Discoveries That Prove History Books Are Wrong

[sky otter]

 
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5 Baffling Discoveries That Prove History Books Are Wrong
By: Evan V. Symon April 20, 2012 959,093 views

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#5. Cocaine Discovered in Egyptian Mummies

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When Columbus and his buddies made it to the New World, aka not India, they found more than just future smallpox sufferers waiting for them. There was a whole cornucopia of never-before-seen plants and animals growing in the Americas, not to mention new and interesting ways to use beads. So while the natives came away from their first European encounter with raging infectious diseases and honeybees, Europeans were introduced to the glories of tobacco, narcotics made from the coca leaf and a whole mess of open-air nudity. If you've ever needed evidence that history is unfair, there it is.

At least that's the story we know. And if that's true, then how did some Egyptian mummies wind up with traces of cocaine in their bodies?

The Finds:

In 1992, German scientists were testing their mummies when they found remnants of hashish, tobacco and cocaine in their hair, skin and bones. Now, hashish comes from Asia, so it's not unfathomable that a royal Egyptian would know a guy who could get him the hook-up. But tobacco and cocaine were strictly New World plants at the time of the mummification. It'd be like if some celebrity today tested positive for heroin that could only have been grown on Venus.

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"I've been nodding for the last two millenniums. This shit is incredible."

So how did it happen? All we have are theories. Maybe the sites were contaminated by hard-partying archaeologists (although you'd think that if somebody had old pics of themselves snorting coke off of a mummy's ass, they'd have uploaded that shit to Facebook by now). Or maybe the mummies themselves were fake, like maybe they were disco-era archaeologists who just took their love of mummification too far.

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"Four excavators came down with the disco fever before a priest released the curse."

So the German scientists did what anyone trying to protect their reputation would do -- they had an independent lab test the mummies themselves. They found the same dope. The Germans then went to work testing hundreds of ancient mummies, finding nicotine in a third of them. Not only that, but actual tobacco leaves were discovered in the guts of Ramses II (of Exodus fame, maybe). And among those leaves, an actual dead tobacco beetle was found, which means that some ancient Egyptian just smoked the hell out of his cigarettes.


4. Ancient Hebrew Inscribed on a Rock in New Mexico

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Picture this: You're an archaeologist minding your own business in New Mexico when a guy comes up and tells you he's got something to show you. Once you check to make sure he's wearing pants and double check to make sure you've got a gun, you follow him to this town outside Albuquerque called Los Lunas. And there he shows you a 90-ton rock inscribed with ancient writing. No big deal, right? Everyone knows Native Americans have lived in the area since at least the 1850s, it's only natural they'd scratch some graffiti up every now and then. People get bored.

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Things to do in Old New Mexico: Die, watch other people die, make pottery.

This is exactly what happened to archaeology professor Frank Hibben in 1933. Only he had the sense to recognize that the scribbling wasn't Native American writing -- it was Hebrew. Ancient Hebrew. And the message wasn't "Custer sux balls," it was the Ten Commandments.

The Find:

Believe it or not, while people in the 1930s were gullible enough to think Martians were invading Earth in the most melodramatic way possible, they were cynical enough to call bullshit at the claim that anyone in ancient America knew Hebrew. Yet when experts took a look, they were confounded. For one thing, the script included some Greek letters, which indicated that the script was etched by someone comfortable with mixing Greek and Hebrew (if no one comes to mind, ancient Samaritans fit that bill perfectly).


So that was weird. And the rock was the same basalt of the mountain right behind it, so it was definitely local. But that doesn't mean that the ancient script on the rock was ancient, right? Any old American with a theology degree and a chisel could have done it (again, there was literally nothing else to do for entertainment back then). It also doesn't help that the guy who discovered the rock in the first place was later implicated in artifact fraud (though the allegations were never proven). The whole thing was just too weird to be anything but a hoax.


Yet when a modern geologist examined the inscriptions and compared them with carvings nearby, he concluded that the scratchings could be between 500 and 2,000 years old. And that's as much as we'll presumably ever know -- by this point, too many people have handled the artifact for dating tests to get any kind of accurate results.


#3. Ancient Roman Statues in Mexico

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Anyone with a third grade understanding of world geography (or access to Google Maps) knows that Rome and Latin America aren't neighbors (fiery tempers and flat bread recipes don't count as proximity in the map world). Even when Rome was at its apex and was conquering Africa, England and everyone's hearts, places like Mexico were nowhere on their radar. Not just because radar didn't exist, but because as far as the Old World was concerned, the Western Hemisphere didn't exist. Once you got past Portugal, it was nothing but Neptune, water dragons and the edge of the planet.


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Standing somewhere high and noticing the curve of the Earth was just too much for the Romans.

Which was why scholars were baffled when an ancient statue of a Roman head popped up in an old temple in Mexico.

The Finds:

In 1933, an archaeologist was digging around a burial ground about 40 miles away from Mexico City when he discovered this tiny little figure among the other offerings. And we should mention that this wasn't just a typical out-in-the-open burial dumping ground. The spot he was digging was previously under not one, but two undisturbed cement floors that were untouched since the 1500s. So it's not like a jokester could have purchased it at the nearest Roman-centered novelty store and dumped it in a cemetery to be hilarious.

