Mysterious structures 2024, April

American historian Paul Kosok accidentally found a unique image in the mysterious Nazca desert. Although they can be called not only unique, but also very mysterious, since their origin is not known. For more than sixty years, the unsolved mystery of Nazca has haunted historians, scientists and just private researchers

The Sajama Lines or Sajama Lines are located in the west of Bolivia and number several thousand (according to some sources even tens of thousands) of almost perfectly straight lines on earth.Presumably, the indigenous peoples created these lines for about 3 thousand years, scraping the top layer of the soil and trampling the bottom layer tightly

We got to the “big zigzag” before we filmed it from the plane (in Photo 1 with a mound we can see our tracks). In general, lines from the ground are often a very inconspicuous thing. And if you do not use a GPS-navigator, it would be extremely difficult to find anything. The l

China has a very rich and mysterious history, thanks to which archaeologists come across many very ancient tombs on its territory. For example, last year in the Chinese province of Shandong, archaeologists simultaneously discovered 140 tombs that belong to the Zhou dynasty

Xia Changjun noticed the unusual stone as he drove past the Hubei village in central China in the mountainous area. He was so interested in the find that he stopped and went to examine the stone closer.- Salik.bizInitially, the stone was buried in the ground, only its top protruded on the surface

Take a look at this stone figure. It sparked a heated debate. Something similar to a sphinx was found in Iran. If this is a man-made giant sculpture, then it is rather poorly preserved to this day. But skepticism is worth refraining from. And that's why

Dvaraka (or in other words Dwarka) - this city from the legends was the new capital of the kingdom of Krishna, in which the ancient tribes of the Yadavas lived. After Krishna wished to leave the old Mathura, he ordered the construction of a new city

Lake monsters have been talked about more and more in recent years

So, Pisac is a city of allegedly Incas, located in the mountains, not far from Cuzco. The main part of the city is built below, and at the very top (about 3 kilometers high) are the ruins of the Temple of the Sun.- Salik.bizUnfortunately, I could not find a photo of this very temple of the Sun above

In the remote desert of the Iranian province of South Khorasan lies the village of Makhunik

Everyone who has been to Malta, in addition to the azure waters of the Mediterranean Sea and the beautiful local beaches, certainly got acquainted with the unique Maltese sights, among which the most ancient stone rocks remain a great mystery of history

This enigmatic ancient tomb is about 5,300 years old and has intriguing works of art carved into its old stones. The two rocks guarding its entrance are adorned with diamonds, which are said to resemble a human face. The additional stone on the roof also bears an enigmatic five-line carving

In the southern part of the Gobi Desert lies the dead city of Hara-Khoto, hidden by the sands. Legends about him have always excited the imagination of Russian researchers, scientists and travelers

I will show some images and, using the example of many well-known structures in the world, I will tell you about the sharp contrast in the development of ancient civilizations and their predecessors, or extraterrestrial civilizations that helped them

How much do we know about our past? Scientists often argue about what happened on planet Earth millions of years ago. But how can they give an answer to this question, if even relatively recent events are not clear. For example, on the island of Sicily (Italy), there are stone cylinders

Researchers working on the island chain of the Outer Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland have found evidence of a previously unknown stone monument located a stone's throw from the famous Scottish Stonehenge.The monument, recently discovered by scientists, is decorated with upright stones arranged in a circle around the spot, on which traces of powerful lightning strikes have been preserved

The region of Brittany, which is located in the northwestern part of France, is located on an island and is the main part of the historical region of the same name

In 1974, Chinese peasants digging a well unexpectedly stumbled upon fragments of some kind of pottery, and then - on the shoulders of a statue made of baked clay. The peasants reacted to the find as befits well-educated people, which they were not really, and reported it to archaeologists

"Built three times." This is how the name of this once flourishing Mayan city in the northwest of the Yucatan Peninsula is translated. Today, it is surrounded by a tropical forest, which has long and carefully kept its secrets.- Salik.bizUxmal is a large pre-Columbian city of a vanished civilization

Read the beginning here.Ephesus is a treasure trove of antiquity, an ancient city near the coast of the Aegean Sea - one of the most popular attractions in Turkey.- Salik.bizIt is here that the remains of the once great Library of Celsus - the second largest library of the Ancient World after the Library of Alexandria - are located

In many places on the planet, there are stone artifacts that have strange defects. They cannot be attributed to chips, rock erosion. By all logic, these are defects in the manufacture of the artifacts themselves. But not mechanically, but when pouring (molding)

In early May 2017, not far from Panticapaeum, on the territory of modern Kerch, archaeologists from the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences began, according to the statements of the archaeologists themselves, rescue archaeological excavations of the Hospital mound

