The Eiffel Tower was conceived as the entrance arch to an exhibition held in 1889. The exhibition showcased advances in energy and the latest inventions.

The 1900 photo of the tower shows structures that have not survived to this day. At the same time, the structure gave off illumination no worse than in the days of Catherine the Great from "ether" electricity.

Greek fire🔥

A combustible mixture used for military purposes during the Middle Ages. It was first used by the Byzantines in naval battles. The Greek fire apparatus was a copper pipe, a siphon, through which the liquid mixture was spewed out with a rumbling noise. Compressed air was used as the ejecting force, or bellows like forges.
Presumably, the maximum range of the siphons was 25-30 m, so initially Greek fire was used only in the navy, where it was a terrible threat to the slow and clumsy wooden ships of the time. Moreover, according to the testimonies of contemporaries, Greek fire could not be extinguished because it continued to burn even on the surface of the water.

Was the sinking of the Titanic planned in advance?🤔

There is a theory that the Titanic did not sink at all. Robin Gardiner and Dan Van Der Watt, experts in studying the causes of the wreck, put forward the theory that the wreck is the Titanic's twin brother, called the Olympic.

Allegedly, the owners of the ship "Olympic" in 1911 suffered serious losses: their ship collided with another, but the damage was not enough for the insurance payments. Then the owners of the "Olympic" deliberately directed the ship to the area of possible ice and even persuaded the captain not to reduce the speed so that the ship was seriously damaged when it collided with a block of ice, and they got the money.

At first, the version had evidence. The fact is that nothing was found at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean at the site of the disaster that bore the name "Titanic".

What secrets does the Bimini Road hold?

In May 1968, divers discovered thousands of enormous flat limestone blocks in the sea off the coast of Bimini, Bahamas. All of them were neatly stacked, forming a road more than one kilometer long. Agree, nature itself without human intervention could not have created anything like this. Interesting...🤔

Why did they make big doors?

One of the official versions is to make people feel great.

A door on the right is good, but on the left, where is the greatness gone?

Maybe it was much simpler, and people were of different heights?:)

Napoleon was buried without a penis

It is believed that in 1821, during an autopsy, the organ was stolen by a doctor and given to a priest who...

Widely known Egyptian Ankh sign and a picture of a Tesla coil type device with a flat inductor and top mounted inductor.

From this point of view, the Egyptians did not draw abstract symbols of life or power to the gods, but gave very real technical devices in their hands🤔

Unusual stone formations, in the form of spiral columns, were found on the shore of Lake Crowley in California.

What do they remind you of? Foundation piles? Reinforcements? You can see that the formation is not homogeneous, the columns are separate from the rock. You know what the scientists said? It's volcanic ash that melted the ice and that's what it was 🤔

Well, well, that's what we believed...

Did the ancient Peruvians have the technology to soften stone?📜

Archaeologists and scientists are racking their brains as to how the mysterious Sacsayhuaman fortress in Peru was built.
The giant stones used to build this unusual ancient fortress are so heavy that they would have been difficult to transport and install even with modern technology.

According to some researchers, the granite used to build the walls of the fortress in Cusco was exposed to very high temperatures, so that its outer surface became glassy and smooth.
Scientists have concluded that the stones were softened with some kind of high-tech equipment and then each block was ground according to the notches of the adjacent stone, which is why they fit together so tightly🧐

Feodosia earrings - an artifact of the past, which cannot be recreated📜

In 1853, the famous artist I. Aivazovsky organized excavations of burial grounds near Crimea. In one of them was found this unusual artifact 2500 years old. When the earrings were examined by jewelers, it became clear that the artifact was unique. No jeweler in the 19th century was able to recreate it, as the miniaturization and detailing of the product is at the highest level.

With what tool were they created?🤔

A Sumerian statue from the city of Uruk, which existed as early as 3,000 B.C., is now preserved in the Pergamon Museum in Germany. The unique statue, highly unusual, depicts a man inside a sphere with a broken beam🤔

And to the right are the flying machines in the frescoes of the monastery of Vysokie Dečani in Serbia (1350).

The interesting similarity is complemented by a time gap - where are the Sumerians and where are the medieval Serbs? Did someone borrow the idea or did the nations capture what they saw?📜

Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon in 1969 in his famous super-suit. It protected him from radiation, had an air supply, did not overheat, did not overcool and generally spared him the effects of the inhospitable lunar surface (official version).