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And yes, we're aware that Columbus touched ground a few years before that, but white guys didn't make it to Mexico until 1519, and even then, it's unlikely they would have been carrying around Roman artifacts. And yes, they know it was Roman -- the beehive bouffant (or hat) and facial features match Roman artifacts of the second century.


So how did it get there? No one knows. But another discovery might shed some light on the mystery.

In 1982, an underwater archaeologist discovered a buttload of third century Roman vases in the harbor of Rio de Janeiro. A little more digging around led to the discovery of two rotting Roman-style ships, which were then promptly buried with sand by the Brazilian government. Apparently Brazil hates adventure, and also the idea of anyone messing with their version of history, which was that their land was discovered by the Portuguese, not the Romans. Seems like it'd be cooler to have been discovered by the Romans, but whatever.


#2. A Norse Coin in Maine

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Imagine it's 1957 and you're on an archaeology dig in Maine. If it helps set the scene, picture yourself listening to Elvis Presley in a white tee with a cigarette pack in your sleeve while you dig around. The spot you're working on was once the largest Native American settlement in Maine, so you're looking for Native American-y stuff. Arrowheads and the like. But among all that is this coin that just doesn't fit. "That's because it's British!" said everyone at first, but the truth turned out to be much weirder. The coin was Norse (think descendents of Vikings), and a thousand years old at that.

The Find:

It actually took 21 years for anyone to pay attention to the coin that looked like a half-eaten Oreo ...

... but when they did, the evidence was pretty conclusive. Not only was this an ancient coin minted during the reign of Norse King Olaf Kyrre, but the window of its production was pretty limited: 1065 to 1080. That's 15 years, for those of you too lazy to bother with rudimentary math. This coin must have been made within those 15 years, and in Norway. And it was found in Maine, USA, 5 inches beneath the surface of the earth, among 30,000 genuinely Native American artifacts found during the dig.


One lone Scandinavian coin among tens of thousands of American Indian relics. So how did it get there? There was zero evidence of the Vikings ever settling past the very top of Eastern Canada, and even that wasn't so much of a "settlement" as it was a "temporary campground, maybe." And that was hundreds and hundreds of miles away. So the story was probably amazing, and also one that we'll never, ever know.

#1. Ancient Japanese Speakers in New Mexico

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We're starting to think aliens knew what they were doing when they totally and for real landed in New Mexico all those years ago. Weird shit has been popping up in the Land of Enchantment since forever. They probably thought no one would notice their weird little melon heads among the Hebrew rocks and wacky turquoise shops.


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Case in point: Tucked into New Mexico is one tribe of Native Americans who happen to speak a language unlike any around them. A language called Japanese.

The Find:

OK, maybe the Zuni people aren't speaking Japanese-Japanese, but there are enough similarities between the two languages that a few experts are spooked. The theory of a Japanese/Native American connection came about when graduate student Nancy Yaw Davis took an anthropology class on Southwestern Native American culture. She noticed that some Zuni words sounded a hell of a lot like Japanese words, and at a rate way above random chance. For example, the Zuni word for "clan" is "kwe," while in Japanese it is "kwai." The word for "clown" is "newe" in Japanese and "niwaka" in Zuni. "Priest" is "shawani" in Japanese and "shiwani" in Zuni.


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The word for "cosplay" is "You're an embarrassment to your culture."

And then there was the whole syntax thing -- both languages use the verb as the last word of a sentence, a feature only 45 percent of languages share. That may not seem like a lot, but considering the Zuni language is nothing like the languages of the people who surround it, it's a pretty odd connection.


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Kachina. In Japanese that translates to "those who have difficulty with sweaters."

So then Davis really started digging, and that was when she discovered all kinds of spooky crap -- like that both the Zuni and the Japanese share frequency of Type B blood, a rare kidney disease and specific oral traditions about their origins. So her theory is that sometime around the 12th century Buddhist missionaries made it all the way to California and traveled inland. Somehow.

If Davis' theory is true, the Zuni walked away from the deal with Japanese genes and some kickass stories -- which is a whole lot better than, say, smallpox. So it could have been worse.

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[Littleenki]

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LE

[The Matrix Traveller]

Hi sky otter,

Gee I Love these recent findings don't you?   

I guess our understanding of the Earth and its History is changing, as our Sciences mature day by day.

[Littleenki]

ABC News...This just in...The ruins of Baalbek were made of Playdoh!

Scientists in the beautiful tropical island country of Lebanon, have discovered that the ruins of the greatest city to ever exist, Baalbek, was originally constructed of the material known to researchers as "Playdoh"

Through the millenia, it is indicated that Playdoh becomes a hard diorite like substance, and fossilizes into a granite like consistency. The scientists on the scene were amazed at how well preserved the Playdoh structure was, and a few of them tried to tear off a piece to take home with them.

