STRANGEST Artifacts Ever Discovered!

Check out the strangest artifacts ever discovered! This top 10 list of unexplained mysterious discoveries features some of the most bizarre things ever found on earth!

10. Ubaid Lizardmen
For people who love conspiracy theories, it’s a common belief that the world was shaped by ancient aliens. Or for people who watch Ancient Aliens on the History Channel which is all kinds of confusing for people who don’t know much about history!! Stories exist of lizards who secretly control our society and if the Ubaid Lizardmen are anything to go by, maybe they have a point!

9. Giant Balls of Costa Rica
The United Fruit Company is mainly associated with fruit of course. And exploitation, but that’s for another video. In the 1930’s they made a major archaeological discovery while going about their business in Costa Rica. They stumbled across some stone spheres thought to be hand-crafted by ancient civilizations… the giant balls of Costa Rica!

8. The Genetic Disc
This stone disc illustrates the development of a human fetus. There’s just one problem… it’s over 6000 years old and in theory no-one was supposed to know what the inside of a looked like back then! This prehistoric oddity is called the Genetic Disc and was found in Colombia.

7. Aztec Whistle
These artifacts were found in an Aztec temple dedicated to the wind god. At first, the clay, skull shaped items were thought to be little ornaments but many years later, archaeologists figured out that not only did they look creepy, but they sounded creepy too!!! They were also found in the hands of a sacrificed male skeleton so that might give you a hint of what they were for…

6. Baghdad Battery
These days you can just go to a store and buy a pack of tiny batteries, even though everyone complains they get more and more expensive every year. You’d have trouble doing that with these guys! The Baghdad Batteries are a true mystery from ancient times and suggest that civilizations back then came up with many things, thousands of years before we thought it was invented.

5. Ancient Model Aircraft
Ancient relics from past civilizations often show things like flying carpets or winged chariots. So it makes sense some people think there were real flying machines whizzing about the sky thousands of years ago. Apparently these artifacts are real evidence of this. They’re called the Saqqara Bird and the Tolima or Quimbaya artifacts respectively.

4. Crystal Skulls
Indiana Jones made crystal skulls famous. But like the Arc of the Covenant or the Holy Grail there’s a real legend behind these fascinating artifacts! Question is, are they genuine pieces from ancient history or just a nice little ornament for your mantelpiece?

3. Voynich Manuscript
Perhaps no artifact is as strange as the Voynich Manuscript. Found by a rare book dealer in 1912, after who it was named, it stunned experts at first because it was full of strange images and descriptions that appeared to be deeply weird and alien.

2. Shroud of Turin
One of the most famous artifacts in history is Shroud of Turin. It’s believed to be the cloth Jesus Christ was wrapped in when he was brought down from the cross.
This sheet of linen seems to show the impression of a man and many consider it proof of the Son of God. But is it really him, and is the cloth really that old? This is a debate that’s been going on for centuries.

1. Antikythera Mechanism
We know that when computers were first invented they were huge. But somehow, the ancients were able to make a small computer thousands of years ago!! Believed to come from Ancient Greece, it’s an early - very early! - example of an analog computer like a slide rule and is made from bronze and wood.

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[RErikWeigand]

The Stone Spheres are not just in Costa Rica, They are all over the world, Bosnia, California, Utah, Antarctica and many other places.

[cerealkiller]

The Sacara bird DID fly when it was built slightly larger and tested on several different occasions.

[biggunna]

#9..dragon balls and somebody had already made their wish so u gota wait a year for them to turn gold with the stars again

[DarthCuddlefluff]

It's called the Phaistos Disc, and it has nothing to do with fetus development.

[lindahogle]

Humanity has been almost destroyed many times, about every 12, 000 years, enough time to learn technology once again.

[xcode]

When ya hear dat whistle blowin’, Ya go the other way

[FrankLee-qdhy]

The giant stone balls are petrified droppings from a very large ancient creature. They are in a word - "mudfossils". As for the Saqqara Bird, Simon Sanderson and the History Channel proved it could fly and was aerodynamically sound by simply adding the rear stabilizing rudder that had been lost through the ages.

[PathsUnwritten]

#8 Your *"Genetic Disk"* is the Phaestos Disk found on Crete and dates from about 4000 years ago. It's made of ceramics, not stone and has a undeciphered pictographic writing system. Where did you get all this stuff about Colombia and the growth of a fetus?

[richardlinn]

The carbon dating of the shroud was mistakenly done on material used to patch it after it was burned in a fire and not the original material.

[jdhed]

The Death whistle sounds a lot like me screaming every morning when the alarm goes off

[caninedrill_instructor]

There is a recent development with the Voynich Manuscript.
A Turkish engineer used ancient Turkish to translate some of it.

[mikumikuda]

That whistle freaked me up.. Honestly.. XD

[Gothtecdotcom]

Some kids I know, sold me an Aztec death whistle, the shape of a skull, they had 3D printed... It's brilliant!

[greengardengreen]

Ref to the shroud of Turin, you should have researched further. The carbon dating you mentioned, was a sample taken from a piece of cloth added to the shroud in Middle Ages or even before. However, you should have mentioned that more samples were taken later on from the cloth for carbon dating, resulting in its conclusion that it dated back to the early parts of the first century AD.

[SmokenRubber]

What did they need electricity for in 200BC? Well.. to charge their iPhones of course..

[courtnallbird]

Love watching your video's from the start.
Sometimes I come back and watch them again and again..

[reesewise]

You should make a video on all of the noise making Aztec whistles and there purposes. I would be very interested in seeing that!

[robinsonsuarez]

Funniest shit when Im playing it in the background and I hear Katrina say “giant balls from Costa Rica” put a smile on my face

[MB-ncrq]

What you depict as the
GENETIC DISC of Colombia, is in fact the prehistoric PHAESTOS disc, found in Crete, Greece.

[philbrennan]

Problem the sacara bird was found to be perfectly aerodynamic