Top 10 Mysterious Discoveries That Could Completely Rewrite History

most of history comes from what gets written down but what we know of our past is only a sliver of everything that happened a great deal of where we came from was never etched into a stone and today has been lost we don't know what's missing from the patchwork of history but every now and then archaeologists find things that don't quite fit with what's been written down we find relics from a society left in a place that should have been a world away from its owners nobody knows for sure how these things got there but they suggest some incredible events that might never have been recorded some of the greatest adventures may have happened to people who never made it home to tell the tale and they might completely change the history of our world number 10 a roman sword in canada on oak island nova scotia a tv crew accidentally stumbled upon the last thing they ever expected to find an ancient roman sword that seems to have been there since ad200 the sword alone is shocking it suggests that a roman might have made it to north america 800 years before the vikings but it's not even the only thing they found other people have stumbled upon other strange things that shouldn't be in canada a crossbow bolt wedged into a tree a roman style burial mound carthaginian coins and even a stone with what appears to be roman riding on it all made about 1 800 years ago it's theorized that a group of roman and carthaginian explorers might have traveled out west about 1 800 years ago they may never have made it home and may have buried their debt on the island explaining why there are roman graves in canada and no record of their trip in rome none of this has been proven yet and the fact that the sword was found by a tv crew instead of archaeologists makes it easy to be a little suspicious still it's a lot of evidence if expert testing backs it up it could change the history of the first europeans to visit the americas number nine chinese oracle bone writing in the united states according to john ruskamp another group made it to the americas thousands of years before the vikings the chinese ruskamp found strange symbols etched into old stones in 82 places around the southern united states every etching follows the same style and none of them match anything made by the local cultures ruskamp however is convinced that they're not just random squiggles he believes that they are messages written in chinese oracle bone script oracle bone is one of the oldest forms of chinese writing which nearly faded out of use entirely around 1046 bc if russ camps theory is right this would mean that these chinese settlers reached north america about three thousand years ago the etchings match up to oracle bone early well one in arizona appears to read set apart for ten years together declaring to return the journey completed to the house of the sun the journey completed together it seems to be a message left behind by explorers in a new world number eight ancient eight bones in ireland at the hill of terra in ireland a body has been carefully laid to rest its bones were given a full royal treatment but they don't look like the bones of a normal king instead the bones look an awful lot like those of an ape it's not even the only set of bones found in ireland another ape skull has been found in county armada that appears to have been there for about 2 300 years nobody knows how these apes got there someone in the ancient world for some reason was taking apes up to ireland and burying them there the apes might have been traded along early routes but there's a fringe theory that takes it in a very different direction an ancient irish legend claims that a group of strangers with magical powers came to ireland on a massive ship and ruled the people from the hill of terra some think that legend was based on a real event and that the people they thought were magic were really a group of egyptians with advanced technology that's a big leap to make just because of some eight bones but there's more evidence than just that dna testing on ancient irish bodies suggests that they have an ancestor from the middle east and not too far from the hill of terra the 3 800 year old remains of a boy have been found wearing what appears to be an egyptian necklace number seven native american legends of white giants in 1857 a native american of the comanche tribe stood in front of a crowd and told them a story innumerable moons ago a race of white men and far more rich and powerful than any white people now living here inhabited a large range of country he said they drove the indians from their homes putting them to the sword and occupying the valleys in which their fathers had dwelt it seemed like a parable of what was happening now but all that changed when what appeared to be a greek medallion and two coins was found in oklahoma after that genealogist donald yates started piecing together the evidence and realized that this wasn't an isolated story the choctaws also had a story about a race of giants with white skin who lived in what is now the state of tennessee and other tribes had some stories that were oddly similar the greek writer strabo wrote about a western continent suggesting that he might have had some knowledge of the americas yates believes that these native stories might not be entirely made up greek explorers may have actually made it to the americas and fought with the people there leaving behind a legacy that grew bigger every time the story was told number six mayan mural showing white-skinned warriors inside the temple of the warriors in chichen itza there are murals depicting a scene that doesn't seem to fit the maya's surroundings the murals show brutal battles fought between a very diverse group of people for pre-columbian mexico some have pale white skin some are pitch black and others are brown on its own that could just be an artistic choice but other evidence supports the theory that different races of people might have fought around modern mexico for one when hernan cortes reached mexico he claimed that the people there hailed him as a returning white lord suggesting that another white person had been there before and the maya left behind a story called the dance of the giants in it a white giant pairs up with a maya and helps them fight off a black giant who's harassing them according to one