Secrets of history 2024, October
Yes, there really is such a version. Let's start in order. If my memory serves me, they found it on the territory of the Valley of the Kings in 1922. And the archaeologist Howard Carter made this discovery.And here is the first oddity - Carter claims that the robbers entered the burial chamber in ancient times, but did not take anything out of here
Geneticists examined the DNA of 50,000 black people in Africa and America and reconstructed the events that are at the heart of today's racial unrest in the United States.Today, mass protests against racial discrimination are taking place across America under the motto “Black lives matter”. But
The Egyptians believe that the tunnel leads to a secret crypt where Nefertiti, the beauty queen of the ancient world, is buried.Employees of the authoritative scientific journal Nature have access to the report, which recently prepared, but have not yet been published by Egyptian researchers led by Mamduh el-Damati, a former minister of antiquities and cultural heritage of Egypt, and now a professor at Ain Shams University in Cairo
1923 year. Lord Carnarvon, reading on the veranda of the Carter house near the Valley of the Kings. Those were the times! Treasure and adventure seekers made discoveries and were the first to penetrate centuries-old closed treasures and tombs
There was an episode in the history of Russian colonial entrepreneurship when Hawaii could become the possession of Russia for some time, show the imperial government more courage
Hawaii is mostly known for its white sandy beaches, fun in the hot sun, and as a holiday mecca for people from all over the world. People come here to get away from the stresses and dangers of the modern world, to rest, relax and put off all their problems for a while
On October 4, 1957, the USSR opened the doors to the Universe for mankind by launching the world's first artificial Earth satellite
Archaeologists have discovered on the walls of Pompeii a new inscription refuting the date of the famous eruption of Vesuvius. According to ancient historians, it was believed that the tragedy in the ancient Roman city occurred on August 24, 79 BC
This photo went around the world. Probably, there was no popular Internet resource where it was not published. The Woman with Gold Rings (Lady of the Rings) - victim of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD
Scientists have proved that the giant eruption of the Toba volcano on the island of Sumatra 73 thousand years ago destroyed woody vegetation in most of the territory of modern India and led to a sharp global cooling, which our ancestors barely per
This people can be called without exaggeration one of the most interesting in North America, and in the whole world. The Tlingits do not have any outstanding cultural achievements, but some features of their lives give rise to a lot of interesting questions
On June 18, 1815, the last major battle of the French Emperor Napoleon I took place on the territory of modern Belgium, which was included in the history books as the Battle of Waterloo
The current state of disputes about the essence of the Slavic faith recalls the well-known parable of the three blind men and an elephant, which tells how one day three blind men began to share with each other their knowledge about this animal: one of them, feeling the elephant's leg, convinced his comrades that the elephant was like a pillar
The first warm rays of the spring Sun began to warm our earth. In such a transitional time, when winter is giving up its rights, the Russian people celebrate, perhaps, one of the most cheerful and wild holidays - Maslenitsa. It is celebrated seven weeks before Easter, this year from 11 to 17 March, and is otherwise called Shrove, or Cheese Week
There is a concept of "memory depth". I even feel that invisible threshold, beyond which famous historical events end and descriptions of human existence begin, which can only be considered as assumptions
A necropolis with stone battle axes, 4,500 years old, was discovered by archaeologists in Istra near Moscow, the regional Ministry of Culture said. The burials belong to the bearers of the Fatyanovo culture - the first cattle breeders and farmers on the Russian Plain
The mainland is very carefully guarded by special paramilitary formations, which are completely subordinate to the UN forces. The entire territory of Antarctica has been declared a protection zone, and no one has the right to cross its borders
During the construction of the metro in such a large historical city as Moscow, it was realistic to hope that you would find many artifacts
Greetings to all who are interested in this topic! In this post I will talk about the program known as "100.000"
On March 16, 1968, a company of American soldiers wiped out the Vietnamese village of Milai (the Vietnamese called it Songmi)
One way or another, but we watched American films about Vietnam. There are many of them, the whole sea. Serious part of cinematography. And machine guns crackle, shell casings fall, and huts burn … It's fun and interesting to watch it with a bottle of beer while sitting in front of the TV
Remember the tale of Wilhelm Hauff "Stork Caliph"? The caliph and his vizier sniffed the magic powder and turned into birds. To turn back, it was necessary to pronounce a very difficult magic word "-" mutabor ". The Caliph and his vizier have forgotten this word and would have remained forever storks, if … Well, let's not retell the tale. L
