Artifacts of ancient civilizations. Ancient artifacts are a trace of extraterrestrial civilizations. Dropa Tribe Discs, Ordinary Stones, or Alien Artifact

Modern man's knowledge of ancient cultures is very limited. But architectural artifacts that have survived to our time give reason to believe that many millennia ago there were developed civilizations on our planet that were forgotten. 10 in our review archaeological finds, the secrets of which still remain unsolved.

1. Ancient devices

Ancient civilizations knew much more and were more developed than scientists assumed 20 years ago. Archaeologists have discovered a number of ancient devices, from planispheres to prototype batteries. The most famous finds are the Nimrud lens and the Antikythera mechanism.

The Nimrud Lens, estimated to be approximately 3,000 years old, was discovered during excavations at the ancient Assyrian capital of Nimrud. Some experts believe that the lens was part of an ancient Babylonian telescope. This means that they had advanced knowledge of astronomy.

The famous Antikythera mechanism (200 BC) was created to calculate the movements of the sun, moon and planets. Unfortunately, people can only guess about why and how many ancient devices were created, and why ancient knowledge about them has disappeared.

2. Empire of Rama

For a long time it was believed that Indian civilization began only in 500 BC. However, discoveries made in the last century pushed back the origins of Indian civilization by several thousand years.

The cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro were discovered in the Indus Valley, which were perfectly planned even by modern standards. The Harappan culture also remains a mystery. Its roots are hidden for centuries, and the language has not yet been unraveled by scientists. There are no buildings in the city that would indicate different social classes, no temples or other places of worship. No other culture, including Egypt and Mesopotamia, had this level of urban planning.

3. Longue Caves

Longyu is called by the Chinese another wonder of the world. The 24 cave system was discovered completely by accident in 1992. The origin of the caves dates back to the 2nd century BC. Despite its titanic volume (to carve such caves in solid rock, about a million cubic meters of stone would have to be removed), no evidence of construction was found. The carvings covering the walls and ceilings of the caves are made in a special manner and are full of symbols. According to officially unconfirmed information, the seven discovered grottoes repeat the location of the seven stars of the Ursa Major constellation.

4. Nan-Madol

On an artificial archipelago in Micronesia near the island of Pohnpei are the ruins of the ancient prehistoric city of Nan Madol. The city is built on coral reef from basalt blocks, the weight of which reaches 50 tons. The city is crossed by many canals and underwater tunnels. Some of its streets are flooded. The scale of this structure can be compared with the Great Chinese wall or Egyptian pyramids. However, there is not a single record of who built the city and when it was built.

5. Stone Age Tunnels

From Scotland to Turkey, beneath hundreds of Neolithic settlements, archaeologists have discovered evidence of a vast network underground tunnels. In Bavaria, some tunnels are up to 700 meters long. The fact that these tunnels have survived for 12,000 years is a testament to the extraordinary skill of the builders and the sheer size of the original network.

6. Puma Punku and Tiwanaku

Puma Punku is a megalithic complex near the ancient pre-Inca city of Tiwanaku in South America. The age of the megalithic ruins is highly controversial, but archaeologists are unanimous that they are older than the pyramids. The ruins are believed to be 15,000 years old. The massive stones used in the construction were cut and fitted together so precisely that there is no doubt that the builders clearly had advanced knowledge of cutting stones, geometry, and they had the tools to do this. The city also had a functioning irrigation system, sewerage and hydraulic mechanisms.

7. Metal mount

Continuing the conversation about Puma Punku; It is worth noting that at this construction site, as well as in the Koricancha temple, ancient city Ollantaytambo, Yurok Rumi and in ancient Egypt A special metal fastener was used to hold the huge stones together. Archaeologists discovered that the metal was poured into grooves cut into the stones, meaning the builders had portable factories. It is unclear why this technology and other methods of megalith construction were lost.

