12 Most Mysterious Archaeological Finds Scientists Still Can't Explain

they say that seeing is believing and perhaps that's true but seeing definitely isn't understanding just because we can see something doesn't mean we truly know what we are looking at this is a common problem encountered by scientists and archaeologists when they find relics of our world's distant past they might know a little about who built it or when it was built but they don't always understand the how or the why all the discoveries in this video left the experts with more questions than answers in 2007 a team of Danish contractors replacing sewage pipes on Sealand Island made a discovery that shook them to their core underneath a building that once belonged to a butcher was a skull at first they thought it was a regular human skull which would have been a disturbing thing to find by accident anyway but upon closer inspection it looked like nothing they'd ever seen before it's way too big to be a regular human skull nor does it conform to the skull of any known animal on earth the skull was taken to the University of Copenhagen for study and experts there worked out that it was around 800 years old but couldn't say what species it came from to make things even more mysterious the pipe it was found inside had been laid less than a century ago the island of Sealand is known as the former base of a cult known as the order of Pegasus like a collection of writers and poets that allegedly included William Shakespeare and Thomas Jefferson as members in the past their duties were said to include guarding and protecting the bones of alien visitors could this be proof that the cult was real if not what else could it possibly be close to the village of Asuka in the Nara Prefecture of Japan you'll find the ancient cateura tomb a sacred place with a very strange set of decorations upon its ceiling every expert who's studied it agrees that it's a map of the night sky including 68 different constellations some of which have stars picked out in gold Leafs as if to indicate that they're more important than the other stars around them there are even sight circles drawn around the map appearing to indicate the movement of the Sun and the earth that would be an impressive achievement for any ancient astronomer but the mystery doesn't stop there it's generally thought that the cateura tomb was created in either the 7th or 8th century why then does the map on the ceiling show the position of the stars as they would have appeared around 400 years earlier than that not only that the stars are in the wrong place this is how the night sky would have appeared from China not Japan it's both out of place and out of time and we have no idea why many of us played with toy cars when we were growing up our parents probably played with toy cars too and so did our grandparents it would be a little stranger to hear that children were playing with toy cars 5000 years ago because the car hadn't been invented yet nevertheless they were this tiny ornate toy chariot made from earthenware was found in so guitar Turkey in 2017 based on its size it's likely that it was intended as a child's toy and as such it's easily the oldest toy car ever found it might even be the oldest toy of any kind ever discovered that honor used to belong to a 4000 year old baby rattle discovered in cult a pay case serie in 2014 but this is one thousand years older it would have been able to roll along flat surfaces with no problem and it was most likely made for the child of an aristocrat a senior politician or possibly even a monarch findings like this remind us that our ancient ancestors may have been more like us than we often imagine whether it's now thousands of years ago or thousands of years in the future children will always need toys to play with you can see our next baffling historical artifact in the Museum of Pergamon in Germany but it came out of the ground in Europe an ancient city and archeological dig site in an area that now belongs to modern Iraq Urich was once a major population center of the Sumerian civilization which existed 5000 years ago they've left behind many strange wonders for us to find but none may be as odd as this sculpture for what reason would they encase a statue of a bearded man inside a heavily decorated sphere had the sphere not been broken open during its many years underground the figurine inside it would be completely invisible is this supposed to symbolize a craft or a travel machine of some kind if it is could there be some truth to the old legend our ancient ancestors used to travel through the skies in machines known as Vimanas plenty of ancient Hindu and Sanskrit texts contain references to such machines and so we shouldn't overlook the possibility that this sculpture represents one of them in action what do you think we don't see much about the dongseong culture in our history books but 3,000 years ago they were an important civilization that ruled an area that's now divided between vietnam and china we don't know much about them but we do know that they had an exceptional talent for decorative design work several examples of their ritual drums have been discovered in the past but they're glassware is even more impressive they appeared to have a fascination with a shape that's similar to the letter C representing it over and over again in an array of different colors and textures of glass but we have no idea why even in smaller pieces we see the C shape perhaps intended to secure the objects onto something else they might even have been earrings but there's no way the larger pieces could have been used in such a fashion could they have been collars to be worn around the neck perhaps but why would you make a collar out of glass the quality of the craft work is incredible the glass is perfectly smooth and rounded despite the fact that the dongseong wouldn't have had any sophisticated tools to create the shapes with the development of aerial photography and sonar imaging has allowed us to see things that were previously hidden from ground level or invisible to the naked eye in the late 1990s these technological advancements allowed us to discover a previously unknown ancient city close to Novosibirsk in the Siberian region of Russia because it was built on the banks of the lake sheekha the previously lost city was named chika Berg as soon as the contours and borders of the settlement had been identified archaeologists and scientists descended on the site to take a closer look what they found was astonishing testing revealed that chicha Borg was built somewhere around 2800 years ago long before any large civilization was known to have existed in Siberia not only that but it appears to have been an ancient utopia large-scale grand palaces were built directly adjacent to the homes of common people as if there were no difference between the two the remains of Europeans and Mongols have also