China: Disappearance
of the Sanxingdui People
What makes archaeology such and
adventure is that sometimes you don’t need to be a professional to do it. In
1929, a man repairing a sewage ditch in China’s Sichuan province came across a
treasure trove of jade and stone artifacts, dating back to the Bronze Age. When
experts go their hands on it, they couldn’t figure out where they came from.
Later studies have determined
that these might have been relics of the Sanxingdui civilization, a culture
that collapsed between 3,000 and 2,800 years ago. They supposedly inhabited a
walled city on the Minjiang River, then one day, just left, burying all of
their treasure in pits.
Bolivia: Tiwanaku and Puma Punku
This is one hell of a strange archaeological
site, that has got a lot of people scratching their heads. The monument is
comprised of stone blocks that weigh hundreds of tons, and dates back to 536AD.
According to the Incan inscriptions, this is supposedly where the world began,
and scientifically, that’s the only answer that makes sense. No one is sure how
the blocks were transported, and as they show no chisel marks, no one is sure
how they were carved and shaped.
When we, with all of our tech,
can’t get lines this clean and straight, and need massive machines to move our
heavy loads, how did the Inca do it 1,500 years ago? I’m going to go with the
Inca and say: Alien Gods.
India: The Iron Pillar of Delhi
In the Qutb complex, within
Delhi, is a 7 meter tall column. This giant pillar was thought to have
originally come from a monarch in northern India back in 402 CE, but no one
really knows for sure. What they do know is that it’s made completely of iron,
but in over 1,600 years, it’s never shown a speck of rust.
Some scientists say its on
account of the mild climate in Delhi, while others think that it’s the absence
of sulphur and manganese in the make up. What’s also a head-scratcher is that
no one knows how the column was forge-welded to even make it.
Turin: The Shroud of Turin
Not every ancient mystery is a
structure. Sometimes, relics are left behind that have no explanation other
than the supernatural. This is one of them. The Shroud of Turin is a piece of
linen that’s roughly 14ft x 3ft and it bears a faded image of a man that might
just be Jesus Christ. He’s got the crown of thorns, wounds on his hands, feet
and side, and there is the beard. The shroud has been revered as actual proof
of Jesus and worshipped for centuries, until scientists decided to test it.
According to all the tests they use for figuring out age (Carbon dating,
isotopes, etc), the cloth dates back to the Middle Ages. This might seemingly
prove that it’s not the burial shroud of Christ, but there’s a caveat.
No one knows how the image was
placed on there. It’s not paint, or any photographic process and it’s not a
visual trick – there is and image on there. One theological scientist believes
that a miraculous event, such as a resurrection could have generated so much
energy that an image was captured.
All I can think of is that line
from the movie Thor “Magic is science we don’t understand yet.” He might be
onto something.
Levant: The Wheel of Giants
This mysterious structure lives
in the Israeli-occupied part of Golan Heights, Levant. Made up of over 42,000
basalt rocks, it creates a giant wheel that can be seen from space. It dates
back to the Early Bronze Age II period, which is roughly 3000-2700 BCE. In the
centre is a burial mound, but there are no human remains inside.
Archaeologists figure that it
took over 70 years to build and there’s nothing else like it anywhere in the
world, to any guesses to what it is and what it means, is pure speculation.
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