In 1982, NASA astronauts tested a Gruman lunar lander (it would seem, you have a super-suit, why try something new? But in the 21st century the United States has already admitted that they have no spacesuits - the technology is lost, the specimens are unique, in general - not a fate). The 1982 spacesuit had no life support system of its own, it receives energy and air to breathe from the boarding module (consider that a hose is needed).

The appearance also raises questions. After a modern and maneuverable suit to turn an astronaut into a clumsy and deprived of an independent life-support system, seems like degradation😁

Wikipedia says Greenland has been covered in ice for 18 million years, LiveScience says 1.1 million years. Under each statement are references to studies, theories, and fossils.

And I have a collection of maps and denoscriptions from travelers who, back in the 17th century, assured me that Greenland was covered with snow for only 6 months of the year and made detailed maps of mountain ranges and the canal that crosses the island🤔

During the exodus from Egypt, Moses led the people toward the smoking pillar. For modern man, the "smoking pillar" is called a volcano.

By the way, when a volcano erupts, there is a beautiful and devastating sight - a dirty thunderstorm. "The collision of large electric potentials from negatively charged ash particles and positively charged condensed volcanic gases results in lightning in the ash column." Chile's volcano Calbuco in 2003 produced a similar spectacle.

Ash can cause other problems too - in high concentrations it literally prevents sunlight from penetrating the ash particles, plunging cities into darkness. The eruption of the Bardarbunga volcano in 2014 paralyzed air traffic and the ash cloud turned day into night in some regions.

It appears that Moses successfully used the volcanic eruption to set up the Exodus of the Jews from Egypt under volcanic lightning and ash clouds🤔

In 2015, an international team led by archaeologists from the University of Cincinnati excavated near the ancient city of Pylos in the Peloponnese, in southwestern Greece.
After two weeks of excavation, the remains and a scattering of gemstone jewelry were found in a wooden coffin. The site was dated 1500-1450 B.C.

In the grave was found a small, only 36 mm long, oval-shaped stone. It has been cleaned.
The detail and accuracy of the carved fight scene on such a hard stone is striking.

Did the ancient Greeks have instruments for such fine work? Official science is very uncomfortable with the artifact. It is impossible not to recognize it - it was found in a burial site with a specific date. To recognize it means to rewrite history, because such skills and knowledge should not exist yet🧐

Atomic beer

In 1957, U.S. scientists tested cans of beer and other drinks by placing them 300 meters away from an atomic bomb test explosion. Radiation exposure to the drinks was minimal, and the scientists concluded that they were safe to drink. The taste was a little strange, but not disastrous. Myth?🤔

The Goba meteorite, the largest meteorite found, is located in Namibia☄️

It is believed that the meteorite came to Earth about 80,000 years ago, but was found relatively recently, in 1920, completely by accident. The find is interesting in that there is no crater around the meteorite and it is literally at the surface of the earth. Simply put, a block of iron, weighing 66 tons, fell from the sky at high velocity, leaving no trace of the fall.

When Van Gogh started painting✍️

Vincent van Gogh first picked up a brush when he was in his late thirties, and most of his paintings were painted in the last two years of his life.

I was reminded of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" (upper left picture). It's a funny fairy tale for children, quite famous, and I think most people have heard of it.

Except that it was about 20-25 years ago when I was a kid. Now I see the huge doors, the engravings with the giants, the grand buildings, and it makes me wonder, "Did the author really make this fairy tale up, or was it all real?"

Also in the story there is a line "We thought it best to stick to the old direction, rather than deviate more to the north, as in doing so we could be carried to the northwestern regions of the Great Tataria (!!!) or the Arctic Sea. So, think now...🤔

On the border between Guinea and Mali, a giant sash statue 150 meters high is carved into a granite mountain. The figure, named Dame of Mali, is 1.5 km above the ground, or more precisely, above an abyss.

Geological research has determined the age to be 20,000 years. What Paleolithic civilization had the technology to create statues of such gigantic size and at such a height?🤔

In the writings of Egypt, you can find all sorts of things, such as an analogy with the Indian epic of the vimanas. It turns out that there was a pharaoh to whom the gods gave a flying machine and he flew around the world, crossing the oceans in a few minutes. For the most curious in Egypt, there are even sketches on bas-reliefs💭

I don't even know what fascinates me more - the idea of flying machines thousands of years before our era or the unified folklore of such remote countries.