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The most ancient book in the world is the "Epic of Gilgamesh, written on clay tablets for two and a half thousand years BC.

If the tower of Babel existed, it looked like and what serve? What was it - a mystical way to heaven, to the abode of the gods? Maybe the temple or astronomical Observatory?..

German engineer Karl Human visiting Turkey at the invitation of the Sultan to build bridges and roads. The human hired forty of diggers, along with them, went up on the mountain and the first hit a spade in a dry, cracked earth... so, during the construction works was opened ancient Pergamum and the greatest monument of Hellenistic art Altar of Zeus.

At the bottom of lake Issyk-Kul scientists are looking for the ancient monastery, where, according to legend, was buried Saint Matthew is one of the apostles of Christ, writes the correspondent of the magazine "Itogi" that is, Sigmund.

Archaeological and historical research conducted in different parts of the world, have increasingly come up against strong evidence that many more thousands of years ago our ancestors mastered airspace and used aircraft heavier than air.

That in the Karelian taiga there are some strange wooden idols, experts heard. In memory of people still preserved fragments of ancient legends and traditions about the figures supplied by unknown in these remote places that the locals relied there with great difficulty. But the researchers did not doubt that the sculptures rotted away. Therefore, going into 2003, in an expedition to Belomorsk and Kem regions, members of the International megascience Academy (Petrozavodsk) and is not expected to find something special.

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.