Mysterious Archaeological Discoveries that will Blow your Mind
From Aliens to unexplainable Greek instruments, these are some of the Most Mysterious Archaeological Discoveries that will Blow your Mind.
While compiling these mysterious Archaeological Discoveries, I came across an uncountable number of other discoveries as well, and I plan to write about them as well in the future.
This made me realize that archaeology is one of the most exciting and everlasting subjects. Enjoy some of it.
1. Tiny Human or Alien
In 2003, a six-inch tall skeleton with a pointed head was found naturally mummified within the Atacama Desert of Chile. Although many folks have claimed that the skeleton — which had bone density characteristic of a 6-year-old despite its tiny size — was an alien, scientists have since been able to sequence and study its DNA.
Ata, as the feminine mummy is known, seems to be a human being — she was most closely related to indigenous Chileans but also had some European ancestry. Researchers found seven different mutations of her genes that are involved in growth, but they’re unsure which caused her skeletal malformation.
2. Sandby Borg massacre
When archaeologists studying a fifth-century Swedish site found an individual’s skeleton lying on the bottom of a house, they wondered why nobody had buried it. Then they found another. And another. All showed signs of getting been executed with swords, axes, and then abandoned until the walls of their houses collapsed in on them. “It dawned on us that this was actually a massacre,” Clara Alfsdotter, a graduate student at Linnaeus University in Sweden and an archaeologist with the Bohusläns Museum, told the times.
They’ve found the remains of 26 people so far, along with a half-eaten fish (suggesting the attack was a surprise), coins, and jewelry, but they have not found any indication of who the attackers were or what they were mad about inspecting the normal mysteries researchers still can’t explain.
3. Kids with disabilities buried royally
Hunter-gatherers buried several people, including two adolescent boys, at a site called Sunghir a couple of hours east of present-day Moscow 34,000 years ago.
When the graves were excavated, researchers found that the boys — who died at approximately ages 10 and 12, and who both showed signs of disability — were buried together (heads adjacent) with 10,000 mammoth ivory beads, quite 20 armbands, around 300 pierced fox teeth, 16 ivory mammoth spears, carvings, antlers, and human fibulae laid across the chest of each child. Among the adults, on the other hand, some graves had no treasures, and some had only a few.
4. Hidden treasures
Just like his dad before him, Utah rancher Waldo Wilcox and his entire family kept mum about the normal pit houses, prehistoric rock lines, paintings, and stone tools that were everywhere on their 4,000-acre property called Range Creek.
The artifacts had been left by a mysterious tribe called the Fremont Indians that lived within the world 1,000 years ago, and they remained mostly undisturbed, due to the Wilcox’s gates and “road closed” signs, erected to discourage hunters.
When Waldo decided he was too old to manage the ranch, he sold the property to the Bureau of Land Management and it’s now being overseen by the Utah Museum of explanation. These are some forbidden places nobody will ever be allowed to travel to.
5. Gobekli Tepe
More than 11,000 years ago, at the top of the Stone Age, hunter-gatherers remained nomadic; that they’d not yet settled right all the way down to the agricultural lifestyle which formed the concept of our cities and towns today.
However, this archaeological site in Turkey has cast doubt on the timeline, because it’s large pillars with animal carvings, stone rings, and tons of rectangular rooms. It would be the oldest known architecture on the planet, and plenty of researchers think it’s getting to be a spiritual complex. Determine the strangest unsolved mysteries of planet Earth.
6. Medieval maternity
About 1,300 years ago, a woman within the Italian town of Imola died just a couple of weeks before she could give birth.
Archaeologists discovered the skeleton of her fetus between her legs, making her an example of a rarely observed “coffin birth” — gases build up inside the body of a pregnant woman and push the fetus through the passage.
But scientists are more interested in another unusual finding: someone had created a little hole within the mother’s skull before she died.
Drilling such a hole was called trepanation, and it has been performed throughout history to treat head injuries, headaches, and possibly to urge obviate evil spirits.
During this case, researchers wonder if she was suffering from preeclampsia or eclampsia — pregnancy-related conditions involving very high sign and possibly seizures.
7. Terracotta warriors
When laborers digging a well in China in 1974 discovered a life-size statue of a soldier, they knew it had been something special, but that they’d no idea what else lay below the surface. Archaeologists started excavating and now they think there are as many as 8,000 clay statues. Most are warriors, each with its own countenance and weapons, and there are full-size terracotta horses and chariots too.
The project was created as a mausoleum for the primary emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang Di, who took the throne in 246 B.C. Qin is buried in a tomb at the placement that hasn’t yet been excavated because of concerns about its stability, but explorations around the fringe of it have uncovered statues of dancers and acrobats. These archaeological treasures are among the foremost mysteries on Earth.
8. The Antikythera mechanism
A Greek ship sank off the coast of the island of Antikythera about 2,000 years ago and sat on the ocean floor until it had been discovered in 1900. As archaeologists sorted out the artifacts that were retrieved from the wreck, they found an object they didn’t know what to create — it had multiple layers of brass gears precisely fitting together and made into a wooden box. A half-century later, a science historian discovered that it could predict the positions of the planets and stars within the sky by date.
Since that time, researchers have found Greek text on the artifact that showed it could also predict eclipses, moon phases, and a countdown to sporting events, such as the Olympics. These accidental discoveries were put to good use.
Just imagine how the archaeologist must have felt when they discovered these mysterious discoveries. I get extremely excited when I read about such mysteries and often end up spending most of my time reading about them.
One thing I have noticed is that no matter how much time I spend, there is always another theory about them by someone that blows my mind.
If you love such mysteries as well, then please let me know what you think about these discoveries and what are your personal theories or thoughts about them, by responding to this story. I would love to have a discussion on this subject.
Note: While compiling these mysteries, I have used some texts and images from other sources but tried my best to use my own word.
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