10 Most Mysterious Discoveries That Could Change History

hi everyone it's katrina from dark streaks on mars to a secret collection of burial tombs carved into the side of a mountain here are 10 of the most mysterious [Music] discoveries number 10 strange dark streaks on february 18 2021 nasa's perseverance touched down safely on mars kicking off a new era of exploration there are probably going to be many discoveries from the red planet but for right now scientists are pretty excited about evidence of what scientists believe to be landslides which suggests that mars was once a hospitable place for life and it all comes down to dark streaks found on the planet's surface in a new study published in the journal science advances scientists claim that melting ice is combining with the salty permafrost underneath the ground on mars creating a chemical reaction that causes a sort of liquid slush to flow down the sides of mountains this liquid slush is revealed in dark streaks across the martian surface and even though scientists say that the icy substance is far too salty to host life that probably wasn't always the case janice bishop one of the head researchers at the seti institute says that two to three billion years ago mars would have looked very different all the evidence points to mars being a habitable planet quite similar to earth once upon a time however nobody has any idea what caused the possible habitable mars to turn into such a harsh cold and miserable environment unsuitable for life while mars may look hot it is about 50 million miles further from the sun than earth so it gets much less light and heat thanks to these new dark streaks scientists are saying that the environment beneath the actual surface of the planet was probably habitable for much longer than the surface itself if these dark spots are truly created by saltwater and melting permafrost there could be a much deeper mystery to solve under the surface of mars it might even still contain life the perseverance is on a mission to collect rock samples from the river delta and an ancient lake that might just have the answer what do you think let me know in the comments below number nine tasmanian convicts and japanese samurais in 1889 a small group of australian convicts turned into pirates when they hijacked a british ship in tasmania named the cyprus and then they fled to china the captain of this crew was william shallow and he claimed that he sailed his hijacked ship all the way to ancient japan throughout history there have been no documents that proved his story and so historians have generally disregarded it as just that a story but recently an english teacher living in japan named nick russell made the amazing discovery that the tasmanian convicts really did have an unusual run-in with japanese samurais it all began with nick's curiosity he was living in the township of mugi on shikoku island when he heard about the barbarian ship that had allegedly sailed into the bay back in 1830 only to be fired upon by samurai commanders nick went to the curator of the local archive and inspected the original samurai records from that year what he discovered were detailed watercolor paintings of the tasmanian ship and its crew including a painted image of captain william swallow but it wasn't that simple the original samurai accounts were written in ancient japanese so nick had to go through the painstaking process of translating it into modern japanese and that's when he was able to link a vague incident from australia and a minor incident not very famous in japan the samurai had intercepted the hijacked boat they refused to let any of the crew members on dry land and they fired cannonballs at it until the boat sailed away later on william swallow was arrested sent to london and faced trials of piracy number 8 covid19 neanderthal genes in 2020 researchers claimed to have discovered a neanderthal gene that decreased a person's ability to fight the sars cov2 virus and in 2021 this research was flipped on its head by a project in japan that identified a different group of genes that some humans have inherited from neanderthals which assist the cells in our body to defeat invading viruses these three genes can apparently reduce the risk of developing severe symptoms of covid19 by up to 22 percent this research was done by scientists at the institute of science and technology graduate university in okinawa researchers claim that the interbreeding between modern humans and ancient neanderthals gave us the special covid19 resistant genes about 60 000 years ago so you could have the good or bad covid19 neanderthal genes scientists now believe that ancient neanderthals developed these particular genes probably to fight ancient viruses similar to covid19 and these genes have been passed on down throughout the ages but unfortunately not everyone has them a study claimed that only about half of people living outside of africa are in possession of the gene and about 30 percent of the population of japan still has it number seven mysterious chinese burials archaeologists in china have recently discovered thousands of never-before-seen burials on the side of a cliff this burial ground was used for about a 2000 year period and many interesting historical artifacts