Ancient Mysteries
Mysterious "handbag" shows up in depictions from multiple ancient civilizations.
Mysterious handbags have been depicted in many ancient civilizations, often in the hands or near a being known as a god or civilization bringer.
What could these mysterious bags be?
Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain in Wittshire, England.
Stonehenge is made of huge stone slabs weighing around 28 tons each. These huge (18 ft tall) slabs of sandstone originally stood upright in a perfect circle. The circle was about 100ft in diameter. On the inside of the large circle is a smaller circle of smaller blue rocks. And inside that circle, were even more stones. The inner rocks were placed in the shape of horseshoes.
One of the biggest mysteries surrounding Stonehenge is how men could have moved rocks that size without the use of modern day equipment. It's believed that some of the rocks were from as far away as 300 miles while others came from just 17 miles away. The enormous rocks were not only set upright but they also had rock slabs on the top. Because of the difficulty involved, scientists believe that Stonehenge was built over centuries, starting about 2000 B.C.
Stonehenge was produced by a culture that left no written records and so we may never know how it was built or for what purpose. Some believe it may be some sort of astronomical calendar.
Bluestone
The bluestone that makes up the inner circle is believed to have come from a site in Wales known as Craig Rhos-y-felin. These stones are also believed by some to have healing properties. Perhaps that's why they were used in Stonehenge.
Stonehenge, although amazing, isn't entirely unique. There are many other similar structures across the world.
Nabta playa: (1000 years older than Stonehenge)
Among the many mysteries the Sahara desert has, there is one that in particular that has caused a lot of interest among archeologists.
There's a strange stone formation that just as Stonehenge in England, seems to have been created thousands of years ago and as an astronomical calendar. However, Nabta playa was erected about 1000 years before Stonehenge. Over 6000 years ago, stone slabs approximately three meters in height were dragged over a kilometer to create this incredible archeological site.
The Amazonian 'Stonehenge'
Over 1000 years ago, an ancient civilization created an ancient astronomical observatory composed of 127 blocks of granite, each up to 4 meters tall, standing upright in a circle measuring over 30 meters in diameter. The discovery has lead experts to conclude that around five centuries before the European Conquest of the Americas, extremely advanced and sophisticated civilizations existed in the Americas. The intricate stone circle in the Amazon is considered as the largest Stonehenge-like structures ever found in the Americas.
Armenia's Stonehenge: Predating the Pyramids of Egypt by 3000 years
One of the most curious Stonehenge-like structures is located in Armenia and is called Carahunge or Karahunj. Not only because it is a sophisticated astronomical observatory, but because it predates the ancient Egyptian Pyramids by around 3000 years and England's Stonehenge by 3500 years. In addition to that, the Armenian stone circle has cusious beings with elongated heads and almond shaped eyes depicted on some of the rocks.
Lake Michigan’s underwater stone circle
Underwater archeologists discovered a curious rock formation at the bottom of Lake Michigan. They believe the formation is around 9000 years old. Not only is there a complex site at the bottom of the lake, but diving expeditions have photographed intricate carvings on submerged boulders as well.
These stones are incredibly aligned and the one of the objects photographed underwater is a boulder which is believed to depict what appears to be a prehistoric mastodon, an ancient animal which is believed to have inhabited the area over 10,000 years ago.
Wurdi Youang
Australian researchers have found that an ancient Aboriginal site in the Victorian bush could be the most ancient astronomical observatory on the surface of the planet, predating Stonehenge and even the Pyramids of Giza. According to experts, the site is around 11,000 years old.
It's called the Wurdi Youang stone arrangement and it's located 45km west of Melbourne. It was built using 90 blocks of basalt. The ancient site clearly identifies the equinox, the winter solstice and the summer solstice.
Stonehenge 2.0
Located around two kilometers from the popular megalithic Stonehenge monument in the south of the UK, researchers have discovered a massive stone arrangement of around 90 pieces of megalithic blocks of stone. The stones were discovered by experts around one meter beneath the surface.
This incredible site is believed to date back at least 4,500 years. Each of the megalithic blocks of stone has around 4.5 meters in height.
Arkaim: The Russian Stonehenge
Another fascinating ancient site is located in the Southern Urals steppe, 8.2 kilometers north-to-northwest of Amurskiy. It’s not just a massive formation but a settlement. Imagine it like Stonehenge, only much bigger and with houses in its interior.
