7 STRANGEST Historical Mysteries that Will BAFFLE You

7 STRANGEST Historical Mysteries

From giant unexplained explosions to monuments 10,000-20,000 years old to the idea that Christopher Columbus may never have even existed, these are the 7 Strangest Historical Mysteries.

A few millennia ago ancient Europeans were getting along just fine inventing the baguette and hunting unicorns to extinction, but sometime around 2500 BC a mysterious and unknown event occurred, one which was to change the genetic makeup of European people forever.

The development of human civilization from hunter-gatherers to a more permanent existence in towns and cities is believed to have begun around 8000 BC, and the typical process went something like this – find a nice patch of land, build a few homes, raise some animals and crops, and then construct a temple or monument to the almighty God to thank him for providing you with such a delightful place to live.

The Indus Valley people were a bronze-age civilisation whose population of five million people straddled the areas of modern day Pakistan, Afghanistan and India. They were a prosperous and self-sustaining society whose advanced cities even had their own sophisticated water and sewage draining systems, which is something Flint Michigan doesn’t even have today. But having first settled the area in 3000 BC, by 1700 BC the entire population of the Indus Valley had been wiped out.

In July 1901 a 2000 year old Greek cargo ship was discovered at the bottom of the ocean just off the coast of the Greek Island Antikythera, and within its ruins was this, the Antikythera Mechanism. The Antikythera Mechanism was basically an ancient analogue computer made of bronze clockwork gears which the Greeks used to predict the positions of moons, stars and planets…and maybe also to look up some ancient Greek pornos when everyone had gone to bed.

On the morning of June 30th 1908 a huge fireball was seen barrelling towards the Earth, causing an explosion in Eastern Siberia which obliterated more than 2000 square kilometres of forest and wildlife - yet nobody knows exactly what caused this devastating incident.

[happydeamon]

"...revenge of the unicorn ghost army. ancient scolars says yes." Change the subject before anyone asks any well played sir.

[svillegassmusic]

"Revenge of the unicorn ghost army" sounds like an awesome movie tbh

[OCSMTH]

Mayer the question isn't " how did they build it" but instead, what happened in the between time that the knowledge was lost. Scientists today always seem to think that ancient man was simply dumb. That simply may not be the case.

[alexwest]

Stonehenge was built to hold the pandorica. i thought that was common knowledge.

[Flagg]

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[kay]

I've seen so many comments on this channel's videos about how the jokes are unnecessary and annoying but tbh i find it refreshing and actually quite funny. There are so many boring videos with just facts that this guy's sense of humour makes the video 10x better. Well to me at least.

[carmenortiz]

Considering that Columbus mentioned in his writings that he used ANCIENT maps, even he did not think he was first. Considering that the Vikings stole the maps and the sextant they used to get to what is North America, from the monks who lived in Lindisfarne, who it is known had documents and other artifacts from the Library of Alexandria, which were rescued from the destruction of said library, about 1, 000 years before the Viking showed up in America, it is safe to say they were not the first either. As he mentioned someone did but that happened long before the people that are accredited with discovering America were even remotely born. It's called history.

[Defensive_Wounds]

I would like to know about the cow boob one... Why is it more normal to drink milk from a cow breast than from one of our own species?

[_Caspergers_]

Your voice reminds me of the Mass Effect Codex narrator so much I love it

[critchley]

We Humans have so much to learn about the past, it fascinates me.. Where did we come from? who are we ? ...

[PlatinumROB_]

Here's some more baffling information:  Stonehenge is made of sarsen stone, a type of sandstone that is estimated to erode at <0.5mm every 1, 000 years.  However, there are sections that show at least 50cm of erosion, indicating that it may have been built more than 1 million years ago ;)

[Tekrothebountyhunter]

Concerning the mystery of disappearing civilizations, isn't it likely that after those civilizations collapsed due to lack of resources or other disasters, wouldn't the survivors simply have abandoned those locations in search of new lands? Over a period of centuries, maybe they simply changed their identity due to new discoveries or interacting with new communities?

[earl]

That moment when your mind thought that the answer for some of these mysteries were destroyed at the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

[SymphonyZach]

What if after 500 years humans left earth and then came back and they accidentally discover the Internet. They would believe we worshipped cats

[chouchiha]

Schools where I am haven't celebrated Columbus Day in years.

[Wysiwyg]

Sarcasm, but the lolz I needed were worth it. Most of the mysteries are valid and well narrated. My eyes are broke from total binge-watching this channel. Subbed!

[sivartb]

we often forget inventions are not analog or dependent on time.

[myworstenemy]

Love the increase in videos. Keep them coming!

[nikkibrooks]

I'm not saying it's aliens but it's aliens!

[abcnt]

What I always find funny is we judge civilization's intelligence as a group but not as individuals. Do you not think there were more visionary, inspirational or experimental people out there who dreamed of a future beyond what they saw?