A map of the lost land of Wales - Welsh Atlantis - may have been found

Plato's account of Atlantis is the best known of its genre, but many cultures have their own legends of lost lands, and their many similarities lend plausibility to the idea. While we have many texts, there are very few ancient pre-Flood maps to help find lands lost to the rains. An example is the legendary lost kingdom of Cantr'r Gwaelod, the 'Lost Land of Wales', which has a beautiful mythical history and several reports of underwater sightings of its remains, but with no maps to pinpoint the land for modern searchers. That changed recently when two explorers studying the earliest surviving complete map of the British Isles discovered a couple of islands that are no longer on modern maps, and which may be the location of Cantr'r Gwaelod. I wonder what will happen next? Will we also be remembered as inhabitants of a lost land?

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How were the fashionable Religious Miniature Samshite figurines made?

These wooden figurines were created during a short period of time between 1500 and 1530 in Flanders or the Netherlands. They are so miniature that we had to use a microscope and X-ray to study them.

Using micro-computer tomography and 3D scans, the researchers found out just how complex these miniature altars really are. The inner layers are connected by hidden joints, which can only be detected by microscopy or X-ray. The individual fragments are attached to one another by tiny connecting pieces.

Much of the manufacturing process still remains unsolved.

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Saw cuts in Peru's Ollantaytambo show that the Indians knew how to saw

Today according to the official version it is considered that Indians did not know how to saw. This hypothesis is confirmed only by the fact that during all archaeological excavations not a single saw was found. What did they leave such marks on the stones with then?

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Is Vesuvius a volcano or a terricone?

Terricones are man-made waste rock dumps. Chemical reactions take place inside them. Excessive pressure inside them also causes an explosion, although it doesn't make them volcanoes.

To anticipate whether you are looking at a volcano or a waste rock, you can look down into the cavity at the top where the explosion or lava flow has occurred. The walls of the basin at the volcano should be melted, covered with liquid lava and the walls of the waste heaps should be composed of crumbly layers.

Vesuvius has no sign of molten lava.

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The Marcus Aurelius Column in Rome dates from 193

Apparently, workers and craftsmen at all times have been known to build something with a hammer and chisel...

Moreover, the details on the column are minuscule, and its preservation is excellent, as if works of art completely ignore water and wind erosion, and about the life span of various rocks they have never heard of.

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John Sevier described a conversation in 1783 with a Cherokee chief, Oconomotas: "The mounds closest to them were created by white men whom the Cherokees had driven from their land. These white men were called "moon-eyes" by the Indians, and were responsible for the creation of the city of Cahokia and Fort Mountain Park, which the Cherokees then took over.

On a tip from the Chiefs, the Moon-Eyes were credited with a connection with the 2,500-year-old Adena barrows.

The chiefs were not mistaken: the mounds did find tall, white, red-haired people who once lived in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North and South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Finding out who the first American landowners were and where they disappeared to is impossible.

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In the west of the Sahara lies the Eye of the Earth.

These enormous circles, drawn by an unknown force, do resemble an eye.

The Rishat structure is the oldest geological formation and one of its rings is about 600 million years old. "The eye is perfectly visible from space and is used as a reference point in orbit.

There are various theories about the nature of the formation. For instance, that it is a crater from a meteorite falling or a place where a huge aircraft landed. But the most scholarly hypothesis is that it is the mouth of an extinct volcano or the result of erosion on a rising section of the earth's crust - only this does not explain the nature of the phenomenon.

What would have to happen to form such a vortex, I wonder, is how strong the explosion would have to be🧐

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The perfect masonry of the megaliths of Monrepo🤔

The official version is that the stones were dragged here by a glacier. Aha! Mounted one on top of the other and bent into a rectangle.

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What techniques were used to create the terracotta army?🤔

Researchers have found that each sculpture was first shaped, then fired, glazed and painted. But researchers have not found any kilns for firing. But the production of 8,000 statues would have required an entire production facility.

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In 2002, the ruins of a town with canals, buildings and detailed decorations were discovered in the Gulf of Cambay at a depth of 20m. The city was explored using sonar, examined by divers and dated 9,500 BC from pieces of carbonised wood. Mesolithic and Paleolithic stone tools, semi-precious stone beads and human remains were recovered from the seabed.

They were dated and slowed down because the known cultures of the time were not capable of building with such magnitude and finesse.

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An ancient ship at the bottom of a lake🤔

In Italy, a large-scale archaeological expedition was carried out on Lake Nemi at the beginning of the 20th century.

A ship 60 metres long and 20 metres wide was discovered. It had marble columns, floors and statues, and ceramic pipes installed to heat the floors.

Amazingly, the hull was triple skinned with lead. And this in 54 AD! Scientists said it was a floating temple😂

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Great Wall of Peru🤔

In 1931, Robert Shippy was able to see from his aeroplane an unknown object, more precisely a long wall and a powerful defensive rampart with a total length of about 80km. The structure was called the Great Wall of Peru.

We can conclude that the ancient peoples of South America could build a huge, technologically complex project. But who and how exactly built the wall is a question for historians. Who, however, demonstratively ignore such an artifact.

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These are the catacombs in Paris

They are many places, many still to be found. There are some in the Sahara Desert too. Deep, far below the sands, there are tunnels at least 5,000 years old. They are carved into the rock and represent a complex system of communications, the total length of which is 1,600 kilometres.

The unknown folk who created this miracle have brought 20 million cubes of rock to the surface of the earth!

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Lemon on a fresco of Pompeii?🤔

A Pompeian fresco depicting fruit on a platter is kept in the National Museum of Rome.

Pompeii died in 79 AD, and lemons were brought to Europe only in the 12th century. Another contradiction

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Interesting facts about the "Middle Ages" period🤔

In 1469 the Latin phrase "media tempestas" first appeared, where "tempestas" means "time of cataclysms". A distinctly unpleasant designation for some preceding events.

In the 16th century the term 'media antiquitas' appears. The period from the 13th to the mid-15th century. The French "antique" and Italian "antico" come from the Latin "antequos" which means "before any event". Before what?

In the 14th century, storms and tempests stopped the navigation of the Atlantic. People started to build dykes and dams en masse in Holland and Moscow. A four-tiered dam was excavated near the Borovitskaya Tower of the Kremlin. Traces of the "Dunkirk transgression" - silt-filled forests and villages - have survived in northern Germany.

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An identical spiral pattern was found in four different cultures🤔

Bolivia and Malta did not conspire to depict 4 spirals on stone stelae, and the Celts and Greeks used it everywhere.

And this in spite of thousands of kilometres. And why does official history deny contact between ancient peoples?

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