12 Most Mysterious Things Science Still Can't Explain

There is a lot we can tell about an ancient building through archeology and scientific research. We can tell when it was built and usually also how it was built. We might even have an idea of ​​what it was used for, but we can't always. get all the answers each structure you are about to see on this list is an outstanding feat of ancient construction and although we know a little about all of them we are

still

left with more questions than answers as a starting point let's get to the beautiful and ancient city of shravanabelagola in India which is full of ornate temples carved out of rock, there we will find that all the

most

impressive temples have a particular feature in the common stone columns.

Using modern technology, we would have no problem creating these columns. It would be a challenge to do and take a long time to build, but we know how to do it. What we are not clear about is how the city builders were able to create them more than 1,000 years ago, as far as we know. At that time there were no chisels or lathes and we don't know how columns like this could be made without them. Every visitor who comes here is impressed by the quality of the stone work and how smooth the polished surfaces are to the touch even.

All these years after they were built, the Japanese have a special word for the ancient

mysterious

structures they can't

explain

, they call them ko foon. Ancient monoliths designed in this style do not exist anywhere else in the world, so they are actually a Japanese phenomenon, their name roughly translates to ancient mound-shaped tomb, although that only

explain

s part of their purpose, seen from above. ko foon looked like keyholes, the keyhole is where the tomb is located and we believe that the people who were buried in them were royalty. Descent The purpose of the rest of the site is unclear but they were huge, the

most

famous of them, the Dyson ko foon, is 1500 feet long, 900 feet wide and over 100 feet high, that's a lot of space and we don't know what was it.

To add to the mystery, we have images of very similar structures that have been observed on the surface of Mars. Is this a coincidence? Who can say with certainty that almost everything about the ancient Mayans is

mysterious

? Some people

still

believe that the Mayan calendar predicts the coming of the apocalypse in modern times of all the Mayan sites still standing today Josh Ilan is the one that will fill you with the greatest sense of wonder, located near the border With Guatemala, it is a place of ruined temples, howler monkeys in dense, lush tropical forests. Josh Ilan is so remote that the only way to reach it is by voting, but perhaps it is because it is so remote that it has been so well preserved.

Nowhere will you find a better looking set of Mayan hieroglyphics or more complete stone lintels than we know of. Information about the Mayan language and culture comes from this site, from their self-sacrifice rituals to their religious beliefs, but there are still words and drawings here that seem to defy translation or interpretation. This was a sacred place for the Mayans and there is still a sense of that sacredness. Within the walls, hand carving a huge temple out of a single piece of rock seems to us to be the most difficult way to possibly create a building that hasn't stopped people from doing it, although this is the Kailasa temple in India, which It is the largest monolithic.

The most important building in the world has been carved into a cave on the side of a mountain and took 20 years to complete. Ancient Hindus performed the work rumored to have been ordered by a Hindu king who had prayed to the god Shiva to save his wife from illness and apparently his prayers were answered. The work was completed about 1300 years ago. It is not the only example of a structure of this type. A scale model of the Kailasa temple was also built in southern India and this is named after The Tuvan coil is approximately the same shape as the Kailasa temple and has many of the same markings, although this one was scraped from the hillside rather than having been carved into a mountain.

Interestingly, the Tuvan coil is unfinished, it is possible that the Vitruvian coil was intended to be a prototype or test construction for the Kailasa temple, but why wouldn't they finish one before starting the other? Baalbek in Lebanon is one of the most famous unexplained monoliths in the world and, if we're honest, we have almost no idea how it works. was built from the temple of Bacchus to the temple of Jupiter, virtually all of the stones at Baalbek should have been impossible to place ten thousand years ago, and yet here they all still stand and we can't even agree on who built the site, according to most historians.

They credit the ancient Romans for the work, but some feel that the massive foundation stones were laid by a lost civilization and the Romans took advantage of their work by building temples on them. Each of the foundation stones weighs more than 1,000 tonnes and yet was apparently cut with surgical precision and then dragged uphill from a nearby quarry to reach its current location. There is an even larger stone in the quarry that weighs more than 1,600 tons, but it seems that even these mysterious ancient builders couldn't solve it. how to transport it in the mountains of Crimea you will find an ancient cave city known as Mungo kale.

This is a little-known place with a mysterious history, part of which relates to the lost kingdom of Fyodor Oh, an early Christian. principality the caves did constitute a natural fortress. Getting to them would be a difficult task even for the people who live there and an attacking army would have had almost no chance. Most historians agree that it was a Byzantine emperor who ordered the first of the buildings to be built. Erected here around the year 500, that first building was called Doros, which was still in use in the 13th century as part of the Crimean Go Thea. 200 years later, the entire kingdom of Fey Adoro fell to the Ottomans, they purged the kale with fire, but the Turks.

