The Easter Island
The Easter Island just doesn’t get any less mysterious as time goes by! On the island you can find over 200 hundred ancient statues truly gigantic in size – each being more than 14 feet high. Archaeologists and engineers still can’t figure out how ancient people managed to erect and move these 14-ton statues from one place to another. This would be hard to do even in modern days! Ancient settlers had to transport massive stones around the island, carve them, and finally raise them (Stonehenge, anyone?)
A plain filled with ancient jars
What is it with ancient people leaving bizarre evidence of their existence behind? For example, in Laos there’s a huge plain packed with gigantic Megalithic jars. The mystery of the Xieng Khouang plain has been torturing scholars since the early 30s when it was first discovered by a bunch of lucky archaeologists. They dubbed it the Plain of Jars, but the name doesn’t really prepare you for the bizarre image of 3,000 huge stone jars scattered all over the place. Mind you, each jar weighs at least several tones! All the jars were masterfully carved, hinting to the usage of iron chisels or other advanced instruments. Yet there is nothing historians can tell us about the people that could have made those jars or the reason why they placed them the way they did.
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