Mankind has always been interested in eternal questions about how many years our civilization has existed, are we alone in the Universe, and what was there before people appeared on Earth? Has anyone thought about how the age of important finds found in archaeological expeditions is determined?

Conventions in dating

There are several methods for determining the dating of historical artifacts that have come down to us, but none of them is accurate. And the radiocarbon method, which is considered the most reliable, has been found to determine the age only for the last two thousand years.

Therefore, many experts argue that the dating known to us is more than conditional, and the scientists of the world have found themselves in a real impasse due to the inability to accurately establish a clear chronology of human development. It is not excluded that the historical facts known to all will have to be considered anew, rewriting many chapters of civilization, which seem to be unshakable truths.

Ignoring evidence that destroys the theory of human evolution

Modern scientists set the boundaries of human evolution in the last few millennia, and before that, according to authoritative researchers, it lasted an indefinite amount of time.

Surprisingly, science ignores recorded archaeological artifacts that do not fit into the history of the development of life on Earth, helping to take a skeptical look at the established theory of chronology.

Let's talk about the amazing finds found in various parts of our planet, causing shock not only for the layman, but also for well-known researchers who do not want to take them into account as not fitting into the established framework.

Man-made products embedded in rocks

Some of the most famous finds are man-made objects that were walled up in a stone monolith, which is several million years old. For example, strange artifacts were found in limestone and coal quarries at the end of the 19th century.

Then in the American press there was a small note about the found gold chain, literally soldered into the rock. According to the most modest assumptions of scientists, the age of the block exceeded 250 million years. And in a scientific journal, an article about a very strange find went almost unnoticed - two halves of a vessel like a modern vase, decorated with flowers, were discovered after an explosion in a quarry. Geologists, who carefully studied the rock in which the mysterious object was located, found that it was about 600 million years old.

Such unusual artifacts, unfortunately, are hushed up by scientists, because they threaten the theory of the origin of a person who could not live at that time. Discovered objects that violate generally accepted truths about evolution are much easier to ignore than to try to explain them from a scientific point of view.

Chandar plate

Unique artifacts appear quite often, but they are not always known to a wide range of the population. One of the latest sensations that surprised all scientists was a huge stone slab found in Bashkiria, called Chandarskaya, on the surface of which a map of the area was relief-drawn. There is no image of modern roads on it, but instead of them incomprehensible sites are carved, later recognized as airfields.

The age of the monolith weighing one ton was so striking that the find was announced as a gift from aliens who wanted to inhabit our planet. In any case, scientists have not received a clear explanation of how the relief outlines of the map of the region appeared on a block whose age is determined at 50 million years.

Denial of a highly developed pracivilization

Skeptics argued furiously with the scientists who defended the version of aliens, explaining all the strange finds with a single hypothesis - the existence of a highly developed civilization that died as a result of some kind of catastrophe, but left a real reminder of itself to the descendants. True, modern science strongly denies such assumptions, breaking the boundaries of the alleged human evolution, declaring such artifacts as fakes or referring to their manufacture by extraterrestrial civilizations.

On this occasion, the physicist and researcher V. Shemshuk even rightly spoke out, entering into a confrontation with modern science: “Many finds - historical artifacts confirming the existence of ancient civilizations, are declared hoaxes or relate to the activities of extraterrestrial beings.”

Strange underground passages

Archaeologists from all over the world have accumulated enough material that does not fit well with the concept of the development of life on Earth. Expeditions are known in Ecuador and Peru, who discovered an ancient labyrinth many kilometers deep underground.

The research of archaeologists was recognized as a real sensation, but at present access to the anomalous territory is prohibited by local authorities who do not want to share the most intimate with the whole world.

Secrets of the labyrinth, laid by highly developed technologies

The leaders of the group believe that they encountered a real one that has not been solved to this day. Having passed a huge network, scientists discovered a huge hall in which there were statues of animals made of real gold, including dinosaurs. In a huge cave resembling a library, ancient manuscripts were kept with the thinnest sheets of metal, on which unknown letters were engraved. In the center of the far room sat a strange figure with a helmet pulled over his eyes, and an unusual capsule with holes in it, resembling a telephone dial, hung around his neck.

It should be noted that there is no reliable evidence, except for the descriptions of archaeologists, and the expedition leaders refused to give the exact location of the labyrinth, worrying about its safety.

Unknown origin of the underground labyrinth

After such unusual confessions about the existence of an amazing underworld other groups went to the area, but only Polish scientists managed to find him and get inside the strange labyrinth. Several boxes with exhibits were taken out, but in the spacious underground halls no golden sculptures and books written in a language unknown to science were found.