have been uncovered so far experts are now saying that these cliffside graves could help to trace the evolution of burial customs in china and offer insights into the mysterious religious beliefs of the country two millennia ago the tombs themselves were discovered in chengdu by the schwan chin innovative science and technology park during construction work in 2015. the tombs were found cut into the face at the top of a cliff with most of the tombs built out of brick some were supported by wood to keep them from collapsing about 6 000 burial spaces have been discovered here so far all of them varying in size and shape the first of the burial sites dates back to the warring states period of around 475 bc earlier than the unification of china under emperor chin chi huang in 221 archaeologists unveiled ceramic figures of humans and animals terracotta pottery glass artifacts coins and even a buddha statue but work is still ongoing at this amazing new archaeological site so it's likely that more revelations will be unveiled in the future number 6. ruins of white island the ruins on white island are pretty creepy between 1840 and the 1930s white island was a major mining source of sulphur and gypsum and even though white island was known to be a volatile volcano capable of causing mass destruction people continued to mine for precious metals and important minerals even after a huge disaster struck in the year 1914 that year part of the volcano's crater wall collapsed triggering a landslide that sent mud and rock gushing into the lake below all 11 sulfur miners on the island at the time were buried alive in the disaster it was a tragic incident with the only survivor being the camp cat named peter the great nobody even knows when it happened since the destruction wasn't noticed for days but even after the tragic deaths of those 10 men mining went on for another 15 years with operations being phased out between 1923 and 1933 then in 1936 the island was purchased by a private owner and since then the haunting remains and broken structures of the deadly white island sulfur mine have been standing abandoned white island tour searched for descendants of the victims in 2014 and had little luck only one known possible connection was found when a man came forward saying that he believes his wife is related to one of the deceased laborers while only three of the men had children it is certainly possible that other relatives are out there but their identities remain unknown number five the world's oldest color scientists have just discovered what they believe is the oldest surviving biological color in the world they found it underneath some ancient rocks buried in the sahara desert the pigments date back 1.1 billion years and they have a bright pink hue ranging from blood red to a deep purple in its concentrated form the pigments are actually fossilized molecules of chlorophyll that australian scientists say were originally produced by sea organisms researchers had to grind rocks into powder to extract the pigment and according to dr ner guaneli the process was quite similar to how a coffee machine works he discovered the pigments after running an organic solvent through the rocks that he had crushed into powder and while you might think that this isn't that amazing and that of course rocks will look pink when crushing a blender that is absolutely incorrect this discovery is similar to finding a fossilized dinosaur with its original skin color still showing these molecules discovered in the sahara desert are still molecules and they are the oldest colored molecules in the world when held up to the light the molecules are neon pink that means that the oldest color on our planet is neon pink number four unexplained radio beam astronomers in 2020 identified a strange radio beam that they still haven't been able to explain it is the most realistic candidate ever for an alien signal researchers working at the breakthrough listen project found the strange beam of radio light being sent to us from our nearest neighboring star system proxima centauri according to the report from new science the researchers who discovered the signal don't have any idea what it is they are saying that it's the closest thing to an alien signal that humans have ever discovered even more likely than the infamous wow signal if you're wondering how exactly they discovered this signal and what it is it happened at the parks observatory in australia while the team examined data from a recent search for stellar flares coming from proxima centauri what they found instead were strange signals that sounded a lot like extraterrestrial beacons there appeared to be some sort of algorithm within the signals that researchers claimed could perhaps be from an intelligent technology something like a satellite there was an additional signal that went on for a full three hours and was concentrated in such a narrow range of wavelength that it almost seemed as if somebody sent a direct beam of information to our planet unfortunately or fortunately some of the researchers say that it could just be some sort of radio interference from technology on earth rather than incidental contact with an alien civilization but then again we simply don't know nobody can decode this