Mysterious artifacts of antiquity. Artifacts Incredible stone balls of Costa Rica

June 25th, 2013

Since the time of Darwin, science has more or less managed to fit into a logical framework and explain most of the evolutionary processes that took place on Earth. Archaeologists, biologists, and many other ...ologists agree and are confident that already 400 - 250 thousand years ago the rudiments of the current society flourished on our planet. But archeology, you know, is such an unpredictable science, no, no, and it keeps throwing up new finds that do not fit into the generally accepted model neatly put together by scientists. We present to you the 15 most mysterious artifacts that made the scientific world think about the correctness of existing theories.
1. Spheres from Klerksdorp.

According to rough estimates, these mysterious artifacts are about 3 billion years old. They are disc-shaped and spherical objects. Corrugated balls are found in two types: some are made of bluish metal, monolithic, interspersed with white matter, others, on the contrary, are hollow, and the cavity is filled with white spongy material. The exact number of spheres is unknown to anyone, since miners with the help of kmd still continue to extract them from the rock near the city of Klerksdorp, located in South Africa.
2. Drop stones.

In the Bayan-Kara-Ula mountains, which are located in China, a unique find was made, the age of which is 10 - 12 thousand years. Drop stones, numbering in the hundreds, resemble gramophone records. These are stone discs with a hole in the middle and a spiral engraving applied to the surface. Some scientists are inclined to believe that the disks serve as carriers of information about extraterrestrial civilization.
3. Antikythera mechanism.

In 1901 the Aegean Sea opened scientists secret sunken Roman ship. Among other surviving antiquities, a mysterious mechanical artifact was found that was made about 2,000 years ago. Scientists managed to recreate a complex and innovative invention for that time. The Antikythera mechanism was used by the Romans for astronomical calculations. Interestingly, the differential gear used in it was invented only in the 16th century, and the skill of the miniature parts from which the amazing device was assembled is not inferior to the skill of watchmakers of the 18th century.
4. Ica stones.

Unique stones were discovered in the Peruvian province of Ica by surgeon Javier Cabrera. Ica stones are processed volcanic rock covered with engravings. But the whole mystery is that among the images there are dinosaurs (brontosaurs, pterosaurs and triceraptors). Perhaps, despite all the arguments of learned anthropologists, the ancestors modern man already flourished and were creative in the times when these giants roamed the earth?
5. Baghdad battery.

In 1936, a strange-looking vessel sealed with a concrete stopper was discovered in Baghdad. Inside the mysterious artifact was a metal rod. Subsequent experiments showed that the vessel performed the function of an ancient battery, since by filling a structure similar to the Baghdad battery with the electrolyte available at that time, it was possible to obtain electricity of 1 V. Now you can argue who owns the title of the founder of the doctrine of electricity, because the Baghdad battery is 2000 years older than Alessandro Volta.
6. The oldest “spark plug”.

In the Coso Mountains in California, an expedition that was looking for new minerals found a strange artifact, its appearance and properties strongly resemble a “spark plug.” Despite its dilapidation, one can confidently distinguish a ceramic cylinder, inside of which there is a magnetized two-millimeter metal rod. And the cylinder itself is enclosed in a copper hexagon. The age of the mysterious find will surprise even the most inveterate skeptic - it is more than 500,000 years old!
7. Stone balls of Costa Rica.

The three hundred stone balls scattered along the coast of Costa Rica vary in age (from 200 BC to 1500 AD) and in size. However, it is still not clear to scientists exactly how ancient people made them and for what purposes.
8. Planes, tanks and submarines of Ancient Egypt.





There is no doubt that the Egyptians built the pyramids, but could the same Egyptians have thought of constructing an airplane? Scientists have been asking this question since a mysterious artifact was discovered in one of the Egyptian caves in 1898. The shape of the device is similar to an airplane, and if it was given an initial speed, it could easily fly. The fact that in the era of the New Kingdom the Egyptians were aware of such technical inventions as an airship, a helicopter and a submarine is told by a fresco on the ceiling of a temple located near Cairo.
9. Human palm print, 110 million years old.

And this is not at all an age for humanity, if you take and add here such a mysterious artifact as a fossilized finger from the Arctic part of Canada, belonging to a person and having the same age. And a footprint found in Utah, and not just a foot, but one shod in a sandal, is 300 - 600 million years old! You wonder, so when did humanity begin?
10. Metal pipes from Saint-Jean-de-Livet.



The age of the rock from which the metal pipes were extracted is 65 million years, therefore, the artifact was made at the same time. Wow, Iron Age. Another strange find was obtained from Scottish rock dating back to the Lower Devonian period, that is, 360 - 408 million years ago. This mysterious artifact there was a metal nail.
In 1844, the Englishman David Brewster reported that an iron nail had been discovered in a block of sandstone in one of the Scottish quarries. His cap was so “grown” into the stone that it was impossible to suspect the falsification of the find, although the age of the sandstone dating back to the Devonian period is about 400 million years.
Already in our memory, in the second half of the twentieth century, a discovery was made, which scientists still cannot explain. Near the American town with the loud name London, in the state of Texas, during the splitting of sandstone from the Ordovician period (Paleozoic, 500 million years ago), an iron hammer with the remains of a wooden handle was discovered. If we discard man, who did not exist at that time, it turns out that trilobites and dinosaurs smelted iron and used it for economic purposes. If we put aside the stupid mollusks, then we need to somehow explain finds, for example, such as this one: in 1968, the Frenchmen Druet and Salfati discovered in the quarries of Saint-Jean-de-Livet, in France, oval-shaped metal pipes, the age of which, if dated from the Cretaceous strata, it is 65 million years old - the era of the last reptiles.