However, the main result of all underground research was the confirmation of the existence of a multi-kilometer labyrinth, laid with the help of high technologies, which could not have been applied several millennia ago. It is inexplicable, but true: no one can shed light on the origin of the underground passages, access to which is now closed.

The official "countdown" of the development of civilization is questionable

Few people know about the existence of "forbidden" archeology, the founder of which is M. Kremo. An American anthropologist and researcher has officially stated that, based on the data he has, civilization originated much earlier than official science says.

He mentions geologists during excavations in the Urals, which do not fit into the standard concepts of evolution. Unexplained artifacts were found at a depth of about 12 meters in soil layers, the age of which is set to range from 20 to 100 thousand years. Miniature strange spirals no larger than three millimeters were found in untouched soil layers, which was immediately recorded by the geological authorities in order to avoid further talk about falsification of objects.

Amazing composition of spirals

Ancient artifacts surprised with their composition: the spirals were made of copper, tungsten and molybdenum. The latter is used today to harden steel products, and its melting point is about 2600 degrees.

A logical question arises as to how our ancestors were able to process the smallest parts made in mass production, because they did not have the appropriate special equipment. Many scientists are inclined to believe that even today, with the use of high technologies, it is unrealistic to put the production of millimeter spirals on stream.

At the first glance at small details, an association arises with nanoparticles used in micro-equipment, and some of the developments of our scientists of this kind have not even been completed. It turns out that archaeological artifacts that do not fit into the history of the development of mankind are made at a production facility whose technical level is an order of magnitude higher than the modern one.

Was there a supercivilization?

The discoveries were made by many researchers who admitted that tungsten cannot take a spiral shape on its own, and we are talking about molecular technologies that could not be used by our ancestors.

There is only one answer - the excavations of archaeologists once again stirred up talk that there was a super-civilization before us, possessing powerful knowledge and high technologies.

Newspapers do not write about these findings, and few people know about the research of scientists. However, "forbidden" archeology has plenty of evidence confirming that in prehistoric times superhumans (or aliens) lived on our planet, and the age of mankind is ten times older than it is considered today.

Elongated skulls

World science is afraid of sensations that will cast doubt on the immutable truths about the stages of evolution, trying to hush up inexplicable artifacts. However, some of them, such as elongated skulls, are becoming known.

In Antarctica, archaeologists have discovered human remains that have become a real surprise in the scientific world. On a continent thought to be uninhabited until the modern era, strange, elongated skulls have been found that are upending views of human history. Most likely, they belonged to a mysterious group of people who differed in physical parameters from ordinary members of the race.

Previously, the same skulls were found in Egypt and Peru, which confirms the version of contact between civilizations.

Shigir idol

At the end of the 19th century, an amazing archaeological site, made, according to scientists, in the Mesolithic era. as it was called by scientists, has no analogues in the whole world. The oldest wooden sculpture is well preserved due to the fact that it was in a peat bog, which protected it from decay.

Ancient artifacts of Guatemala

They found a giant head of a man with delicate features and eyes directed to the sky. The appearance of the monument, similar to a white man, was strikingly different from the representatives of the pre-Hispanic civilization.

It is believed that the head also had a body, but nothing can be known for sure, since the statue was used during the revolution as a target for shooting, and all features have been destroyed. The statue is not a fake, but questions about who created it and why remain unanswered for a long time.

A disc that can only be seen under a microscope

In Colombia, a disk made of durable material was discovered, the surface of which shocked all researchers. All the stages of the birth and birth of a person into the world were marked on it. It is inexplicable, but true: the images of the processes are drawn with jewelry accuracy, they can only be seen under a microscope. The “genetic” disk is at least six thousand years old, and it is not clear how such a relief was applied without appropriate instruments.

The strange-looking human heads are different from the usual images, and researchers are wondering what species these people belong to. Archaeological artifacts that do not fit into history raise many questions. It is already clear that our ancestors, the authors of this disk, possessed perfect knowledge, which is evidenced by the application of microscopic drawings.

An aircraft with an unusual wing shape

Colombia is rich in amazing archaeological finds, and one of them, the most famous, was an airplane made of real gold. Its age is about a thousand years. Surprisingly, the shape of the wing of a strange object does not occur naturally in birds. It is not known where our ancestors took the special structure of the aircraft, which seemed very unusual to contemporaries.

Interesting artifacts kept in Colombian museums interested American designers who created the famous supersonic aircraft with the same delta wing as the find.

