Unearthly objects. Ancient artifacts of Siberia, which parasites hide from us and destroy. Amazing composition of spirals

We are not the first humanity on Earth! Otherwise, how can one explain that there are a large number of artifacts in the world, the origin of which cannot be explained from the point of view of our usual theory of the origin of humanity.

Figurines from Ecuador

Figures very reminiscent of astronauts were found in Ecuador, their age is more than 2000 years.

Stone plate from Nepal

The Loladoff plate is a stone dish whose age exceeds 12 thousand years. This artifact was found in Nepal. The images and clear lines carved on the surface of this flat stone led many researchers to believe that it was of extraterrestrial origin. After all, ancient people couldn’t process stone so skillfully? In addition, the “plate” depicts a creature that is very reminiscent of an alien in his well-known form.

Boot print with trilobite

“...On our Earth, archaeologists have discovered a once-living creature called a trilobite. It existed 600-260 million years ago, after which it became extinct. An American scientist has found a trilobite fossil that shows a human footprint, with a clear boot print. Doesn't this make historians the butt of a joke? Based on Darwin’s theory of evolution, how could man exist 260 million years ago?”

Excerpt from the book Falun Dafa.

Ica stones

“In the museum of the State University of Peru there is a stone on which a human figure is carved. The study showed that it was carved 30 thousand years ago. But this figure, dressed in clothes, wearing a hat and shoes, holds a telescope in his hands and observes the celestial body. How did people know how to weave 30 thousand years ago? How can it be that people even wore clothes back then? It is completely incomprehensible that he holds a telescope in his hands and observes a celestial body. This means that he also has certain astronomical knowledge. We have long known that the European Galileo invented the telescope just over 300 years ago. Who invented this telescope 30 thousand years ago?” Excerpt from the book “Falun Dafa.”

Jade discs: a puzzle for archaeologists

In ancient China, around 5000 BC, large stone discs made of jade were placed in the graves of local nobles. Their purpose, as well as the manufacturing method, still remains a mystery to scientists, because jade is a very durable stone.

Sabu's Disc: The Unsolved Mystery of Egyptian Civilization

The mystical ancient artifact, believed to be part of an unknown mechanism, was found by Egyptologist Walter Bryan in 1936 while examining the tomb of Mastaba Sabu, who lived around 3100 - 3000 BC. The burial is located near the village of Saqqara. The artifact is a regular round thin-walled stone plate made of meta-silt (metasilt in Western terminology), with three thin edges bent towards the center and a small cylindrical sleeve in the middle. In places where the edge petals bend towards the center, the circumference of the disk continues with a thin rim of circular cross-section about a centimeter in diameter. The diameter is approximately 70cm, the circle shape is not ideal. This plate raises a number of questions, both about the unclear purpose of such an item, and about the method by which it was made, since it has no analogues.

It is quite possible that five thousand years ago the Saba disk had some important role. However, at the moment, scientists cannot accurately determine its purpose and complex structure. The question remains open.

Vase 600 million years old

A report about an extremely unusual find was published in a scientific journal in 1852. It was about a mysterious vessel about 12 cm high, two halves of which were discovered after an explosion in one of the quarries. This vase, with clear images of flowers, was located inside a rock that was 600 million years old.

Corrugated Spheres

For the past few decades, miners in South Africa have been digging up mysterious metal balls. These balls of unknown origin are approximately an inch (2.54 cm) in diameter, and some of them are engraved with three parallel lines running along the axis of the object. Two types of balls were found: one consisting of a hard bluish metal with white spots, and another empty from the inside and filled with a white spongy substance. Interestingly, the rock in which they were discovered dates back to the Precambrian period and dates back 2.8 billion years! Who made these spheres and why remains a mystery.

Fossil giant. Atlant

The 12-foot fossilized giant was found in 1895 during mining operations in the English city of Antrim. Photos of the giant are taken from the British magazine "The Strand" for December 1895. His height is 12 feet 2 inches (3.7 m.), chest girth is 6 feet 6 inches (2 m.), arm length is 4 feet 6 inches (1.4 m.). It is noteworthy that his right hand has 6 fingers. The six fingers and toes resemble the people mentioned in the Bible (2nd book of Samuel): “There was also a battle in Gath; and there was one tall man there, who had six fingers and six toes, making a total of twenty-four.”

Giant's femur

In the late 1950s, during road construction in southeastern Turkey in the Euphrates Valley, a number of burial sites containing gigantic remains were excavated. In two, femurs about 120 centimeters long were found. Joe Taylor, director of the Fossil Museum in Crosbyton, Texas, USA, carried out the reconstruction. The owner of a femur of this size had a height of about 14-16 feet (about 5 meters) and a foot size of 20-22 inches (almost half a meter!). When walking, his fingers were 6 feet above the ground.

Huge human footprint

This footprint was found near Glen Rose, Texas in the Palaxy River. The length of the print is 35.5 cm and the width is almost 18 cm. Paleontologists say that the print is female. The study showed that the person who left such a print was about three meters tall.

Nevada Giants

There is a Native American legend about 12-foot (3.6 m) red-haired giants who lived in the Nevada area. It talks about American Indians killing giants in a cave. During the excavation of guano, a huge jaw was found. The photo compares two jaws: a found one and a normal human one. In 1931, two skeletons were found at the bottom of the lake. One was 8 feet (2.4 m) high, and the other was just under 10 feet (about 3 m).

Ica stones. Dinosaur Rider

Figurine from the collection of Voldemar Dzhulsrud. Dinosaur Rider

1944 Acambaro - 300 km north of Mexico City.

Aluminum wedge from Ayuda

In 1974, an aluminum wedge coated with a thick layer of oxide was found on the banks of the Maros River, which is located near the city of Ayud in Transylvania. It is noteworthy that it was found among the remains of a mastodon, which are 20 thousand years old. Usually they find aluminum with admixtures of other metals, but the wedge was made of pure aluminum.

