Many things happen in this world that sometimes makes us wonder, amazement, and so admired. But not a few who ultimately makes us frown because of how it happened, completely unknown.
Mysteriousness of these things would make scientists keen to express it, but until now the mystery remains unsolved.
Here are 10 events that are part of the history of human life on Earth that happened background is still a puzzle. Data compiled from various sources, including from LiveScience.
1. Rongorongo
This type of language is the other side of the "mystery of Easter Island", because Rongorongo is beraksara hieroglyphic language used by the first settlers on the island.
Regarded as a mystery, as though Easter Island does not have a "neighbor" capable of reading and writing, but Rongorongo mysteriously appeared on the island in the 1700s. Unfortunately, the language is lost because the Europeans who first colonized the island, banned Rongorongo interpret because it is considered as the cultural roots of paganism, despite the interest of scientists to study the endangered languages was very large.
2. Helike, the lost city
Greek writer, Pausanias, explained that a major earthquake devastated the city of Helike, and then came the great tsunami that swept away any remaining burgeoning metropolis it.
Halike is a city that became the center of worship of Poseidon, the god in Greek mythology who is believed to be the ruler of the sea, it is also the god of earthquakes and horses. There was no trace of the loss of the city and its inhabitants are legendary in ancient Greek texts, until in 1861, when an archaeologist found a bronze coin with a picture of the head of Poseidon.
In 2001, archaeologists also found a pair of the same coin in the rubble Helike in the muddy sand and gravel. Until now they are still digging for what they believe to be "real Atlantis".
3. The Bog Bodies
This phenomenon is difficult to solve the background. Although Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) work hard, they still have not been able to move from the data they have acquired over the years.
Hundreds of people are expected to live at 9000 BCE (BC), his body was found buried in wetlands in some parts of northern Europe. People who are known as the swamp man presumed dead after a worship ritual sacrifice, because the body was found signs of torture.
Phenomenal is, despite having died within a period so long, their bodies do not disintegrate despite not having such a mummy preservation process. Allegedly, acid levels in the water in the marshes, the lack of oxygen in water and low temperatures cause awetnya their bodies.
4. Collapse of Civilization Minoans
Until now, historians still disagree about the causes of the collapse of the Bronze Age civilizations that emerged on Crete, Greece, and developed nearly 5,000 years ago until the time of its demise in 1450 BC.
The Minoans were educated people, soldiers, traders, artists, and a reliable and experienced sailors. They are very extensive maritime empire. They were the first nation in Europe to use the written language called Linear A.
This civilization king, King Minos, had the castle is vast and complex, and is the first palaces in Europe which has a paved road. The palace was at Knossos. King Minos lived with man-eating bull is always wandering in a maze of palaces. His name Minotaur.
When the collapse of civilization around 3,500 years ago, the worst natural disaster since the Ice Age, which is a large volcanic eruptions, occurred in the Aegean Island, a small island in the Thera, Greece, which is about 100 kilometers from the island of Crete. Until now, scientists are still puzzled how this disaster could destroy the Minoans, but there is speculation that the disaster in the Aegean that not only makes Minoans buried volcanic ash, but also swept away by a massive tsunami that make it extinct civilization instantly.
5. The Stones Carnac
There is a myth behind mysterious 3,000 pieces of Neolithic stone that stands up along more than 12 kilometers, and are in a perfect line, on the northwest coast of Britanny in France. That said, according to locals, the stones are a legion of Roman soldiers who are doing the parade, and turned into stone by the wizard Merlin.
The scientists believe the stones in a megalithic site was carved from local stone in around 4500 BC to 3300 BC. Although the reason why the stones were made and assembled as it has not been solved, but there are scientists who estimate that the Carnac Stones is an elaborate earthquake detector.
6. Self Robin Hood
His story is legendary and famous to the world. Even been filmed several times. But who the leader of this group of thieves to be generous Sherwood Forest in Yorkshire, England, who are good at archery and sword play this?
In real life, the existence of altruistic bandit who lived in the jungle with the enemy king legendary magic sword, it seems it makes sense. However, the history of the hunt to uncover the identity of this figure only raises a myriad of possibilities with no definitive answer.
To reveal the identity of this legend, the researchers had assumed that the name of Robin Hood is a disguise of a name similar to the name. Then came the long list of names of people that one of them was suspected as Robin Hood. They include Robert Hod who also settled in Yorkshire, and Robert Hood living Wakefield. But still to no avail. Robin Hood identity remains a mystery in the history of the legendary in the UK.