controversial theory all this really happened the black-skinned giants it's believed were aztecs moving in from the north and the white-skinned giants might be vikings as early as 1789 there was speculation about viking explorers reaching modern mexico one in particular ari marsan was sent off course by a storm while trying to make it to greenland according to the theory marcin may have ended up in mayan territory little after the aztecs and he might have left his mark on their history number five a temple to an egyptian goddess in india on the western coast of india there are the ruins of a temple to the goddess pattony it's not a particularly strange thing to find in india except that there's a secret chamber underneath that's rumored to hold an underground shrine to the egyptian goddess isis the runes are now owned by a hindu temple so nobody's been able to actually check what's underneath them but according to writer chris morgan the idea that it was a secret shrine to an egyptian goddess fitz he believed that an egyptian traveler may have come to india and started a cult dedicated to his own goddess morgan believes that the idea of the goddess pattern he came from this cult he points out some major similarities in the two legends both of which are about women defined by the brutal murder and dismemberment of their husbands he thinks that pattony might be an indian evolution of the concept of isis spread through that shrine a little in the way that egyptian culture influenced hinduism number four the giant village of peru when the spanish first came to peru conquistador pedro cesar de leon recorded everything he could in a book called the chronicles of peru it's full of incredibly detailed and accurate descriptions of the cultures of the natives the conquest by the spanish the details of the environment and strangely a village built by giants sieza de leon recorded a native legend about giants who arrived in boats made of reeds as big as large ships he said from the knee downward their height was as great as the entire height of an ordinary man according to the legend the giants built wells that were beyond the native technology as well as massive villages to accommodate their size later a great fire came down and consumed the giants oddly though cieza de leon claimed to have seen the village and the well built by the giants he said that they were big enough to fit the story he even claimed to have seen a giant skull in a femur and attested that other spaniards saw teeth that must have weighed 0.2 kilograms we don't have these artifacts anymore so we can't confirm it but it's hard to understand why cesar de leon would make up lies to support a native legend it's not clear what he saw was he deceived did he make it up or did the spanish conquistadors really find something in peru that suggested they weren't the first foreign visitors to arrive number three the marcosi ruins in the andes mountains there are strange rocks known as the markawasi ruins they appear to be rocks carved by human beings sculpted to be shaped like human heads one in particular looks almost exactly like a crude copy of the egyptian sphinx it's possible that these rocks took their shape by pure random erosion but there are some people who don't think it's possible the theory that the rocks were deliberately sculpted by an unknown people is out there although it's mostly supported by some pretty off-the-wall theories including stories about aliens and mystical healing powers one of the more popular theories comes from an archaeologist who claims that the site was built by a biblical civilization called the masma who traveled to peru and carved crude imitations of the wonders they'd seen in egypt his theory though comes from having seen it in a dream which is a slightly less than scientific approach to history still even if they weren't built by aliens or by biblical tribes it's not out of the question that someone carved these rocks making them an incredible work of art still without a name for its creator number two the three handbags of heaven there's a strange design that keeps popping up all around the world it shows something that looks like a little handbag usually drawn in groups of three and usually up in the sky and nobody really knows what they mean the oldest one in turkey shows three handbags floating over all of creation it's far from the only one though the same handbags have been seen in art from all around the world including india egypt and even central america it seems to be something that's been passed on from an ancient middle eastern culture which might make it a way to trace where groups of people came from that's why it's interesting that the maori of new zealand used the three handbags too they have a myth about a hero named tane who went up to heaven to get three baskets of knowledge an image that seems strangely similar to the one carved in a rock in turkey it could just be a coincidence but this might be a strong sign that the maori have ancestors who once lived in the middle east long before they moved to new zealand number one the red-headed giants of lovelock cave in 1911 miners working in nevada's lovelock cave were digging through piles of guano when they stumbled upon a massive wealth of ancient indian relics the miners started searching through the relics and found something even more incredible the mummified remains of a 198 centimeter man with red hair the cave soon turned into an archaeological dig site and some incredibly strange things were found inside there were 38 centimeter sandals which appear to have been used by a very large person and a giant handprint that was twice the size of that of a normal man some believe that this backed up the pie youth legend about red-headed freckle-faced cannibals called the sea take as coming onto their land the giants they said came by boats and preyed on them until the paiute managed to chase the giants into a cave and set it on fire the original red-headed mummy has been destroyed making the story impossible to prove and some alternative explanations have been created several people though insist that they saw it firsthand if they're telling the truth it might just mean that the sea takers were a real group of violent european explorers people who tormented the native americans and met their end in nevada

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Published: Sun Oct 11 2020