It is impossible to find an explanation for this find, since aluminum was discovered only in 1808, and began to be produced in industrial quantities only in 1885. The wedge is still being studied in some secret place.

Piri Reis Map

Rediscovered in a Turkish museum in 1929, this map is a mystery not only because of its amazing accuracy, but also because of what it depicts. Drawn on the skin of a gazelle, the Piri Reis map is the only surviving part of a larger map . It was compiled in the 1500s, according to the inscription on the map itself, from other maps of the year 300. But how is this possible if the map shows: - South America, exactly located relative to Africa - The western coasts of North Africa and Europe, and the eastern coast of Brazil - The most striking thing is a partially visible continent far to the South, where, as we know, Antarctica is located, although it was not opened until 1820. Even more puzzling is that it is depicted in detail and without ice, even though this land mass has been covered in ice for at least six thousand years.

Today this artifact is also not available for public viewing.

Ancient springs, screws and metal

They look like items you would find in a scrap bin in any workshop. Clearly, these artifacts were manufactured by someone. However, this collection of springs, loops, spirals and other metal objects was discovered in layers of sedimentary rock that are one hundred thousand years old! Foundries weren't very common back then. Thousands of these things - some as small as a thousandth of an inch! - were discovered by gold miners in the Ural Mountains of Russia in the 1990s. Unearthed from 3 to 40 feet underground, in layers dating back to the upper Pleistocene period, these mysterious objects could have been created some 20,000 to 100,000 years ago. Could they be evidence of a long-lost but advanced civilization?

Shoe marks on granite

This trace fossil was discovered in a coal seam in Fisher Canyon, Nevada. It is estimated that this coal is 15 million years old! And lest you think that this is the fossil of some animal, the shape of which resembles the sole of a modern shoe, studying the footprint under a microscope revealed clearly visible traces of a double seam line around the perimeter of the shape. The footprint is approximately size 13, and the right side of the heel appears more worn than the left. How did the imprint of a modern shoe 15 million years ago end up on a substance that later became coal?

Mysterious finds of Elias Sotomayor: The oldest globe

A large treasure trove of ancient artifacts was discovered by an expedition led by Elias Sotomayor in 1984. In the Ecuadorian La Mana mountain range, 300 stone items were discovered in a tunnel at a depth of over ninety meters. One of the oldest globes on Earth, also made of stone, was also discovered in the La Mana tunnel. On the far from perfect ball, the craftsman may have simply spared effort in making it, but the round boulder bears images of continents familiar from school times. But if many of the outlines of the continents differ little from modern ones, then from the coast of Southeast Asia towards America the planet looks completely different. Huge masses of land are depicted where now only a boundless sea splashes. The Caribbean islands and the Florida peninsula are completely absent. Just below the equator in the Pacific Ocean there is a gigantic island, approximately equal in size to modern Madagascar. Modern Japan is part of a giant continent that extends to the shores of America and extends far to the south. It remains to add that the find in La Mana is apparently the oldest map of the world.

Ancient jade service for 12 persons

Sotomayor's other findings are no less interesting. In particular, a “service” of thirteen bowls was discovered. Twelve of them have perfectly equal volume, and the thirteenth is much larger. If you fill 12 small bowls with liquid to the brim, and then pour them into a large one, then it will be filled exactly to the brim. All bowls are made of jade. The purity of their processing suggests that the ancients had a stone processing technology similar to a modern lathe. So far, the finds made by Sotomayor raise more questions than they answer. But they once again confirm the thesis that our information about the history of the Earth and humanity is still very far from perfect.

The world is full of strange and mysterious artifacts. Some are almost certainly hoaxes, while others have real stories behind them. Our review contains 10 real-life artifacts, the origin of which scientists cannot explain even today.

1. Sumerian king list

During excavations in Iraq on the territory of ancient Sumer, it was found manuscript, which lists all the kings of this state. Researchers initially thought that this was an ordinary historical document, but then it was discovered that many of the kings were mythological characters. Some rulers who should have been included in the list were not included. Others had incredibly long reigns or mythical events associated with them, such as the Sumerian version of the Great Flood and the exploits of Gilgamesh.

2. Codex Gigas (or "The Devil's Bible")

The most famous ancient manuscript is the Codex Gigas, better known as " Devil's Bible". Only 2 people can lift this book, made of 160 skins. Legend has it that the Codex Gigas was written by a monk who, after being sentenced to death, according to which the monk had to be walled up alive in a wall, made a deal with the devil. With the help The monk wrote the book in one night (and, oddly enough, the handwriting in the book is surprisingly clear and identical, as if it was actually written in a short period of time. However, scientists believe that such a work. would take from 5 years (if written without interruption) to 30 years. The manuscript contains seemingly incongruous texts: the complete Latin Vulgate Bible, Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews, a collection of medical works by Hippocrates and Theophilus, the Chronicle of Bohemia by Cosmas of Prague, "Etymological Encyclopedia" by Isidore of Seville, exorcism rites, magical formulas and an illustration of the heavenly city.

3. Easter Island writing

Almost everyone knows about the famous Easter Island statues, but there are other artifacts associated with this place, the mystery of which has not been solved until now. 24 wooden carved tablets were found that contain a system of symbols. These symbols are called " rongorongo", and they are considered an ancient proto-writing form. To date, they have never been deciphered.

Typically, archaeologists argue that religion, the building of temples and the development of complex rituals, are by-products of human settlement. This belief was shaken by a discovery on the Urfa Plain in southeastern Turkey. Gobekli Tepe Temple. Its ruins may be the oldest organized place of worship known to man. The ruins of Göbekli Tepe date back to 9500 BC, meaning the temple was built 5000 years before Stonehenge.

