History is a most interesting science, it tells about distant epochs and various events, makes us analyze the facts and confuses scientists. Historical finds are still not uncommon, and some refute the generally accepted versions of the development of human civilization, and force us to put forward new hypotheses. More than once, history has been rewritten, adjusted to fit patterns, and interpreted in a form convenient for the ruling class. It seems that the current level of technology and knowledge allows us to explain the most incredible and strange events. But in the world there is still room for the unknown and inexplicable.

Ancient archaeological finds

The work of archaeologists has repeatedly presented the world with surprises: the found artifacts and household items baffled historians. Their antiquity did not correspond to the official version of the development of mankind. How to explain the presence of iron weapons among savage tribes unfamiliar with metallurgy? What were the objects built for? How could they be built, if even modern technologies are not capable of reproducing similar or simply transporting building materials of the same weight? Get acquainted with some architectural objects around which disputes still do not subside, despite the presence of many articles and scientific theories.

pyramids

The pyramids of the pharaohs of Egypt, well known all over the world, existed already 2600 thousand years BC. (this time is estimated approximately, the exact age has not been established so far). A lot is known about the life of the ancient Egyptian pharaohs, but many questions still remain unanswered. Why does the angle of inclination along the line that can connect all the pyramids exactly match the angle of inclination of Orion's Belt in 10,500 BC? match exactly?

Another inexplicable fact: construction technologies during the reign of the pharaohs do not explain the appearance of such large and majestic buildings. Amazing stories about the curse of the pharaohs raise many questions, but even now it is impossible to fully explain why punishment overtakes everyone who disturbed the peace of the ancient rulers of Egypt.

And one more important and unusual point: the pyramids found on different continents are surprisingly similar to each other. In addition to Egypt, they can be proud of their huge monuments:

• Latin America (Mayan and Aztec pyramids);
• Andes (religious buildings of Norte Chico);
• China (tombs of the rulers of the Zhou and Zhao, Ming, Tang, Qin, Han, Sui dynasties);
• Rome (Pyramid of Cestius);
• Nubia (city of Meroe);
• Spain (Pyramids of Gumar);
• Russia (pyramids of the Kola Peninsula, Aryan temple in Rostov-on-Don).

All religious buildings date back to different centuries, but have a number of similar features. An interesting fact: the artificially created pyramids of the Kola Peninsula were built about 10 thousand years ago, which allows us to speak of them as the oldest in the world. And it makes you remember the mysterious Hyperborea, which is considered either a myth, or the cradle of all mankind.

It is also worth mentioning underwater finds. It is possible that pyramidal structures have been found in the Bermuda Triangle, which have already been called the legendary Atlantis that has gone under water. True, there is very little information about the find and they are contradictory. But the Japanese underwater pyramidal structures are studied carefully.

Disputes about their age are still ongoing: some scientists talk about 5 thousand years, others - about 10. Apparently, there is a lot of truth in ancient myths, new data can change the history of human development.

Mysterious finds

Historical religious buildings, unusual monuments, strange ancient monuments, interesting archaeological finds have baffled scientists more than once. Sometimes it is very difficult to understand and explain how and why certain objects and structures appeared. A number of objects can be added to the list of the most inexplicable.

Idols of Easter Island. Their age is more than 1000 years, but who created them from pressed volcanic ash?

Stonehenge. Many legends are associated with this place: the druids, the wizard Merlin, the legendary Grail are mentioned. But the question is that Stonehenge was created much earlier. This is precisely established by scientists. Radiocarbon analysis indicates an age of 3,500 BC. But this does not prevent us from putting forward the most incredible theories of the origin of this mysterious structure. There are already about 200 of them.

Interestingly, in addition to the famous English Stonehenge, there are similar buildings:

• Small henge in England;
• Karahunj in Armenia;
• ancient stones found in the city of Gela (Italy);
• basalt boulders in Australia (near Melbourne);
• prehistoric earthen henge of Ireland;
• cromlech in the Rostov region (Russia);
• cromlech of Khortitsa island (Ukraine);
• boulders of Salem (USA);
• stone forest in Bulgaria.

All of them are unique. They are often called ancient observatories, sundials, places of worship, but their true purpose remains a mystery.

Nazco drawings in Peru. The Nascu plateau is painted: there are images of birds, animals, geometric figures. What is unusual about this? Only the fact that the scale is amazing, you can see them in their entirety from a bird's eye view. But they were created about 900 years ago, then they seemed to only dream of flying ...

Stainless column in Delhi. For 1,600 years, it has stood in an open-air Indian city. The height of the column is 7 meters, it is not clear how it was smelted. But the most amazing fact is this: rust does not form on the iron, there is not even a speck.

Kailasanath Temple. According to legend, seven thousand craftsmen carved a majestic Indian temple in a hundred years with a simple pick and chisel, moving from top to bottom along a huge rock. How they managed to reproduce such precise forms and maintain all proportions is not clear.

These and other interesting historical findings baffle scientists. Will humans ever be able to pinpoint their purpose or how they were created? There is no such certainty. In the meantime, we have to be content with more or less plausible theories.

