Mysteries of civilizations 2024, May

Ta Set Neferu - Valley of the Queens - is a famous necropolis located southwest of Medinet Habu in Egypt, not far from Thebes.The first to explore the valley was the Italian Giovanni Batista Belzoni, an amateur archaeologist. He went there in 1816 and tried to excavate as many tombs as possible

Olmecs are the people who inhabited Central America in the 16th-2nd centuries BC. Most likely, the Olmec civilization originated in the eastern part of modern Mexico (the states of Veracruz and Tabasco). It is also possible that the people could live in El Salvador and Guatemala

A Japanese scientist studying underwater rock formations off the coast of Japan claims that these are traces of the Asian analogue of Atlantis - an ancient civilization swallowed up by the ocean 3 thousand years ago

The previous article mentions alien (more precisely, otherworldly) aliens who visited our Earth in antediluvian, literally, times. The purposes of their journey could be varied, but one of them is directly indicated both in the Bible and in the myths of other peoples

The biggest mystery of the Olmec civilization is the stone heads. These artifacts amaze everyone: from their size to the way they are made. The dates of the discovery of the first such artifact vary

Scientists are exploring Lake Svetloyar, which, according to legends, was formed on the site of the ancient city of Nizhny Novgorod Shambhala When the troops of Khan Baty reached the Vladimir-Suzdal principality, the Russians met them near Small Kitezh (now it is Gorodets)

The mysterious Atlantis is searched for in different parts of the world. Recently, possible traces of this ancient civilization have been discovered on the island of Malta

Not everyone knows that behind the word Armageddon, which everyone knows, is the name of one of the most ancient cities in the world.This ancient city, which was inhabited already in 7000 BC. e., is known for the numerous battles that were fought here

The findings of the fossil contact ceased to be a secret for the public, since the Mexican government decided to tell about everything. Until that time, they remained classified for the public. The stone artifacts bear images of comets and planets, aircraft and aliens

Egypt is an ancient state, one of the first civilizations on the planet. Many discoveries of medicine, technology, astronomy, etc. were made by the Egyptians before our era. This speaks of the high development of civilization and the importance of the knowledge that the Egyptians possessed in ancient times

Today we will tell you about a strange archaeological find called "Devil's Corkscrew". The artifact is so unique that it has no analogues in the world. The most interesting thing is that its age is about 20 million years

Our past is a wonderful time, there were born the legends of Popol-Vuh, the ancient Maya, whose sacred texts tell about the existence of five cosmic eras. The first four are known as Water, Air, Fire and Earth, they have been completed, the fifth age is still in motion

The theory of catastrophes says that throughout the history of the existence of mankind, especially the most ancient civilizations, which are diligently not recognized by modern historical science, such large-scale cataclysms have happened on our planet that most of the living beings, including mankind, perished

The Ottoman Empire was even more powerful than it seemed. This is evidenced by the Piri Reis map, found in 1929 during work on the creation of a museum in the halls of the main palace of the rulers of Porte.Until the middle of the 19th century, the palace itself was the largest residence of the sultans, in which monarchs lived and ruled

Historians discovered this amazing find back in 1929. This artifact was inscribed by the legendary admiral of the Turkish fleet of the 16th century on a tanned gazelle skin and dates back to 1513. And this map shows the northern tip of Antarctica, which is completely free from the many kilometers of ice that now hold it down

Earlier it was already told about the ancient city discovered on the lands of Antarctica by the Nazis at the very end of the 1930s. However, this city was not the only one they discovered in Queen Maud Land. In addition, they found many traces of both ancient and more modern technogenic activities

Many have heard of the giant figures that are clearly visible over the Peruvian Nazca plateau. Much has been written about these geoglyphs over the past half century. Part of the Nazca plateau resembles airstrip, lined with perfectly straight lines

The Sumerian city-states of Girsu and Lagash were once located on the territory of modern Iraq (Ancient Mesopotamia). They were closely linked by allied relations between themselves and other nearby cities. Lagash dominated this union. The Sumerians were engaged in agriculture, built sacred temples and statues, and made pottery

A mythical character named Midas was immortalized in a Turkish place called Yazilikaya. Many people think that the inscription found there is dedicated to this mythical king and his legendary "golden touch", but this is only because the deity associated with the monument to Midas is usually known by another name

Coricancha is the main Sun Temple of the Empire. Only a representative of the highest nobility and, first of all, the current ruler entered it. Representatives of the nobility "simpler" took part in religious events in the adjacent square, where a separate altar was installed

In short, according to one of the Quechua myths, Viracocha was considered the forefather, the forefather of all people and the creator of the world. According to a variant of the cosmogonic myth, Viracocha created the sun, moon and stars in Lake Titicaca