Ica province stones

Drawings on boulders found in the province of Peru contradict the theory of the origin of mankind. Their age could not be determined, but the first mention of them is known as early as the 15th century.

The volcanic rock, processed to smoothness, is covered with drawings in which people come into contact with dinosaurs, which, according to modern science, is simply impossible.

Shot through the skull of a Neanderthal

Stores archaeological artifacts that do not fit into the history of the development of modern mankind. And one of these incomprehensible objects is the skull. ancient man with a hole from the weapon.

But who could have possessed a gun with gunpowder more than 35 thousand years ago, which was invented much later?

The version of M. Kremo, who spoke about the "forbidden" archeology

All of this kind does not fit into Darwin's coherent theory of evolution. The same one in his book provides convincing evidence that destroys modern ideas about the age of mankind. For more than eight years, the researcher has been discovering unique artifacts, having made his stunning conclusions.

In his opinion, all the finds indicate that the first civilizations originated about six million years ago and lived on Earth beings similar to people. However, scientists hush up all artifacts that contradict the official version.

It is argued that man appeared a hundred thousand years ago, and not earlier. “Only when I am presented with convincing data on how the DNA structure of monkeys changed so that humans eventually appeared, I will believe Darwin. But so far not a single scientist has done this, ”said the American archaeologist.

There is enough evidence in the world confirming the existence of highly developed civilizations before the advent of modern man. So far, these artifacts are carefully hidden, but I want to believe that soon the “forbidden” knowledge will be revealed to everyone and true story humanity will no longer be a secret.

The world is full of strange and mysterious artifacts. Some are almost certainly hoaxes, while others involve real stories. In our review of 10 real-life artifacts, the origin of which scientists cannot explain even today.

1. Sumerian king list

During excavations in Iraq on the territory of ancient Sumer was found manuscript, which lists all the kings of this state. The researchers initially thought that this was an ordinary historical document, but then it turned out that many of the kings are mythological characters. Some rulers who should have been included in the list were missing from it. Others were credited with incredibly long reigns or mythical events associated with them, such as the Sumerian version of the Great Flood and the exploits of Gilgamesh.

2. Codex Gigas (or "Devil's Bible")

The most famous is the ancient manuscript "Code Gigas", better known as " devil's bible". Only 2 people can lift this book, made of 160 skins. Legend has it that the Codex Gigas was written by a monk who, after being sentenced to death, according to which the monk was to be walled up alive, made a deal with the devil. With the help The devil monk wrote the book in one night (moreover, the devil wrote a self-portrait. Strangely enough, the handwriting in the book is surprisingly clear and the same, as if it was really written within a short period of time. However, scientists believe that such a work would take from 5 years (if written without interruption) to 30. The manuscript contains seemingly incompatible texts: the complete Latin Vulgate Bible, the Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius ​​Josephus, the collection of medical works of Hippocrates and Theophilus, the Chronicles of Bohemia by Cosmas of Prague, "Etymological Encyclopedia" by Isidore of Seville, exorcism rites, magic formulas and an illustration of the heavenly city.

3. Easter Island writing

Almost everyone knows about the famous statues of Easter Island, but there are other artifacts associated with this place, the mystery of which has not yet been solved. 24 wooden carved tablets were found that contain a system of symbols. These symbols are called rongorongo", and they are considered an ancient proto-writing form. To date, they have not been able to decipher.

Typically, archaeologists argue that religion, the building of temples, and the development of complex rituals are a by-product of human settlement. This belief was shaken by a discovery in the Urfa plain in southeastern Turkey. Göbekli Tepe temple. Its ruins may be the oldest organized place of worship known to man. The ruins of Göbekli Tepe date back to 9500 BC, meaning the temple was built 5000 years before Stonehenge.

In regions that were once in the sphere of influence of the Roman Empire - from Wales to mediterranean sea- find small strange objects that are named " dodecahedrons". They are hollow stone or bronze objects, 4-12 centimeters in diameter with 12 flat pentagonal faces and holes of various sizes on each side. Small handles protrude from each corner. Twenty-seven theories have been put forward as to what it is, but none of which could not be proven.

Around 6,000 mysterious artifacts have been found in rivers and marshes across Ireland, which have come to be known as the Fulachtai Fia. In the UK, where they are also found, they are called " Burnt mounds". Fulacht fiadh - a mound of soil and stone in the shape of a horseshoe, in the center of which a trough filled with water is dug. Fulachtai Fia, as a rule, are found singly, but sometimes in groups of 2-6. At the same time, there is always a source of water nearby. Why they were built remains a mystery.