Or this one: in mid-19th century, blasting operations were carried out in Massachusetts, and among the fragments of stone blocks a metal vessel was discovered, which was torn in half by a blast wave. It was a vase about 10 centimeters high, made of metal resembling zinc in color. The walls of the vessel were decorated with images of six flowers in the form of a bouquet. The rock in which this strange vase was kept belonged to the beginning of the Paleozoic (Cambrian), when life was barely emerging on earth - 600 million years ago.
It cannot be said that the scientists completely took water into their mouths: I had to read that a nail and a hammer could fall into the gap and be flooded with soil waters, with the formation of dense rock around them over time. Even if the vase fell through along with the hammer, the pipes in French quarries could not have reached the depths by accident.
11. Iron mug in coal

It is not known what a scientist would say if in a lump of coal, instead of the imprint of an ancient plant, he found... an iron mug. Would a coal seam be dated by a man from the Iron Age, or still to the Carboniferous period, when there weren't even dinosaurs? And such an object was found, and until recently that mug was kept in one of the private museums of America, in Southern Missouri, although with the death of the owner, the trace of the scandalous object was lost, to the great, it should be noted, relief of learned men. However, there was a photograph left.
The mug contained the following document, signed by Frank Kenwood: “In 1912, while I was working at the municipal power plant in Thomas, Oklahoma, I came across a massive lump of coal. It was too big and I had to break it with a hammer. This iron mug fell out of the block, leaving behind a hole in the coal. An employee of the company named Jim Stoll witnessed how I broke the block and how the mug fell out of it. I was able to find out the origin of the coal - it was mined in the Wilburton mines in Oklahoma." According to scientists, the coal mined in Oklahoma mines dates back 312 million years, if, of course, not dated by circle. Or did man live together with trilobites - these shrimps of the past?
12. Leg on a trilobite
This is a trilobite crushed by a shoe! The fossil was discovered by a passionate shellfish lover, William Meister, who was exploring the area around Antelope Spring, Utah, in 1968. He split a piece of shale and saw the following picture (in the photo - a split stone).

The imprint of the shoe of the right foot is visible, under which were two small trilobites. Scientists explain this as a play of nature, and are ready to believe in a find only if there is a whole chain of similar traces. A Maister is not a specialist, but a draftsman, free time looking for antiquity, but his reasoning is sound: the imprint of the shoe was found not on the surface of hardened clay, but after splitting a piece: the chip fell along the imprint, along the boundary of the compaction caused by the pressure of the shoe. However, they don’t want to talk to him: after all, man, according to evolutionary theory, did not live in the Cambrian period. There weren't even dinosaurs back then. Or...geochronology is false.
13.The sole of the shoe is on an ancient stone

In 1922, American geologist John Reid conducted a search in Nevada. Unexpectedly, he discovered a clear imprint of a shoe sole on the stone. A photograph of this wonderful find has still been preserved.

Also in 1922, an article written by Dr. W. Ballou appeared in the New York Sunday American. He wrote: “Some time ago, the famous geologist John T. Reid, while searching for fossils, suddenly froze in confusion and surprise at the rock under his feet. There was what looked like a human print, but not a bare foot, but the sole of a shoe that had turned to stone. The forefoot has disappeared, but retains the contour of at least two-thirds of the sole. There was a clearly visible thread around the outline, which, as it turned out, attached a welt to the sole. This is how a fossil was found, which is today the biggest mystery for science, since it was found in a rock that is at least 5 million years old."
The geologist took the cut piece of rock to New York, where it was examined by several professors from the American Museum. natural history and a geologist at Columbia University. Their conclusion was clear: the rock is 200 million years old - Mesozoic, Triassic period. However, the imprint itself was recognized by both these and all other scientific heads... as a play of nature. Otherwise we would have to admit that people wear shoes embroidered with threads, lived with dinosaurs nearby.
14. Two mysterious Cylinders

In 1993, Philip Reef became the owner of another amazing find. While digging a tunnel in the mountains of California, two mysterious Cylinders were discovered; they resemble the so-called “cylinders of the Egyptian pharaohs.”

But their properties are completely different from them. They consist half of platinum, half of an unknown metal. If they are heated, for example, to 50°C, then they maintain this temperature for several hours, regardless of the temperature environment. Then they cool almost instantly to air temperature. If you pass through them electricity, then they change color from silver to black, and then return to their original color. Undoubtedly, the cylinders contain other secrets that have yet to be discovered. According to radiocarbon dating, the age of these artifacts is approximately 25 million years.
15. Mayan Crystal Skulls

According to the most widely accepted story, the “Skull of Destiny” was found in 1927 by English explorer Frederick A. Mitchell-Hedges among the Mayan ruins of Lubaantun (modern Belize).
Others claim that the scientist bought this item at Sotheby's in London in 1943. Whatever the reality, this rock crystal skull is so perfectly carved that it appears to be a priceless work of art.
So, if we consider the first hypothesis to be correct (according to which the skull is a Mayan creation), then a whole rain of questions falls upon us.
Scientists believe that the Skull of Doom is in some ways technically impossible. Weighing almost 5 kg, and being a perfect replica of a woman's skull, it has a completeness that would be impossible to achieve without the use of more or less modern methods, ways that the Mayan culture possessed and which we do not know about.
The skull is perfectly polished. Its jaw is a separate hinged part from the rest of the skull. It has long attracted (and will likely continue to do so to a somewhat lesser extent) experts from a variety of disciplines.
It is also worth mentioning the relentless attribution of supernatural abilities to him by a group of esotericists, such as telekinesis, the emission of an unusual aroma, and color changes. The existence of all these properties is difficult to prove.
The skull was subjected to various analyses. One of the inexplicable things is that made of quartz glass, and therefore having a hardness of 7 on the Mohs scale (a scale of mineral hardness from 0 to 10), the skull was able to be carved without hard cutting materials such as ruby ​​and diamond.
Studies of the skull carried out by the American company Hewlett-Packard in the 1970s determined that in order to achieve such perfection, it would have to be sanded for 300 years.
Could the Mayans have deliberately designed this type of work to be completed 3 centuries later? The only thing we can say with certainty is that the Skull of Fate is not the only one of its kind.
Several such objects have been found in various places on the planet, and they are created from other materials, similar to quartz. These include a complete jadeite skeleton discovered in the China/Mongolian region, made on a smaller scale than human scale, estimated to be approx. in 3500-2200 BC.
There are doubts about the authenticity of many of these artifacts, but one thing is certain: crystal skulls continue to delight intrepid scientists.
16. Salzburg paralepiped

