Do you know what secrets trouble the minds of millions of people around the world? Today you will learn about the most famous unsolved mysteries of the world.
No. 10. Rongo rongo
Rongo rongo is a system of mysterious records that was discovered on Easter Island in the 19th century. Rongo-rongo is believed to represent a lost writing system or proto-writing.
The first mention of Rongo-rongo is found in a letter from the monk Eugene Ayraud, who arrived on Easter Island on January 2, 1864.
Numerous attempts to decipher Rongo-rongo have been unsuccessful. Perhaps their decoding would give an answer to the main mystery of the island - the purpose of the giant statues of Easter Island.
Several dozen wooden objects with Rongo-rongo inscriptions have been found on Easter Island. Now they are exhibited in museums around the world, some of them are in private collections.
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No. 9. Georgia Tablets
The Georgia Tablets are a granite monument sometimes called the "American Stonehenge" (which leads to confusion with the building of the same name of the Indians).
The height of the monument is over 6 meters, it consists of six granite slabs with a total weight of about 100 tons. One plate is located in the center, four around it. The final slab sits on top of these five slabs aligned with astronomical events.
Erected in Elbert County, Georgia in 1979. The stones are engraved with inscriptions in 8 languages: English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese and Russian. Each inscription contains one of the 10 "new" commandments of the "Age of Reason".
1. Let the earthly population never exceed 500 million, being in constant balance with nature.
2. Manage fertility wisely, adding value to life preparation and human diversity.
3. Find a new living language that can unite humanity.
4. Be tolerant in matters of feelings, faith, traditions, and the like.
5. Let just laws and an impartial court stand up for the protection of peoples and nations.
6. Let each nation decide its own internal affairs, submitting only national problems to the magistrate's court.
7. Avoid petty litigation and useless officials.
8. Maintain a balance between personal rights and social responsibilities.
9. Above all, value truth, beauty, love, striving for harmony with infinity.
10. Do not be a cancer for the earth, leave a place for nature too!
Although the monument itself does not contain encrypted messages, its purpose and origin are shrouded in mystery. The monument was erected by a man who is known only under the pseudonym "R. K Christian".
Among the 10 commandments, there are very controversial ones. For example: "To maintain a human population of 500,000,000 in constant balance with nature." Some conspiracy theorists even believe that the commandments were developed by some secret society to create a new world order.
No. 8. Zodiac Letters
Zodiac is a serial killer operating in Northern California and San Francisco (USA) in the late 1960s. The identity of the culprit has not yet been established.
Zodiac is a pseudonym used by the killer. He sent sarcastic and cocky letters to the editorial offices of local newspapers. In letters he sent cryptograms in which he allegedly encrypted information about himself. Three out of four cryptograms still remain undeciphered.
The zodiac committed murders between December 1968 and October 1969. According to the Zodiac's own statements, the number of its victims reaches 37, but investigators are sure only in seven cases.
In the course of the investigation, many suspects were named, but no convincing evidence of any involvement in the killings was presented. At the California Department of Justice, the Zodiac case has remained open from 1969 to the present day.
No. 7. Signal "Wow!"
Signal "Wow!" (“Wow!” Signal) was recorded by Dr. Jerry Eiman on August 15, 1977. At the time, the doctor was working on the Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio State University. When Ayman heard the signal, he was so startled that he wrote on the side of the fixed symbols "Wow!" ("Wow!"). This signature gave the name to the signal. All characteristics of the received signal corresponded to the parameters of extraterrestrial signals. The observation time for the radio signal was 72 seconds.
Astronomers from the United States suggest that hydrogen around comet nuclei discovered after 2005 and not considered as possible signal sources in earlier works could serve as a possible signal source.
No. 6. Case "Taman shud"
The Taman Shud case is a criminal case initiated upon the discovery of the body of an unknown man on December 1, 1948, on Somerton Beach in the Australian city of Adelaide. The incident also became known as the "case of the mysterious man from Somerton."
The case is considered one of the most mysterious mysteries in Australian history. There are many versions about the personality of the deceased and the reasons for his death.
Public interest in this incident remains very significant for a number of reasons: for example, during the investigation, some facts surfaced, indicating the possible involvement of special services in the incident. In addition, for more than half a century, the investigation has not succeeded in either establishing the identity of the deceased, or precisely determining the method of killing him. The biggest resonance was caused by a piece of paper discovered during the deceased, torn from a copy of a very rare edition of Omar Khayyam, on which only two words were written - Tamam Shud ("Tamam Shud").
After a thorough search, the police managed to find one of the copies of the book with Khayyam's poems and the last page torn out. On the back of the book, a few words were written in pencil that looked like a code.