7. Big Zayatsky Labyrinth, Russia

Bolshoy Zayatsky Island, which is part of the Solovetsky archipelago in northern Russia, hides another mystery. Back in 3000 BC. not only villages and places of worship were built here, but also irrigation systems. But the most mysterious objects on the island - spiral labyrinths, the largest of which has a diameter of 24 meters. The structures are built from two rows of boulders overgrown with vegetation. What they were used for is unknown.

8. Witch bottles, Europe and the USA

In 2014, archaeologists excavating the site of an ancient battle in Nottinghamshire made a strange discovery: they found a 15-centimeter " witch bottle". Similar vessels were used in Europe and America for black witchcraft in the 1600s - 1700s. They were usually made of ceramic or glass. In total, about 200 such objects were found, and they often contained the remains of needles, nails, nails , hair, and even urine.Witch bottles are believed to have been used to protect the wearer from evil spells and the harmful effects of witches.

9 Ubaid Lizard Figurines, Iraq

Strange things are found in Iraq Ubaid figurines. They depict lizard-like and snake-like people in various poses. All figurines have abnormally elongated heads and almond-shaped eyes. Many of these figurines are found in human burials and are therefore believed to mark some form of status.

10 Rat King

Several museums around the world contain strange once-living exhibits of a legendary beast from the Middle Ages called " rat king". The rat king is formed when several rats intertwine or grow together with their tails. As a result, a kind of "nest" of rats appears, the muzzles of which are directed outward, and in the center a knot of tails. The largest of these artifacts contains 32 rats. Today, such mummified objects are found, but not a single living such anomaly has been found.

Scientists sometimes work on solving many global problems of mankind for decades. We have collected - from medicine to space. Perhaps these solutions will become the technologies of the future.

According to the interpretation of some fundamentalists, the Bible says that God created Adam and Eve several thousand years ago. Science reports that this is just fiction, and that man is a few million years old, and civilizations are tens of thousands of years old. However, could it be that conventional science is as wrong as the biblical stories? Exists a large number of archaeological evidence that the history of life on Earth may be very different from the one that we are told today by geological and anthropological texts.

Consider the following amazing finds:

Corrugated Spheres

Over the past few decades, miners in South Africa dug up mysterious metal balls. These balls of unknown origin are about an inch in diameter, and some of them are engraved with three parallel lines running along the axis of the object. Two types of balls have been found: one consists of a hard bluish metal with white spots, while the other is emptied from the inside and filled with a white spongy substance. Interestingly, the stone in which they were found belongs to the Precambrian period and dates back 2.8 billion years! Who made these spheres and why remains a mystery.

Artifact Koso

While searching for minerals in the mountains of California near Olancha in the winter of 1961, Wallace Lane, Virginia Maxey, and Mike Mikesell found what they thought was a geode—a nice addition to their gem shop. However, after cutting the stone, Mikesell found an object inside that looked like white porcelain. At its center was a shaft of shiny metal. The experts concluded that if it was a geode, it would have taken approximately 500,000 years to form, but the object inside was clearly a piece of human production.

Further examination determined that the porcelain was surrounded by a hexagonal body, and X-rays revealed a tiny spring at one end, similar to a spark plug. As you might have guessed, this artifact is surrounded by some controversy. Some argue that the object was not inside the geode, but was covered in hardened clay.

The find itself was identified by experts as a spark plug from the 1920s. Unfortunately, Koso's artifact has been lost and cannot be thoroughly studied. Is there a natural explanation for this phenomenon? Was it found, as the discoverer claimed, inside the geode? If this is true, how could a 1920s-era spark plug get inside a stone that is 500,000 years old?

Strange metal objects

Sixty-five million years ago there were no humans, let alone anyone who could work with metal. In that case, how does science explain semi-oval metal pipes dug in France from Cretaceous chalk?

In 1885, when a piece of coal was broken, a metal cube was discovered, clearly processed by a craftsman. In 1912, power station workers broke a large piece of coal from which an iron pot fell out. A nail was found in a sandstone block from the Mesozoic era. There are many more such anomalies. How can these findings be explained? There are several options:

Intelligent people existed much earlier than we think
In our history, there is no data about other intelligent beings and civilizations that existed on our Earth
Our dating methods are completely inaccurate, and these rocks, charcoal, and fossils are forming much faster than we think today.

In any case, these examples - and there are many more - should prompt all curious and open-minded scientists to reexamine and rethink the history of life on Earth.

Footprint on granite

This fossil footprint was discovered in a seam of coal in Fisher Canyon, Nevada. According to estimates, the age of this coal is 15 million years!