In regions that were once under the influence of the Roman Empire, from Wales to the Mediterranean Sea, small strange objects have been found that have been called " dodecahedrons"They are hollow stone or bronze objects, 4-12 centimeters in diameter with 12 flat pentagonal faces and holes of various sizes on each side. Small handles protrude from each corner. 27 theories have been put forward as to what they are, but none none of them could be proven.

Around 6,000 mysterious artefacts have been found in rivers and marshes across Ireland and have become known as the Fulachtai Fia. In the UK, where they are also found, they are called " Burnt mounds". Fulacht fiadh is a horseshoe-shaped mound of soil and stone, in the center of which a trench filled with water is dug. Fulachtai Fia, as a rule, are found singly, but sometimes in groups of 2-6. In this case, there is always a source of water nearby. Why they were built remains a mystery.

7. Big Zayatsky labyrinth, Russia

Bolshoi Zayatsky Island, which is part of the Solovetsky archipelago in northern Russia, hides another mystery. Back in 3000 BC. Not only villages and places of worship were built here, but also irrigation systems. But the most mysterious objects on the island are spiral labyrinths, the largest of which has a diameter of 24 meters. The structures are built from two rows of boulders covered with vegetation. What they were used for is unknown.

8. Witch bottles, Europe and USA

In 2014, archaeologists excavating the site of an ancient battle in Nottinghamshire made a strange discovery: they found a 15-centimeter " witch bottle"Similar vessels were used in Europe and America for black witchcraft in the 1600s - 1700s. They were usually made of ceramics or glass. In total, about 200 such objects were found, and they often contained the remains of needles, nails, nails , hair and even urine. It is believed that witch bottles were used to protect the owner from evil spells and the harmful influence of witches.

9. Lizard-like figurines of Ubaid, Iraq

Strange things are found in Iraq Ubaid figurines. They depict lizard-like and snake-like people in various poses. All figurines have abnormally elongated heads and almond-shaped eyes. Many of these figurines are found in human burials, so they are believed to mark some form of status.

10. Rat King

Several museums around the world contain strange, once-living exhibits of a legendary beast from the Middle Ages called " Rat King"A rat king is formed when several rats intertwine or grow together with their tails. The result is a kind of “nest” of rats, whose muzzles are directed outward, and in the center there is a knot of tails. The largest of such artifacts contains 32 rats. Today such mummified objects are found, but not a single living anomaly of this kind was discovered.

Scientists sometimes work for decades to solve many global problems of humanity. We have collected - from medicine to space. Perhaps these solutions will become the technologies of the future.

Culture

Some researchers are confident that extraterrestrial forms of intelligent lives visited our planet in the past. However, such statements are not scientifically proven facts and remain just assumptions and hypotheses.

UFOs almost always have quite reasonable explanation. But what to do with artifacts, ancient strange objects that are found here and there? Today we will talk about ancient objects, the origin of which remains a mystery. Perhaps these things are evidence of the existence of aliens?

Extraterrestrial mechanism

Alien gear wheel from Vladivostok

At the beginning of this year, a resident of Vladivostok discovered a strange equipment part. This object resembled part of a gear wheel and was pressed into a piece of coal with which the man was going to light the stove.

Although unwanted parts of old equipment can be found almost everywhere, this thing seemed very strange, so the man decided to take it to scientists. After a thorough examination of the subject, it turned out that object made of almost pure aluminum and is indeed of artificial origin.

But the most interesting thing is that he 300 million years! The dating of the object fueled interest, since such pure aluminum and such a form of the object clearly could not have appeared in nature without the intervention of intelligent life. Moreover, it is known that humanity learned to make such parts no earlier 1825.

The artifact incredibly resembles parts of a microscope and other fine technical instruments. Immediately there were suggestions that the object was part of an alien ship.

Ancient statue

Stone head from Guatemala

In the 1930s Researchers have discovered a huge sandstone statue somewhere in the middle of the Guatemalan jungle. The facial features of the statue were completely different from the appearance of the ancient Mayans or other peoples who lived in these territories.

Researchers believe that the facial features of the statue depicted representative of an ancient alien civilization, which was much more advanced than the natives before the arrival of the Spaniards. Some have also suggested that the statue's head also had a torso (although this has not been confirmed).

It is possible that the statue could have been sculpted by later peoples, but unfortunately, we will never know about this. Revolutionary Guatemalans used the statue as a target and almost completely destroyed it.

Ancient artifact or fake?

Alien electric plug

In 1998, a hacker John J. Williams noticed a strange stone object in the ground. He dug it up and cleaned it, after which he discovered that it was attached unknown electrical component. It was obvious that this device was created by human hand, and it was most similar to an electric plug.

The stone has since become well known in the circles of alien hunters, and the most famous publications devoted to paranormal phenomena have written about it. Williams, an electrical engineer, said the electrical part that was pressed into the granite stone was not glued or welded to it.

Many believe that this artifact is just a clever fake, but Williams refused to give the item for more detailed study. He intended to sell it for 500 thousand dollars.

The stone was similar to ordinary stones that lizards use to keep warm. The first geological analysis showed that the stone approximately 100 thousand years, which supposedly proves that the object inside it was not created by man.

Williams eventually agreed to collaborate with the scientists, but only if they will fulfill his three conditions: he will be present during all tests, will not pay for the tests and the stone will not be damaged.

Artifacts of ancient civilizations

Ancient aircraft

The Incas and other peoples of the Americas of the pre-Columbian era left behind a lot of very curious mysterious things. Some of them have been called "ancient planes" - these are small gold figurines that closely resemble modern planes.

Initially it was assumed that these were figurines of animals or insects, but later it turned out that they had strange details, which are more like parts of fighter aircraft: wings, tail stabilizer and even landing gear.

It has been suggested that these models represent replicas of real planes. That is, the Inca civilization could communicate with extraterrestrial beings who could fly to Earth on similar devices.

The version that these figurines are just artistic image bees, flying fish or other earthly creatures with wings.