Strange skulls are sometimes found in different parts of the world, but no one can say for sure who they belonged to. Who were the creatures with unusual elongated heads? Our ancestors, earthly humanoids? Mutants? Or aliens from other worlds

Father Carlos Vaca, a Catholic priest, has kept the huge skeletal remains for decades. Most of the fragments are bones of creatures about 7 meters high, which were exhumed at a place called "Changayminas"

The most intriguing secrets always come from the most ancient times …Around 5500-4000 BC in the territory where modern Iraq is now located, there was an ancient civilization. It is known as the Ubeid culture. This was the very first civilization in Mesopotamia. A

In Cambodia, during excavations in the Phnom Kulen National Park in Sway-Low district, employees of the Siem Reap Provincial Department of Environment and archaeologists discovered a large statue of the crocodile-like god Makar, created one and a half thousand years ago

An ancient city in northern India was discovered by local people.Currently, in the Indian village of Babhaniyev near Varanasi, archaeologists have begun excavating an ancient settlement. According to preliminary estimates of experts, this city is about 4000 years old

Only the Egyptian pyramids can compare with the nuragas in the power of mystery and greatness

Ural is an amazing land. The most beautiful rivers and lakes, coastal stones-giants, fabulous labyrinths of caves, forests - keepers of nature untouched by man.- Salik.bizWhy do aliens need firewood!The collection of anomalous wonders of the Urals also includes the Taganai National Park near the town of Zlatoust, created in 1991, which has always attracted outdoor enthusiasts from the Chelyabinsk region and from all over Russia

The life of Ancient Egypt has long been a part of modern mythology. Colossal monuments, magnificent sculptures … antiquity, looking at which you perceive time in a different way … Ancient Egypt seems to be an ideal world ruled by pharaohs endowed with divine nature. Rel

Not far from Cuzco (Peru), at an altitude of more than 3.5 thousand meters above sea level, there is one of the most impressive archaeological complexes called Sacsayhuaman, which is translated from the language of the South American Indian people of Quechua as “fed falcon”. Thr

The Inca Empire has gone into the distant past, its splendor can be judged only by archaeological evidence, which, however, poses more questions than answers

Scientists have examined the statue of Paci Camac, the creator god of the Inca universe, overthrown by the Spaniards.It turned out that despite the fact that the Inca empire arose in the 13th century, this statue is much older. It is over 1200 years old

Since ancient times, people have watched the movement of heavenly bodies. Sometimes these observations were purely practical (for example, in Oceania). More often the movements of celestial bodies were given a mystical meaning. The Incas were no exception in this regard

Not many people, even those versed in history, understand how powerful and large the Inca empire was. And the Inca empire was the largest in the Americas. The Aztecs and Maya did not come close to such a thing.At the same time, it flourished in fact for only 100 years, from the 15th to the 16th century AD

The ruins of Machu Picchu - "the lost city of the Incas" - are hidden in the jungle thickets high in the Peruvian Andes and are surrounded on three sides by the turbulent mountain river Urubamba. The city was built as a sanctuary in 1438 by the ninth ruler of the Inca Empire - Pachacutec Yupanqui

The presented fragment contains numerous legends and historical evidence of the existence of an extensive system of underground tunnels under Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina and Chile and the allegedly hidden treasures there. It serves as an excellent addition to my research of the oldest (about 17 million years old) underground settlement of Tulana-Chimostok ("Seven Caves"), in which the distant ancestors of the Indians of both Americas hid from the darkness and cold

The worldview and psychological field of South and Central America is so uneven, so replete with bright flashes, black clots, virgin whiteness, play of all colors and shades, that the colors of the rainbow seem to be too pale a set of means to convey all this diversity

When Ephraim George Squier, an American diplomat and anthropologist, embarked on a trip to Peru in 1863, he never imagined that it would promise him the most unexpected discoveries. He went there for antiquities.But while examining a private archaeological collection, Squier saw an Inca skull with a missing large square

The traditional view of the Inca religion is based largely on the records of Garcilaso de la Vega, Bartolomé de las Casas, and Pedro Cieza de Leon. In the Commentarios Reales, the Hispanicized Incan aristocrat Garcilaso de La Vega depicts the cult of the Sun as the main one

In the 20th century, there were many finds of golden airplanes throughout South America (Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru, etc.). Then, in the burials, golden figurines of animals were found, although this was believed only initially.- Salik.bizIt was assumed that these are decorations, the age was determined at about 1500 years of each such "aircraft", in total 33 of them were found, and their dimensions are very small 5 centimeters or a little more