No. 5. Monument at Shagborough
In Shagborough, Staffordshire, on the grounds of an old estate that once belonged to Earl Lichfield, there is a memorial monument from the middle of the 18th century. The bas-relief shows a copy of the 2nd version of Poussin's painting "The Arcadian Shepherds" in mirror reflection and with the classic inscription "ET IN ARCADIA EGO" in the correct reflection. Below the bas-relief are carved letters O • U • O • S • V • A • V • V - framed by two more letters D and M. DM can mean Diis Manibus, while the central abbreviation remains incomprehensible. A set of letters is a kind of code, the decryption of which has been going on for over 250 years.
Some enthusiasts, among whom were the greatest minds in the world (Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin), suggested that the code may be the key to the information left by the Templars about the location of the Holy Grail.
No. 4. Phaistos Disc
The Phaistos disc is a unique writing monument, presumably of the Minoan culture of the Middle or Late Bronze Age, found in the city of Phaistos on the island of Crete. Its exact purpose, as well as the place and time of its manufacture, are not known for certain.
Many works have been devoted to the study of the Phaistos disc, and the latter have repeatedly made statements about deciphering the inscription on its surface. However, none of the proposed readings became generally accepted in the scientific community.
The work on the study of the Phaistos disc is progressing slowly, which is associated, first of all, with the brevity of the message and the isolation of the writing system used in it. In the opinion of most experts, for the successful deciphering of the Phaistos disc, it is necessary to find other monuments of the same writing. There are a number of hypotheses about the non-linguistic nature of the images of the Phaistos disc.
The Phaistos disc is currently on display at the Heraklion Archaeological Museum (Crete, Greece).
The disc remains one of the most famous puzzles in archeology today.
Number 3. Bale's Cryptograms
Bale's cryptograms are three cipher texts, presumably containing information about the whereabouts of the treasure: thousands of pounds of gold, silver and precious stones. The treasure was allegedly buried in Virginia near Lynchburg by a party of gold prospectors led by Thomas Jefferson Bale in 1818.
It is known that for the first time information about the "Bale's treasures" appears in 1865 with the publication of a pamphlet by an unknown author, the full title of which reads as follows: Bedford County, Virginia, and not found to date. " The publisher was James Beverly Ward, who donated the manuscript to the Library of Congress, where it is preserved to this day.
The author chose to remain anonymous, explaining this by the desire to protect himself from the persistent attention of the press and potential treasure hunters. The brochure was published by the Virginian Book in Lynchburg, Virginia, and was priced at 50 cents.
Cryptograms 1 and 2 were successfully deciphered by the author of the brochure. Cryptogram # 1 described the exact location of the cache, while cryptogram # 2 was a listing of its contents.
The third cryptogram, which supposedly contained the addresses and names of potential heirs, has not yet been read. The mystery of the cryptograms has not yet been solved, in particular, the question of the real existence of the treasure remains controversial.
# 2. Kryptos
Kryptos is a sculpture with encrypted inscriptions created by artist Jim Sanborn. The sculpture is installed in front of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
November 3, 1990 - the date of installation of the sculpture. From this moment on, attempts to decipher the mysterious message continue. The contents of three of the four tables have already been disclosed, but the remaining last table, containing 96 characters, remains an unsolved world secret …
# 1. Voynich book
The Voynich Manuscript, or the Voynich Manuscript, is an illustrated codex written in the 15th century by an unknown author in an unknown language using an unknown alphabet. The pages of the manuscript contain many colorful drawings of strange schemes, descriptions of events, drawings of plants that do not correspond to any of the known species.
Based on the results of radiocarbon analysis of four fragments of the manuscript, chemist and archaeometrist at the University of Arizona, Greg Hodgins, determined that the parchment for the manuscript was cut between 1404 and 1438 during the early Renaissance.
The manuscript has been extensively studied by crypto amateurs and cryptanalysis professionals. Neither the entire manuscript, nor even part of it could be deciphered. A series of failures made the manuscript a well-known subject of cryptology.
There are many theories in the world today about the nature of the origin of the manuscript. Some believe it is a pharmacology textbook. Other researchers believe that the drawings of the plants indicate a textbook on alchemy. The fact that many of the diagrams have astronomical content, combined with unidentifiable drawings of biological life forms, prompts the idea of an extraterrestrial origin of the unusual manuscript. None of the assumptions has received unequivocal confirmation and acceptance in the scientific community.
The book bears the name of the antique dealer Wilfried Voynich, who acquired it in 1912. In 1959, second-hand bookseller Hans Kraus bought the manuscript from heiress Ethel Voynich for $ 24,500 and in 1969 donated the rare book library to Yale University's Beinecke.
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One of the most famous mysterious incidents that happened on the territory of Russia is the mystery of the fall of the Tunguska meteorite in 1908.