Many unusual artifacts have been found on the territory of our vast country. Some of them are gathering dust in museums, and no one thinks about their true purpose and about the technologies with which they were made. Perhaps these are products of ancient highly developed civilizations, miraculously survived to this day. (By following the links in the article, you can read more about some of the artifacts).
1. Jade rings
In the summer of 2017, archaeologists discovered on the shores of Lake Baikal, on Cape Uyuga, the burial of a man and a woman holding hands.
The skeletons are 4000-5000 thousand years old. But the most surprising thing is that in the eye socket of the male skeleton there was a ring made of white jade. Three more mysterious jade rings lay on his chest. It is interesting that in the knees of the skeleton they found a leather bag with metal tools of unknown purpose. It is curious that these rings are very different in quality of finishing from the primitive items that were found in this grave and in similar burials found on the shores of Lake Baikal.
2. Hammer in Bashkiria
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This mysterious stone hammer was dug up in 2015 in the Sterlitamak region of Bashkiria.
Its age is not less than 3 thousand years. The find was made in the Chumarovo-1 Kurgan burial ground. Interestingly, scientists believe that it was used as a ritual decoration rather than a regular hammer.
It was the smooth, polished surface that led them to this idea. It is curious that in an interview, archaeologists reported that several of the same axes had already been found in similar burial grounds. Most likely, this hammer was not machined by hand, just like this even hole in the middle.
3. Istra axes
At the beginning of 2019, archaeologists discovered a necropolis in the Istra region, which is about 4.5 thousand years old - it was created at about the same time as the pyramid of Cheops was built.
Among other things, amazing axes were found here.
They look like they weren't created by hand. Scientists could not ignore this fact, but they came up with a completely fantastic and even delusional explanation. "The battle axes are made of gabbro-diorite and are imitations of bronze axes - so precise that even the protruding rib that forms on metal axes at the points of contact of casting molds is imitated."
In the same burial, there are primitive spearheads, which are indeed made by hand, and the difference between them and supposedly "simulated" axes is obvious.
4. Chandar plate
In the last century, the scientist Alexander Chuvyrov in the Ufa archive found notes from the 18th century, which said that two hundred white slabs covered with strange signs were kept near the village of Chandar.
Chuvyrov decided to find these stones and organized several expeditions. Only in 1999 was one of the mysterious slabs found - a local resident said that a huge stone had been lying under the porch of his house since time immemorial. He was pulled out and taken to the Bashkir University. The dimensions of this stone are 148 cm by 106 cm, the thickness is 16 cm, and the weight is about a ton. But the most striking thing about the slab is that there is a map on its surface - a three-dimensional one! Serious investigations began, during which it was proved that the South Urals is represented on the Chandar plate, but the terrain was partially different from the modern one. The map shows mountains, rivers, and the Ufa canyon, which no longer exists in our time. Moreover, there are images of dams, canals and dams. There are also inscriptions on the slab, which scientists could not decipher. Curious,that the age of the find turned out to be simply fantastic - about 120 million years.
5. Disk in the Historical Museum
The Historical Museum of Moscow has an interesting exhibit, which for some reason does not cause much excitement, although it is absolutely amazing.
This incredible iron disk belongs to the culture of the Ryazan-Oka burial grounds, which existed around the beginning of our era on the territory of Central Russia - along the banks of the Oka and in the upper Volga. Notice the even concentric circles all over this disc.
There is no description of this artifact - because historians cannot come up with an acceptable explanation for it. It is surprising that it is very similar to the mysterious Antikythera mechanism, found at the beginning of the 20th century off the coast of Greece.
6. Suspension cylinder
Here, in the Historical Museum, there is a mysterious pendant. Its description says: “Suspension cylinder. Mid - end of the 4th century BC. . It was found in the Krasnodar Territory, in the village of Sennaya, Temryuk District.
The material is gold and stone. Size - cylinder length with rim: 4.1 cm; cylinder diameter: 1.5 cm; temple height: 1.8 cm. And that's it. That is, over the years, no one was surprised at how carefully this cylinder was processed, and did not think about its purpose.
7. Artifact from Vologda
This news appeared in November 2013 and went almost unnoticed. During excavations in Vologda, local archaeologists discovered a mysterious stone artifact, about the size of a matchbox.
It has holes of the correct shape, images of geometric shapes and mysterious signs. According to archaeologist Natalya Vasilyeva, there were no similar finds earlier in the Vologda region. She claims that it can be a part of a mechanism, a navigation device, or an object of a pagan cult. The mysterious artifact was found in the cultural layer of the 18th century, but it may have a more ancient origin. A note from 2013 ended with a laboratory study of the mysterious find soon to be carried out, but there is no more recent information about the Vologda artifact.
8. Plate from Khabarovsk
As the Khabarovsk newspaper Molodoy Dalnevostochnik reported in 2017, local archaeologists found a metal plate that was dated to 1 millennium BC.
Scientists say that jewelry of this type is often found in Transbaikalia. Academician A. P. Derevianko draws attention to the fact that rock carvings similar to such a plate with teeth are found on the Maye, Tokko rivers in Yakutia and on the Arbi river in the upper Amur region. This plate looks like part of some ancient mysterious mechanism or instrument.
9. Feodosia earrings
The Hermitage contains the famous earrings found in 1853 during excavations on the outskirts of Feodosia. The earrings represent a complex composition, in which there are various ornaments and a tiny chariot driven by the goddess of victory - Nika. Moreover, winged Geniuses fly next to the horses, and at the edge of the chariot there is a warrior with a large shield in his hand.
Interestingly, it is possible to see many of the smallest details only with magnification. This microtechnique is still surprising, especially since scientists have found out that earrings were created by the ancient Greeks as early as the 4th century BC. The earrings are made from microscopic grains that can only be seen with a strong magnifying glass. The best jewelers tried to create something similar, but no one was able to repeat the unique technology of the ancient Greeks, which was called grain. The smallest gold grain melted when heated, as a result, the art of the ancient Greeks was recognized as unsurpassed, and all attempts to solve its mystery stopped.
10. Mysterious instruments from Minusinsk
These incredible artifacts are modestly kept in the local history museum of Minusinsk and are practically not studied. Only a fraction of them were identified as medical instruments. Scientists found out that thanks to them, complex surgical operations, including craniotomy, were performed in Siberia.
Ancient surgeons BC used an operational knife for cutting bones, saws, cutting tools, tweezers, medical probes and an analogue of the modern scalpel - the lancet. Interestingly, these tools are superior to the ancient Roman ones, which were considered perfect.
Siberian instruments have been found in the monuments of the Tagar culture dating back to the period of the 4th-3rd centuries BC. Interestingly, some of the Minusinsk artifacts have not been described at all, and their true purpose has not been determined.
Author: Natalia Trubinovskaya