The very existence of the “parallelepiped” makes one wonder: is it the only one? Are there other similar (if not in form and composition, then at least in terms of the conditions under which they were found) objects? We do not mean ordinary fossil meteorites, which do not raise doubts about their nature; we are interested in objects of a clearly (or presumably) artificial nature. Those that fell into the earth's rocks during the formation of the latter. Somewhat conventionally, they can be called “unknown fossil objects” or NIO for short. “There is no doubt about AUTHENTICITY” Such finds are actually known to science.
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Since the time of Darwin, science has more or less managed to fit into a logical framework and explain most of the evolutionary processes that took place. Archaeologists, biologists, and many other ...ologists agree and are confident that already 400 - 250 thousand years ago the rudiments of the current society flourished on our planet. But archeology, you know, is such an unpredictable science, no, no, and it keeps throwing up new finds that do not fit into the generally accepted model neatly put together by scientists. We present to you the 15 most mysterious artifacts that made the scientific world think about the correctness of existing theories.

1. Spheres from Klerksdorp.

According to rough estimates, these mysterious artifacts are about 3 billion years old. They are disc-shaped and spherical objects. Corrugated balls are found in two types: some are made of bluish metal, monolithic, interspersed with white matter, others, on the contrary, are hollow, and the cavity is filled with white spongy material. The exact number of spheres is unknown to anyone, since miners with help still continue to extract them from the rock near the city of Klerksdorp, located in South Africa.

2 . Stones Drop.

In the Bayan-Kara-Ula mountains, which are located in China, a unique find was made, the age of which is 10 - 12 thousand years. Drop stones, numbering in the hundreds, resemble gramophone records. These are stone discs with a hole in the middle and a spiral engraving applied to the surface. Some scientists are inclined to believe that the disks serve as carriers of information about extraterrestrial civilization.

In 1901, the Aegean Sea revealed to scientists the secret of a sunken Roman ship. Among other surviving antiquities, a mysterious mechanical artifact was found that was made about 2,000 years ago. Scientists managed to recreate a complex and innovative invention for that time. The Antikythera mechanism was used by the Romans for astronomical calculations. Interestingly, the differential gear used in it was invented only in the 16th century, and the skill of the miniature parts from which the amazing device was assembled is not inferior to the skill of watchmakers of the 18th century.

4. Ica stones.

Discovered in the Peruvian province of Ica by surgeon Javier Cabrera. Ica stones are processed volcanic rock covered with engravings. But the whole mystery is that among the images there are dinosaurs (brontosaurs, pterosaurs and triceraptors). Perhaps, despite all the arguments of learned anthropologists, they were already flourishing and engaged in creativity at the time when these giants roamed the earth?

In 1936, a strange-looking vessel sealed with a concrete stopper was discovered in Baghdad. Inside the mysterious artifact was a metal rod. Subsequent experiments showed that the vessel performed the function of an ancient battery, since by filling a structure similar to the Baghdad battery with the electrolyte available at that time, it was possible to obtain electricity of 1 V. Now you can argue who owns the title of the founder of the doctrine of electricity, because the Baghdad battery is 2000 years older than Alessandro Volta.

6. The oldest “spark plug”.

In the Coso Mountains in California, an expedition that was looking for new minerals found a strange artifact, its appearance and properties strongly resemble a “spark plug.” Despite its dilapidation, one can confidently distinguish a ceramic cylinder, inside of which there is a magnetized two-millimeter metal rod. And the cylinder itself is enclosed in a copper hexagon. The age of the mysterious find will surprise even the most inveterate skeptic - it is more than 500,000 years old!

The three hundred stone balls scattered along the coast of Costa Rica vary in age (from 200 BC to 1500 AD) and in size. However, it is still not clear to scientists exactly how ancient people made them and for what purposes.

8. Planes, tanks and submarines of Ancient Egypt.

There is no doubt that the Egyptians built it, but could the same Egyptians have thought of constructing an airplane? Scientists have been asking this question since a mysterious artifact was discovered in one of the Egyptian caves in 1898. The shape of the device is similar to an airplane, and if it was given an initial speed, it could easily fly. The fact that in the era of the New Kingdom the Egyptians were aware of such technical inventions as an airship, a helicopter and a submarine is told on the ceiling of a temple located near Cairo.

9. Human palm print, 110 million years old.

And this is not at all an age for humanity, if you take and add here such a mysterious artifact as a fossilized finger from the Arctic part of Canada, belonging to a person and having the same age. And a footprint found in Utah, and not just a foot, but one shod in a sandal, is 300 - 600 million years old! You wonder, so when did humanity begin?

10. Metal pipes from Saint-Jean-de-Livet.

The age of the rock from which the metal pipes were extracted is 65 million years, therefore, the artifact was made at the same time. Wow, Iron Age. Another strange find was obtained from Scottish rock dating back to the Lower Devonian period, that is, 360 - 408 million years ago. This mysterious artifact was a metal nail.

In 1844, the Englishman David Brewster reported that an iron nail had been discovered in a block of sandstone in one of the Scottish quarries. His cap was so “grown” into the stone that it was impossible to suspect the falsification of the find, although the age of the sandstone dating back to the Devonian period is about 400 million years.

Already in our memory, in the second half of the twentieth century, a discovery was made, which scientists still cannot explain. Near the American town with the loud name London, in the state of Texas, during the splitting of sandstone from the Ordovician period (Paleozoic, 500 million years ago), an iron hammer with the remains of a wooden handle was discovered. If we discard man, who did not exist at that time, it turns out that trilobites and dinosaurs smelted iron and used it for economic purposes. If we put aside the stupid mollusks, then we need to somehow explain finds, for example, such as this one: in 1968, the Frenchmen Druet and Salfati discovered in the quarries of Saint-Jean-de-Livet, in France, oval-shaped metal pipes, the age of which, if dated from the Cretaceous strata, it is 65 million years old - the era of the last reptiles.

