Ancient history of the world

Экспедиция, начавшаяся с записи надписей рабочих древнеегипетских карьеров, сделала удивительное открытие о Великой пирамиде в Гизе. Международная команда археологов в совместной англо-французской археологической миссии на древний карьер Хатнуба недавно обнаружила наличие хорошо сохранившегося транспортного буяна, датируемого временем Великой пирамиды, примерно 4500 лет назад. Мы считаем, что это могло бы существенно изменить теории о том, как рабочие, построившие памятник, смогли перенести такие крупные каменные блоки на большие высоты...

Когда парижане ворвались в Бастилию в 1789 году, они не только искали оружие,сколько охотились за зерном, чтобы сделать хлеб. Вольтер однажды заметил, что парижанам нужна только "комическая опера и белый хлеб". Но хлеб также сыграл мрачную роль во французской истории, а именно, во Французской революции. Штурм средневековой крепости Бастилии 14 июля 1789 года начался с охоты за оружием и зерном для выпечки хлеба. Французская революция, очевидно, была вызвана множеством недовольств, более сложных, чем цена на хлеб, но нехватка хлеба сыграла свою роль в разжигании гнева на монархию...

29 октября 1929 года на Уолл-стрит обрушился черный вторник, когда инвесторы за один день провели торги 16 миллионами акций на Нью-Йоркской фондовой бирже. Миллиарды долларов были потеряны, уничтожив тысячи инвесторов. После "черного вторника" Америка и остальной промышленно развитый мир погрузились в Великую депрессию (1929-1939), самый глубокий и продолжительный экономический спад в истории западных индустриальных стран за все время их существования. 1929 - Апокалипсис сегодня В 1920-х годах...

Continuing the previous article. Recall that some experiments have proved that the construction of Stonehenge is technically possible. It was much easier to erect a huge stone slab. A pit was dug in advance at the site and the stone block was then dragged to the very edge of the pit so that it overhanged slightly. A small cart loaded with stones was placed on top of the concrete block. Then it was slowly pulled up to the pit; little by little the center of gravity shifted, and the large block slipped into the pit...

A few years after the events described in the previous article, Dr. Walter Charlton, the personal physician of King Charles II, offered a completely different dating for Stonehenge after searching for similar structures in continental Europe. Charleston's correspondence with Danish antiquities expert Olaf Worm convinced him that Stonehenge was erected in the 9th century A.D., when the Scandinavians conquered much of England. According to him, Stonehenge was the coronation site of the Danish kings, and its layout matched the shape of the crown...

We are breathtaking not only from the size but also from the age of some of the monuments of the ancient world. Our ancestors in ancient and medieval times, too, admired the huge buildings created in an era so distant from their own, that no knowledge of this has not survived, and also wondered who were their builders. Ancient Greeks, builders themselves are not the last, were so amazed by the size of stone blocks in the walls of the ancient cities of Mycenae and Tirinth, that they called their builders "cyclops", one-eyed mythological giants...

Stonehenge, towering in proud seclusion over the grassy Salisbury Plain in South England, is probably the world's most famous prehistoric monument. Attended by hundreds of thousands of people annually, feeding the minds of generations of historians and archaeologists, Stonehenge has become a synonym for ancient mystery. Huge sarsens - vertically placed blocks of dense gray limestone reaching 13 feet in height, roughly fringed and connected by horizontal slabs - are the first thing that strikes the eye of visitors...

Even in ancient times, people thought about how to protect themselves from various disasters that could be dangerous not only for an individual person, but for civilization as a whole. That is why many residents left their homes, went into caves, tunnels and built their life there. Many of these underground cities have survived to this day, and researchers are particularly interested in them. Such cities are located in many countries, but one of the most interesting cities was found in Turkey, in Cappadocia...

Strange as it may seem, though scientists were ready to juggle with dates of planetary and star compounds and even to appoint a new date of Herod's death to inscribe biblical testimonies in the framework of known astronomical phenomena, nobody seriously overestimated traditional arguments concerning the birth date of Jesus Christ. After twenty years of research, this was done only by Dr. Nikos Kokkinos, a scientist from Athens who now lives in England. Back in 1980, Kokkinos offered a completely different chronology of Jesus' life...

Options to solve the problem of Joshua's "long day" appear in the press periodically. Unfortunately, one of the most frequently offered "solutions" was only an obstacle to serious discussion on this topic. So if we are looking for a reference to a comet during Joshua's lifetime, at least one is available. However, the vision occurred a few days or even weeks before the stone rain on Mount Bethoron. Is it possible to tie all these threads together and still find an explanation for the "long day"? In fact, the key to the mystery was found in 1946 by the British archaeologist John Fitian-Adams...

"The course of a short period of time, starting in 1978, gave the impression that the model of Velikovsky still has a chance for the future. The resourceful British scientist Peter Warlow has published an article in the respected scientific "Physical Journal" with a proposal for a new model for inversion of the Earth's magnetic field. Although the main theme of the article was the explanation of the geomagnetic anomalies resulting from the inversions - events of the distant past, when the magnetic...

None of the bold attempts to explain "long day" Joshua's Bible text does not look convincing. But before sending them to the landfill of history, it is necessary to consider a number of even more striking possibilities. Believing Bible readers in the 19th century might simply have noticed that God somehow stopped the Earth's rotation to keep the sun frozen in place, but what can modern science say about the possibility - and plausibility - of such a phenomenon? At first glance, the idea of slowing or stopping the Earth's rotation seems unacceptable and simply frightening...