As modern humans keep getting every piece of information we know, we like to think we are smart.
Of course, in the era of carbon dating, digital reconstruction and computer archiving, we have learned everything about our original ancestors.
You might be surprised. -
After years of extensive research, what scientists today know about Dick remains a major event in history.
5 due to popular culture\'s obsession with ancient Egypt, we do not know what the ancient Egyptians actually look like, and this obsession dates back at least to the historical period in their early 90 s (
When Sam Beckett fought a mummy in that episode
We know almost everything about the ancient Nile people.
We have decoded their language, we know what god they worship, we know the history of their entire civilization, we almost knew the name of each ritual-wrapped mummy we dug out of the coffin in the name of discovery.
The only thing we don\'t know is who they are.
That said, we don\'t know what race they are or what they actually look like.
After baking in the desert for thousands of years, any Screaming Mummy tends to return to a variety of ethnic homogeneous brown dirt.
Most people might think that the ancient Egyptians were vague Middle Eastern people on the outside because that\'s how they were portrayed in the movie (
You know, when they\'re not directly playedup white dudes).
However, this is what they have seen since the Persian conquest of Egypt. . .
It was thousands of years after the people who built the pyramid died.
Before that, anyone can guess.
You see, in the middle1800s (when Egypt-
In the Western world, the frenzy really started)
White people marvel at these huge ancient buildings and consider the Egyptians pasty Aryan Europeans, especially since only white people have the technical ability to build pyramids.
Others think they are black because, you know, Egypt is in Africa.
\"But what about the thousands of ancient Egyptian paintings we found?
\"You might be thinking.
\"Of course, we can look at these and know the skin color of the mighty pharaoh!
\"If that\'s what you think, then you\'re wrong again.
Egyptian painting is very stylized, men are often depicted in red, women are depicted in bright yellow, which is not really human entry except for severe sunburn and/or jaundice
Greek sources are helpful in a sense and it lets us know that they may not look like Jackie Chan, but other than that, it may mean they go from black to Jewish to Italian.
The closest conclusion that science must come to is that, as you may have noticed, the Egyptians are home to Egypt.
So we have a rough idea, but only in that sense, Dwayne \"Rock\" Johnson is as credible as Arnold worlough and the Prince of ancient Egypt.
There are huge stone heads in Central America, and we don\'t know how they got them, and in ancient times people were very good at moving huge stones, mainly because living in the stone age, you had few other options.
Although the History Channel insists that Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid can only be built by aliens, the fact is that science actually has some good ideas about how ordinary people express these fears --
An inspiring structure together.
But there\'s still olmek\'s big head, and we\'re not talking about the magical dome of the story.
This is one of the giant stone heads carved by the ormeck civilization in Central America, and archaeologists do not know what their deal is.
Olmecs is considered the oldest civilization in America, earlier than the better.
Known hundreds of years ago as the Trinity of Inca, Maya and Aztec.
The daily life of the olmek civilization is probably boring, and when they come to the same conclusion as people half a world away from the island of Easter Festival, they decide to dedicate all their free time to them.
Cutting a person\'s face into a huge rock is not entirely out of scope, but look at this ---
Olmek\'s head is carved from volcanic basalt, 80 miles from the final settlement of olmek.
The weight of each head is close to 20 tons and Olmecs has never invented the wheel.
So the question is, how exactly did they get these huge rocks through 80 miles of sultry, hostile jungle?
Before you say, \"Well, obviously the Egyptians do the same,\" consider this ---
Dragging slabs of impossible weight in the desert is a completely different word problem, rather than figuring out how to carry a bunch of stone spiders, snakes, occasionally 150-foot plateau.
The same technology won\'t work.
Modern science still does not know how Olmecs is or why such a huge effort has been made to drag these huge heads through such an insurmountable terrain, except for some ancient, oversized long periods of time.
Bowling distance.
There\'s a huge network of mysteries,
Made a cave in ChinaIn 1992, a unique curious person in China\'s Longyou village, who, together with his neighbors, bought a water pump and, in his village, finally discovered, it\'s not a real pond at all, it\'s an ancient entrance where people are flooded --made cave.
The survey found that the cave was not the entrance to China\'s Batman secret nest, but one of the 36 hidden caves in the area until early Han Dynasty, about 2,000 years ago.
We would like to tell you more about them, but the modern world\'s knowledge of China\'s mysterious underground caves begins and ends with this single fact.
We know nothing about them.
At least nothing was found to record the construction or purpose of the Dragon Cave, although the excavation would be a huge government-
Contracted works involving 900,000 m³ rock movement.
This is especially strange considering the meticulous records of ancient Chinese --keepers.