8. The Riddle of Baalbek

Archaeological excavations in Baalbek, Lebanon, have revealed some of the best-preserved Roman ruins in the world. What makes this place especially mysterious is the megalithic mound on which the Romans built their temples. The stone monoliths of this mound weigh up to 1,200 tons each and are the largest processed stone slabs in the world. Some archaeologists believe that the history of Baalbek dates back about 9,000 years.

9. Giza Plateau

The Great Pyramid of Egypt is ideal in terms of geometry. How the ancient Egyptians achieved this is unknown. It is also interesting that the erosion of the Sphinx, as scientists have proven, occurred due to precipitation, and the desert of this area was only 7,000 - 9,000 years ago. The pyramid of Mikerinus also dates back to the predynastic period. It was also built from limestone blocks and has exactly the same signs of erosion as the Sphinx.

10. Gobekli Tepe

Dating from the end of the last ice age (12,000 years ago) temple complex in the southeastern part of Turkey has been called the most important archaeological discovery of modern times. Ancient pottery, writing, the already existing wheel and metallurgy - its construction implies a level of development far beyond the development of Paleolithic civilizations. Göbekli Tepe consists of 20 circular structures (only 4 have been excavated so far) and elaborately carved columns up to 5.5 meters high and weighing up to 15 tons each. No one can say with certainty who created this complex and where its creators got their advanced knowledge of masonry.

History buffs will also be interested. They are a legacy from forgotten civilizations.

The Far East, now almost deserted, was densely populated in ancient times. The Jurchen Empire - people of the white race - flourished there, which was the heir to a highly developed civilization that existed there three thousand years ago...

The ancient state of the white people Far East

In the 50s of the 20th century, academician A.P. Okladnikov and his students discovered in the Far East the existence of the Golden Jurchen Empire, which existed there in the Middle Ages. It occupied the territory of modern Primorsky and Khabarovsk territories, the Amur region, the eastern regions of Mongolia, the northern regions of Korea and the entire northern part China. The capital of this vast empire long time was Yanqing (now Beijing). The empire included 72 tribes, the population ranged from 36 to 50 million people, according to various estimates. There were 1200 cities in the empire.

An ancient state of enormous size - white people in the Far East

Jurchen Empire

The Jurchen Empire was based on ancient civilizations, which existed long before “Great China” and possessed the highest technologies for those times: they knew how to produce porcelain, paper, bronze mirrors and gunpowder, and also possessed mysterious occult knowledge. Bronze mirrors, which were made in the Jurchen Empire, are found by archaeologists in the territory from Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea. In other words, the Jurchens used these achievements much earlier than the Chinese “discovered” them. In addition, the inhabitants of the empire used runic writing, which orthodox science is not able to decipher.

However, the empire received all these technological achievements from previous states that were located on its territory much earlier. The most mysterious of them is the state of Shubi, which is believed to have existed in the 1st-2nd millennium BC. They possessed truly unique knowledge and had underground communications in the form of tunnels with many parts of their empire and neighboring states.

It is quite possible that these underground passages still exist. Moreover, most likely, there are underground tunnels leading to Kuril Islands, Sakhalin and Kamchatka. For example, it is known that the idea of connecting Sakhalin with the mainland through a tunnel was developed at the end of the 19th century, but was not implemented. In 1950, this idea was resurrected by Stalin. On May 5, 1950, the Council of Ministers of the USSR issued a secret decree on the construction of a tunnel and a reserve sea ferry. It is quite possible that the secrecy was caused by the fact that it was planned not to build a tunnel, but only to restore what was built in antiquity. The tunnel was never built. Immediately after Stalin's death, construction was curtailed.

But let's return to Shubi. It was they who invented gunpowder, paper, porcelain and everything else the invention of which is attributed to the Chinese. In addition, they created an amazing system for the distribution of rare plants on the territory of their state. In other words, plants in Primorye not only grew “as God willing,” but they were specially selected, grown and planted. An eloquent witness to this selection is the yew grove on Petrov Island, and at the foot of Mount Pidan several old yew trees have been preserved, which are not found anywhere else in the region. This feature was noticed by Academician V.L. Komarov, a Russian botanist and geographer, and military topographer and ethnographer V.K. Arsenyev, who explored Primorye in 1902-1907 and 1908-1910, discovered that the boundaries of the Tibeto-Manchu flora coincided with the boundaries of the bygone Shubi civilization.

