The Voynich Manuscript

Archaeological Finds that are Still Baffling Researchers

What’s so extraordinary and mysterious about a manuscript which was written at the end of the 15-16 century which is full of botanical and scientific drawings?

The thing that has been mystical about this manuscript is that the researchers have not been able to decipher to date. The writings in the manuscript have been described as all sorts of magical and scientific but no one has been able to fully explain the writings in this manuscript.

 Acambaro Figures

Archaeological Finds that are Still Baffling Researchers

In July of 1944, Waldemar Julsrud found around 33000 of these figurines in Acambaro, Mexico. These figures represent dinosaur and some even argue that they are some sort of an anomaly. These figures that have been found actually have no proof of being an ancient artifact and therefore are often categorized as myths and hoax.

Ancient Troy

Archaeological Finds that are Still Baffling Researchers

Popularly known for the Trojan War, and the legends related to it Troy has been a city that was supposed to be a city existing only in stories. But in an excavation in northwest Anatolia, in Turkey from 1965-1968 an English archeologist Frank Calvert and a German archeologist and a wealthy businessman Heinrich Schliemann, found a city which has been generally agreed to be Troy.

The Terracotta Army In Xi’an

Archaeological Finds that are Still Baffling Researchers

This isn’t the Terracotta Army as shown in Mummy 3. They cannot come to life, at least they have not until now.

A farmer found an army of clay in March 1974. The clay army of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. It includes around 10,000 soldiers, chariots and horses combined.  The archeologists believe that this clay army was buried with the emperor so that it could help him in his next life.

Ancient Chemical Warfare

Archaeological Finds that are Still Baffling Researchers

When in 1933 an archeologist was conducting an excavation underneath a Roman/Persian battlefield, he stumbled across something that he had no idea could exist. The Persians when they came across the fact that Romans were digging a tunnel beneath them, came up with a counter-tunnel of their own and filled them with burning sulfur and bitumen, which turns into acid in your lungs when you inhale it.

Dead Sea Scrolls

Archaeological Finds that are Still Baffling Researchers

These scrolls were found near the Dead Sea in the 1950s are ancient Jewish Religious manuscripts. These scrolls are believed to be biblical in nature. Researchers have come on the consensus that these scrolls are dated from 3rd century BCE and 1st century CE. These scrolls are found to be in Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic.