The bridge that connected Europe and Africa
The 10th century Arab chronicler Al Masudi described it as follows: "Between Andalusia and Tangier there was a bridge made of large stones over which the flocks walked from the west coast of Andalusia to the north coast of Africa.
The denoscription of the Gibraltar Bridge is supported by modern geological surveys: travelers' records, navigators' maps, etc.
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The 10th century Arab chronicler Al Masudi described it as follows: "Between Andalusia and Tangier there was a bridge made of large stones over which the flocks walked from the west coast of Andalusia to the north coast of Africa.
The denoscription of the Gibraltar Bridge is supported by modern geological surveys: travelers' records, navigators' maps, etc.
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Did mammoths go extinct 10,000 years ago? In October, Naked Science wrote about a study published in Nature. Mammoths on Taimyr survived until 1900 BC, on Wrangel Island until 1700 BC.
Okay, there are no people, large predators on the islands. But scientists at McMaster University in Canada, the British Southampton and the American Museum of Natural History took samples in Canada, showing that mammoths existed as early as 5,000 years ago, that is, when the Pharaohs ruled in Egypt.
They cut the extinction date of the species in half. Shall we wait until they find a living specimen somewhere on the islands?
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Okay, there are no people, large predators on the islands. But scientists at McMaster University in Canada, the British Southampton and the American Museum of Natural History took samples in Canada, showing that mammoths existed as early as 5,000 years ago, that is, when the Pharaohs ruled in Egypt.
They cut the extinction date of the species in half. Shall we wait until they find a living specimen somewhere on the islands?
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The Celestial Disc from Nebra is a bronze artifact with a diameter of 30 cm, created around the 7th century BC.
It is in the Archaeological Museum of Halle, Germany. The disk is covered with a green patina on which the sun, moon and 32 stars, including the Pleiades cluster, are depicted in gold.
The positioning of the stars in relation to each other and to the celestial luminaries is surprisingly precise. The disk even depicts the constellations in terms of proportions. This indicates a very high level of development of people of that period.
There is a feeling that at some point people forgot everything.
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It is in the Archaeological Museum of Halle, Germany. The disk is covered with a green patina on which the sun, moon and 32 stars, including the Pleiades cluster, are depicted in gold.
The positioning of the stars in relation to each other and to the celestial luminaries is surprisingly precise. The disk even depicts the constellations in terms of proportions. This indicates a very high level of development of people of that period.
There is a feeling that at some point people forgot everything.
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One of the mysteries that does not fit into the falsified version of "official" history is the existence of a highly developed Etruscan state, many of whose technologies, as well as their high culture, were adopted by the Romans. And the same Romans are undeservedly attributed to the historians-falsifiers.
And just because the true history of mankind is distorted, a pseudoscientific myth has emerged that Etruscan writing is supposedly "unreadable". This is done on purpose to deny the quite obvious connection of this mysterious people with Slavic culture and writing.
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And just because the true history of mankind is distorted, a pseudoscientific myth has emerged that Etruscan writing is supposedly "unreadable". This is done on purpose to deny the quite obvious connection of this mysterious people with Slavic culture and writing.
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Prayer Nuts.
Very small 3 to 5 cm in diameter. A type of miniature carved woodwork popular in Northern Europe, in the 15th and 16th centuries. "The level of detail in boxnut miniatures is phenomenal; some pieces show the texture of minute details such as feathers on angel wings, dragon scales, figures' clothing trim and jewelry."
It's not easy to do something like this at all, to have the detailing of the little figures and patterns, and to have the walnut and the doors inside the walnut open, all done with quality, it's been 600 years, and the walnuts haven't fallen apart.
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Very small 3 to 5 cm in diameter. A type of miniature carved woodwork popular in Northern Europe, in the 15th and 16th centuries. "The level of detail in boxnut miniatures is phenomenal; some pieces show the texture of minute details such as feathers on angel wings, dragon scales, figures' clothing trim and jewelry."
It's not easy to do something like this at all, to have the detailing of the little figures and patterns, and to have the walnut and the doors inside the walnut open, all done with quality, it's been 600 years, and the walnuts haven't fallen apart.
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The secret technology of ancient architecture.
Thousands of years ago, Mesoamerican civilizations discovered the secret of softening hard rock. The explorer Percival Fawcett (1867 - 1927) recorded the story of the discovery in his journal of a trip to Peru. In an ancient burial site, he discovered a clay bottle filled with a black viscous liquid with a pungent odor.
One of the members of the group decided to get the Indian guide drunk, but he resisted. In the struggle, the bottle was broken and the contents poured out onto a block of basalt. Soon the surface of the rock dissolved to a soft clay that could be molded as desired. Isn't this the secret of the perfectly fitted blocks of the Inca and Mayan pyramids, the subtlety of stone bas-reliefs and marble sculptures?
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Thousands of years ago, Mesoamerican civilizations discovered the secret of softening hard rock. The explorer Percival Fawcett (1867 - 1927) recorded the story of the discovery in his journal of a trip to Peru. In an ancient burial site, he discovered a clay bottle filled with a black viscous liquid with a pungent odor.
One of the members of the group decided to get the Indian guide drunk, but he resisted. In the struggle, the bottle was broken and the contents poured out onto a block of basalt. Soon the surface of the rock dissolved to a soft clay that could be molded as desired. Isn't this the secret of the perfectly fitted blocks of the Inca and Mayan pyramids, the subtlety of stone bas-reliefs and marble sculptures?
