In our time, one of the most terrible threats hanging over humanity is the gloomy specter of nuclear war. People have not felt such a global danger since the most ancient times. We have all seen newsreels showing the destruction of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The idea that the entire world could be subjected to such destruction is fearful. This feeling literally permeates our lives. And there is a good reason for that. After all, the accumulated arsenals of deadly weapons are simply colossal. And who knows what kind of inflamed brain of what aging ruler the thought that this world no longer has the right to exist can suddenly creep into. So this fear is fully justified. Undoubtedly, nuclear weapons are the fruit of human ingenuity and human desire to kill. And it appeared only in the last century as a fruit of the development of our terrible technologies. This is what modern historical science says. But is it really so?
Nuclear war in ancient times
There is an alternative opinion on this score. According to enthusiasts who study texts written in ancient times, nuclear strikes were inflicted by someone on someone else thousands of years ago.
One of the main historical evidence used to prove the nuclear war that took place in antiquity is believed to be found in the 8th century epic Mahabharata. It tells about the battle of Kurukshetra that took place between the ancient king Rama and the demon Ravana. On the pages of the ancient epic it is said that some catastrophic event happened during the war. The description of which for a modern person will immediately form in his imagination an explosion of a nuclear bomb. The text mentions a powerful explosion that was "brighter than a thousand suns." This explosion caused a colossal fire. The trees instantly caught fire and turned to ash.
Interestingly, the texts also mention that the survivors of the disaster got sick and lost their hair. Which is undoubtedly very similar to the symptoms of radiation sickness. Which happened to people thousands of years before the first nuclear charge was used!
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Radiation and skeletons
The texts that people wrote in ancient times are often replete with descriptions of incomprehensible events. It is likely that we just misread them. What other evidence is there that there was a nuclear war in the ancient world? And the supporters of the controversial hypothesis have an answer to this question. They point the finger at various archaeological sites that are believed to contain evidence of the use of nuclear weapons in antiquity. One of them is the mysterious ancient city of Jodhpur, located on the edge of the great Thar Desert in India. And, according to enthusiasts, there is an unusually high level of radiation. They say that people who live here are much more likely to get cancer than others. They are much more likely to have birth defects and other complications associated with exposure to radiation than in other parts of India.
Another piece of evidence comes from skeletons allegedly excavated from the ancient ruins of Mohenjo Daro, Pakistan. It happened in 1927. These skeletons have high levels of radiation. And, allegedly, belong to people who suddenly fell where they stood. And these skeletons lay on the streets in such positions as if people instantly died from the effects of some powerful weapon of mass destruction. Many of these skeletons, which, oddly enough, have been wonderfully preserved for many centuries, were supposedly found lying face down in the streets. And in some cases, they even held hands. As if people were expecting inevitable death. (Which contradicts the version about the surprise of the strike).
And it is also claimed that some of the stones found among the ruins were partially crystallized by some incredibly intense flash of heat. British Indian explorer David Davenport claimed to have discovered stones that were mysteriously melted. And turned into glass. And this requires a temperature of about 1500 ° C. Yes, it seems that in these places about 2500 thousand years ago, in ancient times, a very unusual event took place. But what it really was remains unclear.
Molten stones
However, if we talk about molten rocks, there are other places on our planet where a similar phenomenon has been noted. In December 1932, an Egyptian Geological Surveyor named Patrick Clayton discovered a mysterious sheet of glass buried in the sands of the Great Sandy Sea. It is near the Saad plateau in Egypt. Such mysterious glass pieces have also been found in the deserts of Libya, the Sahara, the Mojave and other places. Experts who have studied these unusual glass formations allegedly stated strange things about them. They often compared the findings to the vitreous formations appearing at nuclear test sites.
Some scientists tried to explain the occurrence of the found artifacts by the impact of a meteorite. However, the absence of any crater makes such assumptions problematic. In addition, most of the glass found is of high purity and transparency. And this also does not fit into the meteorite theory. So what caused these strange glassy objects to appear? Nobody really has the faintest idea. Evidence like this, like the other reasoning above, makes some theorists scratch in the most immodest places. They argue that all these facts indicate some kind of event associated with nuclear weapons, and it happened in ancient times. And how this could have happened is left to the discretion of the venerable public. Well, for example, time travelers can be to blame. Or aliens. Or both at the same time.
Hoaxes and deception
Considering all these facts, at first glance, it seems that they are very convincing evidence of an ancient nuclear apocalypse. But did any of this really happen in reality? Unfortunately, there are many problems in this whole story. And not least due to the fact that no official historical or archaeological record mentions such a cataclysm. There are also many doubts about the correct interpretation of the statements of the texts written in antiquity and describing the end of the world. Work carried out in places like Mohenjo-daro has been carefully analyzed and verified. And later research showed that the skeletons were simply pulled out of their graves and laid out on the streets of the ancient city.
Other results, such as fused glass and radiation, were also carefully analyzed. And it was found that their appearance was probably caused by quite rational reasons. You must admit that the buildings of ancient cities were mostly not damaged. Therefore, it seems strange to suggest that a nuclear explosion should have bypassed them.
And the radiation levels for so many centuries should have returned to normal long ago. Indeed, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there has been no radioactive radiation for a long time.
And yet, purely theoretically, it is very curious - if such an event did ever happen, why did it happen? Why were such sophisticated tools of destruction available already in ancient times? And who applied them? And, most importantly, why?
Most likely we will never know about it. But we can hope that this will never happen again.