And lest you think that this is a fossil of some animal, the shape of which resembles the sole of a modern boot, examination of the footprint under a microscope revealed clearly visible traces of a double seam line along the perimeter of the form. The footprint is about a size 13 and the right side of the heel appears to be more worn than the left.

How did the imprint of modern shoes 15 million years ago end up on a substance that later became coal? There are several options:

The trail was left recently and coal is not formed for millions of years (which science does not agree), or ...
Fifteen million years ago, there were people (or something like people for whom we have no historical data) walking around in shoes, or ...
The time travelers traveled back in time and inadvertently left a trail, or...
This is a well thought out gamble.

ancient footprint

Today, such footprints can be seen on any beach or muddy ground. But this footprint - clearly anatomically similar to that of a modern human - is frozen in stone, which is estimated to be about 290 million years old.

The discovery was made in 1987 in New Mexico by paleontologist Jerry McDonald. He also found traces of birds and animals, but found it difficult to explain how this modern trace appeared on the Permian rock, which, according to experts, is 290-248 million years old. According to modern scientific thinking, it was formed long before humans (or even birds and dinosaurs) appeared on this planet.

A 1992 Smithsonian Magazine article on the find noted that paleontologists refer to such anomalies as "problematica". In fact, for scientists they are big problems.

This is the white crow theory: all you have to do to prove that not all ravens are black is just find one white one.

In the same way, to challenge the history of modern man (or perhaps our way of estimating the age of rock strata), we need to find a fossil like this. However, scientists simply shelve such artifacts, call them "problematica" and move on with their adamant beliefs, because reality is too inconvenient.

Is this the right science?

Ancient springs, screws and metal

They are similar to the items that can be found in the scrap box in any workshop.

Obviously, these artifacts were made by someone. However, this set of springs, loops, spirals and other metal objects was found in layers of sedimentary rocks that are one hundred thousand years old! At that time, foundries were not very common.

Thousands of these things - some as small as a thousandth of an inch! - were discovered by gold miners in Ural mountains Russia in the 1990s. Excavated from 3 to 40 feet deep in layers of earth dating back to the Upper Pleistocene period, these mysterious objects may have been created some 20,000 to 100,000 years ago.

Could they be proof of the existence of a long-lost but advanced civilization?

Metal rod in stone

How to explain the fact that the stone was formed around a mysterious metal rod?

Inside the hard black stone found by the stone collector Gillin Wang in China's Mazong Mountains, for unknown reasons, there was a metal rod of unknown origin.

The rod is threaded like a screw, indicating that the item was made, but the fact that it has been in the ground long enough for solid rock to form around it means that it must be millions of years old.

There were suggestions that the stone is a meteorite that fell to Earth from space, that is, the artifact may be of alien origin.

It is noteworthy that this is not the only case of finding metal screws in hard rocks; there are many other examples:

In the early 2000s, a strange stone was found on the outskirts of Moscow, inside of which were two objects similar to screws.
X-ray of another stone found in Russia found eight screws in it!

Williams fork

A man named John Williams said he found the artifact while walking through the remote countryside. He was wearing shorts, and as he passed through the bushes, he looked down to see if he had scratched his legs. It was then that he noticed a strange stone.

The stone itself is ordinary - despite the fact that some manufactured thing is built into it. Whatever it is, it has three metal prongs sticking out of it, like it's some kind of fork.

The location where Williams found the artifact was, he said, “at least 25 feet from the nearest road (which was muddy and barely visible), no urban areas, industrial complexes, power plants, nuclear power plants, airports, or military operations (of which I would know).

The stone consists of natural quartz and feldspar granite, and according to geology, such stones are not formed over decades, which would be required if the anomalous object was made by modern man. According to Williams, the stone was about a hundred thousand years old.

Who in those days could make such an object?

Aluminum artifact from Aiud

This five-pound, eight-inch long piece of solid, nearly pure aluminum would have been found in Romania in 1974. Workers digging a trench along the Mures River found several mastodon bones and this mysterious object, which still baffles scientists.

Apparently manufactured and not naturally occurring, the artifact was sent for analysis, which found the item to be 89 percent aluminum with traces of copper, zinc, lead, cadmium, nickel, and other elements. In this form, aluminum does not exist in nature. It must have been manufactured, but such aluminum was not produced until the 1800s.

If the artifact is of the same age as the bones of the mastodon, this means that it is at least 11 thousand years old, because it was then that the last representatives of the mastodons died out. Analysis of the oxidized layer that covered the artifact determined that it is 300-400 years old - that is, it was created much earlier than the aluminum processing process was invented.

