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On the North coast of Africa, near Tunis, the capital of the country, bearing the same name, lie the ruins of ancient Carthage. They are so inconspicuous that tourists can not see them. However, when it was one of the greatest cities of the ancient world, the one who wrestled with Rome, nearly crushed this powerful state. According to the Roman historian Titus Livius, "for this struggle the strongest on earth peoples watched all the Nations and kings of the". Still! Because it was about world domination.
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About three thousand years ago on the shore of the Gulf of Mexico appeared Indian culture, called the Olmec. This conditional name was given on behalf of the Olmec - a small group of Indian tribes living on this territory, much later, in the XI - XIV centuries. The name "Olmecs"means "rubber people", - Aztec origin. The Aztecs called them by name area on the Gulf coast, where they manufactured rubber and where they lived contemporary Olmecs. So in fact the Olmecs and Olmec culture is not one and the same. This circumstance is extremely difficult to understand for non-experts, type, Hancock, who devoted Olmeca in his book "Traces of gods" a lot of pages. Such publications are only compounding the problem, nothing at the same time, not explaining the merits of the case.
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In the XIV - XVI centuries on the Western coast of South America to spread the power of the mighty "Golden Empire". Thanks to the guidance of talented architects and engineers public life of the Incas have reached a very high level. The territory of the state covered all the land from the southern regions of modern Colombia to Argentina and reached a length of 5, 000 kilometers. The Incas believed that they had conquered almost the whole world, and the land that remained outside of their country, was not, in their opinion, any value. However, in another part of the world nobody even knew about the existence of their state.
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Legends of antiquity far brought to our time information about outstanding women Queens. Among them were mysterious and legendary Queen of Sheba from South Africa and Bilkis of the Kingdom of Saba (Yemen). For example, about the wise Queen of Sheba, who met with king Solomon, there is mention in the Bible. On the Queen of Bilkis there is information in Muslim sources (in connection with the acceptance of Islam in the seventh century A.D. and so on). They ruled in different historical periods, but they have in common the glory of wisdom, personal beauty, prosperity and wealth beyond their countries, as well as the location of their tombs in Yemen red sea (the Arabian Peninsula).
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Greeks their adored. The Egyptians and Romans envied them. Now, thanks to the archeologists, the treasure of this fabulous civilization, which, alas, gone forever, finally "revived" of sand, while keeping her secret.
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Near the equator, 115 kilometers from the coast of North Africa, located in the Canary Islands. From the Atlantic coast of Africa is visible from a distance the top of the Peak de Teide is the highest (3718 m) active volcano these Islands. About the Islands is known from time immemorial. For example, already Ptolemy mentioned region "Gannaria prom.", located North of the Cape nun, at the latitude of the Western Canary Islands.
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Civilization conquerors. Not, perhaps, on the Earth is not a people, which would not be a myth or a fairy tale about a dragon, which had to give not only animals, but humans. The North American Indians have preserved the legend about an invasion of the land of monsters-dragons that destroyed civilization ancestors. Therefore, those who are the Vedas called the gods-Naga, most likely, were dragons, who arrived to us from Venus and kolonoterapii the Earth. Remember the amphibious serpent people depicted in the halls of Egyptian pyramids and the Serpent cast out of the biblical myth, tempted eve forbidden fruit.
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Start searching secret. In the mid-seventies, after reading the work Abs that many thousands of years ago there was developed civilization, which died as a result of the flood, I was literally stunned. Reading and re-reading his book "Mysteries of ancient civilizations", I opened it, all the new details of the former power of the ancients, although it was unclear how some meteorite, though the giant, which has fallen into the ocean, can completely destroy the culture of the whole planet. Because people, in the end, always restore all destroyed. Something here was not so.
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How old is humankind? Modern scientists, usually referred to as a figure of 40 thousand years - since the appearance on Earth of the CRO-magnon. This is a standard time interval allotted human history in educational, scientific and reference literature. However, there are other numbers, it went beyond the scope of officialdom. 400 thousand years - such a date is calculated by ancient historians - Chaldean, Egyptian, Greek, and Russia is projected Lomonosov. (In fact, in the scale of world history that there is another, clearly fixed date, which is not able to accommodate the imagination of modern people: in its painstaking calculations of astronomers, and the priests of the ancient Mayan history of mankind began in 5 041 738 year BC!)
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The Slavs, the Khazars and the Arabs called the Vikings Vikings. Dwelt among these people for the Baltic sea, which until the XVIII century was called Norman. On his strong, boats went in neighbouring and distant lands. Through the Gulf of Finland, the Neva river, Ladoga lake and Volkhov - up to the Ilmen lake, Lovat, and the Western Dvina, not fearing the protracted portages, got to the Dnieper river and through it - to the Black sea. This path was named "from the Varangians to the Greeks".
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They were called robbers, said that with them it is impossible to fight: they say, drink broth of dried fly agaric and in this way bring myself to combat ecstasy... However, to Pat European army, one of the Amanita still not enough. The power of the Vikings was in another.
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Where is she? In this country the wheat grows by itself, darkness salmon in rivers, wild "wine berry" (cranberry) and warm winter. People, who lived a thousand years ago, it seemed a Paradise. The message that was left thirty-six brave, committed trip in that region, pushed modern researchers to look for places where Europeans, perhaps for the first time set foot on the North American mainland.
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In June 793 ad monks small island of Lindisfarne (or Holy island), located off the coast of Northumberland (England), has been quietly engaged in daily Affairs, not even suspecting that their island on the waves are approaching fast boats. They silently approached, and wicked-looking bearded men armed with swords and battle axes, jumped on shore and rushed to the monastery. Attacking frightened monks, they arranged a brutal massacre. They robbed the monastery, taking the gold, silver and other jewelry. Then they got back to the ships and disappeared, swimming away on the waves of the North sea.
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Judging by archaeological excavations, Vikings were buried with those objects that could be useful to them in the afterlife. These were the weapons, food, beer, jewelry. Sometimes rich people were buried together with the slaves, horses and dogs. Their graves were very large, because there was free to accommodate all the things they took away with him into another world. The walls of the tombs a wealthy Viking was decorated with wood, inlaid with silver. Over the grave mound was erected the monument in the form lined with rocks ships sizes are also depended on the extent of the wealth of the deceased. What was above the status of a Viking, the bigger was the burial ceremony.
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In Russia they were called Vikings, in Western Europe - by the Normans, and in them are known as Vikings: fearless sailors, fierce warriors...
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