Master's degreed research specialist Dr. Henry Hardbottom had this to say about the find.."It seems the largest quarry in the area was filled with this Playdoh substance, and it would have been easy to work with for the local tribes and inhabitants, thus creating a massive structure as the centuries wore on"
His assertion of how Baalbek was built went like this" They would have sat around a campfire, and made little blocks of Playdoh, and then they stacked them and smoothed them with wet fingers. What do you expect? They were bored, and had already used up all of their lincoln logs to build the base of the structure, when they realized they needed to find a suitable part for the walls and roof"

Hence Playdoh.

Nearby was also discovered a massive four thousand foot deep burial pit, filled with tinkertoys, and erector set parts, that had been deemed too weak and structurally unsound for the spaceships to land on, and thusforth were discarded into a mass grave of horrific proportions.

Apparently, the site is undergoing a revamp, with some of the local children repairing the structure's damage with a large box of Lego Blocks that were found in a cave along with the other forty four commandments, so stay tuned!

Whodunnit?

[Amaterasu]

I gived You gold for that, LE!  A good chuckle for the day!

[Littleenki]

Another mindwarp for the day....

A group of independent researchers has made the singlemost important discovery in the field of Hadron physics to date, during a controversial animal experiment. Working from a lab in Newfoundland, the scientific think tank of Woofington, Barkston, and Yapper, all experts in the field, have observed the secret to language and it's connection with dogs.

While listening to the dogs through a special Woofophone built by Dr Yapper, they suddenly came upon the fact that the dogs were spewing forth Hadron physics equations, with no slowing for a biscuit. Every bark yip or howl was translated into Hadron physics formulas that have been worked on for years with no progrees, at Cern, a big hole in the ground.

Dr Yapper had this to say " When we were watching one dog hump the other, the charts began to show a series of numbers equating to the main equations for Hadron theory, and when the top dog climaxed, the bottom dog barked out the solution!"

Needless to say, the discovery has scientists on the way to cern, where the dogs will be acclerated to the speed of light and observed for a period of time, before being collided into a one mass particle of doggyness. The scientist then will see the fruit of their endeavours, and hope to create a new particle from the canine collisions.

The particle has been tentatively named the B-quark, or Bark for short.

Dr Barkston was elated at the possibilities "we havent had a chance to collide dogs, cats, or even ferrets, but with cern, we can smash atoms and animals with impunity!"

Of course, once they learn the secrets of the universe, the team has expressed interest in turning Cern into a giant doggy park, with stops along the diameter for doggy treats and refreshments. And as Dr Yapper pointed out,"we dont have to pick up the dog shit, because the collider will suspend it in midair where it can be shepherded into waiting poopy trucks."

This breakthrough proves to be the crowning achievement in science, and will eliminate the need for any further research, as now the dogs can go around and pick up our shit for a change if they are so superior to us.

Pour a glass of wine, and let the dogs work for a change, weve earned the break!

Whodunnit?

[undo11]

i think the kachinas were depictions of robots and that further information on them is in one of the older incan texts.  in those texts, they were called "walking trees."  it could've been one of the viracoccha stories although those stories were translated originally, by a catholic monk. 

interesting etymology possibility:

viracocha was the eighth sapa inca, which means he was a "great inca" also known as an  APU <---

in sumerian-akkadian-and finally babylonian, abzu became absu became apsu ("b"s, "p"s, "q"s had a dyslexic flip around the time of babylon in some of the texts (not all the texts, though. i have as yet been unable to isolate when it started or what part of babylon it started in, since there were several cultural spelling variants in babylon (earlier known as akkad and even earlier, as sumer) and it could be new cultures immigrating to the area that caused the variants.) 

anyway, the point being that APU is potentially related to the apsu.  i say that because abzu was the origin of the word "Bab" in "Bab-el" and "Bab-ilu" and as you can see, the "s" or (variant) "z" was completely dropped to form the new word.  perhaps some cultures couldn't say the "z" or "s" very easily, although i can't imagine why not. 

[Littleenki]

i think the kachinas were depictions of robots and that further information on them is in one of the older incan texts.  in those texts, they were called "walking trees."  it could've been one of the viracoccha stories although those stories were translated originally, by a catholic monk.

Indeed, undo, those kachinas are my favorite fellows from space! The depictions of them on the various walls in the southwest are far too much like robots to ignore, and veracoccia was certainly a good example of one who controlled technology.
The catholics were pretty good with symbolism, but were discouraged from making statements of implying the drawings were anything else but artwork.

Hey, this is a funny haha thread, so why not have some kachina robots thrown in for fun, eh Undo?

As long as they dont try to hump me.....

LE

[Captain Dave]

i think the kachinas were depictions of robots and that further information on them is in one of the older incan texts.  in those texts, they were called "walking trees."  it could've been one of the viracoccha stories although those stories were translated originally, by a catholic monk. 

Sounds like they were wearing ghillie suits or camo. Probably some military people/ bot's that traveled back through time... Wonder if it was on purpose or accident? 

Oop's, so thats what happens when ya go too fast. lol


I suspect they were probably viking's in armor...