That\'s one of the reasons why the Great Wall is as mysterious as the Chrysler Building ---
There are documents that tell us who built it and what the purpose is.
However, there is no such thing buried in more than 30 caves on the outskirts of Shanghai.
As far as we know, a wizard put them there for a year in order to increase the suspense of finding Easter eggs.
We know that they are not naturally formed, because the interior of the cave is covered with chisels, with stairs, support columns, and paintings inside, which is often not the result of a structural transformation.
But for whatever reason, this huge and expensive project has been kept secret until it was accidentally discovered in the early days1990s.
They may be a series of secret burial chambers for elite Chinese families, or they can be strategically placed in caves dug for the richest people in Shanghai to escape his family, and play the cave of ancient China, equivalent to supporting the evidence of both cases
If we let you speak of the most important and influential civilizations of the ancient world, you may say the Romans or the Greeks, all writing, architecture, philosophy, and other things.
Only the biggest historical nerd of you will say the Etruscans, and even though we agree with you, in any case, we will be angry because you say so, the Etruscans are a small civilization from modern times.
Basically the Tuscan people who invented water pipes, urban planning, sewers, bridges and metallurgy.
Basically, all the things that we mistakenly think are Rome, because the Romans took everything away and put their own watermark on it like in ancient times, but while modern scholars may see the Etruscans as important civilizations in history, there is a major obstacle to discovering their secrets (
More ironically, the road is another thing invented by the Etruscans)
We have never been able to decipher their language completely.
The biggest problem with decoding ancient extinct languages is that no one can say them.
You can\'t hire a translator.
In most cases, the translation has been done by the people who lived at that time for us ---
Most notably, due to the discovery of the Rosetta stone tablet, modern researchers were able to translate Egyptian hieroglyphs, a convenient Egyptian-to-
Because the king of the 5 th world of Toledo wanted to simulate a Greek travel dictionary created by one of his decrees in three different languages.
The Etruscans have no such luck. -
Although they wrote a lot, none of these works were translated by any other civilization in any way that survived.
The closest we have is the Pyrgi tablet, which contains only a few Etruscan words translated into Phoenician.
We want to thank the Romans again. -
When the Roman Empire Rose and absorbed the Etruscans, they did not bother to preserve their language.
So we have about a thousand inscriptions from the Etruscan civilization, but only about a thousand.
Dothraki has more words, the language we invented for TV shows.
The \"Sea nation\" destroyed almost every major city in the ancient world. . .
We don\'t know who they are. C.
It is a terrible century for those living around the Mediterranean.
The main Empire of the time--
The hehe, the myceni, and the Egyptians-
After a long golden age, experienced a rough descent, a bit like the creed of 2002.
To make matters worse, a large group of barbarians suddenly came out of nowhere and began to burn all their cities.
We call them Marine peoples because of course we know that until today we still don\'t know who they are or what they want.
The first place to rage in the face of mysterious invaders is Anatolia, in the present modern-day Turkey.
As we all know, Anatolia is one of the most powerful regions in the Mediterranean, which is why the King of the city of Anatolia, Ugarit, is surprised, when the emissary from the neighboring King, supiluliuma, came to fight against a group of unknown assailants, he received more than a little.
Ugarit has sent its own troops to help defend against the mysterious invaders, but even then it is not enough.
The sea men burned the city of sumiperuma to the ground, and then pulled their sea up.
Before disappearing back into their undersea kingdom, sleeves and parades to ugarrit were also burned to the ground.
A few years later, a major trading center in modern times --day Syria.
After that, they continued to burn in the cradle of civilization, so violently that they eventually reshaped the landscape of the ancient world.
In the end, however, they became cocky, which was as good for them as the Nazi invasion of Russia.
The Egyptians are the only country strong enough to fight the nation of the sea, but that is not to say that the mysterious sea vandals did not launch a hell of a fight ---
After two massive attempts by both sides to invade, the people at sea finally decided to eat some crows and run away (
Probably back in Atlanta).
But who are these invaders, who manage to travel the most powerful civilizations on Earth like aliens in the well, and scholars think they may come from Europe, the Balkans or Asia Minor, or New Jersey anyone knows.
The problem is that the only one who has seen the marine nation is too busy, stabbed and set fire to ask where they came from and what exactly they are pursuing.
The whole thing looks strangely like a story written by H. \"The bad luck of Sanat\"P.
Lovecraft tells the story of an underwater civilization of lizards who destroyed the city on the eve of the first anniversary of the founding of the world\'s most powerful city.
Considering that no one knows who the sea people are and no one knows where they can come from, their only motivation seems to be to destroy all the greatest cities of humanity, the \"Lovecraftian horror beast\" theory is a good explanation. .