Or this: in the middle of the 19th century, blasting work was carried out in Massachusetts, and among the fragments of stone blocks a metal vessel was discovered, which was torn in half by a blast wave. It was a vase about 10 centimeters high, made of metal resembling zinc in color. The walls of the vessel were decorated with images of six flowers in the form of a bouquet. The rock in which this strange vase was kept belonged to the beginning of the Paleozoic (Cambrian), when life was barely emerging on earth - 600 million years ago.

It cannot be said that the scientists completely took water into their mouths: I had to read that a nail and a hammer could fall into the gap and be flooded with soil waters, with the formation of dense rock around them over time. Even if the vase fell through along with the hammer, the pipes in French quarries could not have reached the depths by accident.

11. Iron mug in coal

It is not known what a scientist would say if in a lump of coal, instead of the imprint of an ancient plant, he found... an iron mug. Would a coal seam be dated by a man from the Iron Age, or still to the Carboniferous period, when there weren't even dinosaurs? And such an object was found, and until recently that mug was kept in one of the private museums of America, in Southern Missouri, although with the death of the owner, the trace of the scandalous object was lost, to the great, it should be noted, relief of learned men. However, there was a photograph left.

The mug contained the following document, signed by Frank Kenwood: “In 1912, while I was working at the municipal power plant in Thomas, Oklahoma, I came across a massive lump of coal. It was too big and I had to break it with a hammer. This iron mug fell out of the block, leaving behind a hole in the coal. An employee of the company named Jim Stoll witnessed how I broke the block and how the mug fell out of it. I was able to find out the origin of the coal - it was mined in the Wilburton mines in Oklahoma." According to scientists, the coal mined in Oklahoma mines dates back 312 million years, if, of course, not dated by circle. Or did man live together with trilobites - these shrimps of the past?

12. Leg on a trilobite

Fossilized trilobite. 300 million years ago.

Although there is a find that speaks exactly about this - a trilobite crushed by a shoe! The fossil was discovered by a passionate shellfish lover, William Meister, who was exploring the area around Antelope Spring, Utah, in 1968. He split a piece of shale and saw the following picture (in the photo - a split stone).

The imprint of the shoe of the right foot is visible, under which were two small trilobites. Scientists explain this as a play of nature, and are ready to believe in a find only if there is a whole chain of similar traces. Meister is not a specialist, but a draftsman who searches for antiquities in his spare time, but his reasoning is sound: the imprint of the shoe was found not on the surface of hardened clay, but after splitting a piece: the chip fell along the imprint, along the boundary of the compaction caused by the pressure of the shoe. However, they don’t want to talk to him: after all, man, according to evolutionary theory, did not live in the Cambrian period. There weren't even dinosaurs back then. Or...geochronology is false.

13.The sole of the shoe is on an ancient stone

In 1922, American geologist John Reid conducted a search in Nevada. Unexpectedly, he discovered a clear imprint of a shoe sole on the stone. A photograph of this wonderful find has still been preserved.

Also in 1922, an article written by Dr. W. Ballou appeared in the New York Sunday American. He wrote: “Some time ago, the famous geologist John T. Reid, while searching for fossils, suddenly froze in confusion and surprise at the rock under his feet. There was what looked like a human print, but not a bare foot, but the sole of a shoe that had turned to stone. The forefoot has disappeared, but retains the contour of at least two-thirds of the sole. There was a clearly visible thread around the outline, which, as it turned out, attached a welt to the sole. This is how a fossil was found, which is today the biggest mystery for science, since it was found in a rock that is at least 5 million years old."
The geologist took the cut piece of rock to New York, where it was examined by several professors from the American Museum of Natural History and a geologist from Columbia University. Their conclusion was clear: the rock is 200 million years old - Mesozoic, Triassic period. However, the imprint itself was recognized by both these and all other scientific heads... as a play of nature. Otherwise, we would have to admit that people wearing shoes sewn with thread lived alongside dinosaurs.

In 1993, Philip Reef became the owner of another amazing find. While digging a tunnel in the mountains of California, two mysterious Cylinders were discovered; they resemble the so-called “cylinders of the Egyptian pharaohs.”

But their properties are completely different from them. They consist half of platinum, half of an unknown metal. If they are heated, for example, to 50°C, then they maintain this temperature for several hours, regardless of the ambient temperature. Then they cool almost instantly to air temperature. If an electric current is passed through them, they change color from silver to black, and then return to their original color. Undoubtedly, the cylinders contain other secrets that have yet to be discovered. According to radiocarbon dating, the age of these artifacts is approximately 25 million years.

According to the most commonly accepted story, was found in 1927 by the English explorer Frederick A. Mitchell-Hedges among the Mayan ruins in Lubaantun (modern Belize).

Others claim that the scientist bought this item at Sotheby's in London in 1943. Whatever the reality, this rock crystal skull is so perfectly carved that it appears to be a priceless work of art.
So, if we consider the first hypothesis to be correct (according to which the skull is a Mayan creation), then a whole rain of questions falls upon us.
Scientists believe that the Skull of Doom is in some ways technically impossible. Weighing almost 5 kg, and being a perfect copy of a woman's skull, it has a completeness that would have been impossible to achieve without the use of more or less modern methods, methods that the Mayan culture owned and which we do not know about.
The skull is perfectly polished. Its jaw is a separate hinged part from the rest of the skull. It has long attracted (and will likely continue to do so to a somewhat lesser extent) experts from a variety of disciplines.
It is also worth mentioning the relentless attribution of supernatural abilities to him by a group of esotericists, such as telekinesis, the emission of an unusual aroma, and color changes. The existence of all these properties is difficult to prove.
The skull was subjected to various analyses. One of the inexplicable things is that made of quartz glass, and therefore having a hardness of 7 on the Mohs scale (a scale of mineral hardness from 0 to 10), the skull was able to be carved without hard cutting materials such as ruby ​​and diamond.
Studies of the skull carried out by the American company Hewlett-Packard in the 1970s determined that in order to achieve such perfection, it would have to be sanded for 300 years.
Could the Mayans have deliberately designed this type of work to be completed 3 centuries later? The only thing we can say with certainty is that the Skull of Fate is not the only one of its kind.
Several such objects have been found in various places on the planet, and they are created from other materials, similar to quartz. These include a complete jadeite skeleton discovered in the China/Mongolian region, made on a smaller scale than human scale, estimated to be approx. in 3500-2200 BC.
There are doubts about the authenticity of many of these artifacts, but one thing is certain: crystal skulls continue to delight intrepid scientists.