In addition, V.K. Arsenyev found and excavated numerous regular-shaped cities and stone roads in the taiga on the Dadianshan plateau. All this eloquently testifies to the scale of the bygone civilization. Remains of stone roads are still preserved in the coastal taiga. Apart from these fragments of material culture, very, very little information about the Shubi civilization has reached us; they are mostly of a legendary nature. Bohai legends also called the state of Shubi the Land of Magic Mirrors and the Land of Flying People.

Legends also claim that they all went to underground city, the entrance to which is at the top big mountains(most likely Mount Pidan) that they made magic mirrors capable of showing the future from some unusual gold. A two-meter statue of the so-called Golden Baba was made from this gold, which was worshiped by both the Bohais and the Jurchens as an ancient idol. Legends tell that this gold was not mined on the territory of Primorye, but it was brought through underground passages from the depths of volcanoes. When the cities of the Shubi country were deserted, and the Bohais and Jurchens went underground to the kingdom of the Shubi birds, they took with them “forty carts loaded to the brim with gold,” and this gold also disappeared.

Interesting information about mysterious mirrors is provided by the modern writer, traveler and researcher Vsevolod Karinberg in his essay “The Mystery of “Magic” Mirrors or the Matrix”:

“In Chinese paintings depicting celestial beings traveling through the clouds and tops of mythical mountains, you often see “magic” mirrors in their hands. “Magic mirrors” already existed in the 5th century, but the book “The History of Ancient Mirrors,” which described how they were made, was lost in the 8th century. The convex reflective side is cast from light bronze, polished to a shine and coated with mercury amalgam. In different lighting conditions, if you hold the mirror in your hand, it is no different from normal. However, under bright sunlight, you can “look through” through its reflective surface and see patterns and hieroglyphs on the reverse side. In some mysterious way, massive bronze becomes transparent. Shen Gua in the book “Reflections on the Lake of Dreams” in 1086 wrote: “There are “mirrors that transmit light” on back side which contain about twenty ancient hieroglyphs that cannot be deciphered, they “appear” on the front side and are reflected on the wall of the house, where they can be clearly seen. They are all similar to each other, they are all very ancient, and they all let in light...”

So what are these ancient hieroglyphs that, already in the 11th century, could not be deciphered by a Chinese scientist? Chinese sources speak of a letter from the Bohai ruler, written in characters incomprehensible to the Chinese, reminiscent of paw prints of animals and birds. Moreover, this letter is not readable in any of the languages of the Tungus-Manchu group, which includes the Bohais and Jurchens. Therefore, they hastened to call this language unreadable and dead.

We know another language - the Etruscan language, which was also “unreadable” until recently, until they tried to read it in Russian. The same thing happened with the hieroglyphs, or rather runes, of the flying people from the Shubi Empire. They were read. And they read it in Russian. See the works of V. Yurkovets “We will remember everything” and academician V. Chudinov “On the writing of the Jurchens according to Yurkovets.”

Moreover, we were able to find images of the Jurchen emperors. Or rather, not images, but busts that are exhibited today in Chinese city Harbin, in a museum called the Museum of the First Jin Capital.

Jurchen Emperor Taizu, Wanyan Aguda (1068-1123).

Jurchen Emperor Taizong, Wanyan Wuqimai (1075-1135).

Jurchen Emperor Xizong, Wanyan Hela (1119-1149).

Jurchen Emperor Hai Ling Wang, Wanyan Liang (1122-1161).

Jurchen mirror with swastikas.

The photographs show busts of: the first Jurchen emperor Taizu, Wanyan Aguda (1115-1123), the second Jurchen emperor Taizong, Wanyan Wuqimai (1123-1135) - the younger brother of the previous emperor; the third Jurchen emperor Xizong, Wanyan Hela (1135-1149) and the fourth Jurchen emperor Hai Ling Wang, Wanyan Liang (1149-1161).

