Secrets of history 2024, October

In the biography of Christopher Columbus, there are more blank spots than reliable facts. His name is surrounded by legends, he remains one of the most mysterious figures in history

Disputes about the admissibility of experiments on humans, about ethical norms and the boundaries of such experiments have been conducted for a long time

Norwegian scientists have found that the Vikings had special burial rituals of houses, which were similar to those of their fellow tribesmen

Scientists who examined the mummy of the "alpine ice man" Ötzi learned the details of his death. It turned out, for example, that Ötzi was shot from a bow from a rather long distance - - his killers are believed to have been driven by jealousy or revenge

Since the discovery of Etsi - Ice man (or - Ice mummy) - more than two decades have passed, but many of his secrets still haunt scientists

A group of researchers, led by Professor Kislenkov, during the excavation of one unremarkable mound, accidentally discovered an ancient burial (according to Life24.ru)

Archaeologists have established that Indians lived in Transbaikalia 10 thousand years ago The largest archaeological expedition in Transbaikalia has been working in the Krasnochikoysky region, in the ancient settlement of Ust-Menza since the 1980s

Researchers at the Institute for Problems of Northern Development SB RAS (Tyumen) Nina Aleksandrovna Liskevich and Angela Khairullovna Masharipova studied the practices of influencing the weather and natural disasters in different Komi groups in Western Siberia

Eleventh graders from the Kultuk school №7 during excavations in on the shore of Lake Baikal found a miraculous amulet, which is more than 400 years old

Advances in technology have allowed archaeologists to take the study of ancient artifacts to a whole new level. And today there is a mummy of an ancient European, which is studied in such detail as no other

More than a hundred previously unknown petroglyphs were found during the study of the Shalabolinskaya scribble - a monument of rock art in the south of the Krasnoyarsk Territory

Supporters of the doctrine of "Tikhism" are sure that everything in the Universe is determined by chance. We do not know about the Universe, but the fact that in world history chances have played a decisive and fatal role more than once is an indisputable fact

This magical woman, like a bright comet, swept across the sky of the 20th century. Talented and famous men fell in love with her. She was condemned, bullied, anathematized, envied, imitated and admired by her

The stereotype of Africa as a backward continent, where exclusively wild tribes live, is still popular. Meanwhile, in Africa there were very noticeable states with an interesting history. One of them was the Kingdom of the Congo

Did you know that the mystery of the construction of the pyramids was not only solved, but the man who understood how the Egyptians moved multi-ton blocks himself built a whole city from giant boulders

There are real documents that today make it possible to fully judge the actions of the allied forces and their leaders in Europe and Asia, aimed at destroying fascism, its armies and the armies of the Hitlerite alliance; Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam, preparatory

Jacques Casotte was a poet, writer, mystic and diviner. He lived in France in the 18th century. He was a bright personality. extraordinary and quite popular

Don Juan, who is so well known to us from literary and musical works, an insidious seducer, a destroyer of families, a seeker of pleasures and adventures, impudent and brave - had at least 2 real prototypes, according to the historian S. Pervushin

In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Spanish Inquisition fought especially fiercely against heretics. Codes were created defining the degree of guilt of apostates, new instruments of torture were invented

Recently, educators and psychologists have often complained that folk tales are too cruel. However, many do not even realize that children hear heavily edited versions of them

According to most scholars, the world's first hammer was invented in the Stone Age. However, there is also a specimen on earth, which is a joke to say -140 million years

On November 24, 1971, one of the most mysterious crimes in the history of aviation terrorism took place in the skies over the American Portland. Someone D. B

When it comes to secret societies, most people think of Freemasons. But there is a more mysterious brotherhood - "Knights of the Rose and Cross" or otherwise, the Rosicrucians. All information about this secret society is associated with mysticism

It would seem that the answer is obvious and unambiguous: the possessed Fuhrer and his newly minted wife Eva Braun committed suicide on April 30, 1945 at 15:30 in Berlin, in an underground bunker equipped in the courtyard of the Imperial Chancellery

Since the 1st millennium BC. e., and possibly earlier, on the southern coast and mountains of Crimea settled Taurian tribes, whose ethnic origin is still not completely clear

37-year-old military expert Dan Mackay discovered in a field near London the burial of 14 thousand "death medallions" from the Second World War

On January 18, kids around the world celebrated Snowman Day. That same snow woman - from several balls of snow, placed on top of each other, with carrots for nose and coals for eyes

Dangerous heir After the death of Ivan the Terrible, only two of his direct heirs remained - - feeble-minded Fedor and underage Dmitry

The pampered geisha feared them like fire, and cold-blooded ninja bypassed the twentieth road. Legends were made about their education and refined beauty, every man secretly dreamed of meeting them and mortally afraid of this meeting

On October 15, 1946, at night taking poison, Hermann Goering committed suicide, man No. 2 in the Third Reich and criminal No. 1 at the Nuremberg Trials

Israeli archaeologists have discovered a sculpture of the head of an unknown king, whose age reaches three thousand years. This was reported in a press release on Phys.org

1687 - the pirate Edward Davis was the first Europeans to see Easter Island. Davis's entry in the ship's log was laconic, and the island's coordinates were rather inaccurate. The excuse is strong: the pirate was chased by a warship

Is it true that the Mausoleum was built according to the drawings of the Babylonian ziggurats? And scientists worked on the embalming of Lenin's body using occult sciences

The find made by scientists of Bashkiria contradicts traditional ideas about the history of mankind. The stone slab, which is approximately 120 million years old, has a relief map of the Ural region

The personality of Joseph Stalin is perceived ambiguously by modern historical science. There are many opinions regarding this person

Bloody ruler of Wallachia - a tiny state on the territory of modern Romania - Vlad the Tepes Dracula, impaling everyone and drinking the blood of his victims

Divers who recently descended into the giant Sak-Aktun cave system in the Mexican part of the Yucatan Peninsula discovered human remains about 12 thousand years old

There are many blank spots in the history of our country. The lack of a sufficient number of reliable sources gives rise not only to speculation, but also outright falsifications. Some of them turned out to be very tenacious

British tabloid Daily Star published another pseudo-sensation, this time timed to coincide with the recently celebrated International Day of Cosmonautics

About a million valuable archaeological finds have already been made on the territory of the construction of the famous bridge across the Kerch Strait, and this is clearly not the limit