7. The loss of the Legion of the Roman Army
At 53 BC, after the Parthian army of Persian army defeated the Roman legions led by General Crassus, the troops became prisoners of war, and then disappear, without a trace.
It is said that, according to legend, after being a prisoner of war, it led to the Persian forces through the Gobi Desert, but was later captured soldiers Han Dynasty kingdom. This legend is reinforced theory revealed by Homer Dubs, a professor of Chinese history at the University of Oxford. In 1950, after translating the royal history book, Dubs said that he found a city named Liqian established in the territory of Han in 36 BC. The city was established to execute prisoners.
In ancient Chinese, Liqian is a term used to refer to the Roman Empire, and archaeologists believe that at present, the city is Liqian ancient city which is now called Zhelaizhai. This belief refers to the physical characteristics of the city residents who did not like the Chinese, but more like a physical nation Caucasians. Both of the shape of the nose is crooked, blond hair, blue eyes seeds, and body height over 1.82 meters.
First century Chinese historian Ban Gu, wrote in his notes that the Han army confrontation with a strange army that fought with the "fish-scale formation", a unique formation that refers to the way the Roman army at war.
Currently, the city population Zhelaizhai are doing DNA tests to prove whether they are indeed descendants of Roman soldiers who lost it.
8. Voynich Manuscript
This is the most mysterious manuscript in the world, because the script is fully shaped book with pictures and written in a language totally unknown to any nation on Earth.
Voynich manuscript was found in 1912 in a library in Rome, Italy. 240 pages thick book that has attempted to translate, including by expert cryptographers. But to no avail, so if anyone accuses this script is nothing more than a game to outwit or work on the scientists. Unfortunately, based on statistical analysis known that writing the manuscript appears to follow the basic structure and working language of the law.
Studies using radiocarbon dating by a team led by Greg Hodgins, a physicist at the University of Arizona, found the fact that the parchment pages of this manuscript dating from the early 15th century, a century older than previously thought.
In the eyes of the scientists, this antique script makes it more interesting than the novel Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, because in the manuscript are rows and rows of text are "flowing" in the illustrations depicting plants, astronomical maps, drawings bath man , and so forth.
9. Tarim Basin mummies
During excavation beneath the Tarim Basin (now Xinjiang) in western China, archaeologists were surprised to find more than 100 year old mummies between 1800 BC to 200 AD.
The discovery of the mummies that began in the early 20th century, when European explorers such as Sven Hedin, Albert von Le Coq and Sir Aurel Stein tells that during the hunt for antiques in Central Asia, they found the bodies have dried up. Since then, research on the mummies was done because there are interesting of their physical condition, which does not have the posture and the characteristics of the Chinese people as appropriate.
Tarim Basin mummies have a European nation with genetic traits blond and long noses. Ancient Chinese texts mention, in the first millennium before Christ (BC) lived in the Tarim Basin Caucasian group of people who come from the far east. But how the group got there, not at all explained.
Most of the mummies found in the Tarim Basin of the eastern end of the basin that covers an area Lopnur, Subeshi near Turpan, Kroran, and Kumul, as well as along the southern edge of the Tarim Basin covers an area of Khotan, Niya, and Cherchen or Qiemo.
If you are to China, you can find these mummies on display at the Museum of Xinjiang.
10. The loss of the Indus Valley Civilization
Civilization in the Bronze Age (about 3300-1900 BC) was an ancient civilization of the biggest ever, because it has a territory stretching as far as 1,260,000 km2 of western India to Afghanistan.
In addition, the civilization which allegedly has a population of up to more than 5 million people is also the first civilization that developed because it has a fairly urban area with buildings made of brick, roadside drainage system, and terraced houses. Population this civilization also developed new techniques in the craft (and carved agate products), and metallurgy (copper, bronze, tin, and lead). This civilization contemporaneous with ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations.
Until now, scientists are still wondering how this extraordinary civilization collapse and disappear. Even more amazing, from the excavations carried out in 1922 at Harappa, Pakistan, which used to be a part of the history of civilization, it is known that the civilization which is also called the Harappan civilization had neither a soldier nor slave. Not even found evidence of social conflict or other crimes are common in ancient societies. Until the end, it appears civilization as civilization managed to keep himself clean.
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