Pay attention to the racial traits of the emperors. These are people of the white race. In addition, the last picture shows an exhibit from the excavations of the Shaiginsky settlement, which is 70 km away. north of the city of Nakhodka - a unique monument of Jurchen culture in the Primorsky Territory. This mirror was discovered in 1891, and in 1963 excavations of this monument began, which continued until 1992. As we can see, it depicts a swastika - the solar symbol of the Slavic-Aryans.

Even at the beginning of the 20th century, something was known about the Jurchen civilization, magic mirrors showing the future and other artifacts of this empire. And this is not surprising, because the territory of Primorye was part of the Great Tartaria - the huge empire of the White Race, which at one time occupied the territory of all of Eurasia. Europeans knew about its existence back in the 17th century, despite the fact that Europe was already completely torn away from it and began writing its own “unfair” history.

In 1653, “Atlas of Asia” by Nicholas Sanson, who talked about the easternmost part of Tartary - Cathai. Not to be confused with China, which is medieval maps designated China or Cina and located south of Cathay. It was Cathay, not China, that Marco Polo visited in the 13th century. It was his descriptions that served as the basis for plotting the farthest eastern territories of Eurasia on a 15th-century map created by the Venetian monk Fra Mauro in 1459. Thanks to this map, you can see cities completely unknown to modern historical science. The peculiarity of this map is the fact that north is at the bottom and south is at the top. Interactive map can be viewed here - http://www.bl.uk/magnificentmaps/map2.html. It also shows states unknown to today's historical science that were part of Cathay: Tangut and Tenduk.

In 1659, the "World History" of Dionysius Petavius, which described the rich and developed Tartar state of Cathai, which had long been called Scythia, which did not include the Himalayas. Like N. Sanson, he mentions the states included in Cathay: Tangut, Tenduc, Camul, Tainfur and Tibet. Unfortunately, these names, except for the last one, do not tell us anything today.

In 1676 in Paris, “World Geography” by Duval Dubville, which contained a description of the main countries of the world, among which several Tartaries occupied a significant place. Among them was “Kim(n) Tartaria - this is one of the names used to call Cathai, which is the most big state Tartary, for it is heavily populated, full of rich and beautiful cities.”

This section of our site contains an Italian map of China from 1682 by Giacomo Cantelli and Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, which shows the possessions of the Jurchens: Tangut, Tenduk, the kingdom of the Nivkhs, which are called the Kin Tartars or Golden Tartars (remember , that the Jurchen empire is called Golden) and the kingdom of Yupi (the kingdom of the Tartars, who dressed in fish skin).

Mappa mundi Fra Mauro.

Giacomo Cantelli 1682

Map of Tartary and Korea, Paris, 1780

Map of Chinese and Independent Tartary, 1806

Map of geopolitical divisions of Asia, 1871

After the defeat of Great Tartaria in the war of 1773, which was given the name “Pugachev’s Rebellion,” the memory of this empire began to be carefully erased, but this was not immediately possible. On maps of the 18th and sometimes 19th centuries, it, or its provinces, were still reflected, including the Far East. For example, we look at maps: Tartary and Korea, Paris, 1780, by the French naval engineer M. Bonne, Chinese and Independent Tartary, 1806 by John Curry, geopolitical division of Asia, 1871 by the British cartographer Samuel Mitchell.

Let's return to the Jurchen empire and their magic mirrors. There is information that they were found by Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalsky (1839-1888), an officer of the General Staff. He made 5 expeditions to the Ussuri region, the lands of which by that time had been annexed by the Romanov Empire, and Central Asia. Based on the results of expeditions in the Amur region, the monumental work “Journey to the Ussuri Region” and “On the Foreign Population in the Southern Part of the Amur Region” was written. In St. Petersburg, at the Department of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences, his field notes about the Ussuri region are kept, as well as a list of materials he transferred to the Russian Museum.

N.M. Przhevalsky.