So who made this item? And what was it used for? There are those who immediately suggested the alien origin of the artifact ... however, the facts are still unknown.

It is strange (or maybe not) that the mysterious item was hidden somewhere and today it is not available for public viewing or further research.

Piri Reis Map

This map, rediscovered in a Turkish museum in 1929, is a mystery not only because of its amazing accuracy, but also because of what it depicts.

Drawn on the skin of a gazelle, the Piri Reis map is the only surviving part larger map. It was compiled in the 1500s, according to the inscription on the map itself, from other maps of the three hundredth year. But how is this possible if the map shows:

South America exactly located in relation to Africa
West coasts North Africa and Europe and the east coast of Brazil
Most striking is the partially visible continent far to the South, where we know Antarctica is, although it was not discovered until 1820. Even more mysterious is that it is depicted in detail and without ice, although this land mass has been covered with ice for at least six thousand years.

Today, this artifact is also not available for public viewing.

petrified hammer

Near the city of London, Texas, in 1936, the head and part of the handle of a hammer were found.

The discovery was made by Mr. and Mrs. Khan near Red Bay when they noticed a piece of wood sticking out of a stone. In 1947, their son smashed the stone, revealing the head of a hammer inside.

For archaeologists, this tool presents a difficult task: the calcareous rock in which the artifact is located is estimated to be 110-115 million years old. The wooden handle is petrified like ancient petrified wood, and the hammer head, made of solid iron, is of a comparatively modern type.

The only possible scientific explanation came from John Cole, a researcher at the National Center for Science Education:

In 1985, the scientist wrote:

“The stone is real, and for someone unfamiliar with the geological process, it looks impressive. How could a modern artifact get stuck in Ordovician stone? The answer is that the stone does not belong to the Ordovician period. Minerals in solution can solidify around an object that has fallen into the solution, fallen into a crevice, or simply left on the ground, if the source rock (in this case, reportedly Ordovician) is chemically soluble.

In other words, the dissolved parts of the rock solidified around the modern hammer, which may be a miner's hammer from the 1800s.

And what do you think? A modern hammer...or an ancient civilization's hammer?

Since the time of Darwin, science has more or less managed to fit into the logical framework and explain most of the evolutionary processes that have taken place. Archaeologists, biologists, and many other ... scientists agree, and are sure that already 400 - 250 thousand years ago, the beginnings of the current society flourished on our planet. But archeology, you know, is such an unpredictable science, no, no, and it throws up new finds that do not fit into the generally accepted model neatly folded by scientists. We present 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 of two types: one of bluish metal, monolithic, interspersed with white matter, the other, on the contrary, is hollow, and the cavity is filled with white spongy material. Nobody knows the exact number of spheres, since miners still continue to extract them from a rock near the city of Klerksdorp, located in South Africa.

2 . Drop Stones.

In the mountains of Bayan-Kara-Ula, 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, are like gramophone records. These are stone discs with a hole in the middle and a spiral engraving applied to the surface. Some scientists tend to believe that the disks serve as carriers of information about an extraterrestrial civilization.

In 1901, the Aegean Sea revealed to scientists the mystery of a sunken Roman ship. Among other surviving antiquities, a mysterious mechanical artifact was found, which was made about 2000 years ago. Scientists managed to recreate the most 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 skillfulness of 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 the 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 already flourished and were engaged in creativity in those days when these giants roamed the earth?

In 1936, a strange-looking vessel was found in Baghdad, sealed with a concrete plug. 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 an electrolyte available for that time, it is possible to obtain electricity of 1 V. years older than Alessandro Volta.

6. The oldest "spark plug".

In the mountains of Coso in California, an expedition that was looking for new minerals found a strange artifact, with its appearance and properties, it strongly resembles a “spark plug”. Despite the dilapidation, one can confidently distinguish a ceramic cylinder, inside of which there is a magnetized metal two-millimeter 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!

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

8. Planes, tanks and submarines of Ancient Egypt.

There is no doubt that the Egyptians erected, but could the same inhabitants of Egypt 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, given its initial speed, it could well fly. The fact that in the era of the New Kingdom the Egyptians knew such technical inventions as an airship, a helicopter and a submarine is told on the ceiling of a temple located near Cairo.

SourcePhoto 9A 110-million-year-old human palm print.