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According to legend, the Apostle Andrew on his way from Constantinople to Rome visited Kiev, then Novgorod in the lands of the Slovenes.
It is believed that the journey took place along the Dnieper River, on the way "from the Varangians to the Greeks. But the map shows that such a route is not logical and Andrew spent most of the way away from Rome, and the Dnieper and Volkhov were separated by high, overgrown watersheds through which there were no roads.
But with the historic Kiev on the Danube, the route becomes logical - there was indeed a safe route from Constantinople to Rome along the Danube. Legend mentions the 3 mouths of the Dnieper, but so many mouths just at the Danube (three large ducts in the delta), and the Dnieper only one mouth.
After all, the Kievan Rus originated in another place?
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It is believed that the journey took place along the Dnieper River, on the way "from the Varangians to the Greeks. But the map shows that such a route is not logical and Andrew spent most of the way away from Rome, and the Dnieper and Volkhov were separated by high, overgrown watersheds through which there were no roads.
But with the historic Kiev on the Danube, the route becomes logical - there was indeed a safe route from Constantinople to Rome along the Danube. Legend mentions the 3 mouths of the Dnieper, but so many mouths just at the Danube (three large ducts in the delta), and the Dnieper only one mouth.
After all, the Kievan Rus originated in another place?
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Lalibela Rock Temples, Ethiopia
The pink rock-carved churches of Lalibela are stunningly beautiful, but the 11 monolithic structures are even more striking for their history than their view.
King Lalibela, who ruled in the 12th and 13th centuries, is said to have carved each temple himself (but rumor has it that angels helped him). Although it is more likely that thousands of slaves helped him.
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The pink rock-carved churches of Lalibela are stunningly beautiful, but the 11 monolithic structures are even more striking for their history than their view.
King Lalibela, who ruled in the 12th and 13th centuries, is said to have carved each temple himself (but rumor has it that angels helped him). Although it is more likely that thousands of slaves helped him.
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Giant Bones Discovered
Anthropologist Georges Vacher de Lapouge discovered enormous human bones in 1890 during the excavation of a Bronze Age cemetery in Castelnau. A man with these bones must have been about 3m tall.
The bones were examined by zoologists and paleontologists from the University of Montpellier and were found to belong to a "very high race. A few years later, workers here also dug up skulls up to 61 cm in diameter.
The bones eventually went to the French Academy of Sciences for research, where they were safely lost.
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Anthropologist Georges Vacher de Lapouge discovered enormous human bones in 1890 during the excavation of a Bronze Age cemetery in Castelnau. A man with these bones must have been about 3m tall.
The bones were examined by zoologists and paleontologists from the University of Montpellier and were found to belong to a "very high race. A few years later, workers here also dug up skulls up to 61 cm in diameter.
The bones eventually went to the French Academy of Sciences for research, where they were safely lost.
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1930s car navigation and videophone
"Iter Avto." a device invented in Italy in the 1930s, which was a mechanical design. A paper map was placed in a box and moved according to the speed of the car. Manual scrolling was required for user searches.
1930 - The video telephone is shown to the public for the first time in New York City. The connection established between Bell Laboratories and AT&T allowed the interlocutors not only to hear but also to see each other on tiny black and white screens, and then we can find video telephones among the advertising materials of the 1960s.
It would seem that here are the inventions, you can refine them a little and sell them to people, but after the discoveries were made, scientists were in no hurry to refine them. The navigator was connected to the steering wheel only 50 years after it was invented
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"Iter Avto." a device invented in Italy in the 1930s, which was a mechanical design. A paper map was placed in a box and moved according to the speed of the car. Manual scrolling was required for user searches.
1930 - The video telephone is shown to the public for the first time in New York City. The connection established between Bell Laboratories and AT&T allowed the interlocutors not only to hear but also to see each other on tiny black and white screens, and then we can find video telephones among the advertising materials of the 1960s.
It would seem that here are the inventions, you can refine them a little and sell them to people, but after the discoveries were made, scientists were in no hurry to refine them. The navigator was connected to the steering wheel only 50 years after it was invented
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Klenke's 17th-century atlas, from which the images of the Tartars and Muscovites were taken (look, don't get confused!) is worth looking at not only in scanned form, but also in real size. The page format is 1.75 by 1.9m.
In Pereslavl-Zalessky there is a copy of the Gospel of enormous size. From the photo, I think the size of such books is clear. For people of our stature (and we are told that over the past centuries the population has increased in stature considerably, due to nutrition and comfortable conditions for life), such weight is prohibitive even for weight-lifters, for a gift version they are not worthy, and for their carrying or use special mechanisms are needed. Dozens of similar editions have survived, where even the font is excessive for a person of normal height.
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In Pereslavl-Zalessky there is a copy of the Gospel of enormous size. From the photo, I think the size of such books is clear. For people of our stature (and we are told that over the past centuries the population has increased in stature considerably, due to nutrition and comfortable conditions for life), such weight is prohibitive even for weight-lifters, for a gift version they are not worthy, and for their carrying or use special mechanisms are needed. Dozens of similar editions have survived, where even the font is excessive for a person of normal height.
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