17. Lycurgus Cup

A Roman cup made about 1,600 years ago may be an example of nanotechnology, experts say. The mysterious Lycurgus Cup, made of dichroic glass, is able to change color from green to red, depending on the light.

When creating a bowl that is displayed in British Museum in London, technologies were used that are now called nanotechnology - the controlled manipulation of materials at the atomic and molecular level. These technologies, according to scientists, can be used in various fields - from diagnosing diseases to detecting bombs at airports.

Scientists managed to unravel the mystery of the changing color of the bowl only in 1990, after many years of fruitless attempts. After studying the shards of glass under a microscope, scientists discovered that the Romans had infused it with particles of silver and gold, which they crushed into extremely tiny particles - about 50 nanometers in diameter - a thousand times smaller than a crystal of salt.

The precise ratio of metals and such careful grinding led experts to conclude that the Romans were pioneers of nanotechnology because they actually knew what they were doing.

Archaeologist Ian Freestone of University College London, who examined the cup and its unusual optical properties, calls the creation of the cup an "amazing feat." The cup changes color depending on which side the observer is looking at it from.

The cup was apparently used for drinking on exceptional occasions, and experts believe its color changed depending on the drink it was filled with.

Liu Gang Logan, an engineer and nanotechnology expert at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, said: "The Romans knew how to make and use nanoparticles to create works of art."

Of course, scientists could not examine a one-of-a-kind goblet and fill it with various liquids. Therefore, they were forced to recreate the Lycurgus Cup, applying microscopic particles of gold and silver to the glass. After this, the researchers experimented with different liquids to find out how its color would change. Scientists have found that a new cup filled with water glows blue, and when filled with oil it glows bright red.

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ARTIFACTS CHANGING HUMAN HISTORY

On August 25, 1925, surgeon and pharmacologist Nikolai Aleksandrovich Grigorovich went to a clay quarry in the village of Odintsovo near Moscow. Grigorovich's hobbies were very varied, this time he was looking for mammoth bones. Not long before this, a tooth of this animal was discovered in a quarry, and Grigorovich rightly assumed that the skeleton of the fossil animal should have been nearby. However, the scientist did not find any bones, but his walk was not in vain. In a coma of clay, he discovered a discovery that called into question the entire official history of mankind.

The scientist found a piece of clay with a flint stone embedded in it. Initial clearing revealed the stone's resemblance to the human brain. When Grigorovich continued clearing, he was amazed - the “brain” was crossed by a groove separating the right and left hemispheres, the cerebellum and other details were skillfully depicted, understandable only to specialists. Externally, the find resembled modern plastic models used by medical students to study.

On the same day, another sensational discovery was made, this time a fragment of a similar model was found, namely the left hemisphere of the brain. Geologist Nikolai Zenonovich Milkovich, invited by Grigorovich, determined the age of the layers of earth in which the find was made at 450-500 thousand years. According to science, at this time the ancestors of modern humans, such as Pithecanthropus and Heidelberg Man, already existed. However, these creatures were still prosimians, and Grigorovich was holding in his hands a model of the brain of the genus Homo sapiens.

Grigorovich himself believed that his finds were a fossilized human brain, but the commission created at the Timiryazev Institute did not agree with him. Firstly, on one of Grigorovich’s finds they polished a flat area and proved that it was a monolith. The human brain has a spongy structure. Secondly, based on a number of geological features, the find was attributed to the Carboniferous period, thus, the age of the “model” was pushed back. Grigorovich's artifacts now date back to between 360 and 300 million years BC.
According to scientific data, which is considered reliable, at these times reptiles were the peak of animal development on Earth; even lizards had not yet appeared. The commission was unable to explain how Grigorovich’s “models” were formed and attributed them to the “game of nature.” The idea that what might actually be in front of them tutorial, made with great knowledge and

art, it never occurred to any of the commission members at the time.
Grigorovich’s find is not the only artifact that does not fit into any scientific theories. Traces of a person in the literal sense and evidence of his life activity are regularly found in the most “unsuitable” geological structures for them.
Such artifacts include the famous “Gadyach trace,” discovered in a clay quarry near Poltava by geologist Nikolai Toryanik. On a hundred-kilogram red granite boulder

the trace of a human foot is clearly visible, and the foot is shod. And everything would be fine, only such granites were formed approximately one billion years ago. At that time, the first multicellular organisms appeared on the planet, and 430 million years remained before the appearance of the first arthropods - the ancestors of insects, spiders and crayfish. No traces of mechanical processing were found on the stone; the melting point of granite is 1000 degrees Celsius. We can only assume that the footprint was left by a foot wearing special, super-protected shoes.
Human footprints dating back to periods when this was even theoretically “impossible” have been found all over the world. In 1927, a footprint was discovered in Nevada in sediments that were 160-195 million years old. Moreover, the foot was in a boot with a double seam on the sole.

The Dean of Geology at Bury, Dr Wilbar Burrows, reported the discovery of human footprints in Carboniferous sandstone. In 1968, an archaeologist in the Delta area discovered a sandal footprint. Moreover, the most amazing thing was not even the shoes themselves, but the trilobite crushed by it - a creature that lived on the planet 600 million years ago. Chains of human footprints, fossilized at the same time as nearby dinosaur tracks, were discovered in South Africa, Ceylon and in the Sino-Mongolian Gobi Desert. Judging by the nature of the tracks, people were chasing dinosaurs.