These materials include a collection of bronze mirrors. According to legend, among these mirrors there is a magic mirror that shows the future, and into which great traveler looked in while setting off on his last expedition to Tibet. He intended to cross the Tien Shan Mountains and the Tarim Basin from north to south, explore the northwestern part of Tibet, and then visit the city of Lhasa. However, in the mirror he saw that he would not return back. And indeed, on the border with Tibet, Przhevalsky suddenly fell ill, as they say, either from drinking raw water, or from sweating while hunting and catching a cold, or from typhoid fever. However, there is another version - poisoning. The fact is that the expedition of an officer of the Russian General Staff aroused fears both in the Chinese government and among the British, who were at odds with Tibet, and suspected a secret political mission on the part of the Russian government in the expedition.

After each Przhevalsky expedition at the Academy of Sciences and in the Russian geographical society Exhibitions of the richest material that he brought to the capital were regularly organized - hundreds of stuffed animals, skins of wild animals, an endless number of herbariums and material artifacts, for example, magic mirrors, which he purposefully searched for, like the Golden Woman of the Jurchens. By the way, he so insistently wanted to go to Tibet, also because he believed that the main Jurchen artifacts were taken there. He didn’t find the woman, but he brought a mirror. At the beginning of 1887, the Museum of the Academy of Sciences hosted an exhibition of Przhevalsky’s collections, which was visited by Emperor Alexander III. He was very interested in the Magic Mirror. Przhevalsky told him that he saw his death in the mirror during a trip to Tibet. The Emperor looked into the mirror, after which he ordered the mirrors to be removed from the exhibition.

The son of Alexander III, Nicholas II, was also interested in the mystery of the magic mirror. He met with another outstanding researcher of Primorye, military topographer Vladimir Klavdievich Arsenyev, who, after an expedition around the region in 1910, also organized an exhibition of artifacts. Arsenyev told the emperor not only about magic mirrors, but also about a special type of gold, about the Golden Baba, and showed rock samples that he brought from the expedition.

VC. Arsenyev.

What was this special type of gold? Let us turn again to the text by Vsevolod Karinberg “The Mystery of the “Magic” Mirrors or the Matrix”:

“In the Academic Town of Novosibirsk, Professor Ershov at the Institute of Programming and Informatics conducted research on the problem of Chinese mirrors. And it seems that something has become clearer for them, if all the conclusions were suddenly classified. Research was also carried out in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) at the Electro-Mechanical Institute under the leadership of Zhores Alferov. They showed that the bronze alloy from which the mirror is made contains, in addition to copper, tin, and zinc, also rare earth elements of groups 6 and 7: rhenium, iridium. The alloy contains nickel, gold, mercury, silver, platinum, palladium, as well as radioactive elements - impurities of thorium, actinium, uranium.

And the special light bronze of the front surface of the mirror is for something large quantities contains phosphorus. It is assumed that when sunlight hits the mirror, the alloy is excited and its radioactive radiation causes the front mirror surface to glow in certain places. There is one more trick in these mirrors - a spiral winding of multilayer metal tapes on the handle. There is a hypothesis that through this handle, human bioenergy is transferred to the mirror. And that is why someone is able to simply activate the mirror, and someone is able to see pictures of the future in it.

The symbols on the back surface of the mirror act on the human psyche, and it is they that allow you to tune in to the pictures of the subtle world. The combination of rare elements in the alloy, inherent in Chinese mirrors, is found in only one mine. In 1985 on the island. In Kunashir, in the former closed zone of the Japanese Imperial Reserve on the Zolotaya River, next to the Tyatya volcano, adits were discovered where the Japanese mined gold throughout the war, moreover, ore, chemically bound, and not alluvial, which is why no one knew about it.

And here we again come to the mystery of Bohai gold. According to legend, when going underground, the Bohai people took with them “forty carts loaded to the brim with gold.” The largest gold bar was Golden woman- a sculpture about two meters high. Both Shubi gold and Bohai gold were not mined in the territory of modern Primorye. Gold was brought through underground passages from the underground country of Shubi, from the depths of volcanoes. When the cities of the land of Shubi were deserted, the gold disappeared.

