Until the end of the 20th century, it never occurred to anyone that the mythical Cyclops actually existed. However, the sensational find in Texas (USA) shocked scientists around the world. The fact is that paleontologists Victor Pacheco and Martin Fried, while on vacation in Big Bant Country, decided to combine business with pleasure and examined one of the caves, where they found the remains of a creature about 2.5 meters tall and weighing 300 kilograms, in whose skull there was only one eye socket in the middle of the forehead. The bones are about 10 thousand years old. Scientists managed to recreate the appearance of the creature from the skeleton. I must say that his appearance fully corresponded to the description of the mythical Cyclops.
The authors of the find more than once had to regret that curiosity had brought them into that ill-fated cave - after all, the message about their discovery was at first taken as a stupid joke. Only after a careful examination of the bones and skull did the experts recognize that they undoubtedly belonged to the Cyclops. But how did the creature from Greek mythology end up in Texas? Well, either the Greeks even before our era managed to visit America, or the Cyclops lived both overseas and in Europe. Recall: Homer portrayed the Cyclops (they were also called Cyclops) as cruel giants and pointed out that they live in caves, breeding cattle.
The heroes of Greek myths, of course, had a long way to get to the American Cyclops, but they could visit the Rhodope Mountains in neighboring Bulgaria without much trouble. If the cyclops turned out to be a completely real creature, then why not assume that the Minotaur - half-bull-half-man - also once trampled on this land?
And here is a new discovery that gives rise to just such assumptions.
On May 21, 2001, a mysterious skull was discovered in the Rhodope Mountains, which the Bulgarian media soon dubbed the “mystical skull”. According to the author of the find, he first dreamed about it … It turns out that Roman Genchev, an avid collector of meteorites, had the same dream for almost a month: he was sent on a business trip, on a day off he went to the mountains and found the skull of a strange creature. This is exactly what happened.
The skull was immediately examined by scientists. First of all, they used the radiocarbon method to determine his age and DNA analysis. Apparently, the obtained data were so intriguing that they were classified … But in the Internet era it is very difficult to hide information about such a find, messages about it first appeared on the Internet, and then in a number of print media.
Unfortunately, I did not find data on the age of the skull, but if we take into account that only its front part was discovered, carefully cut down by someone in time immemorial, the mysterious creature clearly fell from the hand of man. Maybe the unknown monster hunter was Theseus, the legendary Athenian king who defeated the Minotaur?
Cover the skull found by Genchev with flesh, imagine bloodshot eyes, and you get a rather creepy creature that resembles a hybrid of a man and a bull. True, the victory over this particular monster does not attract myth: it is assumed that the creature was small in stature. However, it is possible that the skull did not belong to an adult. It should be borne in mind that we know nothing about the fighting qualities of the monster. Maybe it had the ability to telepathically affect a person, spit poison or wielded under the cover of darkness, attacking from an ambush?
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Bulgarian ufologists believed, referring to a DNA test, that the skull clearly belonged to an extraterrestrial creature. It was even hypothesized that it belongs to a biorobot, which was refueled with human blood: supposedly in the skull there is some kind of a centrifuge, where plasma is separated from blood.
Of course, there are less shocking hypotheses, for example, some scientists believe that this is the skull of a prehistoric animal not yet known to science.
In 1995, in South America, archaeologists also discovered a strange skull of an unusual elongated shape, which is now kept in the Peruvian Museum of Paracas. Scientists suggest that it is at least 10 thousand years old. It is considered by many to be undeniable proof of aliens visiting Earth.
Some researchers are inclined to think that a genetic mutation is the cause of this skull shape, but the most popular hypothesis is that the lengthening is artificial. For some, possibly religious, reasons, in this area of the planet, the ancient people practiced changing the shape of the skull, for which the newborn child was tightly bandaged with the head, sometimes achieving amazing results. Similar specimens are found among the skulls of the Incas. So, most likely, no long-headed aliens came to us.
