hi it's katrina
number 10. bridge of the inca the bridge
of the inca is a fascinating monument
and a unesco world heritage site it can
be found high up in the andes mountains
in argentina somewhere around 7000 feet
above sea level the place is fascinating
for two main reasons first of all it's a
natural bridge and one of the most
striking geological places in all of
south america secondly the inca used the
puente linca as part of their vast road
network the whole region is riddled with
ancient ruins yet the bridge itself is
100 natural the inca didn't need to do
anything in terms of construction the
bridge was already there but of course
the inca had some pretty cool legends
surrounding the bridge it said that the
heir to the throne of the empire was
affected by a strange and mysterious
paralysis
healers recommended that the air go from
cusco to the slopes of the inca bridge
to heal in the natural springs
but when they reached it there was no
bridge there inca warriors had to
embrace each other and form a human
bridge so that the paralyzed air could
be brought across
the air was then dipped in the hot
springs and magically healed when he
turned around the inca warriors had all
petrified creating the stone bridge that
still stands today
number nine a face in the mountain a
large and very mysterious face was
recently found on the cliffside of an
island in the pacific rim national park
reserve the face is exactly what it
sounds like a truly huge human face
carved out of the rock on the side of a
cliff in the absolute middle of nowhere
the face can be found on reek's island
in british columbia canada this is not a
place you can reach very easily and
rarely sees human visitors the person
who found the face carved high up in the
mountainous terrain of the island was
hank gus a member of the te shot first
nation
hank had heard about the face from a
kayaker who saw it by accident it then
took hank two years of tireless
searching to finally find it himself now
that's dedication have you ever been
that dedicated to finding anything tell
me about your experience in the comments
the face is about seven feet tall and
looks strikingly like some other faces
made by the ancient teschat people they
have been living in this part of british
columbia for thousands of years
so it's no surprise that there are still
some archaeological treasures lying
around undiscovered this is one of the
largest areas of untouched nature still
left in the world where massive stone
faces can still go unseen for years
number eight prehistoric campers
an interesting new study has given some
insight into the patterns of mountain
people in america 11 000 years ago it
was in the year 2006 that dr richard
adams an archaeologist from laramie
wyoming discovered a prehistoric
settlement 11 000 feet high in the
mountains of wyoming it was an amazing
discovery that turned the world of
american archaeology upside down nobody
had thought there would be an alpine
village hidden so high in the mountains
it was assumed the native people lived
in the flatlands and wouldn't have
bothered going up so high archaeologists
found pottery bone tools arrowheads and
other evidence that some primitive group
had been there at least 2 000 years ago
then the researchers started spreading
out across the mountain ridges they came
across other sites dozens of them some
over 11 000 years old as it turned out
the mountain wilderness of wyoming has
been a popular destination for human
settlers since around the time humans
first arrived in america
people hunted in the mountain peaks
lived in basic huts and didn't seem to
mind the weather at all but who exactly
these people were how extensive their
settlements may have been and where they
went is still a total mystery
number 7. lost city on the mountain
archaeologists discovered a lost city on
the top of a greek mountain that dates
back 2
500 years the fact that nobody ever
found it until recently is kind of hard
to imagine it was in 2016 that the
international team of swedish and greek
archaeologists came across the lost city
buried underneath the earth 190 miles
from athens and way above sea level it
was found literally in the clouds on the
strong de la vuni hill which is on the
facalian plains according to researcher
robin rundland an expert in classical
archaeology and ancient history he and
his team learned that nobody had ever
explored this particular hill before
they didn't know what they were going to
find but knew it hadn't been looked at
by archaeologists yet
so they climbed to its summit and found
a city covering an area of 99 acres they
discovered walls and towers and were
even greeted by the city gates upon
their arrival though of course none of
this was visible from the ground below
the only way to see it was by actually
climbing the mountain and reaching its
peak which nobody had done before
it was one of the last explored places
in greece and is still stumping
scientists today researchers found
pottery coins and other artifacts that
have dated the city back to 500 bc
however why it was abandoned who founded
the city in the first place and what in
the world it was doing on the top of a
mountain are all questions that have
still yet to be answered do you think
there are any other unexplored places
like this where an ancient city is
sitting untouched waiting to be found
let me know your thoughts in the
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number 6. ancient cave artifacts
a discovery in a mexican cave located
deep in a rural mountain range may just
be changing the timeline of human
arrivals in america for pretty much all
the 20th century archaeologists have
agreed that human beings crossed the
land bridge from siberia and entered
north america no later than 1300 years
ago
now a new study at chikiwite cave by
researchers with the autonomous
university of sakatecas has pushed the
date back to 26
500 years the cave 9 000 feet above sea
level in the esteero mountains has
revealed stone artifacts tools used for
cutting animal bones pieces of charcoal
and sediment samples all dated over 26
000 years old the consensus here is that
humans came from siberia much earlier
than ever imagined but that they
meandered up into the mountains and
lived in caves instead of building
settlements they very well could have
lived in caves for ten thousand years
until finally moving down into the
lowlands building settlements and slowly
evolving with the rest of humanity and
other parts of the world
would you want to live in a cave let me
know in the comments below
number 5. choke kirao the cradle of gold
also known as chocagirao was built by
the great inca empire sometime in the
15th century it covers a massive area of
over 4 000 acres and is a shocking 9 000
feet above sea level
forget about machu picchu this is the
true lost mountain city of the inca
it overlooks the aburimak river probably
founded by topayoubanki the 10th sappa
inca and fifth ruler of the hanan
