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10 Most Amazing Ancient Mysteries

Book Summary by: James Fernandez    

Original Author: 2spare.com
1)Nazca Lines: landing strips for alien spacecraft?
The Nazca Lines are geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert (Peru).
The drawings include a hummingbird, monkey, spider and lizard, to name only a few of the over 300 drawings. They were created during the Nazca culture in the area, between 200 BC and 600 AD. The Lines were made by removing the iron-oxide coated pebbles which cover the surface of the desert. When the gravel is removed, they contrast with the light color underneath. In this way the lines were drawn as furrows of a lighter color. Since their discovery, various theories have been proposed regarding the lines construction. It has been proposed by some that the Nazcan lines presuppose some form of manned flight and that a hot air balloon was the only possible available technology. The most famous theory was put forward by Erich von Daniken, who proposed that the lines were, in fact, landing strips for alien spacecraft. Another theory contends that the lines are the remains of walking temples, where a large group of worshipers walked along a preset pattern dedicated to a particular holy entity.
2)Ten Lost Tribes of Israel: still around us?
These are the ancient Tribes of Israel that disappear from the Biblical account after the Kingdom of Israel was totally destroyed, enslaved and exiled by ancient Assyria. Since at least the 17th century both Jews and Christians have proposed theories concerning the lost tribes, based to varying degrees on the Bible accounts. An Ashkenazic Jewish tradition speaks of the Lost Tribes as Die Roite Yiddelech, The little red Jews, cut off from the rest of Jewry by the legendary river Sambation whose foaming waters raise high up into the sky a wall of fire and smoke that is impossible to pass through. There are also ethnic groups such as the Pashtun who traditionally claim descent from the Lost Tribes. British Israelism proclaims the idea that the British are the direct lineal descendants of the lost tribes of Israel. Also:
Bene Ephraim (from southern India) claim descent from the Tribe of Ephraim
Bnei Menashe (from northeast India) claim descent from the lost Tribe of Manasseh
Beta Israel, also known as Falashas - Some of this ancient group of Ethiopian Jews as well as several Jewish scholars believe they are descended from the lost Tribe of Dan, as opposed to the traditional story Persian Jews (especially the Bukharan Jews) claim descent from the Tribe of Ephraim Igbo Jews claim descent variously from the tribes of Ephraim, Menasseh, Levi, Zebulun, and Gad
The Lemba tribe (from South_Africa) claim to be descendants from a lost tribe which fled from modern Yemen and journeyed south.
3)Delphic Oracle: predicted the future based on water and leaves?
Delphi was the site of the most important oracle of the god Apollo. Delphi was revered throughout the Greek world as the site of the omphalos stone, the centre of the universe. The oracle at that time predicted the future based on the lapping water and leaves rustling in the trees. She sat on the Sibylline Rock, or in a cauldron shaped bowl on top of a tripod, breathing in vapors from the ground and gaining her often puzzling predictions from that. This oracle exerted considerable influence across the country, and was consulted before all major undertakings: wars, the founding of colonies, and so forth. The oracle is also said to teached Socrates of his own ignorance, and this claim is related to one of the most famous mottos: know thyself. Another famous motto of Delphi is: nothing in excess.

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4) Noahs Ark: could have carried that many animals?
5) King Arthur: actually existed?
6) Ark of the Covenant: taken to heaven?
7) Atlantis: disappeared into the sea?
8) Pope Joan: the female Catholic Pope?
9) Garden of Eden: where was it?
10) Knights Templar: had the Holy Grail?
Published: May 11, 2006
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