Science is interesting

The history of the development of various sciences is filled with interesting facts. It is no secret that many discoveries were accidental, and sometimes unrelated scientists living in different countries came to the same conclusions almost simultaneously. Or they went down in history as inventors, although they only improved and distributed other people's ideas.

Some myths are still stubbornly perceived as real historical events:

• Edison light bulb. He is still considered its inventor, although he only improved the finished invention, and with the help of his employees after numerous experiments. But at the origins of the creation were the Russian inventors Yablochkov and Lodygin, the Englishman Joseph Swan, the British Frederick de Moleyns and the American John Starr.

Little-known, sometimes specially “forgotten” facts from the history of various sciences can significantly change the usual ideas about their development and formation.

Some historical events are associated with animals. Remember the legendary story of how the geese saved Rome. It so happens that our smaller brothers become the cause of global upheavals and can change the fate of peoples.

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• The mass destruction of sparrows in China caused the death of about 30 million people. The natural enemies of locusts and caterpillars that disappeared from the fields led to their mass reproduction. As a result of the destruction of crops, famine began. And the bugs also bred, which also brought a lot of inconvenience and problems to the inhabitants of the Middle Kingdom.

These are negative examples, but there are also positive ones. Pets have repeatedly saved their owners during earthquakes. They felt the approach of catastrophe and warned by their behavior about the coming disaster. Seismic biologists have learned to correctly interpret the signals of snakes, birds, fish and mammals.

unusual medicine

The historical facts about what was sometimes used as medicines are amazing.

Here are some of the most unusual treatments:

• Calming syrup for children. Nannies and young mothers in England and America in the 19th century used a syrup based on ammonia and morphine. The medicine was considered universal.
• Children used to be treated for coughs with heroin, which was used as a substitute for morphine.
• The tobacco enema was used in Western Europe for medicinal purposes. By the way, back in the middle of the last century, cigarettes were advertised as a healthy product.
• In the Middle Ages, an iron stake heated on fire was used to treat hemorrhoids.
• Ancient physicians performed trepanation with a hammer, this is how mental disorders were treated, it is not surprising that patients often died right on the operating table.
• It was believed that venereal diseases could be cured with mercury or lead. After such rubbing, people died more often than from the disease itself.

Reincarnation: myth or truth

There are many references in history to the re-incarnation of dead people. Is this a myth or does reincarnation exist?

You will seriously think about this if you learn some facts from the life of great people:

• Napoleon and Hitler. Having studied their biography, it is not difficult to believe in reincarnation, many significant events in the life of both dictators occurred with an interval of 129 years. 1760 and 1889 are the birth years of Napoleon and Hitler. Further dates follow respectively: coming to power - 1804 and 1933, the conquest of Vienna and the attack on Russia - 1812 and 1841, the defeat in the war - 1816 and 1945.
• Lincoln and Kennedy. These American presidents have a difference of exactly 100 years: Lincoln was born in 1818, Kennedy - in 1918. And further coincidences: they became presidents in 1860 and 1960, respectively. Both were killed on Friday, Lincoln at the Kennedy Theater, Kennedy in a Lincoln car. Their killers were also born 100 years apart. So did the successors to the presidency: both Johnsons, Andrew and Lyndon, took over the presidency after the assassination, one was born in 1808, the other in 1908.

By studying historical legends, myths and theories, you can learn a lot of interesting facts about humanity, the lives of great people, their discoveries and inventions.

History in our head is sometimes at different levels. We know individual historical facts, but we never try to compare them with each other and represent the course of history as something unified. The teachers sorted things out, but forgot to put the facts together, and when we think about the events of the past, one can experience healthy cognitive dissonance. Don't believe?

The fax was invented before the telephone

It would seem that a fax is a more technological device, because it can transmit not only text, but also still images, which in the 19th century was considered something unimaginable. Early developments of the fax device appeared in the early 1800s, but they turned out to be translated into reality in 1865, when the first electromechanical fax machine was put into circulation on the Paris-Lyon line.

The first telephone appeared only 10 years later, when Alexander Bell, together with Thomas Wattson, showed the general public a real membrane telephone.

From the first plane to the flight to the moon - one step

The 20th century is associated with an incredible leap forward in science. Much of what surrounds us was invented then. Interesting fact: the first flight of the Wright brothers in their homemade glider took place in 1903. Just 66 years later, humanity landed on the moon. Unfortunately, now there is a slowdown in the development of science due to the imperfection of technology, but in the future we can expect another similar leap forward, and who knows where it will lead us.

Harvard University Predated Newton's Laws

In the Middle Ages, scientific research was mainly carried out by the clergy. Then the church did not deny scientific development, if it did not contradict the divine principle. Nevertheless, in 1636 the famous Harvard University was founded, from the walls of which the greatest minds of mankind came out. At the same time, the famous work of Isaac Newton on the laws of universal gravitation and the motion of bodies "Principia Mathemitica" appeared only in 1687.

Cleopatra ruled closer to flying to the moon than to building pyramids

A modern analysis of the age of the pyramids has shown that the same famous pyramid of Cheops in Egypt was built around 2540 BC. The famous queen Cleopatra ruled the state closer to the zero point of reference - 69-30 BC. Man landed on the moon, as we have already mentioned, in 1969.