Lizard people

Al-Ubayd- an archaeological site in Iraq is a real gold mine for archaeologists and historians. A large number of objects were found here El Obeid culture, which existed in southern Mesopotamia during the period between 5900 and 4000 BC.

Some of the artifacts found are particularly strange. For example, some figurines depict humanoid figures in simple poses with lizard-like heads, which may indicate that these are not statues of gods, but images of some new race of lizard people.

There have been suggestions that these figurines are alien images, which at that time flew to Earth. The true nature of the figurines remains a mystery.

Life in a meteorite

Researchers who studied the remains of a meteorite discovered on the island of Sri Lanka discovered that the subject of their research was not just a piece of rock that flew from outer space. It was an artifact, in the truest sense of the word. created outside of Earth. Two separate studies have shown that this meteorite contains fossils and algae of extraterrestrial origin.

Scientists reported that these fossils provide clear evidence panspermia(hypotheses that life exists in the universe and is transferred from one planet to another with the help of meteorites and other space objects). However, these assumptions have been criticized.

The fossils in the meteorite are actually very similar to the species that can be found in fresh waters of the Earth. It may very well be that the object was simply infected while it was on our planet.

Tapestry "Summer Holiday"

Tapestry called "Summer Holiday" was created in Bruges (provincial capital West Flanders in Belgium) approximately in 1538. Today he can be seen in Bavarian National Museum.

This tapestry is famous for depicting objects very similar to UFOs that hovered in the skies. There are suggestions that they were placed on a tapestry, which depicts the ascension of the victor to the throne, in order associate a UFO with a monarch. The UFO in this case serves as a symbol of divine intervention. This, of course, raised more questions. For example, why did medieval Belgians associate flying saucers with deities?

Trinity with Satellite

Italian artist Ventura Salimbeni is the author of one of the most mysterious altar images in history. "Disputa of the Eucharist" ("Glorification of the Holy Communion")– a 16th-century painting that consists of several parts.

The lower part of the picture is not distinguished by anything strange: it depicts saints and an altar. However, its upper part depicts Holy Trinity (Father, Son and dove - Holy Spirit) who look down from above and hold on to a strange object that looks like a space satellite.

This object has perfectly round shape with a metallic sheen, telescopic antennas and a strange glow. Surprisingly, it incredibly resembles the first artificial satellite of the Earth "Sputnik-1" launched into orbit in 1957.

Although alien hunters are confident that this painting is proof that the artist saw a UFO or traveled back in time, experts quickly found an explanation.

This object is actually - Sphaera Mundi, representation of the Universe. This symbol has been used more than once in religious art. Strange lights on the ball - Sun and moon, and the antennas are scepters, that is, symbols of the authority of the Father and the Son.

Mayan artifacts

Ancient UFO images

In 2012, the Mexican government released several ancient Mayan artifacts that it had been hiding from the public. last 80 years. These objects were found in a pyramid that was found under another pyramid in the area Calakmul- the most powerful city of the ancient Mayans.

These artifacts are notable for the fact that depict flying saucers, which may serve as evidence that the Mayans saw UFOs at one time. However, the authenticity of these artifacts raises great doubts in the scientific world, and even more so in the pictures that appeared on the Internet. Most likely, these artifacts were created local artisans, to create a sensation fueling reports of the end of the world at the end of 2012.

Mysterious artifact

Betsev Alien Sphere

This mysterious story happened in the mid 1970s. When the Betz family was examining the damage after a fire that destroyed a large amount of forest on their property, they discovered an amazing find: silvery ball approximately 20 centimeters in diameter, completely smooth with a strange elongated triangular symbol.

At first the Betzs thought it was some kind of NASA space object or Soviet spy satellite, but ultimately decided it was just a souvenir and kept it for themselves.

Two weeks later, Betzev’s son decided to play the guitar in the room where the ball was located. Suddenly an object began to respond to the melody, producing a strange pulsating sound, causing concern in the Betzes' dog.

Next, the family discovered even more strange properties of the object. If he was rolled on the floor, the ball could stop and suddenly change direction, while returning to the person who abandoned him. It seemed that it drew energy from the sun's rays, since on sunny days the ball became more active.

Newspapers began to write about the ball, scientists became interested in it, although the Betzes did not particularly want to part with the find. Soon things began to happen in the house mysterious phenomena: the ball began to behave like a poltergeist. Doors began to open at night, and organ music began to sound in the house.

After this, the family became seriously worried and decided to find out what this ball was. Imagine their surprise when it turned out that this mysterious object was just regular stainless steel ball.

Although many theories have emerged about where this strange ball came from and why it behaves this way, one of them turned out to be the most plausible.

Three years before the Betzes found the orb, an artist named James Durling-Jones drove through these places in a car, on the roof of which he was carrying several stainless steel balls, which he intended to use in a future sculpture. On the way, one of the balls fell out and rolled into the forest.

According to the description, these balls were the same as the Betsev ball: they could balance and roll in different directions, as soon as they are lightly touched. The Betzes' house had uneven floors, so the ball did not roll in a straight line. These balls could also make sounds due to metal shavings that were trapped inside during the ball's production.

Since the time of Darwin, science has more or less managed to fit into a logical framework and explain most of the evolutionary processes that took place. Archaeologists, biologists, and many other ...ologists agree and are confident that already 400 - 250 thousand years ago the rudiments of the current society flourished on our planet. But archeology, you know, is such an unpredictable science, no, no, and it keeps throwing up new finds that do not fit into the generally accepted model neatly put together by scientists. We present to you the 15 most mysterious artifacts that made the scientific world think about the correctness of existing theories.

1. Spheres from Klerksdorp.

According to rough estimates, these mysterious artifacts are about 3 billion years old. They are disc-shaped and spherical objects. Corrugated balls are found in two types: some are made of bluish metal, monolithic, interspersed with white matter, others, on the contrary, are hollow, and the cavity is filled with white spongy material. The exact number of spheres is unknown to anyone, since miners with help still continue to extract them from the rock near the city of Klerksdorp, located in South Africa.

