From the bones of a giant king to a pyramid from a lost civilization found deep in the
ocean, here are ten of the most mysterious discoveries of forbidden archaeology!
10: The Giant King The Teutons were first mentioned by the Romans
several hundred years before Christ.
As far as historical records show, the Romans considered the Teutons were a tribe of savage
Europeans who often went to war with the Roman Republic.
They were described by Julius Caesar as a Germanic people, meaning they came from north
of the Rhine.
Nobody knows exactly who these people were or where they originated from, though some
historians say they probably had some relation to the ancient Celts.
The Teutons fought the Roman Empire and won at Noreia and Arausio in 105 BC.
However, they were defeated during the Cimbrian War a few years later.
Their leader and king was named Teutobochus, and apparently he was a giant.
A literal giant.
In 1613, a collection of large bones was discovered by masons digging near some ruins in Dauphine.
The masons uncovered a brick tomb about 18 feet underground.
It was a very big tomb, and when they opened it, they found a human skeleton allegedly
25 feet long, which they assumed belonged to the dead Teuton king.
It was described at the time as having teeth the size of an ox’s foot, with a shinbone
that measured at least four feet in length!!
However, this discovery was quickly labeled as forbidden and swept under the rug.
The actual circumstances of the discovery were murky at best and the bones were briefly
displayed in Paris before an anatomist dismissed them as being the bones of an elephant.
In the 1980s, the bones were labeled as belonging to a mastodon and the legend of the giant
king of the Teutons was put to rest.
9: The Devil’s Bible The Devil’s Bible, also known as the Codex
Gigas, is one of the most forbidden historical books in the world.
This massive tome is the biggest medieval manuscript anywhere on the planet and is believed
to have been written by just one monk who lived in Bohemia, modern day Czech Republic.
The book is 620 pages, three feet tall, and famous for its large and colorful depiction
of the devil.
The story goes that the book was written in the 13th century by the monk Herman the Recluse
who was sentenced to death for breaking his monastic vows.
In exchange for his life he promised to create the most beautiful book with all the knowledge
of his day gathered in one place.
Inside the book are both the New and Old Testaments, as well as some collections of historical
documents, extreme practices, such as exorcism and medical works of Hippocrates.
There are also other parts included from other philosophers and academics of the day.
But perhaps the strangest part of the book is that there is an entire page, seemingly
out of place, that has a full-color picture of the dark lord of hell.
It defies all explanation because there seems to be no reason for the picture to be there.
Legend is he sold his soul to the devil to gain his freedom and so the prince of darkness
plays a prominent role in the codex.
Regardless of legend, the writing of the entire book does suggest it was written all by the
same person.
In order to create such a giant book in the 13th century, the person would have needed
to work six hours a day, six days a week, for five whole years.
But because he was a monk and had monk duties to take care of, it probably took him upwards
of 10 years to write it.
Then when you consider that he actually had to decorate the manuscript and that he probably
made some mistakes along the way, historians estimate it took him between 20 and 30 years.
It’s a life’s work that we still talk about today.
Originally the Devil’s Bible or the Codex Gigas was made up of 320 vellum pages made
from the skin of 160 donkeys.
At some point 10 pages of the book were removed and disappeared forever.
If you are curious about it, the pages of the Devil’s Bible have been posted online
for everyone to see.
Don’t be afraid.
Nothing bad will happen if you read it...I’m pretty sure.
8: The Sunken City There has been recent speculation of a mysterious
sunken city off the coast of Cuba, which some say could be the lost city of Atlantis.
There has been absolutely no official documentation from professional archaeologists.
However, that doesn't mean the city’s not down there.
According to some recent reports, it was an underwater team of explorers from Canada who
stumbled upon a strange collection of stone structures while mapping the ocean floor using
sonar equipment.
They found unusual formations about 1500 feet below the surface.
These formations included geometric shapes and smooth blocks, as if belonging to the
ruins of ancient buildings including pyramids!
They were scattered across a small patch of ocean on the western side of Cuba.
The immediate suggestion was that the structures are part of a lost urban settlement that somehow
found its way underwater.
The city was so big that it could have held several thousand people, maybe even more.