According to scholars, the site is dated to the 17th century BC. However, there are several other theories that go even further dating the site as early as the 20th century BC.
Scholars believe that Arkaim was built according to a radial scheme, with the outer diameter of the circle having around one hundred and sixty meters with a moat approximately two meters deep surrounding the outer wall and the wall of Arkaim is astonishing with almost five meters wide and five meters high.
Ancient Aliens
Were ancient people visited by aliens? Did aliens help to shape our world?
Here's some interesting evidence:
The Prophet Ezekiel
One interesting piece of evidence is from the Old Testament. It's the story of Ezekiel and a bizarre encounter with UFOs. Ezekiel was a prophet living in exile with the rest of the Hebrews in Babylon. Read the passage below. What do you think is being described? Sceptics say this was drug induced or just biblical >>>mumbo jumbo>>> Christians say this was an encounter with an angel. But what if Ezekiel actually saw something that he couldn't explain. If it actually was aliens, how would he describe them?
"I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north—an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal, and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was human, but each of them had four faces and four wings."
Ezekiel 1:1-6
Next he described the machine the being had arrived in, the machine landed in a rush of wind. Read the passage below, doesn't that sound like some sort of a space craft to you? Why would someone who lived 5000 years ago be describing a description that sounds so much like the landing of a spaceship?
I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces. This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like topaz … each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel. As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the creatures faced; the wheels did not change direction as the creatures went.
Ezekiel 1:15-19
Remember that Ezekiel was devoutly religious and he would have interpreted these as a sign from God and if beings appeared, he would assume they were angels.
And what about the technology? In the description, this vessel had advanced maneuverability. A wheel that could move in any direction without having to turn.
This story of a machine that had wheels within wheels left an impression on NASA engineer Joe Blumrich, in fact, he created a wheel based on this Ezekiel's description and patented it in 1972 as the "Omni Wheel". Today, these wheels are used in robotic vehicles. Joe originally set out to disprove the idea and through his research become convinced that he truly had been writing about an encounter with aliens. You can read more in his book, The Spaceships of Ezekiel.
Ancient Sumerians & The Anunnaki
The ancient Sumerians flourished in Mesopotamia from 4100 to 1740 B.C. The Sumerians were responsible for some remarkable technological advancements including, the first known system of writing called cuneiform, the plow and a system of keeping time which modern people still use today. They worshipped a deities called the Anunnaki, who some think may have been visitors from another planet.
The ancient Sumerians left behind writings on clay tablets. These tablets provide details about the Anunnaki. According to some translations these tablets reference "flying machines" and gave credit to the Anunnkai for their historic breakthroughs.
Although these tablets are still being translated, in 1976 a scholar named Zecharia Sitchin wrote a book called The 12th Planet. In this book, which shared translations of 14 of the tablets related to Enki, a child of the Sumerian supreme deity An. His book claims that Sumerians believed that the Anunnaki came from a planet called Nibiru. According to Sitchin, Nibiru has elongated orbit of 3,600 years and at one point, this planet passed close by Earth. It's people, the Anunnaki, decided to make contact with our world around 500,000 years ago. They came in search of gold, which they desperately needed to repair their own planet's atmosphere. They weren't able to mine the gold themselves, so they decided to genetically engineer primitive humans to mine the gold for them.
By the time the Sumerians emerged as a civilization, the Anunnaki had given people the ability to write, solve mathematical equations and plan cities. This may seem a little outlandish. However, Sitchin, who spent decades studying ancient Hebrew, Akkadian and Sumerian until his death at age 90 in 2010, once said that skeptics didn't have to take this word for it. "This is in the texts; I'm not making it up"
The people of Sumer were advanced for their time, that can't be denied. A clay tablet translated in 2015 shows that ancient astronomers made extremely accurate mathematical calculations for the orbit of Jupiter, a full 1400 years before Europeans did. Although the civilization collapsed thousands of years ago, they laid the seeds for humanity to grow and flourish. Did they have help from another world?
A Sumerian cylinder seal, which some theorists believe is evidence of ancient aliens visiting the Earth.