2 . Stones Drop.

In the Bayan-Kara-Ula mountains, which are located in China, a unique find was made, the age of which is 10 - 12 thousand years. Drop stones, numbering in the hundreds, resemble gramophone records. These are stone discs with a hole in the middle and a spiral engraving applied to the surface. Some scientists are inclined to believe that the disks serve as carriers of information about extraterrestrial civilization.

In 1901, the Aegean Sea revealed to scientists the secret of a sunken Roman ship. Among other surviving antiquities, a mysterious mechanical artifact was found that was made about 2,000 years ago. Scientists managed to recreate a complex and innovative invention for that time. The Antikythera mechanism was used by the Romans for astronomical calculations. Interestingly, the differential gear used in it was invented only in the 16th century, and the skill of the miniature parts from which the amazing device was assembled is not inferior to the skill of watchmakers of the 18th century.

4. Ica stones.

Discovered in the Peruvian province of Ica by surgeon Javier Cabrera. Ica stones are processed volcanic rock covered with engravings. But the whole mystery is that among the images there are dinosaurs (brontosaurs, pterosaurs and triceraptors). Perhaps, despite all the arguments of learned anthropologists, they were already flourishing and engaged in creativity at the time when these giants roamed the earth?

In 1936, a strange-looking vessel sealed with a concrete stopper was discovered in Baghdad. Inside the mysterious artifact was a metal rod. Subsequent experiments showed that the vessel performed the function of an ancient battery, since by filling a structure similar to the Baghdad battery with the electrolyte available at that time, it was possible to obtain electricity of 1 V. Now you can argue who owns the title of the founder of the doctrine of electricity, because the Baghdad battery is 2000 years older than Alessandro Volta.

6. The oldest “spark plug”.

In the Coso Mountains in California, an expedition that was looking for new minerals found a strange artifact, its appearance and properties strongly resemble a “spark plug.” Despite its dilapidation, one can confidently distinguish a ceramic cylinder, inside of which there is a magnetized two-millimeter metal rod. And the cylinder itself is enclosed in a copper hexagon. The age of the mysterious find will surprise even the most inveterate skeptic - it is more than 500,000 years old!

The three hundred stone balls scattered along the coast of Costa Rica vary in age (from 200 BC to 1500 AD) and in size. However, it is still not clear to scientists exactly how ancient people made them and for what purposes.

8. Planes, tanks and submarines of Ancient Egypt.

There is no doubt that the Egyptians built it, but could the same Egyptians have thought of constructing an airplane? Scientists have been asking this question since a mysterious artifact was discovered in one of the Egyptian caves in 1898. The shape of the device is similar to an airplane, and if it was given an initial speed, it could easily fly. The fact that in the era of the New Kingdom the Egyptians were aware of such technical inventions as an airship, a helicopter and a submarine is told on the ceiling of a temple located near Cairo.

9. Human palm print, 110 million years old.

And this is not at all an age for humanity, if you take and add here such a mysterious artifact as a fossilized finger from the Arctic part of Canada, belonging to a person and having the same age. And a footprint found in Utah, and not just a foot, but one shod in a sandal, is 300 - 600 million years old! You wonder, so when did humanity begin?

10. Metal pipes from Saint-Jean-de-Livet.

The age of the rock from which the metal pipes were extracted is 65 million years, therefore, the artifact was made at the same time. Wow, Iron Age. Another strange find was obtained from Scottish rock dating back to the Lower Devonian period, that is, 360 - 408 million years ago. This mysterious artifact was a metal nail.

In 1844, the Englishman David Brewster reported that an iron nail had been discovered in a block of sandstone in one of the Scottish quarries. His cap was so “grown” into the stone that it was impossible to suspect the falsification of the find, although the age of the sandstone dating back to the Devonian period is about 400 million years.

Already in our memory, in the second half of the twentieth century, a discovery was made, which scientists still cannot explain. Near the American town with the loud name London, in the state of Texas, during the splitting of sandstone from the Ordovician period (Paleozoic, 500 million years ago), an iron hammer with the remains of a wooden handle was discovered. If we discard man, who did not exist at that time, it turns out that trilobites and dinosaurs smelted iron and used it for economic purposes. If we put aside the stupid mollusks, then we need to somehow explain finds, for example, such as this one: in 1968, the Frenchmen Druet and Salfati discovered in the quarries of Saint-Jean-de-Livet, in France, oval-shaped metal pipes, the age of which, if dated from the Cretaceous strata, it is 65 million years old - the era of the last reptiles.

Or this: in the middle of the 19th century, blasting work was carried out in Massachusetts, and among the fragments of stone blocks a metal vessel was discovered, which was torn in half by a blast wave. It was a vase about 10 centimeters high, made of metal resembling zinc in color. The walls of the vessel were decorated with images of six flowers in the form of a bouquet. The rock in which this strange vase was kept belonged to the beginning of the Paleozoic (Cambrian), when life was barely emerging on earth - 600 million years ago.

It cannot be said that the scientists completely took water into their mouths: I had to read that a nail and a hammer could fall into the gap and be flooded with soil waters, with the formation of dense rock around them over time. Even if the vase fell through along with the hammer, the pipes in French quarries could not have reached the depths by accident.

11. Iron mug in coal

It is not known what a scientist would say if in a lump of coal, instead of the imprint of an ancient plant, he found... an iron mug. Would a coal seam be dated by a man from the Iron Age, or still to the Carboniferous period, when there weren't even dinosaurs? And such an object was found, and until recently that mug was kept in one of the private museums of America, in Southern Missouri, although with the death of the owner, the trace of the scandalous object was lost, to the great, it should be noted, relief of learned men. However, there was a photograph left.