The gold of Shubi, or, if you like, the gold of Bohai, reveals one secret, because of which the researchers of the secrets of magic mirrors, pioneers in Primorye, may have died. No one imagined that there was gold from volcanoes, especially ore. The melt squeezes out through basalt rocks, in some “pockets” up to 1200 grams per cubic meter of soil. Inside the volcanoes there is silver, platinum and rare earth elements, which are very rare in nature. Gold! This is what the world power Japan fought for. Underground passages, leading to the gold volcanic developments of the Kuril Islands, Sakhalin, Kamchatka, quite possibly, exist to this day ... "

History is a funny thing. Let's say you don't have the means to document everything that's going on around you, but it looks like you're back in the Middle Ages... You're actually in the prehistoric period. Prehistory pretty much means "the time before the existence of writing" - about 6,000 years ago and earlier.

Ancient history implies the presence of prehistoric monuments, lost cities, unimaginable technologies. She is proof of these old times without Wi-Fi and all the technological delights of modern times. We may not know everything about this time, but the fact that these seven ancient civilizations actually existed is nothing more than speculation.

Curious Ancient Devices

Two ancient artifacts, the Nimrud lens and the world-famous Antikythera mechanism, are proof that our predecessors were much smarter than we could have imagined.

The Nimrud lens is currently the oldest known human-made lens and is said to be part of an ancient Babylonian telescope.

The Antikythera mechanism (200 BC) was used to predict celestial events. With its help, they observed the movement of the Moon, planets and our Sun. What civilization created these two marvelous inventions we will likely never know, but the fact that someone 3,000 years ago created and used an actual lens is incredible.

Longyou Caves

Around 500-800. BC e. someone decided to carve out these mysterious twenty-four caves in China. Undoubtedly, the participation of many people is assumed, but who knows whether this actually happened. Perhaps it was magic! In any case, the Chinese call the Longyu Caves the ninth wonder ancient world, and until now these caves are shrouded in complete mystery. The carvings inside the caves show a specific pattern that is believed to carry symbolic meaning.

Stone Age tunnels

Beneath the Neolithic settlements scattered across Europe, archaeologists have discovered a huge network of tunnels running deep underground. Most tunnels that have survived 12,000 years of impact weather conditions, irrigation and other possible destructive factors, extend up to almost 700 m in Germany to 350 m in Austria.

Imagine how big the network is that has survived all these millennia. Although the tunnels are not all connected, scientists believe they were used by people to travel safely.

Pumapunku and Tiunaku

Meanwhile on the other side globe, in South America, the people of the ancient Inca city of Tiwanaku created Pumapunku. These massive stones do not have a single tool mark, but they fit together almost without problems.

This ancient city also had an irrigation system, sewer lines and even water mechanisms. Interestingly, 15,000 years ago the Egyptians all lived in the sand. Unfortunately, no records have been preserved about the people living here, their culture, stone processing methods and construction technologies. This is a shrouded secret.

Metal clamps

Even a monkey could figure out how to use these metal clamps. But everything is not as simple as it seems at first glance. First you would have to mine the metal, melt it, and then somehow pour it into shapes in the holes of the stones. But how was this achieved if the builders of 12,000-15,000 years ago did not have portable factories? From the outside it looks like a caveman is running with a samurai sword. The technology should not have existed in those days, but the proof of the impossible is there.

Ancient Egypt is full incredible secrets. Whether great pyramid Is Giza really the tomb of the pharaoh? How old is the sphinx? Could these two structures and many other Egyptian structures be built by a lost civilization some 10,000 years ago?

The simple answer to all these questions is: “We don’t know anything, but wouldn’t it be surprising if it became true?”

Göbekli Tepe

Finally, a temple complex in southeastern Turkey should be noted. The structure dates back to the end of the last Ice Age (12,000 years ago), and it is curious that no Paleolithic civilization had the technology and skills to create a structure of this level of complexity.

