Secrets of history 2024, October

When it snows in Russia, they appear on the streets and in parks - snowmen. Big and small, with or without brooms - they have long been symbols of the New Year holidays. But how much do we know about the history of snowmen?

Simon the magician was not only a contemporary of Christ, not also his dangerous rival, the ambitious magician sought to gain worldwide fame for himself, to achieve divine honors, and at the same time showed such incredible miracles that many began to believe that he was strong

Surgery is a fairly ancient field of medicine - in ancient Greece and Egypt, very complex operations were already successfully carried out

WS-606A program - once secret work to create a disc-shaped flying machine

The famous writer Alexandre Dumas loved to travel. And in 1858, a difficult one brought him to Russia, where, among other things, he decided to go on a cruise along Ladoga. The largest lake in Europe shocked Dumas and … almost destroyed

The largest collection of petroglyphs in Siberia. The entire life of ancient people is shown on the rocks. Age 1000-5000 years

After World War II, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) worked out the version that the Fuhrer of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler, managed to escape from besieged Berlin thanks to a double who took his place. Writes about this Daily Star

The documents say that Hitler might not have committed suicide on April 30, 1945, and fled to Argentina in a submarine with his henchmen.The FBI has declassified documents, from which it follows that after the Second World War, the department was working on a version of Hitler's escape

The main secret of the British special services became known only in 1974! The hunt for the German Enigma encryption machine is full of dramatic twists and turns, brilliant insights and painstaking work

Despite the development of decryption technologies, which has accelerated with the advent of the Internet, humanity continues to puzzle over unsolved messages

The CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, is a spy and other headquarters of its own, but for the past 30 years it has additionally attracted the attention of all encryption and puzzle lovers.At the entrance to the building there is a sculpture called "Kryptos", it was created by the American artist Jim Sanborn and the letters located all over the surface of the sculpture supposedly conceal some kind of hidden message

On July 14, 1897, the English composer Edgar Eldar (June 2, 1857 - February 23, 1934) sent a note to Dorabella - so he called his girlfriend Dora Penny

For the first time information about Bale's treasures appeared in 1855 in a brochure with a long title. The original manuscript is still in the Library of Congress

The first known application of cryptography is considered to be the use of special hieroglyphs about 4000 years ago in Ancient Egypt

Ciphers exist to hide valuable information and keep a secret. And if you manage to unravel what is written, then you can find out the secret of some personality, the coordinates of the treasure, or even the history of an entire civilization

The creators of these mysterious manuscripts were Magyars, Americans, Germans and they created mysterious works for dedicated readers, not counting on literary fame

This is a three-page encrypted document about hidden treasures and was published in the United States in 1865. The most important part of it is about where the treasure is - still not decrypted

It would seem that modern technologies and the level of development of science make it possible to find answers to almost any question. But the secrets, no less, still remain. And among them - 15 fonts and languages that cannot yet be deciphered

6. Signal Wow! On August 15, 1977, a 72-second signal from space rocked the SETI workers searching for extraterrestrial life. Astronomer Jerry Eiman looked at the computer printout of the signal and wrote the word Wow on the sheet

Documents related to a secret British nuclear weapons test program in the Australian outback have been removed from the National Archives without explanation, CNN reports

2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the disappearance of three echelons of values, which, according to the International Treasures Around Us Club (France, Paris), are now estimated at 10-12 billion euros

Museum of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (Dzhugashvili) - located in the city of Gori. The iconic landmark of Georgia and the most famous museum among the dozens of Georgian museums

The daily Sabah reports that archaeologists have unearthed a new settlement on the Great Silk Road in the Fergana Valley

A few days ago, archaeological excavations began on the territory of the village of Volniy (Uspensky District, Krasnodar Territory), which are being conducted by teachers and students of the Armavir State Pedagogical University (ASPU) and research workers

Shelk Since ancient times, people who lived in different parts of our planet traded among themselves. At first it was just an exchange of objects that were in one place, but they were not in another: salt, precious stones and gold, medicinal herbs and incense

On March 14, 2002 at 12 o'clock Greenwich time of the zero meridian, the famous Russian treasure hunter, living in the village of Leningradskaya, Krasnodar Territory, Yuri Kharchuk, proclaimed the Declaration on the formation of the Russian Principality on the mainland An

The Great Silk Road, linking China and the cities of Central Asia with the Mediterranean countries, for many centuries played a major role in the processes of commodity and cultural exchange between these regions

Control exercised by the Chinese during the Late Han Dynasty on the Silk Road ensured the freedom of transcontinental trade through a double line of oases in the north and south of Tarim

In the Baksan gorge, archaeologists have found skulls of a very strange shape. They testify to the existence of long-headed people in the past. The Baksan Gorge became known for the discovery of a Scythian-Sarmatian burial ground there

The Great Silk Road - in ancient times and in the Middle Ages, the caravan road from China to the countries of Central and Western Asia

It's no secret that information about the existence of ancient treasures that have not yet been found drives many crazy and excites their imagination. And this is in our time, and imagine what happened to people in the midst of the gold rush in the United States, when one of the publishers published a brochure with an encrypted description of the location of untold wealth

As the guns rumbled and the bombs of World War II exploded, a secret occult battle unfolded between Nazi Germany and the United States of America

The American decided to find the treasures of the Russian crown and return them to Russia. To do this, she is going to go on an expedition to the Gobi Desert. Her adoptive father, the keeper of the Romanov treasury, hid these treasures there

The term "Great Silk Road" itself entered historical science at the end of the 19th century, after the publication of the book China by the German historian K. Richthofen in 1877. This caravan trade route was the longest (more than 7 thousand

Ancient libraries, containing the entire depth of knowledge of ancient civilizations, in the old days were sometimes called a repository of wisdom, a haven of thought, but as if some mystical predetermination accompanied the fate of the great libraries of antiquity: some are irrevocably destroyed, while others are hidden so skillfully that they cannot be found even by this day …- Salik.bi

Existed in 1934 - 1946. The NKVD has earned a sad reputation as an instrument of Stalinist repression. But all the heads of the NKVD and many of their deputies were themselves accused of what they should have eradicated - treason and attempted coup

Who was the "red marshal" Vasily Blucher - an adventurer, a foreign intelligence officer or an Austrian count?Marshal Blucher was sentenced to death retroactively, already four months after his death. He died in the internal prison of the NKVD on November 9, an hour before midnight, and the next day, in the early morning, his body was cremated

I've been going to do it for a long time. However, any material must be confirmed by something, and there was no confirmation. And finally they appeared.At one time, when the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation still existed, there was a very good historical heading on the official website of the troops

At the beginning of World War II, on the basis of a separate motorized rifle brigade of the NKVD, a special unit was created, which included athletes, circus performers, polyglots, psychics, alternative medicine specialists and even theater directors

In mid-February 1933, several black "funnels" and a couple of trucks appeared in Kraskovo near Moscow, delivering a group of ten people and many boarded up boxes to one of the departmental dachas