World history keeps a lot of mysteries. Despite more and more sophisticated methods and billions of dollars in research budgets, science has not explained some things ...
1. Was Atlantis?
Atlantis is the most famous of the legendary continents of the Ancient World. Plato wrote about her in detail. She was mentioned in their writings by Herodotus, Diodorus of Siculus, Posidonius, Strabo and Proclus.
According to Plato, the island was located west of the Pillars of Hercules, opposite the Atlanta Mountains. During a strong earthquake, he went under water in one day. This happened around 9500 BC.
Atlantis was searched all over the world, from Gibraltar to Peru and Brazil, but to date there is no scientifically based theory of its location.
2. Was there a Flood?
The Flood is mentioned not only in the canonical books of the Bible, but also in the later apocrypha. For example, in the Book of Enoch. There is a story about the flood in other books, in the Jewish Haggadah and in the Midrash of Tanchum, as well as in the Sumerian myth of Ziusudra. The first surviving Sumerian flood poems date back to the 18th century BC.
The treness of the sea is mentioned in the myths of all cultures, but was there really a flood? Historians cannot yet give an unambiguous answer.
However, it is known, for example, that around 5600 BC. a real flood happened in the Mediterranean, when, due to earthquakes, the level of the Black Sea rose by 140 meters, it increased by 1.5 times, and the Sea of Azov appeared. Perhaps for the inhabitants of those places it was a "worldwide flood".
3. Who built the pyramids?
No matter how modern reenactors and scientists have struggled to solve the puzzle of building the pyramids, no convincing versions of how they were built have yet been found.
Some experts say that the pyramids were built from ready-made blocks, hewn into the rock, others (Joseph Davilovitz) say that the blocks were made already at the construction site from a mixture of stone chips and "geopolymer concrete" based on limestone.