What’s truly shocking about the discovery is that early estimates placed the ruins at
being around 50,000 years old.
The earliest people in the Americas are believed to have arrived some 20,000-13,000 years ago
so where did this come from?
Who could have built this place?
If it even is a human-made place at all.
This discovery so far remains a mystery.
7: The Nampa Image In 1889, a small human figurine was discovered
in the town of Nampa, Idaho.
It happened while a crew of workers drilled a well.
The small figurine would turn into one of the most forbidden pieces of archaeology in
modern memory.
It was found at a depth of around 320 feet, which technically would mean it was buried
deep underground many centuries before humans ever arrived in America.
This is based on the sediment in which the figure was found.
The second bizarre thing is that the figurine was obviously crafted by human hands.
It was made in the shape of a small person with a head, arms, and legs.
Even though this was a legit discovery made by oil workers, none of whom had any interest
in making it up, the Nampa Image, as it came to be known as, has all but been ignored by
the modern scientific community.
The out of place artifact has gained a lot of attention from conspiracy theorists.
Only a few theories have been made as to where the figurine could have come from.
One of the most popular is that it came from the earliest North American settlers around
13,000 years ago and was buried over the centuries by flooding and volcanic activity, being preserved
underground until the miners stumbled upon it.
A more complicated theory is that the figure belonged to a much earlier race of humans,
one that scientists have yet to identify.
6: UFOs in Antarctica Something very strange has been found near
a remote mountain range in Antarctica.
This forbidden discovery was made thanks to Google Earth, arguably one of the greatest
inventions for amateur archaeologists ever.
While checking out satellite images of Antarctica, an unnamed internet sleuth discovered what
appeared to be a pair of metallic UFOs partly frozen in the snow.
At first glance, it seems each craft is nearly 100 feet long.
They also look obviously out of place compared to the snowy tundra around them.
In reality the UFOs appear to be twice the size of a standard American fighter jet.
They are identical in size, perfectly circular, and may not have been where they are for very
long seeing as they’re only slightly covered in snow.
They were found next to the Churchill Mountains, one of the remotest places in all of Antarctica.
But how do we know these are legit UFOs and not just shiny rocks?
The truth is that we can't know for certain.
With all the declassified documents coming to light recently regarding UFO’s the military
would like to remind us that the appropriate term is ““Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
(UAP),” if we want these things to be taken seriously.
And it could be possible that there are unidentified crashed vessels in remote places.
But for the time being, scientists haven’t answered any questions about them and pretty
soon, chances are they’ll vanish from Google Maps altogether.
5: Stolen Alien Skulls Researchers were left shocked when they discovered
strange, elongated skulls from an ancient necropolis dating back 5000 years.
The skulls were found in the Hypogeum of Hal Saflieni, in Malta.
There were almost a dozen weird skulls that may have belonged to a race of people with
unusual human features – maybe even larger brains.
This discovery has been a terrible mystery from beginning to end.
First of all, the Hypogeum is considered to be the oldest underground temple and necropolis
ever found.
The skulls were first found back in 1902, with National Geographic even reporting in
1920 that the first inhabitants of Malta may have been a race of humanoids with elongated
skulls.
The incredible part about the skulls is that they seem to have developed this shape naturally
rather than by some artificial means.
In the early 1900s, researchers noted that the skulls did not show signs of cranial deformity
by the use of boards or ropes, as with many of the other long-skull cultures of the world.
Instead, the weird shape of the skulls seemed to be completely natural.
The science only lasted so long though.
The belief is that scientists can't have everyone in the world knowing that there was once an
ancient race of people with elongated skulls, potentially even aliens who somehow got stranded
on Earth.
By 1985, the elongated skulls were debunked by force.
Scientific agencies crawled out of every corner to debunk the skulls as nothing extraordinary
– then shortly after, the skulls vanished from every museum they were stored in.
For over three decades now, the skulls have been out of sight and nobody knows what happened
to them.
If they were ever actually found in Malta at all.
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4: The Fuente Magna Bowl The Fuente Magna Bowl is an old and mysterious
artifact allegedly discovered in 1549 while Spanish conquistadors were hunting for the
capital of the Inca Empire.