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

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 mined from a 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 found in a block of sandstone in one of the Scottish quarries. Its hat was so "grown" into the stone that it was not possible 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 of London, in the state of Texas, when splitting sandstone of the Ordovician period (Paleozoic, 500 million years ago), an iron hammer with the remains of a wooden handle was found. If we discard a person who did not exist at that time, it turns out that trilobites and dinosaurs smelted iron and used it for economic purposes. If we discard stupid mollusks, then we need to somehow explain the finds, for example, such as this one: in 1968, the French Druet and Salfati discovered in the quarries of Saint-Jean-de-Livet, in France, oval-shaped metal pipes, whose age, if dated by the Cretaceous layers, is 65 million years - the era of the last reptiles.

Or this one: in the middle of the 19th century, explosive work was carried out in Massachusetts, and a metal vessel was found among the fragments of stone blocks, which was torn in half by an explosive 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 outlandish vase was kept, belonged to the beginning of the Paleozoic (Cambrian), when life was barely born on earth - 600 million years ago.

It cannot be said that scientists even took water into their mouths: they had to read that a nail and a hammer could fall into a gap and be flooded with soil water, with the formation of dense rock around them over time. Even if the vase failed along with the hammer, but the pipes in the French quarries could not fall into the depths by chance.

11. Iron mug in the corner

It is not known what the scientist would say if, instead of the imprint of an ancient plant, in a coal block, he would find ... an iron mug. Would the coal seam be dated by humans from the Iron Age, or still, the Carboniferous, 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 in America, in South 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 pundits. However, the photograph remains.

The mug had the following document, signed by Frank Kenwood: “In 1912, when I was working at the municipal power plant in the city of Thomas, Oklahoma, I came across a massive block of coal. It was too big and I had to smash it with a hammer. This iron mug fell out of a block, leaving behind a recess in the coal. An eyewitness of how I broke a block and how a mug fell out of it was an employee of the company named Jim Stoll. I managed to find out the origin of coal - it was mined in the mines of Wilburton, in Oklahoma. According to scientists, the coal mined in the mines of Oklahoma is 312 million years old, unless, of course, dating by a circle. Or did man live with trilobites, those shrimp 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 lover of shellfish, William Meister, who in 1968 examined the vicinity of Antelope Spring, in Utah. He split a piece of shale and saw the following picture (in the photo - a split stone).

One can see the imprint of the shoe of the right foot, under which there were two small trilobites. Scientists explain this by the play of nature, and are ready to believe in the discovery only if there is a whole chain of such traces. Meister is not a specialist, but a draftsman who in his spare time searches for antiquities, but his reasoning is sound: the imprint of a shoe was not found on the surface of hardened clay, but after splitting a piece: the chip fell along the imprint, along the border of the compaction caused by the pressure of the shoe. However, they do not 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 on the ancient stone

In 1922, American geologist John Reid conducted a search in the state of Nevada. Unexpectedly for himself, he found a clear imprint of the sole of the shoe on the stone. A photograph of this wonderful find is still preserved.

Also in 1922, an article 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 embarrassment and surprise at the rock under his feet. There was what looked like a human print, but not of a bare foot, but of the sole of a shoe that had turned to stone. The forefoot is gone, but retains the contour of at least two-thirds of the outsole. A well-defined thread ran around the contour, which, as it turned out, attached the welt to the sole. This is how the 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 geologist at Columbia University. Their conclusion was unequivocal: the rock is 200 million years old - the Mesozoic, the Triassic period. However, the imprint itself was recognized, both by these and by all other scientists, as a game of nature. Otherwise, one would have to admit that people in shoes sewn with thread lived with a number of dinosaurs.

In 1993, Philip Reef was the owner of another amazing find. When tunneling 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 retain this temperature for several hours, regardless of the temperature. environment. 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 again acquire their original color. Undoubtedly, the cylinders contain other secrets that have yet to be discovered. According to radiocarbon analysis, the age of these artifacts is about 25 million years.

According to the most common 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 object at Sotheby's in London in 1943. In any case, 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 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 Destiny is, in some ways, technically impossible. Weighing almost 5 kg, and being a perfect copy of a female skull, it has a completeness that would not be possible 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 hinged part separate from the rest of the skull. It has long attracted (and probably will continue to do so to a somewhat lesser extent) specialists from various disciplines.
Mention should also be made of the relentless attribution by a group of esotericists of supernatural powers, such as telekinesis, the emission of an unusual fragrance, 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 hardness of minerals from 0 to 10), the skull could be carved without such hard cutting materials as ruby ​​and diamond.
Studies of the skull, conducted 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 Maya have deliberately designed this type of work, which was scheduled for completion in 3 centuries? We can only say with certainty that the Skull of Destiny is not the only one of its kind.
Several of these items have been found around the world and are made from other quartz-like materials. Among them is a whole jadeite skeleton found in the region of China/Mongolia, made on a smaller scale than a human, according to estimates, approx. in 3500-2200 BC.
There are doubts about the authenticity of many of these artifacts, but there is something that is certain: crystal skulls continue to delight daring scientists.