Exhausted by constant questions from journalists about such artifacts, representatives of official science were divided into two camps. Some claim that all these finds are a later fake, others say that these are traces of a large prehistoric frog. However, even the most modern devices did not find any traces of specially made fingerprints. The imaginary sight of a frog jumping on human legs shod in boots with double seams will probably cause tenderness in many.
The most fantastic explanations for the above can be found. For example, aliens visiting Earth, time travel, the existence of Homo sapiens even before the later trilobites and lizards. But “serious science”, alas, does not consider such assumptions. (evmenov37.ru)

Some argue that alien life forms have visited Earth throughout its history.
However, such claims are difficult to prove. Most cases of unidentified flying object sightings and abductions can be easily disproved,
as “ducks” or simple misunderstandings of what is happening.

But what about those times when the little green men actually left something behind?
Or what about those artifacts that people of ancient times built to honor what can only be called visitors from other planets?
There are a huge number of strange objects in the world, both mysterious and made by human hands,
which are supposedly evidence of visits of alien life forms to our Earth.

10. Russian UFO Tooth Wheel

A man from Russia found a strange piece of machinery in Vladivostok, the administrative capital of the Primorsky Territory. The object resembled a piece of a gear wheel and was in a piece of coal that the man had used to light the fire. Although discarded parts of old cars are not uncommon in Russia, the man became interested and showed his find to scientists. Testing revealed that the jagged object was composed almost exclusively of aluminum and was almost certainly man-made.

In addition, its age was 300 million years. In connection with this discovery, a number of interesting questions, since aluminum of such purity and form does not occur in nature and people did not know how to obtain it until 1825. It is also curious that the object also resembles parts used in microscopes and other delicate technical devices.

Despite the fact that conspiracy supporters did not fail to immediately declare that part of spaceship aliens, scientists studying the object are in no hurry to draw conclusions and want to conduct a series of tests to find out more information about the mysterious artifact.

9. Guatemala Stone Head


In the 1930s, in the middle of the Guatemalan jungle, explorers found a huge, impressively crafted sandstone statue. The facial features of the stone carved did not resemble those of the Mayans or any other people who were known to inhabit these lands. Moreover, the elongated skull and delicate facial features would seem to have never appeared in history books.

Scientists said the statue's unique facial features depict a member of an ancient alien civilization that was far more advanced than any of the pre-Hispanic races of the Americas that we know of. Some have even suggested that the head may be just part of a much larger structure located at the bottom of the head (this has been determined not to be the case). Of course, there is a chance that the statue could be the work of a later artist or even a complete hoax. Unfortunately, we will probably never know for sure: the head was used as a target for training of revolutionary troops and its features were destroyed almost without a trace.

8. Williams Enigmalith


In 1998, a hiker named John J. Williams noticed a strange metal protrusion in the mud. He dug up a strange stone, which, after cleaning, was discovered to have a strange electrical component attached to it. The electrical device was clearly man-made and looked a bit like an electrical plug.

Since then, this stone has become a well-known secret in UFO enthusiast circles. He was written about in UFO Magazine and (according to Williams) in the Fortean Times, a famous magazine devoted to mysterious phenomena. Williams, an electrical engineer, says the electronic component embedded in the stone was not glued or embedded into the granite. In fact, the rock most likely formed around the device.

Many believe that Williams' Enigmalite is a "duck" because Williams refuses to split the stone but agrees to sell it for $500,000. Additionally, the stone device is similar to the heating stones commonly used to keep tame lizards warm. However, geological analysis appears to have determined that the stone is about 100,000 years old, and if this is true, then the structure inside it cannot be the work of man. Williams is so confident in his find that he agrees to allow research on Enigmalite to be carried out under three conditions: he must be present during the research, the stone must remain intact and unharmed, and he will not pay for the research.

7. Ancient planes


The Incas and other pre-Columbian people left behind extremely mysterious trinkets. One of the strangest is probably the so-called Ancient Planes, these are small, golden figurines that resemble modern jet planes. It was initially believed that they were zoomorphic (meaning they were made in the shape of animals), but it was soon discovered that the figurines had strange features that were very similar to fighter jet wings, stabilizing tails, and even landing gear. The figures were quite aerodynamic and when people who believed in ancient astronauts (supposedly) made model airplanes to match the figures' proportions, and equipped them with propellers and (again, presumably) jet engines, they flew perfectly. All this led to the assumption that the Incas most likely had contact with people (most likely extraterrestrial origin) who were able to build modern jet aircraft, and who may even have had this technology themselves.

Well, there is also the option that these wonderful figurines simply could have been artistic images bees, flying fish, or other winged creatures. As always, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

6. Ubaid Lizard Men

The Al Ubaid archaeological site is a cornucopia for archaeologists and historians. It was there that countless objects from pre-Sumerian times were found, a period known as the Ubaid period (5900 - 4000 BC). However, some of these items are quite scary. A number of statues from the Ubaid period depict strange, lizard-like humanoids in unique, mundane poses, which seems to indicate that these creatures were not gods (such as egyptian gods with animal heads), but rather were a race of lizard people.

Of course, these statues have given rise to countless stories and theories about lizard aliens who once inhabited the earth (and, according to conspiracy theorists, still inhabit it). Although it seems unlikely, their true nature remains a mystery.

5. Remains of meteorites on the island of Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka Meteorite Fossils)


After analyzing the remains of a meteorite that fell in Sri Lanka, researchers discovered that the object they found was something more than a simple piece of space rock. It was an alien artifact in the most literal sense: an artifact made up of real aliens. Two separate studies found that the meteorite contained fossils and algae that were clearly of extraterrestrial origin.

Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, who led the first study, said the remains provided compelling evidence for panspermia (the hypothesis that life exists in the universe and spreads through meteorites and other solid rocks). However, his statements, as expected, were criticized. Wickramasingha is an avid enthusiast of the panspermia theory, with a tendency to claim that almost everything he finds is of unearthly origin. Moreover, traces of life on the meteorite actually contained freshwater species commonly found on Earth, indicating that the remains were contaminated by organisms during their time on our planet.

