Secrets of history 2024, October

British researchers have developed a scanning technique that allows you to read records made on scraps of papyrus that were used in the burial of mummies

Hundreds of legends of the peoples of Africa, Asia and Europe tell about the mysterious queen of the country of Saven. Some paint her as a beautiful, intelligent and rich woman, others depict her as a demoness of the Black African desert

A study by American anthropologists, published in the American Anthropologist, sheds light on some interesting features of the life of the ancient Nubians and settlers from Egypt, who, living in Ancient Sudan, often entered into marriage

Part two - Part three - European old-timers in the IV-II millennia BC

The army, and especially the navy, is characterized by the concentration of the population in small areas, which has always been fraught with the development of epidemic diseases

Simon Bolivar is the most famous and famous of the leaders of the war of independence of the Spanish colonies in America. His army freed Venezuela, Colombia Audiencia Quito (present-day Ecuador), Peru and Upper Peru, named after him Bolivia, from Spanish rule

1. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Boeing 777-200ER disappeared without a trace during a flight from Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) to Beijing (PRC) on March 8, 2014

Emperor Charles went down in history with the nickname the Great. This could not have been an accident. Never in history has this or that nickname been given to someone who was not worthy of it. The first emperor in Western Europe since ancient Rome

Guy Fawkes Night is celebrated every year from November 4th to 5th in Britain and some other English-speaking countries. At the same time, fireworks are launched and an effigy of this legendary conspirator is burned

The new mystery of the island surpasses any of its secrets and can only find an explanation in a number of the most amazing phenomena, which are still silent. In the late eighties, the incredible happened

There are many myths around the Brest Peace. Some historians blame the Bolsheviks for "depriving Russia of a well-deserved victory." By concluding the Brest Peace Treaty, Russia lost its territory and paid indemnity. But a country whose army has lost its combat capability is forced to conclude peace

Haitian villain Francois Duvalier originally frightened his people: "I will enchant you!" His promises were believed because the methods of persuasion were simple and straightforward

The recently discovered arrowhead that the ancients used to hunt mammoths and mastodons about 15,000 years ago casts doubt on the history of the migration of early humans in America and our knowledge of their technology

Mikhail Vasilievich Skopin-Shuisky (born on November 8 (18), 1586 - death on April 23 (May 3) 1610

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Information about this strange phenomenon, observed on a quiet May evening in 1964 over Baikal, was reliably stored for many years in the secret archives of the Soviet special services

As a result of the Second World War, many states, including the victorious countries, suffered serious losses

The heart of the great Russian poet stopped beating on January 29 (February 10), 1837. Everyone knows today that Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin died as a result of being wounded in a duel. But was it possible to save him? What happened to Pushkin?

The Nazis were very fond of everything related to the occult sciences, esotericism and ancient artifacts. This love (most likely) came to them from Adolf Hitler, who spent a lot of money and effort in search of various artifacts.Some of them he found and among them was the legendary Spear of Destiny, which was pierced by Jesus

Do you consider yourself a materialist? Are you sure that everything that happens in the world can be explained using a scientific approach? I wonder how you explain these riddles, over which scientists have been struggling for years?

In the middle of the 10th century, the Khazars in the Crimea were replaced by the Pechenegs who came from the east. The Pechenegs were the eastern nomadic tribes of Kengeres, who created the Kangyui or Kang state to the south of the Ural mountains between the Balkhash and the Aral Sea

Although his son, Ivan the Terrible, is remembered more often, it was Vasily III who largely determined both the vectors of state policy and the psychology of the Russian government, ready to do anything to preserve itself

His Serene Highness Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov-Smolensky - (born 5 (16) September 1747 (or 1745) - death 16 (28) April 1813) - Field Marshal (August 31, 1812

“When you sail the Bosporus, there will be Sindi, above them - Meots, Scythians ", - so wrote the ancient Greek historian Gellanik of Mitylensky, who lived in the 5th century. BC, in the essay "On the Nations"

130 years ago, miners in Moberley, Missouri, while mining a coal mine, stumbled upon a "wonderful city" buried about 360 feet underground. The news of this event was full of newspapers in 1885

In the Soviet Union, sects were a rare phenomenon and were under the strictest ban. They were fought with, planting leaders and recruiting active supporters

In the summer of 1949, the first successful test of a nuclear charge took place in the Soviet Union. At that time, the United States had already used the new weapon twice already

Alexandre Dumas gave Cardinal Mazarin the epithet "Richelieu's shadow". This is a partly true observed property, but equally a common cliche used in relation to this French statesman of Italian origin of the Baroque era

Spending time in the museum usually does not bring any negative emotions for us, but in rare cases it happens and vice versa

At the end of September, members of the Cosmopoisk research association conducted an expedition to the Gelendzhik region. The main task of the expedition is - survey of coastal waters and the search for the surviving remains of a ship that could be Noah's ark

Selknam - Indian people who led a nomadic lifestyle and inhabited the territory of Tierra del Fuego for 7000 years. The main occupations for these people were hunting, gathering and fishing

RT continues to study the CIA archives, which number 13 million pages of declassified documents. In addition to the records of UFO sightings in the archives of the US Central Intelligence Agency, documents of the "Stargate" project were discovered

Among the ancient Slavs, a number of diseases belonged to the category of shameful

13 thousand years ago, the Earth experienced a period of rapid warming. The glaciers receded, the climate became milder, which facilitated the migration of people to new territories. And then literally overnight it all changed

If a modern man suddenly found himself on the streets of ancient Novgorod, he would not be able to understand the language of Novgorodians

The Finnish naval forces in the first half of the last century were armed with the battleship "Väinämöinen", with a displacement of almost four thousand tons and a length of more than one hundred meters - the largest warship in the country

Franz Yakovlevich Lefort (French Fran ç ois Le Fort, German Franz Jakob Lefort, December 23, 1655 [January 2, 1656], Geneva - March 2 [12], 1699, Moscow) - Russian statesman and military leader, Admiral General, associate of Peter I

The quote from Henry Kissinger published by Wikileaks - “We do illegal things right away, unconstitutional things take a little more time” - most likely brought a smile from his countless fans in the elite media, government agencies, corporations and high society. Oh

The fact that the USSR had its own program of manned space flights to the Moon, Soviet citizens, with the exception of a very narrow group of initiates, first learned only during the "perestroika"

On the oldest battlefield in Europe, archaeologists have unearthed new clues about who took part in the battle, which took place 3,250 years ago. Two huge armies met at the river crossing