The Spanish got lost and ended up in Bolivia, where they found the ruins of an ancient site
known as Tiahuanaco.
This was a large ruin close to the more popular archaeological site of Puma Punku.
Archaeologists and historians believe Tiahuanaco was once the center of a civilization with
mysterious links to the world of ancient Sumer.
The reason for this connection is the Fuente Magna Bowl, a unique chunk of ceramic discovered
in the broken city that surely belonged to the lost people who used to live there – yet
it is covered in cuneiform script from ancient Sumeria all the way on the other side of the
world!
What is ancient Su.eriam writing doing in the Americas?
Dr. Alberto Marini translated the writings into ancient Sumerian.
The script has a lot of similarities to other languages throughout the Indus Valley, the
original cradle of civilization.
But how did the ancient South Americans figure out the exact same script?
The unfortunate truth is that nobody has a concrete answer for this.
Some say the bowl was crafted by a small group of Sumerians that managed to reach Bolivia
around the year 2500 BC.
However, as of yet, there has been no way to legitimately prove the theory.
3: Australian Hieroglyphs Speaking of writing in the wrong place, why
are there Egyptian hieroglyphics in Australia that date back 5000 years?
From what we know, the hieroglyphs were first spotted in the early 1900s.
There are about 250 stone carvings in the area, apparently linked to the local folklore.
But what's really strange about the carvings is that they look identical to carvings found
on the walls of ancient Egyptian temples.
The hieroglyphics are nearly identical.
But for whatever reason, there has been no media coverage and no scientists seem interested
in investigating the hieroglyphics, whether to debunk them as a hoax or certify them as
the real deal.
The Australian hieroglyphics can be found in the Brisbane Water National Park.
Local residents claim the hieroglyphics are very ancient, and even more mysterious is
that they haven't been translated by any Egyptologists.
Some claim this is because they weren't actually made by Egyptians but were part of a modern
prank, while others believe the traditions of ancient Egypt somehow made it all the way
to Australia.
How it happened is still beyond the realm of speculation.
2: Japan’s Sunken Pyramid Off the coast of Japan, there is a stone structure
that appears to be the ruin of a primitive pyramid that dates back 5000 years.
In fact, the pyramid is believed to be part of a much larger city that sank off the coast
of Yonaguni Jima after a deadly earthquake 2000 years ago.
At least, this is what Masaaki Kimura says, the marine geologist from the University of
the Ryukyus who found the giant pyramid while diving at the site nearly 20 years ago.
The sunken pyramid off the coast of Japan is one of the most controversial archaeological
sites on the planet because it has been documented thoroughly.
What I mean is that there's no denying that the pyramid exists.
It looks like a huge man-made structure that rises 82 feet from the ocean floor.
It has smooth levels that are uniform, terraces and steps that are clearly man-made, and there
are the remains of what could be roads and buildings scattered throughout the area.
But despite the blatant pyramid in the ocean, almost every mainstream scientist has denounced
it as a natural formation.
But according to Masaaki There's not a single thing natural about this pyramid.
Nature doesn't just make terraced pyramids; it doesn’t happen.
The government of Japan has refused to recognize the area as an archaeological site.
According to National Geographic, not a single government group will carry out research or
assist with preservation of the mysterious pyramid.
Masaaki and his team even claim to have found pottery and evidence of humans living there
but nobody else is looking…
Never before has such a seemingly real archaeological discovery been swept so efficiently under
the rug.
1: Organic Artifacts Weird organic artifacts have been found near
the Nazca Lines in Peru and some experts are claiming they could be evidence of ancient
life forms.
They were found by an unidentified person who claims they are the mummified skulls of
aliens.
This is one of the weirder and less believable discoveries, but there could be some merit
to it.
The strange-looking artifacts appear to be organic, like fossilized human heads.
The only difference is that they have very large eyes and very tiny heads, looking like
little green men.
In the area, there was also a weird appendage discovered that only had three fingers, with
each finger being longer than the average human hand.
Together, the skulls and severed hands seem to make up mummified body parts of an unknown
lifeform – though to be honest, nobody’s sure if these artifacts are real.
If they are, they don’t resemble any creature living on the planet.
Which of these mysterious discoveries do you think is the most legit?
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