Not far from Prague is the town of Kutná Hora, on the outskirts of which stands the famous Kostnitsa - an unusual chapel of a Catholic church. Why is she unusual? Because its entire interior is decorated with real human bones, hence the name

In Istanbul's Fatih District, not far from the Aqueduct, there is a church that is visited by people of different religions. They all come with one goal - and ndash; buy a key, open the cherished icon for them and ask for the fulfillment of desire

If even 100 years ago people preferred to bypass such places, now these churches are mandatory items in the must-visit lists.- Salik.biz1. CHURCH OF SAINT GEORGE IN THE VILLAGE OF LUKOV (CZECH REPUBLIC)The Church of St. George in the village of Lukova was built in 1352, until the sixties of the last century it was an ordinary village church, of which there are many in the Czech Republic, but in 1968 the ceiling of the church collapsed right during the funeral, and the local

“The size of the monument should be determined by the degree of significance of the event being celebrated for the entire civilization. We are not trying to carve an epic out of stone, depict a moonlight scene, or write a sonnet; we are not dealing with mysticism or tragedy, but rather with constructive and dramatic moments or turning points in our amazing history.”

The oldest building in Kizhi is called the Church of the Resurrection of Lazarus of the 14-16th centuries. Sometimes it is called the Church of Lazar Murom (Murmansk). Both names are correct. It is believed that it was built by the Monk Lazarus in the Holy Dormition Murom Monastery (Karelia) in honor of the resurrection of Lazarus

The Church of the Intercession of the Virgin "on the Moat", also called the Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed, rises on Red Square in Moscow, next to the Kremlin, opposite the Spasskaya Tower

The Monastery of St. Simeon is the largest religious building in the Middle East, which can accommodate up to 20 thousand parishioners, but it is famous not only for its scale, but also for its unique location. Instead of the usual church vaults, there are cave walls deep in Mukattam Mountain (Cairo, Egypt)

The tiny Valadier Temple is the perfect place for those seeking privacy and tranquility. It was built in the cave of the Holy Refuge (Marche region of Italy), which was known as a place of religious worship already in the 10th century. Located in the heart of an ancient grotto in the middle of limestone cliffs, the temple looks like a real gem

The Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, India has seven secret chambers that hide secrets and extraordinary treasures. Six of them have been discovered, but the last is additionally protected, and its content remains a mystery.This gate is the entrance to the last secret room that was discovered at the Padmanabhaswamy temple

The temple is located at the foot of Mount Khao (1397 m), on the east side, 6 km from the Mekong River, which symbolizes the ocean or the Ganges, south of the city of Tyampatsak in the province of Champasak. The temple complex of Wat Phu occupies an impressive area (84 hectares) at the foot of the mountain, which is sacred among the Hindus, since it has the form of a lingam (male principle)

Surreal picture. It can not be so. How ? However, it is. The small town of Kalyazin is located 180 km from Moscow along the Yaroslavskoye and Dmitrovskoye highways on the very bank of the Volga River. By car it will take 3 - 3.5 hours

Ciudad Perdida is a ruined ancient city in the Sierra Nevada, Colombia, which, according to legend, was founded in 800 BC. The local tribes of Aruaco, Kogi and Arsario, who discovered the city long before its discovery by the authorities, claimed that they believed that their ancestors - carriers of the Tyrone culture - lived here

To the east of Peru is the city of Cuzco, which from the eleventh to the sixteenth centuries AD was the capital of the empire of a powerful people - the Incas. But, despite this, it has been scientifically proven that people first began to settle in these lands more than three thousand years ago

The temple is located in Cusco, like many other interesting and amazing sites of the past. However, the processing of blocks, their installation, and many other factors raise strong doubts that the official history of the structure can be at least a little true

The city of Cuzco in southeastern Peru was the capital of the Inca empire in the 11-16th centuries AD, but people began to settle in these places 3 thousand years ago.In the ancient part of the Cusco region, you can see an impressive megalithic fortress complex called Sacsayhuaman

There are many interesting things in Cusco and one of such interesting places is the so-called "Moonstone". A place that is considered sacred both in ancient times and now.In a fairly large, but most ordinary stone, in the past, they created a rather strange shape

The Coricancha Temple (Qurikancha, translated as "Golden Temple") is located in the center of the famous Peruvian city of Cuzco. Coricancha was the most important temple of the Inca empire. Moreover, it is known that it was built before the emergence of this empire, archaeologists believe that it is about 3000 years old

At the lessons of the history of the Ancient world, an unforgettable impression on schoolchildren is made by the story of how the Egyptian pyramids were built