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In 1978, in the North of Afghanistan archaeological expedition discovered intact ancient burial, which scientists have estimated in 2000 years. On a flat plain, nearby cotton fields, archaeologists dug in flat round hill height of three and a radius of about one hundred meters. Afghan peasants called the hill of Tilla-Tepe gold hill. First, the expedition came across the ruins of the temple of fire-worshippers, which existed for about three thousand years ago. Then in the rat hole in the thick Adobe walls archaeologists found a handful of small gold coins.

About seven thousand years ago in Central Asia there was a state of civilization which the scale of achievements can be delivered in a number of great cultures of the Ancient world.

The first mention of the flat stones with relief image of the Earth's surface dated back to XVII-XVIII centuries In the beginning of the last century, also wrote about the white stone slabs with reliefs and strange inscriptions. All these reports say the findings made in the same area of the Urals.

It was discovered by accident. Twenty years ago, the local land reclamation specialists decided to organize in the valley of the Big, important because of its reservoir. Before the valley was flooded, there came archaeologists. The expedition was headed by Gennady Zdanovich of Chelyabinsk University is a great specialist, a famous archeologist. In the valley, scientists have found many historical monuments of different periods - the early iron age and bronze age, Sarmatian and log periods. Among the traditional burial mounds and burial grounds were monument strange and incredible ancient city, built around 3700 years ago and existed in the XV-XVII centuries BC! It was called Arkaim - so old maps was marked this valley and mountain nearby.

How the Egyptians mummified their dead? It would seem that this question is rather well investigated. However, two American experts - Egyptologist Bob Brier and anatomist Ron Wad - I tried to answer it again. They undertook to make the mummy of Egyptian canons, in order to understand what difficulties they had to overcome their colleagues, who lived almost four thousand years ago. Thus was born the latest mummy in the world.

It is well known that to open ancient burial places, to get inside the pyramids of Egypt, to dig out the burial mounds dangerous profession. For archaeologists, tourists and hunters there is always the risk of Contracting diseases, pathogens which accidentally or intentionally listed in the grave. Anyone who violates the eternal peace of the dead, waiting terrible Kara...

In 1848, one of the numerous archeological expeditions working in Egypt, with careful examination of the temple Network in Abydos, found totally mysterious and incomprehensible characters. They were located right above the entrance to the temple, almost under the ceiling, at the height of about ten meters. It should be noted that the characters were very much - wall just astound strange icons, frankly put surprised researchers in a deadlock. The only thing they managed to understand: they found not just texts of ancient letters and images never before seen strange subjects that perhaps mechanisms of unknown purpose.

It was down in Memphis, one of the largest cities of the Country of pharaohs, at the time when the rules of its king Amenemhat. On the penultimate day of the fourth month of the first season, in the hour of dawn the sun, Takamine, the wife of a prominent official Sebastea, gave birth to a daughter. Great was the joy of their relatives, who saw that the girl was healthy. Two and a half years ago in the family Subestate first-born son, but after a few months of death had took him. A few weeks the mother mourned the baby, who was later buried on the West Bank of the Nile, putting a face to the ground. Guilt acted smart Takamine. That she might be the cause misfortune? Shortly before the birth of her son she stretched out on a bed with her husband, it was one of those "unfortunate" days in which the stars don't allow spouses to get close... But time heals all wounds" - this wisdom was known to the Egyptians. Cries stopped, stopped crying - Takamine again waited for the child.

Researchers in many countries have long tormented by the question: how did the creators of the Egyptian pyramids were brought huge blocks from the quarry to the construction site? It seems that one person in the world knew the answer, and it helped him to build a giant coral castle in Florida.

"A strange and unexplainable phenomena surround the Great pyramids". Today this conclusion is no longer just a stamp that roamed scientific-popular editions. Recently, these "strange and unexplained phenomena began to occur not only in the Egyptian pyramids, but also indirectly affected studying their researchers...

Nefertiti was not only the Queen, she was revered as a goddess. The most famous and perhaps the most beautiful of the wives of the Egyptian pharaohs lived with her Royal spouse in a huge luxurious Palace on the East Bank of the Nile. It seemed that she had to have the same luxury apartments and after death. However, all signs of the Royal position after her death over 3300 years ago disappeared. In February 2002 from Egypt returned group of the British scientists from the University of York. After data processing archaeologist Joanne Fletcher made a sensational statement - found the mummy of Nefertiti.

In the XIII century BC on the Egyptian throne after the death of the Pharaoh of SETI I was succeeded by his son Ramesses II. It was, perhaps, the most famous Pharaoh of Egypt, who ruled for more than 60 years who had about a hundred children, and died almost a hundred years old. During the first four years of the reign passionate Ramses expanded the temple of Luxor, completed the finishing of the great hall of columns in Carnac, began the construction of their Church Million Years in the country and built a new capital PI-Ramesses in the Nile Delta.

It looks like two modern detectives managed to unravel the mystery of the untimely death of the young Egyptian king Tutankhamun barely eighteen years old when he died. According to detectives, they found not only evidence that Tutankhamun was killed, but found the murderer.

In 1998, the expedition of scientists, led by Fred Vendorom, an American Professor of anthropology from southern Methodist University, discovered in the province of Aswan in southern Egypt, near the town of Nabta-Playa made of big stones in a circle, inside of which were delivered "on the pop massive stone blocks. The locality is located just one hundred kilometers to the West of Abu Simbel, famous for its temples, carved in the rocks in the XIII century BC, and the giant statues of Ramses II. According to radiocarbon Dating, the ancient monument was constructed not less than 6500 years ago, that is a thousand years before the famous British Stonehenge.

"...Today the smell shore caught it very early, he realized that he hears it in his sleep, and went to bed, to see the white tops of cliffs rising from the sea, the harbour and the Bay of the Canary Islands". These lines Hemingway, taken from the novel "the Old man and the sea", perhaps the most expressive in all the literature on the Canary Islands. Lying at the crossroads, Islands firmly established in the sailing directions and notes seafarers in the tourist and trade directories. Their beauty not once sang ancient. To the shores of the Canary Islands stuck galleys of the Cretans and the Phoenicians, the Greek pyatidesyatiletiya and Roman tribes of liburni. ...Early in the morning if humid ocean wind does not bring from the North Atlantic grey rain clouds and Sugar not recalls its presence clouds of yellow sand, on the Moroccan coast you can see a white on the horizon cap eternal snows of El Teide, the largest mountains of the Canary archipelago. Dazzling top of the volcano is visible from the side of the ocean. It became a beacon for the first Spanish captains 575 years ago...