The Carnac stones and other mysterious artifacts.
Even today, many scientists remains unsolved historical mysteries, but sometimes to answer the perennial questions help the artifacts that archeologists find. In this review, the most mysterious artifacts that has forced humanity to change the view of the historical facts and events.
1. Rongorongo
Although many people know about the moai statues of Easter island and other mysteries associated with Easter island, are usually never tell. “Rongorongo” is the hieroglyphic written language of the former inhabitants of this region. What is particularly strange rongorongo is the fact that none of the nearby island Nations in that time did not use writing.
For the first time about this ancient writing (her age could not even install) learned in the eighteenth century, but most of the tablets with texts in rongorongo was, unfortunately, destroyed after early European colonizers banned the language from its Association with the pagan roots of the native islanders.
2. Lost city of Helike
At the end of the II century ad the Greek geographer and writer Pausanias wrote about how 4-500 years earlier (there are different translations) a powerful earthquake destroyed the great city of Helike, and then the tsunami washed away the remnants of the once thriving metropolis. The city that once was the capital of the Achaean Union, was the center of worship dedicated to the God of the sea Poseidon.
Since the Greek Scriptures there was not a single mention of this city, as long as archaeologist in 1861 not found a bronze coin engraved with the head of Poseidon. In 2001, a pair of archeologists managed to find the ruins of Helike under a layer of dirt and gravel on the coast, and today they plan to begin excavation of what actually could be the infamous legendary Atlantis.
3. Body out of the swamp
In the swamps and wetlands of Northern Europe found hundreds of ancient corpses. Many of the bodies preserved remarkably well, despite the fact that some 2000 years. Many of these bodies have signs of torture that led several researchers to suggest that it was the unfortunate victims of ritual sacrifices.
4. The fall of the Minoans
The Minoans were best known for the legend of Theseus and the Minotaur, but it’s actually much more interesting the decline of this once great civilization. Although many historians mostly study the fall of the Roman Empire, the fall of the Minoans, who lived on the island of Crete, is a much greater mystery. Three and a half thousand years ago the island was shaken by a huge volcanic eruption on the nearby island of Santorini.
Archaeologists discovered signs which showed that the Minoans continued to exist on the island of Crete for 50 years after the eruption. The theory of why they disappeared after that, range from the volcanic ash that covered the island before the drought that killed crops, and the invasion of the Greeks.
5. The dolmens of karnag
Everyone has heard of Stonehenge, but few know about Carnac stones. 3000 megaliths, which are lined up in perfect lines over a distance of 12 kilometers from the coast of Brittany in Northwest France. Myths say that the great Merlin somehow turned into a slender stone to the ranks of the soldiers of the Roman Legion.
6. Robin Hood
Historians in the search for the legendary bandit Robin hood found a lot of individuals suitable for this role. One of the candidates is the Yorkshire fugitive from the law Robert Hod, also known as Hobbied or Robert hood of Wakefield. The search is complicated by the fact that the name Robin hood became a household name for rogue. Still no one knows who the thief really is.
7. The lost Roman Legion
After the Parthians defeated the army of the Roman General Crassus, legend has it that a small group of prisoners went to the desert and eventually were surrounded by the Han, 17 years later. Chinese of the first century historian ban GU wrote an account of a clash with a strange army of about a hundred men who fought in formation, unique to the Roman troops. Oxford historian who compared ancient records claims that the lost Roman Legion founded a small town near the Gobi desert in the name of Liqian.
8. The Voynich Manuscript
This manuscript is a medieval document written in an unknown language using an unknown writing system. For more than a hundred years (although the parchment of the manuscript was crafted approximately 1404 — 1438 years, just about the book scholars learned in 1912) people trying to decipher the writing and illustrations in the manuscript, but still not able to do even partially.
The overall impression produced by the surviving leaves of the manuscript suggests that it could be a Pharmacopoeia. However, even the illustrations in the book show what on Earth simply no.
9. The Tarim mummies
An amazing discovery of 2,000 year old mummies in the basin of the Tarim river in Western China occurred in the early 1990-ies. But the most surprising about this discovery is that the mummies had blond hair and long noses, and they are clearly Caucasians. In 1993, the DNA analysis confirmed that the bodies of the European genetics. Ancient Chinese texts Dating back to the first Millennium BC mention groups of people with European features in China, but never specified where they came from.
10. The disappearance of the Indus valley civilization
The ancient Indus valley civilization is the oldest known civilization that lived in the area from Western India to Afghanistan and its population was over 5 million people. The magnitude of their sudden collapse and disappearance still hard to imagine.
The people of the Indus were a hygienically advanced culture that used a very complex system of sewers and built baths. To date, not been found no archaeological evidence of invasions of foreign armies, nor any other conflict. No one knows what happened to this civilization.
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