17. Lycurgus Cup

A Roman goblet made around 1,600 years ago could 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.

The bowl, which is on display at the British Museum in London, used what is now called nanotechnology - the controlled manipulation of materials at the atomic and molecular level. These technologies, according to scientists, can be used in various areas - from diagnosing diseases to detecting bombs at airports.

Scientists managed to solve the mystery of changing the color of the bowl only in 1990, after for long years fruitless attempts. After examining the glass shards under a microscope, the scientists found that the Romans had impregnated it with particles of silver and gold, which they ground into extremely tiny particles - about 50 nanometers in diameter - a thousand times smaller than a crystal of salt.

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

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

The bowl appears to have been used for drinking on exceptional occasions, and according to experts, 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 the one-of-a-kind goblet and fill it with various liquids. Therefore, they were forced to re-create the Lycurgus Cup by applying microscopic particles of gold and silver to the glass. After that, the researchers experimented with various liquids in order to find out how its color would change. A new goblet filled with water, as scientists have found, glows blue, and when filled with oil, it glows bright red.

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 on sandy ground, they illustrate animals and geometric figures.

The images, also represented by lines, are very similar to runways. The Nazca people, who created wonderful drawings, left no record of the purpose of large-scale images. Perhaps because of their prehistoric age, they had not yet discovered the benefits of a written language, or something else was holding 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 realized at that time.

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

Another thing also 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 acceptable explanation other than the involvement of extraterrestrial technology.

GIANT FINGER OF EGYPT.

An artifact 35 centimeters long, according to legend, was discovered in the 1960s in Egypt. The researcher of the unknown Gregor Sporri, having met the owner of the artifact in 1988, paid $ 300 to photograph the finger and take an x-ray. There is even an X-ray image of the finger, as well as a seal of authenticity.

Original photo taken in 1988

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

STONE DISKS OF THE DROPA TRIBE.

According to the history of the artifact, Cho Pu Tei, a professor of archeology (who is a real archaeologist) in Beijing, was on an expedition with students to explore caves deep in the Himalayas. Situated between Tibet and China, a series 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 Tey suggested that they are an undocumented species of mountain gorilla. True, the ritual burial was very embarrassing.

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

Sent to Peking University, the discs of the Dropa tribe (as they are called) have been studied for 20 years. Many researchers and scientists tried to decipher the letters engraved on the discs, which 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 not previously appeared anywhere. The engraving itself was done to such a skillful level that it required a magnifying glass to read. All the results of decryption went to the area of ​​extraterrestrial origin of artifacts.

Tribal Legend: Ancient drops 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, 500,000 YEARS SPARK PLUG.

In 1961, a very strange artifact was discovered in the mountains of Coso, California. Looking for additions to their show, the owners of a small gem shop set out to collect a few pieces. However, they were lucky to find not just a valuable stone or a rare fossil, but a real mechanical artifact of ancient times.

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. Complementing the mystery is an unidentifiable powdery white substance inside.

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

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 for aliens, often repaired on Earth.

THE ANTIKYTERA MECHANISM.

In the past century, divers have been cleaning up ancient Greek treasures at the site of the wreck of the Antikythera ship dating back to 100 BC. Among the artifacts, they found 3 pieces of a mysterious device. The device had bronze triangular prongs and is thought 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 various sizes with triangular teeth, which were always counted down to prime numbers. It is believed that if all teeth are proven to be prime numbers, then they can clear up the astronomical mysteries of the ancient Greeks.

The antikythera mechanism had a knob that allowed the user to enter past and future dates and then calculate the position 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 that the device used colored balls to represent the Sun, Mars and the Moon. Well, 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 unique place for theories about ancient aliens and high technology. In the Central and South America small gold items dating back to 500 AD have been found. era.

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

Artifacts are interesting for their amazing similarity to ordinary planes for us. Archaeologists have designated the finds as zoomorphic, for their resemblance to animals. However, comparing them with birds and fish (having similar characteristics from the point of view of animals) seems to be pulled to the right conclusion. In any case, such a comparison is highly questionable.

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

Crafted to scale yet accurately proportioned, this ancient artifact appears very much like a modern fighter jet. After the re-creation, it was documented that the plane, although not very aerodynamically good, flew wonderfully.

Is it possible that ancient cosmonauts visited us 1000 years ago and left the 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 depiction of birds and bees?

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