dynasty he was also the son of pachakuti
who was responsible for founding machu
picchu as you can probably tell nearly
every great ruler seemed obsessed with
commissioning their very own city machu
picchu was so great that yopa yupanki
couldn't help himself but try to imitate
it he went a few miles down the road up
another mountain and then built his city
there but there are other cities in the
area as well each of them way up in the
andes there is saiwite chachabamba
guaman marca and chokesuyus all of them
strikingly similar to machu picchu in
terms of architectural style and
construction techniques each of these
sites is centered around a pair of main
plazas on the very highest crest of a
mountain ridge
the cities all contain temples dwellings
for the highest status members of the
communities bathing systems common
houses and cultivated agricultural areas
and the same can be said of chokakirao
but this city is a little special in the
sense that it had a lot of religious
structures the site also aligns directly
with the solstices in june and december
making it one of the most important
places in the inca empire for ceremonial
activities it was also a very important
place following the spanish conquest in
the 1500s
even after the inca empire collapsed a
stronghold of neo-inca survivors was
established here in 1537
they survived until the death of the
last inca ruler tupac amaru 40 years
later why do you think ancient rulers
loved building cities so high in the
mountains let me know your theories
below
number 4. biblical scrolls
high above the salty flats of the dead
sea way above the judean desert and its
rough brown hills there are mountain
caves filled with treasure at least the
caves used to be filled with treasure of
course this is the mountainous region in
israel where the dead sea scrolls were
first discovered in the 1950s by bedouin
shepherds after the dead sea scrolls
were discovered people from all over
descended on the area and dug through
every cave they could find in hopes of
discovering a fragment and making some
cash it was a catastrophe for
archaeologists but there was one cave
that was extraordinarily difficult to
reach
a place nicknamed the cave of horror
it's about 260 feet directly beneath the
top of a cliff flanked by steep gorges
and only accessible by rappelling
straight down on a sheer cliff wall it
wasn't exactly an easy place for
scavengers to search for scroll
fragments 70 years ago
and so it's no surprise that recently
dozens of biblical scroll pieces were
taken from the cave by professional
archaeologists with the latest equipment
amazingly these were the first finds of
their kind in over 60 years
archaeologists found fragments written
in greek from the biblical books of
zechariah nahum and the book of the 12
minor prophets
even more fascinating is that the team
discovered a perfectly woven basket from
10
500 years ago making it the oldest
complete basket ever found they also
came across the mummified remains of a
child 6000 years old not only was the
cave used by early jews to hide
fragments of religious work but it also
appears to have been occupied by cave
people how they managed to get to and
from such a precarious spot is a huge
mystery how do you think they got there
number 3. lost viking village on a
remote pass in the norwegian mountains
archaeologists came across a viking
settlement of course nothing remains of
the settlement today except marks in the
ground where it had once stood but there
was one here and it was huge the
settlement was found on a mountain trail
that's been the source of many
discoveries over the past few years
because of norway's melting glaciers the
mountain pass here has been revealing
thousands of artifacts things like
household items broken sleds lost skis
pieces of clothing and all kinds of
other artifacts a total of 21 structures
have been discovered so far in this
mountain pass in an area completely
covered by thick juniper bushes you
would never even imagine there had been
buildings here because the whole place
is overgrown with bushes there's nothing
left except impressions on the ground it
wasn't until archaeologists like radar
marstein and lars pilo started digging
beneath the dirt that they were able to
find scraps of outer walls and evidence
of low embankments
it took a lot of work and excavations
are still ongoing but there was a huge
city here high up in the mountains
between 750 and 1150 a.d that's roughly
the entire time the viking age lasted
what that means is that while the
vikings were pillaging and terrorizing
and while people in norway were moving
through the mountains from one place to
another this settlement acted as a
waypoint
it was a fully functioning city that
catered to travelers moving across the
brutal landscape would you rather
explore snow-covered mountain tops or
mountains in a warm climate let me know
your thoughts in the comments
number two sacrifices to the god zeus
on the top of a greek mountain
archaeologists found something gruesome
and altogether terrifying
they found the skeleton of a teenager
along with scraps of other bones and
ashes why were there so many bones and
ashes on top of the mountain it's
because they had likely been sacrificed
to the god zeus
the teenager was found without a head
laid down on a pile of ash 3000 years
ago at the peak of lai cayon mountain
it's fascinating because never before
have archaeologists found proof that a
human sacrifice did take place at an
altar to zeus
yet here where a small temple and altar
were constructed in dedication to the
lord of olympus
somebody had been ritualistically
murdered
even though there were all kinds of
ritual sacrifices going on in places
like carthage the inca empire the aztecs
and many other places it wasn't a thing
for the greeks yet there was one cult so
nefarious that even plato wrote about
the horrifying human sacrifices they
made in the name of zeus
archaeologists always thought these
writings were just myths like what plato
wrote of atlantis but now they've
discovered an actual sacrificial victim
on a mountaintop it looks like there may
have been a real cult that killed people
number 1. the white mountain petroglyphs
wyoming's white mountain formed sometime
over 30 million years ago it can be
found north of rock springs in the red
desert and boast some of the most
fascinating petroglyphs ever found at
this altitude high up in the mountain
carved into its white rock you can
discover ancient drawings of animals
like bison and elk that are at least one
thousand years old there are also small
footprints handprints and geometric
forms of great mysteries scratched into
the mountain and even one picture of a
warrior shown brandishing a sword this
is pretty bizarre because the native
american people who drew these
petroglyphs members of tribes like the
shoshone and the arapaho didn't use
medieval swords so what was it
that is the question
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