These stunning discoveries all made us rethink history. These historic finds made us rethink our traditional beliefs. Here are 8 discoveries that make us rethink history...
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-- Discoveries that make us rethink history
8. The mysterious Piri Reis Map
Piri Reis was a Turkish admiral, geographer, and cartographer who sailed the high seas during the 16th Century while serving under the Ottoman Empire. Throughout his many voyages, he often sketched the coastlines of the places he visited.
In the 1920s, one of his maps was discovered accurately depicting the eastern coast of South America, western coast of Africa, and the northern coast of Antarctica.
7. The Vikings had made contact with Native Americans
Many debates have been going on regarding who were the first to discover the Americas. However, it is now widely accepted that an Icelandic Viking named Leif Erikson had discovered the New World 500 years before Christopher Columbus.
The Vikings have since long told stories about northern lands in the far west which they called Vinland, and this is supported by the discovery of many traces of Viking settlements in modern day Canada. It has also been proven that there had been considerable interaction between them and the native population of the time - and they did more than just meet.
6. Humans could have walked alongside dinosaurs
In May 2012, a group of excavationists unearthed a brow horn in Dawson County, Montana that belonged to a triceratops dinosaur. When the horn was taken for carbon dating, it was determined that the horn was only about 35,000 years old.
This naturally threw all archeologists and paleontologists off guard, since traditionally it is believed that the dinosaurs lived over 65 million years ago! In fact, this would support the radical theory that early humans may have walked alongside the giant reptiles thousands of years ago. So the Flintstones could actually be more real than we think.
5. Buddha's skeletal remains
In 2010, a team of Chinese archeologists uncovered an ornate shrine underneath a 1000 year old Buddhist temple. In it was a stone chest with carved inscriptions saying that Buddha's skull bone lay there in another tiny golden chest within. The team uncovered the golden chest, and in it they found a piece of human parietal bone.
4. Antikythera Mechanism: the world's earliest computer?
In the year 1900, some Greek sponge divers were blown off course in a storm, and took shelter on Antikythera, a small island near Crete. After the storm passed, they dived to look for clams to eat, and to their surprise, discovered a 2000 year old wreck of an ancient cargo ship that had been carrying bronze statues.
3. Gobleki Tepe, the world's oldest temple complex
In 1996, archeologists began seriously excavating Gobekli Tepe, an ancient site atop a mountain ridge in Southeast Turkey. What they unearthed is probably the most important archaeological discovery of modern times. Right there, lay a 12,000 year old temple complex built at a level of sophistication and complexity far beyond other Paleolithic civilizations at the time.
2. The indecipherable Voynich Manuscript
In 1912, a Polish book dealer by the name of Wilfrid Voynich purchased a curious manuscript from a library in Rome, written in an unknown language that no one was able to read.
Based on the illustrations, the book seems to be divided into scientific topics, ranging from astronomy, cosmology, biology, and pharmacy.
1. The impossible stone walls of Saksaywaman
Saksaywaman is a citadel located within the ancient Incan city of Cusco, in what is now modern Peru. Its three parallel walls are made of giant lime stones, with the largest weighing up to 140 tons. The boulders were pieced together without using mortar, or any type of cement. There are no other walls like these in the world, and are very much different from the Pyramids, Stonehenge, or any other ancient structures built with giant bricks.
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