The mug contained the following document, signed by Frank Kenwood: “In 1912, while I was working at the municipal power plant in Thomas, Oklahoma, I came across a massive lump of coal. It was too big and I had to break it with a hammer. This iron mug fell out of the block, leaving behind a hole in the coal. An employee of the company named Jim Stoll witnessed how I broke the block and how the mug fell out of it. I was able to find out the origin of the coal - it was mined in the Wilburton mines in Oklahoma." According to scientists, the coal mined in Oklahoma mines dates back 312 million years, if, of course, not dated by circle. Or did man live together with trilobites - these shrimps of the past?

12. Leg on a trilobite

Fossilized trilobite. 300 million years ago.

Although there is a find that speaks exactly about this - a trilobite crushed by a shoe! The fossil was discovered by a passionate shellfish lover, William Meister, who was exploring the area around Antelope Spring, Utah, in 1968. He split a piece of shale and saw the following picture (in the photo - a split stone).

The imprint of the shoe of the right foot is visible, under which were two small trilobites. Scientists explain this as a play of nature, and are ready to believe in a find only if there is a whole chain of similar traces. Meister is not a specialist, but a draftsman who searches for antiquities in his spare time, but his reasoning is sound: the imprint of the shoe was found not on the surface of hardened clay, but after splitting a piece: the chip fell along the imprint, along the boundary of the compaction caused by the pressure of the shoe. However, they don’t want to talk to him: after all, man, according to evolutionary theory, did not live in the Cambrian period. There weren't even dinosaurs back then. Or...geochronology is false.

13.The sole of the shoe is on an ancient stone

In 1922, American geologist John Reid conducted a search in Nevada. Unexpectedly, he discovered a clear imprint of a shoe sole on the stone. A photograph of this wonderful find has still been preserved.

Also in 1922, an article written by Dr. W. Ballou appeared in the New York Sunday American. He wrote: “Some time ago, the famous geologist John T. Reid, while searching for fossils, suddenly froze in confusion and surprise at the rock under his feet. There was what looked like a human print, but not a bare foot, but the sole of a shoe that had turned to stone. The forefoot has disappeared, but retains the contour of at least two-thirds of the sole. There was a clearly visible thread around the outline, which, as it turned out, attached a welt to the sole. This is how a fossil was found, which is today the biggest mystery for science, since it was found in a rock that is at least 5 million years old."
The geologist took the cut piece of rock to New York, where it was examined by several professors from the American Museum of Natural History and a geologist from Columbia University. Their conclusion was clear: the rock is 200 million years old - Mesozoic, Triassic period. However, the imprint itself was recognized by both these and all other scientific heads... as a play of nature. Otherwise, we would have to admit that people wearing shoes sewn with thread lived alongside dinosaurs.

In 1993, Philip Reef became the owner of another amazing find. While digging a tunnel in the mountains of California, two mysterious Cylinders were discovered; they resemble the so-called “cylinders of the Egyptian pharaohs.”

But their properties are completely different from them. They consist half of platinum, half of an unknown metal. If they are heated, for example, to 50°C, then they maintain this temperature for several hours, regardless of the ambient temperature. Then they cool almost instantly to air temperature. If an electric current is passed through them, they change color from silver to black, and then return to their original color. Undoubtedly, the cylinders contain other secrets that have yet to be discovered. According to radiocarbon dating, the age of these artifacts is approximately 25 million years.

According to the most commonly accepted story, was found in 1927 by the English explorer Frederick A. Mitchell-Hedges among the Mayan ruins in Lubaantun (modern Belize).

Others claim that the scientist bought this item at Sotheby's in London in 1943. Whatever the reality, this rock crystal skull is so perfectly carved that it appears to be a priceless work of art.
So, if we consider the first hypothesis to be correct (according to which the skull is a Mayan creation), then a whole rain of questions falls upon us.
Scientists believe that the Skull of Doom is in some ways technically impossible. Weighing almost 5 kg, and being a perfect copy of a woman's skull, it has a completeness that would have been impossible to achieve without the use of more or less modern methods, methods that the Mayan culture owned and which we do not know about.
The skull is perfectly polished. Its jaw is a separate hinged part from the rest of the skull. It has long attracted (and will likely continue to do so to a somewhat lesser extent) experts from a variety of disciplines.
It is also worth mentioning the relentless attribution of supernatural abilities to him by a group of esotericists, such as telekinesis, the emission of an unusual aroma, and color changes. The existence of all these properties is difficult to prove.
The skull was subjected to various analyses. One of the inexplicable things is that made of quartz glass, and therefore having a hardness of 7 on the Mohs scale (a scale of mineral hardness from 0 to 10), the skull was able to be carved without hard cutting materials such as ruby ​​and diamond.
Studies of the skull carried out by the American company Hewlett-Packard in the 1970s determined that in order to achieve such perfection, it would have to be sanded for 300 years.
Could the Mayans have deliberately designed this type of work to be completed 3 centuries later? The only thing we can say with certainty is that the Skull of Fate is not the only one of its kind.
Several such objects have been found in various places on the planet, and they are created from other materials, similar to quartz. These include a complete jadeite skeleton discovered in the China/Mongolian region, made on a smaller scale than human scale, estimated to be approx. in 3500-2200 BC.
There are doubts about the authenticity of many of these artifacts, but one thing is certain: crystal skulls continue to delight intrepid scientists.

17. Lycurgus Cup

A Roman cup made about 1,600 years ago may be an example of nanotechnology, experts say. The mysterious Lycurgus Cup, made of dichroic glass, is able to change color from green to red, depending on the light.

The bowl, which is on display at the British Museum in London, was created using what is now called nanotechnology - the controlled manipulation of materials at the atomic and molecular level. These technologies, according to scientists, can be used in various fields - from diagnosing diseases to detecting bombs at airports.

Scientists managed to unravel the mystery of the changing color of the bowl only in 1990, after many years of fruitless attempts. After studying the shards of glass under a microscope, scientists discovered that the Romans had infused it with particles of silver and gold, which they crushed into extremely tiny particles - about 50 nanometers in diameter - a thousand times smaller than a crystal of salt.

