Final resting place of Alexander the Great

One of the versions regarding the location of the tomb of Alexander the Great mentions that the body of the great conqueror was deposited in a golden coffin, which was sent to Memphis, Egypt, and from there to Alexandria (city founded by Alexandru), where he lost track.

It was thought for a time that the sarcophagus of Alexander the Great was found in Sidon (Lebanon), because the warrior with a lion's helmet carved on one side looked very much like Alexander the Great.

It was later discovered that this was, in fact, the coffin of the king of Sidon. However, the search did not stop there.

In 2014, the tomb of a military commander allegedly contemporary with Alexander the Great was discovered in central Macedonia. Although some historians are convinced that these are the remains of Alexander, his place of rest is still sought.

New informations about the Dead Sea Scrolls

The famous Dead Sea Scrolls continue to generate riddles, decades after their discovery. A recent study concluded that at least one different technique was used to obtain one of them than the rest, an unknown technique, unheard of to this day. The parchment that attracted the attention of researchers, one of the most important in the collection, is one with an age of almost 2.000 years, which has been remarkably well preserved, despite the conditions in which it was kept and despite its size. of the largest. Found by the Bedouins in 1956, north of the Dead Sea, it was sold to an antique dealer. He did not keep it in the best conditions, but still wrapped it in cellophane and stored it in a shoe box, hidden under the floor, according to Science Alert. The "Temple Parchment", as he is known, has survived, but is currently the thinnest of the parchments (a collection of about 900 pieces). It is only one tenth of a millimeter thick. However, it was preserved, and the material ...

Hundreds of metal spheres under pyramid in Mexico

Archaeologists have discovered hundreds of metal spheres buried under an ancient pyramid near Mexico City. Scientists have no idea what the mysterious balls were for. Jorge Zavala, an archaeologist at the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico, described the discovery as "unprecedented." The spheres have been hidden for the last 1800 years in one of the most important pre-Hispanic temples in Mexico City, writes gizmodo.com. The city of Teotihuacan, just 45 kilometers from Mexico City, was once one of the largest cities in the world, with more than 100,000 inhabitants, at a time when only 200 million people lived on Earth. Its massive population makes it even more mysterious the total abandonment of the city in the year 700 of our era. The people of Teotihuacan knew very well that they would never return to the city, so before fleeing from it, they filled their much-loved temples with waste and garbage. Their level was so high that it took scientists only a f...

The lost city of the Kalahari desert in South Africa

The great Canadian explorer Guillermo Farini described in a paper a mysterious city, discovered in the Kalahari Desert in 1885. The report was sent to the Royal Geographical Society in the United Kingdom, along with a collection of sketches and photographs, and Farini also published a book describing the findings in detail. Farini, one of the first Westerners to cross the Kalahari Desert, claimed that the city had been built in the shape of a circular arch, and some sections were buried in the sand at the time of the discovery of the ruins. Professor A. J. Clemente, who researched the images and history of the place, assumed that the city described in Farini's report was a simple agglomeration of natural rocks, which only resembled the walls of a human settlement. Since the report was published, at least 25 expeditions have been organized to the Kalahari, in the area indicated by Farini, but scientists have failed to locate the walls described by the Canadian explorer.

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