History shows that the tribes living in this area consisted of hunters and gatherers, and ancient people could not have built these 20 circular structures and giant pillars up to 5.5 meters high and weighing about 15 tons each. There's clearly something wrong here, but we can't prove or disprove anything.

Architectural artifacts that have survived to this day give reason to believe that many millennia ago there were developed civilizations on our planet that had been forgotten. Our review contains 10 archaeological finds, the mysteries of which still remain unsolved.

1. Ancient devices

Lens of Nimrud from the capital of Assyria.

2. Empire of Rama

Evidence of the ancient Indian empire of Rama.

For a long time it was believed that Indian civilization began only in 500 BC. However, discoveries made in the last century pushed back the origins of Indian civilization by several thousand years.

3. Longue Caves

Longyu Caves in China, built around the 2nd century BC.

4. Nan-Madol

Nan-Madol.

On an artificial archipelago in Micronesia near the island of Pohnpei are the ruins of the ancient prehistoric city of Nan Madol. The city is built on a coral reef made of basalt blocks, the weight of which reaches 50 tons. The city is crossed by many canals and underwater tunnels. Some of its streets are flooded. The scale of this structure can be compared with the Great Wall of China or the Egyptian pyramids. However, there is not a single record of who built the city and when it was built.

5. Stone Age Tunnels

Stone Age tunnels.

From Scotland to Turkey, beneath hundreds of Neolithic settlements, archaeologists have discovered evidence of a vast network of underground tunnels. In Bavaria, some tunnels are up to 700 meters long. The fact that these tunnels have survived for 12,000 years is a testament to the extraordinary skill of the builders and the sheer size of the original network.

6. Puma Punku and Tiwanaku

Megalithic ruins of Puma Punku and Tiwanaku.

7. Metal mount

Metal fastening.

Continuing the conversation about Puma Punku; It is worth noting that at this construction site, as well as at the Coricancha Temple, the ancient city of Ollantaytambo, Yurok Rumi and in ancient Egypt, special metal fastenings were used to hold together huge stones. Archaeologists discovered that the metal was poured into grooves cut into the stones, meaning the builders had portable factories. It is unclear why this technology and other methods of megalith construction were lost.

8. The Riddle of Baalbek

Baalbek in modern Lebanon.

9. Giza Plateau

The Giza Plateau is a mysterious and iconic place.

10. Gobekli Tepe

Temple complex Gobekli Tepe.

Dating from the end of the last Ice Age (12,000 years ago), the temple complex in southeastern Turkey has been called the most important archaeological discovery of modern times. Ancient pottery, writing, the already existing wheel and metallurgy - its construction implies a level of development far beyond the development of Paleolithic civilizations. Göbekli Tepe consists of 20 circular structures (only 4 have been excavated so far) and elaborately carved columns up to 5.5 meters high and weighing up to 15 tons each. No one can say with certainty who created this complex and where its creators got their advanced knowledge of masonry.

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.

Some theorists believe that the Nazca lines represent constellations and correlate with the location of stars. It is also suggested that the geoglyphs must have been viewed from the heavens, with some lines forming runways for alien visitors to Earth.

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 Himalayan mountains. 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.

Sent to Peking University, the Dropa disks (as they were called) were studied for 20 years. Many researchers and scientists tried to decipher the writings engraved on the disks, but they were not successful.

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, the owners of a small gem store set out to collect several specimens. 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.

After conducting research on the artifact and the marine fossils covering the surface, it turned out that the artifact “fossilized” about 500,000 years ago.

However, scientists were in no hurry to analyze the artifact. They were probably afraid to accidentally refute generally accepted theories, stating that we are not the first technologically advanced civilization. Either the planet actually existed popular place from aliens, often 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 over 30 gears of different sizes with triangular teeth that were always counted down to prime numbers. It is believed that if all teeth are proven to be 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.

No other artifacts discovered since this time are advanced. Instead of using a geocentric representation, the mechanism was built on heliocentric principles, which were not common at the time. It seems that the ancient Greeks managed to independently build the world's first analog computer.

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 solar system and technology than we thought before?

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.