The precise ratio of metals and such careful grinding led experts to conclude that the Romans were pioneers of nanotechnology because they actually knew what they were doing.

Archaeologist Ian Freestone of University College London, who examined the cup and its unusual optical properties, calls the creation of the cup an "amazing feat." The cup changes color depending on which side the observer is looking at it from.

The cup was apparently used for drinking on exceptional occasions, and experts believe its color changed depending on the drink it was filled with.

Liu Gang Logan, an engineer and nanotechnology expert at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, said: "The Romans knew how to make and use nanoparticles to create works of art."

Of course, scientists could not examine a one-of-a-kind goblet and fill it with various liquids. Therefore, they were forced to recreate the Lycurgus Cup, applying microscopic particles of gold and silver to the glass. After this, the researchers experimented with different liquids to find out how its color would change. Scientists have found that a new cup filled with water glows blue, and when filled with oil it glows bright red.

Modern science is moving forward by leaps and bounds, and much of what could not be explained earlier has now been proven and confirmed. But, nevertheless, there are still phenomena and discoveries that scientists cannot explain. Among them are amazing artifacts, the origin and purpose of which remain a mystery. There are many assumptions, hypotheses, conjectures, but so far they remain unconfirmed.

Amazing finds of antiquity

Archaeological excavations are perhaps the main source of unusual artifacts found on Earth. Some finds are quite understandable and explainable, while others baffle the scientific world, since their age and the age of humanity are incomparable.

Mysterious stones of Ica

In the vicinity of the city of Ica (Peru), small and large stones with various images were found at different times. The smallest weighed 15-20g, and the largest weighed about 500kg and reached a height of 1.5m. The most common stones found were the size of a watermelon.

Reference! The collection of stones was started by professor of medicine Dr. Cabrera. It currently contains 11,000 copies. Other collections are owned by the Ica Museum, the Callao Naval Museum, the Aeronautics Museum in Peru and private collectors.

Interestingly, they are made of very durable volcanic granite (andesite), but can crack upon impact. The color of the stones is different - black, gray, beige, pinkish. Another interesting fact is that silicon and obsidian tools do not leave any marks on andesite, and only small scratches are visible from the impact of steel tools.

How then was the drawing applied? It was assumed that the stones were an ordinary fake, because a drill left a similar mark. But then it is impossible to explain the images of objects, phenomena, animals that do not exist today, and there are so many stones that their production must be on an industrial scale.

Unusual designs on stones:

• craniotomy surgery performed with primitive instruments;
• images of dinosaurs, both known to science and unknown, who lived 60 million years ago (by the way, the remains of an ancient man were found about 200 thousand years ago);
• animals that became extinct during the last ice age and lived in South America before the advent of man, but are depicted next to a man or in a controlled harness, for example, deer, camels, giant sloths;
• a marine animal similar to a crayfish and a scorpion, which does not exist now, but lived on Earth 300-500 million years ago;
• instruments for observing the sky, carts with wheels, flying machines - all this was unknown to the Indians;
• pictures of space, the starry sky, images of comets and the movement of cosmic bodies;
• images of the continents do not correspond to the contours of the current continents and their location relative to each other;
• there are several images similar to the drawings from the Nazca plateau, which a person can only see from above, and next to them is a man with a telescope.

None of the hypotheses at the moment provides a scientific explanation for the method of drawing and justification for their content.

The Mystery of Costa Rica's Stone Balls

Costa Rican balls are considered one of the most amazing and unusual ancient artifacts in the world. The find was made relatively recently (1948), but its age is 1500 years.

More than one hundred round stone balls ranging from 10 cm to 3 m in diameter were discovered in the jungle. The weight of the largest reached 16,000 kg. It immediately became clear that the balls were created artificially, because their shape was ideal and their dimensions were measured not with the elbow, but with the most precise instruments.

The researchers decided to examine the large find from a helicopter and were quite surprised by the picture that opened - the stones were arranged in groups (3-45 pieces) in the form of various geometric shapes, stretching for kilometers.

Nature could not have arranged the boulders this way, but then the question arises: who “dragged” them here and why?

Assumptions about the appearance of balls:

• each ball is a star in a constellation unknown to man and they were used for calculations necessary in agriculture;
• the balls are giant cores of powerful military equipment of an ancient civilization, and the unusual location is necessary for conducting exercises;
• stone spheres were needed to communicate with aliens and played the role of landing strips.

Speculation about the process of making stones varies, but most agree that huge blocks of natural origin were used for this. To break off smaller stones, the block was heated using coal, then cooled sharply. Due to temperature changes, the block split into pieces of different sizes.

The excess was chipped off with hard objects and the surface was polished using sand and leather.

Interesting! The dimensions during the work were maintained as accurately as possible, which is confirmed by modern instruments.

When studying the material from which the balls are made, it was found that the composition includes shell rock and limestone. The closest location of both is the coast of the Dikvis River, which is 50 km from the location of the balls.

How to deliver 16 tons of stone mass to another place without (or having?) equipment? There is a question, but there is no answer yet. The history of research into unusual artifacts from Peru continues.

Paintings on the rocks - an unsolved mystery

Rock paintings are the oldest artifacts in human history. They helped build a chronology of certain events and formulate ideas about the way of life of ancient man, present the history of human development, the formation of writing, etc.

But among them there are such unusual ones that it is impossible to compare their content with the era of their appearance.

