We like to feel superior to the people who lived centuries ago, from their slug huts and deaths from simple colds, but we still have to give them credit: They left behind some artifacts that have left amazing questions to modern scientists.Don't you believe us?
5 artifacts and historical discoveries WITHOUT EXPLANATION
1.The Giant Stone Balls of Costa Rica
Throughout Costa Rica and by some surrounding areas are scattered huge stone balls. They are smooth and perfectly spherical, or almost. Some are quite small, a few centimeters in diameter, but others reach up to 2 meters and a half in diameter with a weight of several tons.
They have been chiseled in volcanic stone , almost to the perf equation by unknown people , although Costa Rica did not enter the Bronze Age until 2013 before Christ.These balls are everywhere and they serve no apparent purpose .Some of the balls have been broken, separated by the local population in hopes of finding gold or coffee beans inside.
Some have been rolled around, but others are too heavy to be moved, even with an excavator.
2.Batteries in Baghdad
Baghdad batteries are a series of artifacts found in the area of Mesopotamia dating from the first centuries after Christ.When archaeologists ran into the batteries, they assumed they were just regular old clay pots for storage, but that theory quickly went out the window, since each one contains a copper rod that shows evidence of acid corrosion.
Now, in case you're not the biggest nerd in the school, this means that the pots probably contained a liquid that interacted with the copper and produced an electric charge If this were true, we would be talking about the first known modern batteries.But what were those batteries used for?
Some stone reliefs called the " Dendera light " represent what some believe were electric arc lights, which might have required Baghdad batteries.But nobody is sure.It does not help that the batteries are currently in the Museum of Baghdad, which means that at any time they could jump through the air.
3.The Bloop
In 1997, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recorded a strange sound in the ocean .Strange and loud.So loud that it was picked up by two separate microphones almost 5000km away The sound, nicknamed "The Bloop," does not sound like normal speed.However, the NOAA did us the favor of accelerating the recording to 16 times the normal speed, making it sound like the toilet chain.Bloop!
Scientists determined that their wave pattern indicated that was created by an animal. But the truth is that there are no animals large enough or loud enough to make that kind of noise, so far away.Not long after the NOAA published the sound on its website, and some curious people proposed that the sound be of a dragon or squid killer.What is your bet?
4.The Manuscript
The Voynich manuscript is an ancient book that has frustrated all attempts to decipher its content .And it's not that some idiot simply wrote a lot of nonsense on paper and forget about solving it.
Actually, it's an organized book with a consistent script , discernible organization and detailed illustrations.It seems to be a true language only that nobody has seen it before.And it really seems to mean something.But nobody knows what.There is not even a consensus on who wrote it, or even when it was written.
Military experts, cryptographers, maths, linguists, people who are paid to find and decipher patterns, all have become unable to decipher a single word. Some say which is an unwavering code that requires a key to be solved.
5.The Antikythera Mechanism
The Antikythera mechanism is an old, intricate machine found in a shipwreck near Greece dating back to around 100 BC .The Antikythera mechanism contains gears and structures that were not found in other devices of the time.No one can agree on where the Antikythera mechanism was made or who designed it.The popular belief is that it was made by the Greeks because their instructions are in Greek, but otr The research suggests Sicily.
The mechanism was supposedly used to calculate astronomical positions .The problem is that during the date of its creation nobody had discovered the laws of gravity or how celestial bodies moved.In other words, the Antikythera mechanism seems to have functions that no one lives at that time would have understood, and without any mechanical purpose of that time.
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