Enemies in the same city

Fun fact: some of the most important personalities of the 20th century in 1913 lived in the same city, namely Vienna. Stalin, Hitler, Trotsky, Freud, Joseph Franz - the apartments and residences of all these people were not far from each other.

For example, Trotsky and Hitler often visited the same cafe in the center of Vienna, it is likely that they crossed paths there more than once, but did not yet know each other. Literally a couple of steps away was another cafe that Freud used to go to. It is also known that there was only an hour of leisurely walking between the apartments of Stalin and Hitler, perhaps they met during evening walks.

Italy is only a little older than Coca-Cola

The Kingdom of Italy appeared in 1861, when several independent states united into a single country. The famous drink Coca-Cola appeared just 31 years later, in 1892.

Steam locomotives were invented before bicycles

It would seem that such a simple invention as a bicycle has existed for a long time, but in reality everything turned out to be more complicated. Huge and complex steam engines appeared after a patent for a steam wagon in 1797. At the same time, the first bicycle was shown only in 1818.

Nintendo is here sooner than you think

The famous manufacturer of video games and consoles in the modern market, Nintendo has a rich past. In fact, it appeared at the end of the 19th century, in 1889. Then the world famous brand was engaged in the manufacture of playing cards, as well as accessories for board games. Just at the time of the founding of this company in Paris, they were still finishing building the majestic Eiffel Tower, and in London the noise had not yet subsided due to the high-profile murders of that same Jack the Ripper.

The oldest tree on earth actually witnessed the death of mammoths

Some of the oldest trees on earth are bristlecone pines that grow in a conservation area in California. Some of them are already 5 thousand years old, and they have experienced a lot of great historical events on the planet. Including the death of the last mammoth, which scientists date about 4 thousand years ago.

History is a rather vast subject and it is impossible to fully study it, especially in the smallest detail.
Sometimes these seemingly insignificant details can be the most interesting part of it.
Here are some interesting facts from history that will not be covered in class.

1. Albert Einstein could have been president. In 1952 he was offered the post of the second President of Israel, but he refused.

2. Kim Jong Il was a good composer and throughout his life the Korean leader composed 6 operas.

3. The Leaning Tower of Pisa has always been leaning. In 1173, a team building the Leaning Tower of Pisa noticed that the base was warped. Construction was halted for almost 100 years, but the structure was never straight.

4. Arabic numerals were not invented by Arabs, but by Indian mathematicians.

5. Before the invention of alarm clocks, there was a profession that consisted of waking other people up in the morning. So, for example, a person had to shoot dried peas at other people's windows to wake them up for work.

6. Grigory Rasputin survived many assassination attempts in one day. They tried to poison him, shoot him and stab him, but he managed to survive. In the end, Rasputin died in a cold river.

7. The shortest war in history lasted less than an hour. The Anglo-Zanzibar War lasted 38 minutes.

8. The longest war in history took place between the Netherlands and the Scilly archipelago. The war lasted 335 years from 1651 to 1989 and suffered no casualties.
People, stories and facts

9. This amazing species, known as the "Majestic Argentine Bird", whose wingspan reached 7 meters, is the largest flying bird in history. She lived about 6 million years ago in the open plains of Argentina and in the Andes. The bird is a relative of modern vultures and storks, and its feathers reached the size of a samurai sword.

10. Using sonar, the researchers found two strange pyramids at a depth of 1.8 km. Scientists have determined that they are made of a kind of thick glass and reach enormous sizes (larger than the pyramids of Cheops in Egypt).

11. These two men with the same name were sentenced to the same prison and look very similar. However, they have never met, are not related, and are the reason why fingerprints began to be used in the judicial system.

12. Footbinding is an ancient Chinese tradition where girls tied their toes to their feet. The idea was that the smaller the foot, the more beautiful and feminine the girl was considered.

13. The mummies of Guanajuato are considered the strangest and most frightening mummies. Their twisted faces make one believe that they were buried alive.

14. Heroin was once used as a substitute for morphine and was used to relieve coughs in children.

15. Joseph Stalin may have been the inventor of Photoshop. After the death or disappearance of some people, photos with him were edited.

16. Recent DNA tests have confirmed that the parents of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen were brother and sister. This explains many of his illnesses and defects.

17. The Icelandic Parliament is considered to be the oldest functioning parliament in the world. It was founded in 930.
Unexplained and mysterious facts of history

18. For many years, miners in South Africa have dug up mysterious balls about 2.5 cm in diameter with three parallel furrows. The stone from which they are made belongs to the Precambrian period, that is, their age is about 2.8 billion years.

19. It is believed that Catholic saints do not decay. The oldest of the "non-decaying" is Caecilia of Rome, who was martyred in 177 AD. Her body remains virtually the same as it was 1,700 years ago when it was discovered.

20. Encryption from Chaborough in the UK is one of the mysteries that have not yet been solved. If you look closely, you can see the inscription in the form of letters on the monument: DOUOSVAVVM. No one knows who carved this inscription, but many believe it is the key to finding the Holy Grail.

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