But the so-called Taung baby skull, discovered in 1924 in northwestern South Africa, resembles a pumpkin in shape. For many years it was believed that it belonged to an ape-like creature at the age of three. However, relatively recently, Lee Berger and Ron Clark from the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) suggested that the skull belonged not to an earthly creature, but to a humanoid that died when falling on sharp stones.
It is worth mentioning the skull of the so-called star boy, discovered in Mexico in the 1920s, but only recently fell into the hands of scientists. It clearly belonged to a child, but rather strange. For example, it is believed that it could contain three frontal lobes of the brain, and not two, as in ordinary people. The brain volume is also too large for a child - 1600 cubic centimeters (for an adult, on average - 1400 cubic centimeters). The shape and position of the eye sockets are also unusual.
If we talk about anomalous finds, then one cannot but recall the famous crystal skulls. Found in South America and other parts of the world, they still pose an insoluble mystery to scientists. For what purposes were these unique products intended? How could they be made?
In 1927, during the excavations of an ancient Mayan temple in British Honduras (now Belize), the most famous of them was discovered, later called the Mitchell Hedges skull, or the Skull of Rock. According to the stories of Anna, the adopted daughter of the famous British archaeologist Mitchell-Hedges, who found him, in the very first days after "communicating" with her amazing find, she began to have amazing visions.
She seemed to be transported to the time of the ancient Mayans, watched their life, rituals, saw blooming cities. Already in 1927, it was suggested that the skull in some incomprehensible way could store information about the times when this masterpiece was created.
In the 60s of the XIX century, a crystal skull was found in Mexico, stored since 1898 in the British Museum, which researchers consider a simplified copy of the Mitchell-Hedges skull. Unlike the Doom Skull, which has a separate lower jaw, it is monolithic.
Both skulls, according to experts, are female and in their parameters are almost commensurate with the real ones. Attempts have been made to recreate the appearance of those mysterious ladies who served as models for the creation of these unique items. Although facial reconstructions from the skull were performed in two different institutions, they produced similar portraits of a Native American girl. Who was she? The young queen who died in the abyss of Atlantis or the daughter of the ruler of the Maya Indians?
The main mystery of the crystal skulls is the delicacy of their execution. According to some experts, it is impossible to make such masterpieces without the use of modern technologies. For example, a specialist from the well-known firm "Hewlett-Packard", who investigated the Skull of Rock, stated that according to all the laws of crystallography, the skull should have split even at the initial stage of processing the source material.
One of the scientists calculated that making such a skull took at least 7 million hours. Of course, after such statements by specialists, a hypothesis arose that the skulls were the work of aliens (apparently they had nothing else to do on our planet).
I personally prefer the opinion that a highly developed earthly civilization, which perished in some kind of global cataclysm, was involved in the manufacture of crystal skulls. The fact that it existed (perhaps not even one!) Is evidenced by the stones of Ica, the pyramids found in the Crimea, a unique stone map found in the Urals, and many other artifacts.
Do not forget that the history of civilization on Earth knows many examples of various anomalous curiosities. For example, Robert Ripley, who opened a network of his museums all over the world, in 1930 photographed a Chinese man with a horn on top of his head in Manchuria, and the newspaper Argumenty i Fakty once published a photograph of a grandmother with horns; in Botswana there is a tribe of “people ostriches , which have only two toes on their feet (claw syndrome).
Many members of the human race still skillfully mutilate themselves. Consider Burmese women who use rings to lengthen their necks. Finally, let's take a look at the Kunstkamera, where not aliens are in alcohol.
We still know very little about the history of our planet and life on it. Recently, I increasingly come to the conclusion that on Earth there was a lot of what myths, legends and fairy tales tell us about. Giants, cyclops, gnomes, dragons (surviving dinosaurs) - they all once lived on our planet, but were exterminated by man. Maybe in 10 thousand years the skull of a cow found by our descendants will also seem very strange to them …