4. Tapestry “Summer’s Triumph Tapestry”


The tapestry known as the "Summer Triumph" was created in Bruges (the capital of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium) around 1538. On this moment the tapestry is in Bavarian national museum(Bayerisches National Museum).

"Summer Triumph" is famous (or infamous) among conspiracy theorists because it depicts a number of distinctive objects flying in the sky that clearly resemble unidentified flying objects. Although their presence is puzzling, some people believe they may have been added to the tapestry (which depicts the rise of a victorious ruler to power) to link the UFO to the ruler as a symbol of divine intervention. This, of course, raises more questions than answers, such as: Why did 16th-century Belgians recognize flying saucers and mentally associate them with a deity?

3. “Glorification Of The Eucharist”


An Italian artist named Ventura Salimbeni painted one of the most mysterious altar paintings in history. "Disputa of the Eucharist", a 16th-century painting also known as "The Celebration of the Sacrament of the Eucharist" (Eucharist is a synonym for Holy Communion), consists of three parts. The lower two parts are relatively ordinary: they depict a number of clergy representatives and an altar. However, on the top there is a picture of the Holy Trinity (Father, Son and a dove representing the Holy Spirit looking at them)... and in their hands they are holding what looks very similar to space satellite. The object is large and spherical in shape with a metallic coating, telescopic antennas and strange lights. In fact, it is very similar to the old Sputnik 1.

Although UFO enthusiasts and ancient astronaut theorists have often cited the Celebration of the Eucharist as evidence to support their theories of extraterrestrial life (or perhaps travel), experts have quickly dismissed such claims. According to them, the sphere is the "Sphere of the World" (Sphaera Mundi), a spherical representation of the universe that was often used in religious art. The strange lights on the "satellite" are just the sun and moon, and its antennae are actually scepters that symbolize the power of the Father and the Son.

2. Mexican Government’s Maya Artifacts


The story goes like this: In 2012, the Mexican government released a series of Mayan artifacts that they had kept secret for 80 years as state secrets. These items were taken from an unexplored pyramid that was found underneath another pyramid at Calakmul, the site of one of the most powerful ancient Mayan cities. In a documentary film sanctioned by the Mexican government and directed by Raul Julia-Levy (son famous actor Raul Julia) and financier Elizabeth Thieriot (ex-wife of the former publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle) published a number of these findings, most of which clearly depict UFOs and aliens.

This case may seem quite intriguing, but once you take a closer look, a strange scam pattern begins to emerge. It seems that both documentarians are lying about something. Julia-Levy does not seem to be who he claims to be, and Raul's widow Julia publicly called the man a fraud named Salvador Alba Fuentes. According to her, Salvador is trying to use the fame of her late husband and tells everyone that his real name is Raul Julia-Levy. Meanwhile, Thierieu shut down production on the documentary and sued her partner, accusing Julia-Levi of stealing her documentary and abusing filming equipment (which Julia-Levi resents). Moreover, there seems to be very little scientific evidence authenticity of the exhibits, and photographs that have appeared on the Internet are less than convincing evidence.

Perhaps the artifacts were cheap fakes made by a local artisan. Perhaps the officials changed their minds about the documentary and ordered Thierier to stop filming it at all costs. Whatever the truth behind these strange artifacts, their authenticity is far from conclusive.

1. Betz Mystery Sphere


As the Betz family surveyed the aftermath of a strange fire that had destroyed 35.6 hectares of their forest, they found a strange object: a silvery sphere, about 20 centimeters in diameter, completely smooth except for a strange, elongated triangle symbol. Thinking that it might be a NASA instrument or even a Soviet spy satellite, they eventually decided that it was most likely just a souvenir. Without thinking twice, they decided to take him with them.

Two weeks later, their son was strumming his guitar in the same room where the sphere stood. Suddenly, the sphere began to respond to his melodies, producing strange pulsating sounds and a resonance that greatly alarmed the family's dog. The family soon discovered that the orb had other strange qualities. She would stop and change direction as she was sent rolling across the floor, eventually returning to the man who pushed her like a faithful dog. It seemed that it was powered by solar energy, becoming noticeably more active on sunny days.

It began to seem that something (or someone) was controlling the sphere: from time to time it emitted low-frequency vibrations and noises, as if a motor was working inside it. She avoided falling or hitting anything at all costs, as if protecting what was inside her. She was even able to completely defy gravity by climbing up an inclined table to avoid falling.

Naturally, these messages were followed by a madness in funds mass media. Respected and serious newspapers such as the New York Times and the London Daily sent reporters to see the miracle sphere in person as it repeated its tricks in front of countless crowds. Even scientists and military personnel were impressed, although the Betz family did not allow them to take the sphere for more detailed study. However, this soon changed when the sphere began to misbehave. She began to exhibit poltergeist-like behavior: at night the doors of the house would slam shut and strange organ music would suddenly fill the house. At that moment, the family decided to find out what the sphere really was. Navy analyzed it and discovered that it was... a completely ordinary (albeit high-quality) stainless steel ball.

To this day, this alien sphere and its purpose remain a mystery. However, there were many theories with which people tried to explain its nature. By the way, the most likely of them is the most common explanation: three years before the Betz family discovered the sphere, an artist named James Durling-Jones was passing through the area where it was found. In the roof rack of his car were several stainless steel balls for a sculpture he was making. Some of these balls fell out while the car was driving over potholes. These balls matched accurate description the Betz spheres, and were balanced enough to roll at the slightest provocation (the Betz family lived in an old house with an uneven floor, so such a ball would seem to behave chaotically). These balls could even make a rattling sound, thanks to tiny pieces of metal shavings stuck inside during their manufacturing process.

While it doesn't explain all the phenomena people have reported, this explanation certainly casts a shadow on all the "mysterious ghostly orb from space" rhetoric.