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Dogon Tribe & Sirius
The Dogon tribe, located in Mali, is one of the oldest ancient cultures on Earth. They are known for their incredible astronomical knowledge and fascinating mythological accounts. In a compelling ancient tradition, the Dogon describe legends that go thousands of years into the past, possibly even predating their own history.
According to the Dogon, the sky God Amma created the very first living creatures, call the Nommo. The Nommo are considered ancestral spirits but are also described as being amphibious, hermaphroditic and fish-like. They were the masters of the water, the monitors and even the teachers. They maintain that the Sky God Amma created these beings in the distant past.
One of the Nommo was said to have rebelled against Amma. To restore peace, Amma sacrificed a Nommo and dismembered its body, scattering it through the universe.
Between 1931 and 1956, French anthropologists Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen traveled to northwest Africa to study to Dogon tribe. The Dogon allegedly revealed a number of secrets to them and Griaule wrote almost 3000 pages about the beliefs of the ancient Dogon tribe detailing their knowledge of plants and cosmogony among other things.
The Dogon explained that the Nommos were the inhabitants of a world circling the star Sirius. They described them as coming from the sky in a 'vessel that was accompanied by fire and thunder'. The Dogon's claim that their astronomical knowledge came from the Sky God and the knowledge of Sirius A and B was given to them from beings not of this earth.
How did the ancient Dogon know about the existence of Sirius B way before modern astronomers managed to see it through their telescopes?
Nazca Lines
The Nazca Lines are a group of geoglyphs made in the soil of the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. They were created between 500 BCE and 500 CE. They were created by people making depressions or shallow incisions in the desert floor. They removed pebbles and left differently colored dirt exposed. There have been between 80-100 found, many using drones. Archaeologists believe there are more to be found.
Most are lines that run straight across the land scape but there are also figures of animals and plants. The individual figurative geoglyph designs measure between 400 and 1100 meters across. There are more than 70 zoomorphic designs including a hummingbird, spider, fish, condor, heron, monkey, lizard, dog, car and a human. Scholars differ in interpreting the purpose of the designs, but in general, they ascribe religious significance to them. In 1994, they were designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
In the book, "Chariots of the Gods", Erich von Daniken theorized that these mysterious lines where actually used as landing sites for UFOs. He thought that the shapes and lines were made by aliens and were created to help steer their spaceships, as well as landing pads. He claimed that the site appeared similar to a modern airport. Sankrit literature describes a story in which an aircraft landed on Earth and the local people watched in amazement as human-like beings with golden, shimmering skins walked, mined for metals and then flew away in their ship. These ancient astronauts supposedly soon returned where they built more figures and runways as a sign for gods to return, but they never did.
Mayan King Pakal & Pyramid of Palenque
K'inich Janaab' Pakal was a Mayan governor of the Palenque region between the years 615 and 685, a period of advancement and prosperity for its inhabitants. According to the history recorded in stone by the Mayans themselves, Pakal died at approximately eighty years old; however, studies show that his body corresponds to that of a man in his forties. According to descriptions in hieroglyphics and studies that have been made of his remains more than once, Pakal was robust and measured approximately 1.70 meters tall, a description that does not correspond to that of a Mayan octogenarian. Many experts say that the tombstone on his grave portrays Pakal sitting in a kind of ship, given that his hands and feet seem to be operating some sort of board and pedals. In addition to what would be the rear, fire can be seen, apparently coming from the propeller of the ship. This and other evidence found around his tomb have fueled the legend that Pakal had the means to visit outer space and even travel through time.
The Pyramid of Palenque is Pakal's final resting place. Pakal's tomb has been the subject of ancient astronaut hypotheses since its appearance in the book, Chariots of the Gods. In the book, the author reproduced a drawing of the sarcophagus lid, incorrectly labeling it as being from "Copan" comparing Pakal's pose to that of Project Mercury astronauts in the 60's. He interprets drawings underneath him as rockets and offers it as possible evidence of an otherworldly influence on the ancient Maya.
In the center of that frame is a man sitting, bending forward. He has a mask on his nose, he uses his two hands to manipulate some controls, and the heel of his left foot is on a kind of pedal with different adjustments. The rear portion is separated from him; he is sitting on a complicated chair, and outside of this whole frame, you see a little flame like an exhaust.
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Pyramid of Palenque