Mysterious drawings:

• Mount Hunan in China - the paintings on it are about 47,000 years old and are believed to show human contact with aliens or creatures of unknown origin;
• Italy, Val Camonica valley - figures are painted on the rocks, emitting light and dressed in suits, like an astronaut's suit, with some strange objects in their hands (made around 10,000 BC);
• Uzbekistan, outskirts of the city of Navoi - an image of a person from whom light is emanating; nearby there are people in protective masks;
• River plateau (Tassilin Adjer) in the southeast of Algeria - more than a hundred images of an unusual shapeless creature were found, which has different eyes and a hairstyle made of “petals” (the age of the “portraits” is 600 BC);
• Australia, Kimberley Plateau - many ancient petroglyphs were found, on them gods with identical faces and a halo around their heads, as well as objects similar to a spacecraft;
• Kazakhstan, Tamgaly petroglyphs – in various scenes there are creatures with a large head and a halo around it;
• southern Africa - often there are drawings of creatures of gigantic stature;
• Veracruz, Las Palmas (Mexico) – rock carvings of people in spacesuits were found.

On a note! Images of aircraft, people in spacesuits, and solar signs were found in Panama, Bolivia, India, Altai, the USA, and the Canary Islands.

Tiwanaku is an ancient city, which is the center of the civilization of the same name, which existed in the 15th-17th centuries. BC. It was discovered on the Altiplano plateau in Bolivia - an altitude of 4 thousand meters above sea level. Lake Titicaca is 20 km away.

There are no written sources that mention the Tiwanaku civilization, and many guesses and assumptions are based on oral sources (legends, songs) that have survived to this day.

The history of the origin of the ancient civilization and the reasons for its disappearance are unknown. Only ancient amazing artifacts remained as evidence of its existence.

Puma Punku

An unusual artifact of antiquity, full of secrets and mysteries - the ruins of the Puma Punku temple complex in the vicinity of Tiwanaku.

Scientists, trying to determine the age of the building, have not come to a consensus and the dates vary significantly - this is from the 6th century AD. e. and 2000 BC, and someone estimates the age of the building at 17,000 years.

Mysteries appear immediately; it is worth starting to consistently understand how, from what, and why the complex was built, how and why it was destroyed.

The buildings were made of andesite (volcanic granite) multi-ton large blocks. Some are connected to each other by metal parts, and some are processed in such a way that they are connected like Lego. Archaeologists suggest that molten metal was poured into special recesses, and a kind of screed was obtained.

Interesting! The dimensions of one of the blocks are 7.81m x 5.17m x 1.07m, weight - 131 tons, the dimensions of the other huge block are 7.9m x 2.5m x 1.86m, weight - 82.5t.

It remains a mystery how the ancient craftsmen processed the solid material, with what tools, and how they so delicately adjusted the joints and drilled holes of various shapes and sizes. The method of delivering blocks from quarries located 10 km and 90 km from the construction site is also shrouded in mystery.

Not only is the construction of the complex still full of mysteries, but the reason for its destruction is also unknown. Some believe that it was destroyed as a result of a strong earthquake, others see the reason in the fall of a cosmic body. There are versions that the building was destroyed as a result of a targeted explosion of such power that multi-ton blocks were literally “stuck” into the ground at an angle of 45°.

An amazing artifact that remains from an ancient civilization and has survived to our time is the Akapana pyramid in Tiwanaku. This sacred place was located in the central part of the city.

The pyramid is an artificially created hill 15 m high and a base length of 200 m, lined with andesite slabs. At the top of the pyramid there is a cross-shaped pool, and inside the structure there is an extensive system of canals lined with stone. What attracted attention was the joining of the channels, performed with an accuracy of 1/2mm.

At the top of the pyramid there is a large depression, the purpose of which is unknown. It was supposed to be a pond, but why put a pond on top of the pyramid? According to another hypothesis, this depression is a trace of a powerful explosion that scattered huge blocks around (similar to the explosion at Puma Punku).

Excavations in Tiwanaku continue, the number of mysteries increases.

The Mystery of China - The White Pyramid

A mysterious, unusual and amazing artifact in China, the origin of which baffles scientists around the world - a structure in the shape of a pyramid. It received the name “White Pyramid” because of the silver color in the photo.

The first reports about it appeared in the twentieth century (80s), although it was discovered in 1945. An American pilot saw it and in his report pointed out the enormous size of the structure - height 300 m, length of the base - 230 m, which significantly exceeds the size of the Cheops pyramid.

Interesting fact! For some unknown reason, the Chinese authorities hid information about the pyramid. When the opportunity to obtain photographs from space arose, it became impossible to hide this fact. Access to this area is closed.

Later (1994) they discovered a large area with similar structures of different sizes and called it the Valley of Truncated Pyramids. There are more than 400 ancient artifacts of various regular shapes with a flat platform on top. What’s interesting is that almost all the structures are monolithic, therefore, they could not play the role of tombs.

Among all, a group of pyramids stands out, there are 20 of them, forming a square on the ground, the sides of which are oriented to the cardinal points.

Secrets of the White Pyramid:

• it houses the tomb of Emperor Gaozong (200 BC);
• the construction of the monolithic pyramid was completed long before the death of the emperor and special channels were punched for his burial;
• About 700 thousand people died during the construction of the tomb. people whose remains were placed in the walls;
• archaeologists were amazed that the bones were randomly mixed as if under the influence of an unknown force;
• later it turned out that these were servants accompanying the emperor to another world, who were killed with an unknown weapon;
• in the area of ​​the White Pyramid, people mysteriously disappear, plane crashes occur for no reason, those who accidentally got there experience loss of orientation and memory;
• An ancient legend tells about people who flew on a dragon and bestowed secret knowledge on earthly people;
• the location of the pyramid is the geometric focus of all parts of the world;
• the structure is similar to the pyramids on the American and African continents;
• around it, all the other buildings are located like stars in the constellation Cygnus, which represents eternal life among the Chinese, and this fact is another secret.

Artifact for Plichko – where is it located?

Unusual artifacts of antiquity arouse extraordinary interest among the scientific community and ordinary people. Based on the interest in everything amazing and inexplicable, many computer games have been created, one of the components of which is the search for artifacts.

One of them is S.T.A.L.K.E.R, where Sergeant Plichko is also looking for artifacts.