Mysterious artifacts of ancient civilizations are located in the Nazca desert, represented by huge drawings. Amazing geoglyphs appeared in 200 BC, covering vast areas off the coast of Peru. Engraved into sandy soil, they illustrate animals and geometric shapes.

The images, also represented by lines, are very similar to landing strips. The Nazca people, who created the wonderful drawings, did not leave any records about the purpose of the large-scale images. Perhaps, due to their prehistoric era, they had not yet discovered the advantages of a written language, or something else held them back.

Not advanced enough for a written language, they nevertheless left a great mystery to future civilizations. We still wonder how such complex projects were implemented at that time.

Another thing amazes us: if the “artists” themselves did not have the opportunity to view images from the sky, then how did the Nazca peoples create absolutely symmetrical images? In the absence of records from that time, we have no plausible explanations other than the involvement of extraterrestrial technology.

GIANT FINGER OF EGYPT.

The 35-centimeter-long artifact, according to legend, was discovered in the 1960s in Egypt. Unknown researcher Gregor Sporri, meeting the owner of the artifact in 1988, paid $300 to photograph the finger and conduct an x-ray. There is even an x-ray image of the finger, as well as a stamp of authenticity.

Original photo taken in 1988

However, not a single scientist studied the finger, and the person who owned the artifact left no opportunity to hear the details. This may contribute to the fact that the giant's finger is a hoax, or indicate a civilization of giants that lived on the earth before us.

STONE DISCS OF THE DROPA TRIBE.

As reported in the history of the artifact, Cho Pu Tei, a professor of archeology (an actual archaeologist) of Beijing, was on an expedition with his students to explore caves deep in the mountains of the Himalayas. Located between Tibet and China, a number of caves were clearly man-made as they consisted of tunnel systems and rooms.

There were small skeletons in the cells of the rooms, speaking of a dwarf culture. Professor Tay suggested that they are an undocumented species of mountain gorilla. The truth was that the ritual burial was very confusing.

Hundreds of disks with a diameter of 30.5 centimeters with perfect holes in the center were also found here. Researchers, having studied the paintings on the walls of the cave, came to the conclusion that the age is 12,000 years. The discs of mysterious purpose also date back to the same age.

Professor Tsum Um Nui from Beijing examined the disks in 1958 and came to the conclusion about an unknown language that had never appeared anywhere before. The engraving itself was done to such an elaborate level that it required a magnifying glass to read. All the results of the decryptions went into the area of ​​​​the extraterrestrial origin of artifacts.

Tribal Legend: Ancient dropas descended from the clouds. Our ancestors, women and children hid in caves ten times before sunrise. When the fathers finally understood the sign language, they found out that those who came had peaceful intentions.

ARTIFACT, SPARK PLUG AT 500,000 YEARS OLD.

In 1961, a very strange artifact was discovered in the Coso Mountains, California. Looking for additions to their display, small store owners precious stones We went to collect several copies. However, they were lucky to find not just a valuable stone or a rare fossil, but a real mechanical artifact of deep antiquity.

The mysterious mechanical device looked like a modern car spark plug. Analysis and X-ray examination revealed a porcelain filling containing copper rings, a steel spring and a magnetic rod on the inside. Adding to the mystery is an unidentifiable powdery white substance inside.

However, scientists were in no hurry to analyze the artifact. They were probably afraid of accidentally disproving generally accepted theories by saying that we are not the first technologically advanced civilization. Or the planet really was a popular place among aliens, often being repaired on Earth.

MECHANISM OF ANTIKYTHERA.

In the last century, divers have been clearing ancient Greek treasures from the site of the Antikythera shipwreck, which dates back to 100 BC. Among the artifacts they found 3 parts of a mysterious device. The device had bronze triangular teeth and is believed to have been used to track the complex movements of the Moon and other planets.

The mechanism used a differential gear consisting of more than 30 gears different sizes with triangular teeth that were always counted to prime numbers. It is believed that if all teeth are proven as prime numbers, then they can clarify the astronomical secrets of the ancient Greeks.

The Antikythera mechanism had a knob that allowed the user to enter past and future dates and then calculate the positions of the Sun and Moon. The use of differential gears made it possible to calculate angular velocities and calculate lunar cycles.

Alexander Jones, a historian, deciphered some of the inscriptions and said the device used colored balls to represent the Sun, Mars and Moon. Okay, from the inscriptions we found out where the device was created, but no one said how it was made. Is it possible that the Greeks knew more about the solar system and technology than we previously thought?

PLANES OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS.

Egypt is not a unique place for theories about ancient aliens and high technology. Small gold objects dating back to 500 AD have been discovered in Central and South America. era.

More precisely, dating is a bit of a challenge, since the items are entirely made of gold, so the date was estimated using stratigraphy. This may fool some people into thinking it's a hoax, but the artifacts date back at least 1,000 years.

The artifacts are interesting because of their amazing similarity to ordinary airplanes. Archaeologists have designated the finds as zoomorphic for their resemblance to animals. However, comparing them with birds and fish (which have similar characteristics from an animal point of view) seems to lead to the desired conclusion. In any case, such a comparison raises serious doubts.

Why do they look so much like airplanes? They have wings, stabilizing elements and landing mechanisms, which have called on researchers to recreate one of the ancient figures.

Being created to scale but accurate in proportions, this ancient artifact seems very similar to a modern fighter jet. After the reconstruction, it was documented that the plane, although not very good aerodynamically, flew wonderfully.

Is it possible that 1000 years ago ancient cosmonauts visited us and left design solutions for what we now call “airplanes”? In addition, the aerodynamic characteristics on the home planet of the “guests” may be different from terrestrial conditions.

Perhaps this is a model of a space shuttle (by the way, we are designing the same shape). Or is it more plausible to think that the artifact represents an overly inaccurate representation of the birds and the bees?

Maybe, ancient world was in contact with many alien races, as evidenced by a rich collection of stories detailing the encounters. Many cultures, separated by thousands of years, contain tales of flying objects and technologies so advanced that they seem like hoaxes to us.