10 Most Mystical Findings and Unexplained Phenomena in the World
14010 Most Mystical Findings and Unexplained Phenomena in the World
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10.The Antikythera Mechanism
Around a hundred and fifteen years ago an Archaeologist stumbled across something that he couldn’t quite understand. He had been sorting through objects that had been found in the wreck of a 2,000-year-old ship off the Greek Island Antikythera. Among the findings were many items you would expect, vases and pots, jewellery, and even a bronze statue of an ancient philosopher. But the strangest thing was an item made of brass gears and dials, mounted up in a case around the size of a clock that you would find on your fireplace mantel. It was called the Antikythera Mechanism, and at the time he had no idea what it was.
The Antikythera Mechanism is made up of at least two dozen gears, laid neatly atop one another in an intricate way. Since its discovery, it has been dubbed the first mechanical computer. According to a Princeton science historian, it was used to predict the position of the planets and stars in the sky depending on what month it was. The main gear would move to represent the calendar year, and that would move all of the sperate smaller gears to represent the motions of the planets, the sun and the moon. It’s like an astronomical clock or an analogue computer that used mechanical parts for calculation.
9. The Nazca Lines
The Nazca Lines have confused and entranced people for years. They are gigantic geoglyphs located near the coast of Peru that cover around 170 square miles. These lines etched into the earth itself, depict creatures from imagination and the real world. There’s a spider, a hummingbird, a monkey, lizard, pelican and even a mighty whale. They date to from between 200BC to 500AD, a time where the Nazca inhabited the area. The earliest lines were created with piled-up stones.
While very old, the lines weren’t rediscovered until around 1927, becoming better known in the 30s as air traffic in the area increased. The idea that the Nazca lines can only be seen from the air is a bit of a myth, all of them can be spotted from the ground. That doesn’t mean we have any idea what they were for or why they were made, however. One idea is that the Nazca believed they were linked to the heavens, while others believe they may play a role in pilgrimage. We’ll likely never know the true purpose behind them though, as the Nazca people left no written records.
8.The Shroud of Turin
The Shroud of Turin is a piece of linen cloth, which bears the negative image of a man. It is said that this image depicts Jesus Christ of Nazareth and that the fabric is, in fact, the shroud that he was buried in after his crucifixion.
Currently, historical and scientific evidence points to the shroud being fakery, made in Medieval times around the late 1300s. It is said that, in 1390, an artist had confessed to a local bishop that he had in fact created the shroud and that it was his forgery. This coincides with radiocarbon dating, which says the shroud would have been around that old. That being said, people do still believe that the Shroud of Turin is genuine, and have often said that the carbon-dated shards of the shroud were from pieces that had been stitched on after the fact as a repair job.
7. The Natural Nuclear Reactor
Nuclear reactors are deemed by many to be one of the Human Races biggest and most technologically impressive forms of energy production. The first commercial reactors weren’t developed until the 1950s. But nature had cracked it long before we managed to get there.
1.7 billion years ago the Oklo reactors sprang into existence, 16 sites of self-sustaining nuclear fission reactors that lasted for a few hundred thousand years. These natural nuclear reactors wouldn’t have generated much in the way of power, likely averaging less than 100 Kilowatts of thermal power at any given time.
This natural reactor sparked into existence when a uranium-rich mineral deposit became swathed with groundwater. This groundwater played the part of a neutron moderator, and a subsequent nuclear chain reaction took place. This generated heat, which boiled off all the groundwater. That slowed the reaction or stopped it completely, and groundwater was allowed to seep back in. The reaction restarted, beginning a cycle that would occur for every three hours… a process that continued for hundreds of thousands of years.