been found at the site seeming to suggest that they lived harmoniously side-by-side who were these people and what happened to them in their city the precise time that human beings as we understand them today first appeared on the planet is one of those fun topics that scientists like to debate among themselves most of their estimates are within a few thousand years of each other none of them would ever suggest that there were humans walking around on earth 200 million years ago and yet here's a 200 million year old shoe print perhaps some of them would like to think again the footprint was found in 1917 and so it's not a secret and it's been studied closely enough to confirm that it was made by a leather shoe that contained stitches and there was a human foot inside that shoe the footprint was found by geologist John T Reid in Fisher Canyon Nevada USA he knew the significance of what he discovered and spent the rest of his life trying to persuade mainstream scientists to take his discovery seriously they never did and they still don't that might be because they know that if they do they're going to have to rewrite the entire timeline of human existence on this planet [Music] while scientists aren't especially keen to take a closer look at that footprint in Nevada they're even less keen on the fuentemayor - a lot of historians the scripts and carvings on the side of the jug make it so significant that it ought to be compared to the famous rosetta stone the official story of the fuentemayors discovery is that a farmer bought it in Bolivia's puma punku-- in 1950 and took it home as a water jug for his pigs at some point he must have realized it might be historically important because by 1975 it was in storage in a museum in la paz experts were curious about the writing on the side of the jug but also cautious of the idea that it might be a fake dr. Clyde winters says it's no fake he says that the text resembles early forms of both Semitic and Sumerian cuneiform and therefore might predate both he also sees similarities between the design here and the designs on the side of the petechiae monolith if he's right it suggests that the ancient Sumerians managed to travel to Peru and we've underestimated them as a civilization while a lot of archaeological finds have to be uncovered or dug out of the ground others are just standing in the open waiting for someone to notice them the gallery wall fits that description it's never been hidden it's been in plain sight in the west of Iran for more than 1500 years but nobody thought to pay it any close attention until recently the wall is huge from one end to another it carries on for over 70 miles and contains over 35 million square feet of stone this was a monumental construction project for somebody but we don't know who much of the wall has now crumbled away but from studying the shape and the construction we can be confident that it once stood ten feet high all the way along its length and it was more than ten feet thick those are the properties you'd want from a strong defensive wall perhaps one large enough to defend a whole kingdom but there was no Kingdom here to defend nothing in the area of the Gowri wall suggests a major civilization ever existed there why would anyone go to such lengths to build a gigantic wall in the middle of nowhere Lake Constance is enormous the vast body of water covers 200 square miles and borders on Austria Germany and Switzerland in the middle of Europe at the bottom of that Lake the secrets of an ancient European culture might be hiding in late 2019 a team of archaeologists working on the swiss side of the lake reported an exciting new discovery a series of human-made stones 15 feet below the surface of the water seemingly arranged there deliberately some 5,500 years ago that would make them the work of a Neolithic culture one that had no problem working with giant chunks of rock up to 8 feet thick it's little wonder that the media are beginning to refer to this site as the swiss stonehenge all of the stones are laying at regular intervals and run perfectly parallel to the shoreline while there's no doubt that humans put the stones there we don't know why they might have been intended to work as a weir or perhaps as signposts for a trade or transportation route more research is required if we're ever to find out for sure in 1737 French geographer Philippe wash de la nouvelle drew up a map of the area between the Antarctic Pole and the Tropic of Capricorn and in the process he did one of two things he either left off a very important detail of an otherwise very detailed map or he revealed that he had knowledge of something nobody else did people are still debating that matter today the map now known simply as the wash map is unique in that it shows Antarctica as it would appear without ice as well as being a traveler Philippe was a theoretical geographer he used various methods such as astronomy the study of the journals of other travelers and his own observations to predict the location and of otherwise unknown areas of land it sounds fanciful but his methods correctly predicted the existence of the Bering Strait and also Alaska it's not thought that he ever went near Antarctica himself and so he'd either have relied upon astronomical observation or the diaries of other travelers to inform the map he drew how did he know what the continent would look like without ice on it in such detail whose maps and journals that he used to come up with the design was he familiar with some ancient maritime civilization whose records have since been lost to time the name of our next artifact is misleading it's called The Dresden codex but it's not German in origin it is in fact a relic of pre-columbian Mexico and was most likely created in or around chichen itza during the 11th century it's a pretty thing to look at but a more detailed study of it might give you cause for concern some of the people who've given the codex their full attention fear that it's a prophecy predicting the date time and nature of the events that will bring about the end of human civilization on planet earth those of a less traumatic nature tend to believe that it's merely an astral chart used to predict solar and lunar eclipses the Codex closely forecasts the movements of astral bodies that would have been visible to the naked eye at the time of its creation including the moon the Sun and Venus of course the people who think that it's just an astral chart will look very silly if the end of the world occurs on the date that the doomsday theory supporters forecast that it will around 80 years from now is the end of the world something you'd really want to be right about though subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications and you will be the first to know when a new video comes out thank you for watching and 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Published: Fri Apr 17 2020