Previously Unknown Ancient Civilizations Are Still Being Discovered
As advanced as we like to think that we are, the truth is that ancient civilizations are still being discovered today. Just recently, researchers believe that they have found two previously unknown ancient civilizations – one on the sea floor of the Caribbean and the other deep in the forests of the Amazon. The reality is that as scientists and researchers make additional discoveries, it just underlines the fact that there is much more to the ancient history of the earth than we have been led to believe. The sea floors and the dense jungles throughout the earth contains some amazing mysteries. As researchers delve into these mysteries, they are often learning that ancient humanity was much more advanced than most people would think. (Read More.....)
The mystery of the London Artifact always creates heated debates between creationists and Darwinists. So what is it? The London Artifact is an iron hammer that is surrounded by a solid mass of “cretaceous” rock. The handle of the hammer is made of wood and it is partially petrified. It was discovered in London, Texas. In June 1936, Max and Emma Hahn were walking along Red Creek, near their home in London, Texas when they spotted a rock nodule with a piece of wood sticking out of it. Some time later their son George broke it open, and this revealed a metal hammer in the center of the rock nodule to which the wooden handle was attached. The Hahns filed the hammer to see if it was really metal, and the spot that they filed has not rusted since that time, even though it is about fifty years later. So what are we to make of this extraordinary fossil? 
A while back, an alleged photo of a 100 foot snake in a river in Borneo created quite a stir. It was claimed that the picture to the left was taken by a member of a disaster relief team that was monitoring flood conditions in the Baleh River in Borneo by helicopter. The problem is that it is just so easy to fake just about anything these days that we will probably never know if this photo is actually genuine or not. As we have seen in so many cases in the past, people are so willing to lie just to gain a little notoriety. But that certainly does not mean that this photo is not real. It just means that it cannot be confirmed. If this photograph is genuine, then it is absolutely extraordinary. The truth is that snakes can still get really, really big in some areas of the world. 
The ancient city of Baalbek is one of the greatest archaeological mysteries of all time. Located east of the Litani River in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, Baalbek is world famous for its exquisitely detailed yet monumentally scaled Roman temple ruins. In Roman times, Baalbek was known as Heliopolis (after the sun god) and it contained some of the largest and most notable Roman temples ever built. In fact, the Romans had constructed an extraordinary temple complex in Baalbek consisting of three separate temples – one for Jupiter, one for Bacchus and one for Venus. But what these Roman temples were built on top of is much more important. These Roman temples were actually built on top of an ancient 5 million square foot platform that was made from some of the largest stones ever used in any construction project in the history of the earth. In fact, the largest stone found near the Baalbek ruins weighs approximately 1200 tons and is about 64 feet long. To put that in perspective, that is the equivalent of approximately 156 full size African elephants. 
Ancient Ebla was located in Northern Syria, approximately halfway between the modern cities of Hamath and Aleppo. Excavations at that site began in the 1960s, and in the 1970s a series of extraordinary tablets was discovered among the ruins of an ancient palace. These tablets became known as “The Ebla Tablets”, and they were originally discovered under the direction of two professors from the University of Rome – Dr. Paolo Matthiae and Dr. Giovanni Petinato. At this point, about 17,000 tablets from the ancient Eblaite Kingdom have been recovered. These tablets appear to have been written during the two last generations of ancient Ebla. This means that they probably come from some time around 2300 to 2250 B.C. But what is remarkable about the Ebla tablets is not how old they are, but rather the amazing parallels to the Bible that they contain. 
Why is Christmas celebrated on December 25th? Most people assume that it has always been a Christian holiday and that it is a celebration of the birth of Jesus. But it turns out that Jesus was not born on December 25th. However, a whole bunch of pagan gods were born on that day. In fact, pagans celebrated a festival involving a heroic supernatural figure that visits an evergreen tree and leaves gifts on December 25th long before Jesus was ever born. From its early Babylonian roots, the celebration of the birth or “rebirth” of the sun god on December 25th came to be celebrated under various names all over the ancient world. You see, the winter solstice occurs a few days before December 25th each year. The winter solstice is the day of the year when daylight is the shortest. In ancient times, December 25th was the day each year when the day started to become noticeably longer. Thus it was fitting for the early pagans to designate December 25th as the date of the birth or the “rebirth” of the sun. 
One of the great mysteries in the world today is why so many freakishly bizarre creatures are being born to animals around the globe. For example, last year 
Most people have never even heard of the Los Lunas Decalogue Stone, but it is truly one of the greatest historical mysteries of North America. If you tried to tell most history teachers that the Ten Commandments arrived in North America long before Christopher Columbus did, most of them would tell you that you are absolutely nuts. But that is apparently exactly what happened. The existence of the Los Lunas Decalogue Stone suggests that there is a whole lot more to the history of North America than we have been told. So just what is the Los Lunas Decalogue Stone? It is is a huge flat stone on the side of a mountain in New Mexico. The mountain is known as Hidden Mountain, and it is located near Los Lunas, New Mexico – approximately 35 miles south of Albuquerque. It is what is written on this massive stone that is so remarkable. This very large stone actually has the Ten Commandments inscribed on it in ancient paleo-Hebrew script with a few letters of ancient Greek mixed in. 
Someone is leaving elaborate crop circles all over the globe. Some of these crop circles cover great areas and are absolutely stunning in their precision. So what is going on here? It is one of the great mysteries of the world. Are these crop circles just elaborate hoaxes? If so, then why does nobody ever catch people making them? Are these crop circles connected with UFOs? Are aliens creating them? That is what a growing number of UFO researchers now believe. But why would aliens choose to leave messages for us using crops? Why wouldn’t they just communicate with us more directly? Sadly, at this point there are a whole lot more questions than there are answers. The phenomenon of crop circles is one of the great unexplained and unsolved mysteries of the world. 
Almost everyone knows about the amazing pyramids in Egypt. We will have much, much more to say about those extraordinary structures in future posts. Many people out there even know about the massive pyramids that have been found in South America. But very few people know about the pyramids that have now been discovered in China, Bosnia, the United States, Europe and Russia. The truth is that hundreds of giant ancient pyramids have now been discovered all over the world. Can all of these pyramids be attributed to one source? How could so many diverse civilizations all over the globe build such similar structures involving such advanced engineering? This is one of the truly great mysteries of the ancient world. You see, techniques were used in the construction of some of these ancient pyramids that mankind is only just now able to understand. 
Welcome to Mysteries Of The World! Our goal is to explore the greatest unsolved and unexplained mysteries in the world. The truth is that there are many great mysteries for which the current world system has no explanation. We hope to examine subjects such as the pyramids found all over the earth, the UFO phenomenon, ancient monsters, “impossible” fossils, the Shroud of Turin, 2012, Stone Henge, Easter Island and many of the almost unbelievable legends and lost civilizations around the globe. The reality is that there is much more to history than what you learned in school. We plan to focus on many of the untold stories and ancient secrets that simply do not fit in with conventional notions of what history is supposed to look like. We think that this website about the great mysteries of the world is going to be a blast to put together, and we hope that you will enjoy reading it.