Ancient history

World's Most Incredible Ancient Monuments Discovered In The Strangest Places

Easter Island Easter Island is home to hundreds of giant moai rock statues, each statue averages 13 feet tall and weighs 14 tons or more. They we're built by the Rapa Nui people who were very mysterious, no one truly knows why they created the statues or how they moved them in to place. The moai statues were originally thought to be just heads, until a team excavated the statues to find a torso buried below the ground. Most scholars suspect that the moai were created to honour the Rapa Nui ancestors. However, no written history exists on the island to explain the mysterious statues. Terra Cotta Army In 1974 farmers digging a well outside the city of Xi'an, China, discovered one of the most mysterious and greatest archeological treasures. Hidden underground in corridors were thousands of clay soldiers, each with unique facial expressions and positioned according to rank. Even clay horses were aligned with wooden chariots behind them most of which are in prestige condition. This mysterious clay army became known as the terra cotta army and was created by the first Emperor of China. The purpose of the army was to protect the emperor in his afterlife and they were buried around the imperial chamber in 210--209 BC. The underground city at Derinkuyu In 1969 a underground city named Derinkuyu was opened to tourists in Turkey. The City was an ancient multi-level underground city of the Median Empire. The underground complex could shelter around 20,000 people and was 60 metres in depth. It's mysterious features included large stone doors that could be closed from the inside and each floor could be closed off separately. There are stables, cellars, storage rooms, and chapels. Along with a religious school and rooms that were used as studies. It is believed to of been built between the 8th--7th centuries B.C according to the Turkish Department of Culture and used By the Persian empire as a refugee settlement. Pomepeii, Italy The Roman city Pompeii was once a beautiful and flourishing resort for Rome's most distinguished citizens and tourists. But for hundreds of years it's beauty was buried under tons of ash. Pompeii was completely buried during a long catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius spanning two days in 79 AD. The city was rediscovered hundreds of years later and to the surprise of the excavators most of the city, it's people and there possessions had been preserved from the ash that had covered them. The body's of the people as the event killed them can still be seen like they were frozen in time. Still to this Today, thousands of tourists are attracted to the mysterious city of Pompeii, much like they did hundreds of years ago. The Yonaguni Underwater Mystery Just off the coast of Japan is one of the strangest structures in the world. A mysterious undersea pyramid that is 25 metres below the sea level and is around 600 feet wide and 90 feet high was discovered by a diver. The structure has caused controversy as to whether it is a natural geological phenomena or a man-made structure. If it was a man made pyramid it would change the history books as we know them as some scientist believe that the structure could be 10 thousand years old. Others have stated that it is around 5 thousand years old, but no one is really sure of the age or the origin. The pyramid like structure has 5 separate levels of stone blocks and what look likes a road circling the outside. Tools have been discovered around the structure and on the land making it even more likely to be man made. If it does become known as a man made, then our history books would have to be revised to take into account an advanced Eastern culture, more advanced than any early Western culture once existed. Music- Eastern thought Ibn-il noor Tabuk Ishakari lore Stomp dance Virtutes Vocis Kevin McLeod (incomptech) Easter Island statues by Honey Hooper.-Hhooper1 Easter Island-Alex Grechman Chilie - Easter Esland - Moai - 196-World Wide Gifts easter island?-Laura M Bailey Easter Island Landscape-Nicolas de Camaret Terracotta Warriors, Xian-einalem Terracota Warriors 4-Daniel Foster Statue of emperor Qin, China (reconstitution)-Prosopee Tomb_of_Emperor_Qin_Shi_Huang-jakeb2 The Horse Stalls-Jrwooley6 A typical view from inside the underground city in Derinkuyu-Bjørn Christian Tørrissen Underground city of Derinkuyu, Nevşehir-Başak Ekinci Derinkuyu -- underground caves-Helen Cook Cappadocia / Derinkuyu-Elena Pleskevich he casts of the corpses of a group of human victim-Lancevortex Pompeii Waterway-Alago Excavating Plaster Casts of Bodies at Pompeii-Tyler Bell Pompeii, Italy-S J Pinkney untitled-beggs The Lost Kingdom of Mu, Yonaguni, Japan.-jpatokal All Giza Pyramids in one shot-Ricardo Liberato Mule Canyon Ancient Puebloan Dwelling-Rob Lee Ancient statues of Buddah-NataliaNicole The Bayon, Cambodia-justin_vidamo Grand Plaza - gregw66