The Gestapo was the secret police of fascist Germany.The term "Gestapo" is an acronym for Geheimstaatspolizei - German means secret state police. Along with the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), the security service, the Kriminalpolizei (KriPo), the criminal police, and the Ordnungspolizei (OrPo), the order police, the Gestapo formed an important part of a rather large Nazi police organization
Rosaline's mummy. For a long time, local residents believed that it was a doll. The real city of the dead was discovered in the catacombs under the Capuchin monastery in Palermo
DNA analysis showed that Rudolf Hess did not have a double. German Rudolf Hess, Deputy Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, in May 1941, secretly went to Great Britain to conclude a peace agreement with the government
On May 10, 1941, Hess flew from the Augsburg airfield to the Messerschmitt Bf.110 with a one-way supply of fuel Rudolf Hess - not the last figure at the top of the Nazi party. One of the unsolved secrets of World War II is associated with his name
On an autumn day in September 1913, the steamer Dresden set off on a voyage from Antwerp to England. On the upper deck of the ship, looking at the receding port lights, three gentlemen were talking leisurely. These were Georg Grace, Alfred Luckmann and the well-known inventor Rudolf Diesel
At the beginning of the 19th century, there was a war of liberation in Peru - the local population rebelled against the Spanish colonialists. The Peruvian treasury was evacuated to Panama, but on the way it fell into the hands of pirates
Secret mission to TibetIn the 19th century, Russia began to pursue an active foreign policy in the Far East. This displeased the British Empire. Soon a dull diplomatic war arose, the purpose of which was to influence this strategically important region for the two states, in which Russian and British intelligence took the most active part
The last speech of V. Putin at a big press conference made people talk about "surrendering the Russian world", "betrayal of the Russian people" and so on. What's the matter here?At a meeting of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights (HRC) on December 10 and a press conference on December 19, 2019, he spoke about the origin of the Russian people: “Who are the Russians? T
For a long time, the history of the construction of this space shuttle was kept in deep secrecy. Great hopes were pinned on him for a breakthrough into space; moreover, the landing of our cosmonauts on the moon was planned. The prototype "Buran" (the creators dubbed it "Laptem", although in configuration it looked more like an inverted boot) was tested at the Akhtuba Air Force Flight Test Center named after Chkalov, which is 50 kilometers from the Kapustin Yar test site
Part 1: Amazing discoveries regarding the creation of the world, paradise, the flood and the Tower of BabelWe already know that the version of the biblical text that has come down to us arose relatively late, after the return of the Jews from the Babylonian captivity, that is, between the sixth and fourth centuries BC
The names of months so familiar to us appeared in ancient Rome of the tsarist period hundreds of years before the birth of Christ. The oldest Roman calendar, borrowed by the Romans from the Greeks, included only ten months and 304 days, with March being the first of the year
In the fall of 1935, the last symbol of the Russian monarchy, the two-headed eagles on the Kremlin towers, was ordered to live long. Five-pointed stars were installed instead
There are many examples in history that science tends to often balance on the verge of good and evil. Some of the researchers are simply trying to test a new medicine on themselves, while others adhere to more radical methods of knowing themselves and the world, preferring to conduct experiments, the morality of which leaves much to be desired
The almighty "dictator" of Russia in his personal life was a lonely person: his second wife Nadezhda committed suicide from despair caused by the conditions of the "workers 'and peasants' paradise". Son Jacob was taken prisoner by Germany. Daughter Svetlana avoided her father
Central Park in New York City is not the largest city park not only in the world, in the country, but even in the city, yielding in territory to parks in the Bronx and Queens; is not the oldest park in the United States, created many ten years later than parks in Boston and Philadelphia; and even, according to his own architects, is not the most beautiful park in New York, yielding to Prospect park in Brooklyn
Scientists continue to investigate artifacts found by archaeologists a year ago, which were discovered in the Chinese province of Henan (Luoyang city).According to experts, the burial most likely dates back to at least a couple of millennia and dates back to the reign of the Western Han dynasty in China
The ancient Greeks back in the VIII-VI centuries. BC. densely settled and mastered the northern coast of the Black Sea and Crimea. Crimea was especially densely populated by them, where the indigenous population bore the name of the Taurus
On September 6, 1976, a plane appeared from the clouds in the area of the Japanese city of Hakodate on the northern island of Hokkaido. It was a twin-engined aircraft, but not as short-haul as one used to see in Hakodate