radio signal and nobody has any idea what it means and it came from 4.2 light years away near a star that has at least two planets in orbit so for now the mystery continues number three the hand of prell archaeologists in switzerland discovered a strange and baffling artifact inside of an ancient grave a bronze hand that dates back 3500 years is unlike anything ever found before anywhere in europe at this moment researchers don't even know what they're dealing with the hand could have been used as a symbol of power for religious purposes or maybe it was one of the first prosthetics in the world maybe it belonged to the world's first cyborg or it may have just been a decoration affixed to somebody's walking staff the archaeological service of the canton of burn is analyzing the curious object hoping they'll be able to answer everyone's questions what they know so far is that the hand was made around 1500 bc in the middle bronze age of europe if the dating is accurate it would make the hand the oldest bronze sculpture in all of europe even the archaeological service admitted that there is nothing even close to the bronze hand even though they have excavated thousands of bronze age graves nothing even remotely similar has ever been found that makes the hand unique remarkable and highly mysterious now known as the hand of prel it was found near lake beale along with a bronze dagger and a rib bone belonging to a human a man was also discovered buried nearby in a damaged stone tomb so far researchers know almost nothing about this mysterious man but they believe he was probably the owner of the bronze hand number 2. the geeseboro helmet the famous geesboro helmet was discovered in august of 1864 at a place called barnaby grange farm this place is located near what was once a small garrison of roman troops stationed at the very edge of the roman empire it was found by a construction crew folded up and buried deep in a bed of gravel made from a bronze and copper alloy it was likely worn by an ancient roman soldier from the 3rd century even though it was folded it was found in strikingly good condition it wasn't severely corroded and it didn't even have a scratch just a dent where the workers had hit it with a pickaxe it is decorated with the engravings of a trio of ancient roman deities mars minerva and victory with prancing horsemen and embossed flowers the headgear would have also had fitted cheek pieces which seemed to have been lost no other objects related to the helmet have been found nearby and it was also buried pretty far from the nearest roman garrison so what was it doing there one of the prevailing theories is that the helmet had been worn by a man who lived in britain but had fought for the roman military it could be that he brought the helmet home with him after his service ended and then buried it in the middle of nowhere as a type of personal ritual however there is no proof that confirms this theory and today the helmet remains one of the most valuable and mysterious artifacts ever uncovered in the united kingdom number one the khmer empire the khmer empire also known as the angkor empire occupied modern day cambodia between the 9th and 15th centuries its capital angkor was the glory bearing city and at the time was the largest city in the world at its peak the civilization ruled over a vast swath of southeast asia including what are now vietnam thailand and laos the empire begins when the founder jaya varman ii possibly killed his uncle and took the throne and later became a god king under hindu rights the khmer were among the first ancient civilizations to develop a road system including bridges they also built canals hospitals and defensive works like stone walls which made them extremely good at preventing foreign invasions the deeply religious hindu buddhist society was extraordinarily wealthy and mostly self-sufficient regularly seeing bountiful rice harvests satellite imagery shows that between the 11th and 13th century encore was the pre-industrial world's largest urban center angkor wat was part of angkor and is one of the largest and most complex religious monuments ever constructed in history the temple complex is now mostly taken over by nature with large trees growing out of the buildings themselves the khmer empire started to decline noticeably during the 14th century and by the 15th century the civilization dissolved historians are very confused as to why one of the most spectacular places in the world would be abandoned perhaps they were attacked by a rival empire there is evidence the city was attacked and looted by the sukhothai in the 1400s or maybe there were internal power struggles tense relations between elites and rulers civil wars plague and a combination of factors that led to a slow decline historians are still trying to learn what exactly happened to this powerful empire it was lost in the jungle for hundreds of years until it was rediscovered in the 1800s thanks for watching which discovery did you like the most let me know in the comments below and also be sure to let me know what you'd like to see in future videos be sure to hit that subscribe button if you haven't already see you tomorrow bye

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Published: Tue Apr 06 2021