slab was so heavy that it took over a week to unearth.
The stone slab was named the Dashka stone, but later came to be known as the Map of the
Creator.
This 5 feet tall slab weighs over a tonne.
The stone contains representations of civil engineering works, weirs, irrigation systems
and powerful damns.
A group of Russian and Chinese specialists in the fields of cartography, physics, mathematics,
geology, chemistry, and Old Chinese language researched the slab and identified it as an
extremely detailed relief map of the Ural region of Russia.
Such maps are used by the military today.
Scientists dated the map at over 120 million years old.
But specialists argue that it would be impossible for an ancient stonecutter to make such a
detailed map and that it has to have been machined using extremely precise cutting equipment…
which doesn’t match up with the maps creation date.
Some say that the Map of the Creator is therefore proof of an advanced ancient civilisation
that also had flight.
The map continues to undergo scientific testing and baffles scientists to this day.
6.
There is a legendary story of unknown origin that goes like this.
In 1938 an archeological expedition were sent to investigate a secluded area of the Baian-Kara-Ula
on the border between China and Tibet.
The group discovered a series of caves high up in the mountains, the caves contained a
large collection of graves and the walls were decorated with drawings of people with elongated
heads alongside images of the sun, moon and stars.
When the archeologists uncovered the graves they found skeletons no more than three feet
tall, with abnormally large skulls.
Inside the tombs were also a collection of stone disks, the disks were twelve inches
in diameter and had a hole in the centre.
They also had a groove on the surface that spiralled outwards from the centre.
They came to be known as the Dropa Stones.
Naturally the stones were sent to a variety of scholars for investigation.
One of them, Professor Tsum Um Nui of the Beijing Academy for Ancient Studies, found
that the spiral grooves where actually a line of characters written in an unknown language.
In 1962 Tsum Um Nui announced that he had managed to translate the language.
According to the professor, the stones told the story of an alien spacecraft that crashed
in the Bayan Har Shan region around 12,000 years ago.
The occupants of the crashed vessel were aliens called Dropa, the Dropa were unable to repair
the craft so they had to adapt to conditions on Earth.
However the local Ham tribesmen hunted them down and killed them.
But many people have challenged this story and claim that the Dropa stones never actually
existed.
7.
And finally, the Shroud of Turin is a linen cloth that bares the image of a man who appears
to have suffered physical trauma in a manner consistent with the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
The shroud is wrapped in red silk and has been kept in a silver chest in the Chapel
of the Holy Shroud in Turin, Italy, since 1578.
The cloth itself is actually a negative, the true image is only revealed when the image
is inverted and made black and white.
Many religious believers contend that the shroud is the very cloth that was placed on
the body of Jesus Christ at the time of his burial.
And that the imprinted image on the cloth is the face of Jesus himself.
However radiocarbon dating performed on the cloth argues that the relic was actually woven
between 1260 and 1390 AD, with is much later than the time of Jesus.
But to this day nobody truly knows where and what time period it came from.
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