He immediately rebuilt it and gave it the name we use today, only Crimea became Russian territory during the 18th century, the last occupants left and it has been empty ever since, the only thing we have to remember them today are the ancient frescoes that cover the rock. Once upon a time an important port city near Dalian in Turkey, today it is a forgotten and desolate place and has been since approximately 1500 for 2500 years before, although it was a prosperous and beautiful city where multiple cultures seem to meet. different. They lived harmoniously side by side. Perhaps the most striking archaeological features of Cownose are the ornate tombs that were carved into the rock.

This is a masonry skill that has been almost completely forgotten in the modern world. The multicultural aspect of the site could be explained by the fact that the city's ownership changed many times over the years due to its portico and its position being a highly desirable location for commerce and thus all the dominant powers of the time they wanted to control it, most of them had to take a turn. The Romans had the longest rule, taking control about 2,100 years ago and holding it until the year 1300, when it was conquered by the Turks. Of all the ancient tombs in Petra Jordan, the famous urn tomb is the most visually impressive site.

Originally the tomb was created for only one inhabitant, King Malik, it houses the second, who died just under 2,100 years ago, although the interior of the tombs appears to have been decorated in an intricate pattern. This is all the natural rock formation at the site. There is a lot of space inside if it measures 60 feet by 68 feet perhaps that was what attracted the Byzantines here 1,500 years ago. They came and turned it into a cathedral by flattening the rock and adding two layers of vaults. Look up between the pillars inside the urn tomb and you will find three openings in the rock that cannot be accessed from the ground.

They are all tombs and one of them still has the closing stone in place, we think, but We have no way of knowing that if this stone were removed we would find the remains of King Arita. Fourth, it takes a very brave traveler to visit the site of the Kapena Monastery in Greece, built in the year 1212. It is carved directly into the side of a cliff on the outskirts of Cala Rites and is directly above a sheer drop. The location was chosen to be deliberately harsh. To gain access by positioning themselves here, the monks could easily defend themselves from the assailants.

They must all have had a very good head for Heights when it was inhabited. The monastery was dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. No one lives there anymore, although the facilities and all fixtures are carefully maintained and cleaned. There would be nothing to stop the monks from returning tomorrow if they wanted to do so with enough charm. If tourists want to come and take a look at Catena Monastery for themselves, they have to walk to the nearest town and ask. the key from the cafe owners, if you can make it through the narrow path to the front door you will be rewarded with some truly stunning views.

We have already seen some impressive stone temples dedicated to Hindu gods and here is another good example from India is the Conarc Sun Temple which experts believe was built around the year 1300. The entire site is an architectural marvel. It was deliberately built to look like an ancient carriage and there are several huge carvings of carriage wheels on the walls during its heyday. 200 feet tall at its highest point and featured stone representations of horses accompanying chariots. Three different types of stone were used to construct conarc chlorite laterite and candlelight. Why do we mention this? Because none of these types of stone exist in the quarries around the temple they must have been transported from elsewhere using the nearby rivers, we have no idea why the builders would do this instead of simply using the rock closest to the site, we also don't know why the temple is now only 100 feet high instead of 200 feet high at some point it suffered a devastating attack which could have been an earthquake or could have been an assault by an invading army.

We could make an entire video about the ancient wonders of India and maybe one day we will, if it weren't for Now here is another incredible collection of Buddhist relics. These are the Ajanta Caves, which cover an entire rock face in Maharashtra and took approximately 800 years to build. Inside each of the caves you will find priceless ancient frescoes that followers consider sacred works of art. of the Buddhist religion, the first network of caves here was built about 2,200 years ago and the complementary set was completed around the year 600, although they were built centuries apart, they are remarkably similar, with caves opening to enormous rooms whose walls are canvases for religious paintings.

Interestingly, the caves have been carved to resemble the design of wooden temples of the period, down to the fact that the beams and beams have been cut into the rock although they serve no architectural function, although the style of The buildings remain the same from one cave to another. quality of the works of art, the people who painted the oldest caves do not seem to have been better artists than those who arrived hundreds of years later, of course, we should not talk about incredible stone works and mysterious constructions without paying at least a visit to ancient Egypt, etc.

This is the monumental mortuary temple of Hatshepsut in the Valley of the Kings Hatshepsut was one of the most successful queens of ancient Egypt and her 22-year reign is believed to be one of the most prosperous in Egyptian history when it occurred about 3,500 ago. years. Perhaps due to the level of reverence that her people had for her, the Egyptians of old spent 15 whole years building her morgue. Perhaps the most notable features within the morgue are overly long colonnade sequences in which the pharaoh's great achievements are recorded. The shape of the carvings and reliefs depict Hatshepsut as a master merchant and diplomat who brought fantastic riches to Egypt as tribute from neighboring lands.

Years later, later rulers of Egypt would attempt to cut out the eyes of illegitimate ships during their reign declaring that no woman could ever truly be a pharaoh. They attempted to destroy many of the monuments in the morgue, which is why many of the statues are defaced. , they failed in their efforts, although this glorious temple is still here today, subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications and you will be the first to know when a new video comes out thanks for watching and see you soon