1. Cleopatra's palace of Cleopatra
For more than 2,000 years, there must have been enough legends and myths about the most charismatic queen in history. Until 1996, marine archaeologist Frank. Godio discovered the sunken island of Antiahodos, the queen of Cleopatra, in The East Port of Alexandria.
"Extravagant, distinctive, colourful", Godio describes this underwater palace full of the tragic fate of the last queen of the Ptolemaic dynasty. Godio found not only a basalt bodice statue of Cleopatra and Caesar's son Caesar, but also the site of Antony's suicide: Antony was Cleopatra's last lover and husband, and when his sworn enemy Ottavi captured Alexander, he may have fled to a narrow peninsula. It is said that in 30 BC, Antony drew his sword on this island and the sad Cleopatra shook hands with the cobra in the basket...
Queen Cleopatra in ancient Egyptian frescoes
This Life: The Famous Movie Star Elizabeth. Taylor's appearance in the movie Cleopatra (top), and Cleopatra's head from ancient Roman archaeology (part 2)
2. Where is the city of Atlantis
For more than 2,300 years, this legendary city country has captured the human imagination.
According to legend, the walls and palaces of the city of Atlantis were built of gold and sank in the sea in 11500 BC. This myth can be traced back to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, who first mentioned the city of Atlantis in the Clementias and the Timaeus. According to Plato, it was an earthquake that sank Atlantis into the sea. Plato described this highly developed, wealthy state as "surrounded by separated waters and land"—that is, surrounded by circular canals.
Since then, people keen to study the city of Atlantis have found more than 50 places on Earth that may be the ruins of the city: in the Atlantic Ocean, in the Black Sea, in the Azores, in Santorini and Crete, and even in the North Sea on the German island of Helgoland. At present, people continue to search.
3. Can the crystal head speak?
In 1924, the daughter of a British archaeologist, 17 years old, Anna. Michel-Hutches found the crystal skull in the Mayan city of Lubantum in British Honduras (present-day Belize). It is at least 3600 years old and was hewn from a single piece of crystal. It is the most delicate and unique crystal skull ever found—a jawbone that can move.
According to what is known about the structure of crystal today, this skull could not exist at all: it was made contrary to the natural properties of crystal. Even with the most modern technical means, such a crystal skull cannot be made, because the crystal will break into more than 1,000 pieces during processing. In the early 1970s, HP determined after much research that the crystal head might have been polished for 300 to 800 years to be as precise and smooth as it is today.
So far, a total of 21 crystal heads have been found. Scientists estimate that the crystal skull may have been used as a sacrificial object. The observers repeatedly said that they saw the scene of sacrifice in the crystal skull.
Legends about the Maya also speak of 13 identical crystal heads. If you put them together, they can talk and sing.
4. The mysterious tombstone of the "Temple of Inscriptions" in Palenque
Using what we call the inkblot method, von Deniken interprets the image on the sarcophagus of the Temple of the Mayan Monument of Palenque as an astronaut wearing an antenna and an oxygen mask staring through a telescope, controlling a rocket. Mayan archaeologists tend to interpret this scene in the context of the Mayan cosmology: the king, balanced between life and death, on his journey to the afterlife.
The spectacular inscription temple, the final resting place of Pacal, the ruler of Palenque. The Tomb of Pakar and its famous sarcophagus lid were found at the bottom of a row of steps leading from the top of the pyramid to the inside of the tower.
In 1949, the archaeologist Alberto. Ruth found a step leading to the tomb on the top platform of the "Temple of Inscriptions" in Palenque, Mexico. He found a stone slab 3.8 meters long and 2.2 meters wide with mysterious decorative patterns. For 50 years, experts have argued over the meaning of the motif. Does it show a Mayan teenager on an altar? Is it a person who has been revenged by the giant monster of the original stage? Or a ceres who grows a new life of corn from its neck? Writer Erich. Feng. Deniken even saw an astronaut in it. Only one thing is certain: the deceased in Palenque's tomb was the Mayan Marquis Pacal, who died in the 7th century AD. According to legend, he "exhaled a breath of heat" when he died.
5) Is this "Noah's Ark"?
You're going to build an ark out of cypress wood, and you're going to build cabins inside the boat, and the inside and outside are coated with asphalt. From all flesh and blood creatures, you will bring a pair, one male and one female, into the ark and live with you," and God commanded Noah to build a ship with these words to save his whole family and animals from the flood. After 150 days of heavy water, Noah's Ark docked on Mount Ararat in present-day eastern Turkey.
In 1949, a rare stone formation was discovered while mapping the terrain at a height of 5,000 meters on the northwest wing of Mount Ararat. The formation resembles a hull, and its 183-meter length roughly matches the specifications of Noah's Ark recorded in the Bible. It caused "Ark Fever" in the research community. In the 1980s, amateur archaeologist Ron M. Wyatt studied this phenomenon and proved that it was Noah's Ark based on the large number of lines on the object. Did it form "only" because of the subsidence or was it more involved in what scientists today call "Ararat anomaly"? Now perhaps only photographs from geological satellites can be seen clearly. The myth of the Great Flood continues to circulate.
6. Astrolabe
The astrolabe found in the Mittelberg Mountain near Nebra, Germany, is a bronze disc with a diameter of 32 centimeters, weighing two kilograms, and is 3600 years old. It is worth 15 million euros. Three years ago, two grave robbers discovered the astrolabe and tried to sell it. In February, it was shut down in Basel, Switzerland. Nebra's astrological disk has caused a sensation all over the world. "This unearthed artifact is as important as britain's famous Stonehenge and the pyramids of Egypt," said the German archaeologist Harald. Dr. Mailer said.
The astrolabe was found in a circular enclosure at the summit of the 252-metre-high Mittelberg Mountain. "We don't know if it was the marquis's tomb or the place where the relics were stored," Mailer guessed. For astronomer Wolfhard. For Schlosser, this astrolabe is the oldest representation of the universe. "It is likely that the priests used this astrological disk to predict the next lunar eclipse. He must have been standing on that hillock with this copper plate. Once the Moon is above the Ang Cluster, a lunar eclipse occurs a few days later. "For the past 1,000 years, it is possible that the site of the excavation of this astrological disk in the Mittelberg Mountains may have been used as an astronomical observatory. At present, the astrolabe is already stored in the Saxony-Anhalt State Museum in Halley.