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12 Crazy Things

Postby Marsbar » Mon Jun 01, 2015 11:05 pm

These Crazy Things Were Found on Earth, and Some of Them Still Can't Be Explained

The Mount Owen Moa

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The Upland Moa was a flightless bird that became extinct about 500 years ago, so it came as quit of a shock to researchers when they found such a well preserved claw belonging to one in the caves of Mount Owen in New Zealand dating back 3,000 years.

The Longyou Grottoes

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These manmade caves, carved from siltsotne and found in China, remain a bit of a mystery. They are thought to date back before the Qin Dynasty (in 212 BCE) but, there is no record of them.

The Gate Of The Sun

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Like Stonehenge, The Gate of the Sun is a stone structure that remains a bit of a mystery to this day. Coming in at 13,000 feet, the area in Bolivia may be where the first humans on Earth originated from. The engravings on the gate are thought to hold some kind of astrological and astronomical importance.

L'Anse aux Meadows

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This 1,000-year-old site in Newfoundland, Canada proves that Viking settlers made their way to North America long before Christopher Columbus even thought about sailing to India.

Gobekli Tepe

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This site, which was found atop a mountain ridge in Turkey, did a lot to further our understanding of development of ancient customs. The temple was built before the city around it, show just how highly valued religion was to those who settled.

Stone Age Tunnels

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This huge network of underground tunnels is completely man-made, and dates back to the Stone Age. Questions remain how they were able to build such an extensive system at that time
       
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Re: 12 Crazy Things

Postby MoodyBlue » Sun Jun 07, 2015 10:02 am

Hi David,

Great mystery is also found in Africa at the site called Great Zimbabwe. It is a very impressive stone fortress that was built thousands of years ago by an advanced culture.

Closer to home there is evidence of a large city built in the mid west by North American natives, with huge pyramids much like the ones in South America.

Also, copper artifacts found in South America have been traced to copper that came from a mine near Lake Superior. This indicates that there was a very active north south trade route thousands of years ago by the natives of North America. Why these societies vanished is a mystery.

But in both cases, the native city in North America, and Great Zimbabwe, white "scholars" and others did everything they could to discredit any notion that they were built by an advanced native society.

Boggles the noodle.

We are not much to write home about, sometimes.

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