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strange objects whether they bring the

secrets of the great pyramid to

light perhaps

escape tools for the soul of the

Pharaoh what was this

life-threatening device used for? unbelievable

the thing was even used in

children's department stores.

This is proof that the

Romans entered America before Columbus. The

head doesn't fit not from

here

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fascinating mysterious

objects long hidden in museums,

laboratories and

archives now we can use the most modern

technology to reveal their secrets

we can recreate them

disassemble and

enlarge and thus

reveal the forgotten hidden and bizarre [Music] these are the strangest

things in

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World three

objects ball hook and five pieces

of wood found in a secret passage

of the great pyramid of Gise a

find that caused a worldwide sensation these are the only objects

that have ever been recovered from the huge pyramid

their intended use is

unknown but can be determined using the most modern

technology

Stone ball is about the

size of a

tennis ball. It is obviously very

roughly hewn and has

a clear scratch on its entire circumference.

The corroded copper-made

hook divides into two curved prongs

below the fork. Four fittings.

Apparently it was attached to something else

What is unknown about

the Five Pieces of Wise Men strange

indented markings

on the great

pyramid it has captivated people for over 4000 years it

leaves many

questions unanswered to this

day perhaps these

artifacts can shed some light on the darkness

or just not as fake

whether they are real maybe

they were later deposited in the pyramid,

were they once in the possession of the

builders, why were they

hidden in it, what were they used for?

Inside the great

pyramid, also

called the pyramid, they make the discovery of their

lives and Dion searched the queen's burial chamber

for secret passages,

went ahead with heavy tools and

suddenly broke through the

wall behind it into another shaft - an

astonishing

find

because that's exactly where Dixon came across and Grant

on the three mysterious objects,

their discovery made headlines around the world.

Even back then,

Jeob's pyramid was considered the symbol of the ancient

Egyptian pharaonic culture.

Dixon and Grant were considered the

first to have found anything in it.

The finds became

famous as Dixon relics

Unveil the only remaining wonder of the world

at almost 147 m, the great pyramid was

the tallest building in the world for over 4000 years,

not even the wheel had been invented at the

time of its construction, without

this achievement, such a structure could

not be imagined, the massive structure itself reveals

little At that time in ancient

Egypt, the interiors of buildings were

not yet decorated with hieroglyphs,

so there is no

information in the

interiors of the pyramid, there is

nothing, neither corpses nor grave goods,

absolutely nothing, which is why

the thick finds are so important if they

were real With their help, many

questions could be answered in the case of

forgeries, but the certainty would

continue. In fact, there are many

possibilities for leaving it behind later. In

fact, Dixon and

Grant were not the first to take something from the

pyramid, even the Greeks

and Romans had already done this

done even later, European

colonialism went with an enormous

enthusiasm for the old,

even Napoleon Bonaparte is said to have

once spent the night all alone in its interior.

The secure exclusion of an

origin from later visitors

requires an exact dating.

The ball and the hook are

sent to the British Museum in London The

wood, on the other hand, disintegrated into F parts at some point and was

only kept in a cigar box.

It went into the late4

but stone and metal cannot be

dated. Wood is

indispensable for this. Without the pieces of wood, the

question of whether these objects were

left behind by the builders could

not be

answered. It was a dead end in the

A way out suddenly opens to the university in

Aberdin, Scotland. In

2019, a

lacquered box falls into your

hands in the Asian collection. A striking, unusual

box. It seemed somehow out of

place. A

faded old Egyptian flag was still

visible on the lid. After

opening it, your eyes fell on it Five

pieces of wood that were thought lost can now be used to determine the age of

the thickest relics using the radibon

method, as well as their

authenticity. The result of the analysis

shocks the

experts. The wood is 500 years older

than the pyramid. That was a huge,

unexpected surprise for

us 500 years ago For a long

time, half a

millennium before Cheob, no one thought of building something like

pyramids,

a 500-year-old object so

incredibly old and still in

use.

Egypt had very little good wood, so

they resorted to imports from Lebanon,

which in turn were extremely expensive

The wood was reused after its use -

early

recycling,

so to speak - archaeological excavations

prove that timber was recovered during this time, especially when building

monuments and tombs.

The discovery of the ancient remains from

the great pyramid fits in with

today's knowledge of Egyptian

antiquity Question: What were

they used for? Experts initially suspected that

the thickest relics were

sophisticated measuring instruments from the

pyramid builders' toolbox.

The construction didn't just involve

moving gigantic stone blocks.

Precision was required from the base of the

pyramid to the top, an

angle of precise was required

To maintain 51.5°, a mistake was made at the bottom and

it no longer fit at the top.

The ancient Egyptians knew about the

importance of the correct angle.

Pharaoh

Snefru op's father had this so-called bend pyramid built.

The original angle seems to have been

too steep.

They recognized the mistake and

corrected it simply during the

construction phase that probably explains the

characteristic kink in its

outer walls sooner or later

51° must have been recognized as the optimal angle

and of course ensuring this requires

precise instruments and

tools such as was the correct

angle dimension maintained during the construction of the great pyramid

perhaps with the thick

relics they could be parts of a

single tool the wood

possibly formed a handle and

was connected to the hook the ball

perhaps served as a

l a plumb bob is essentially

a weight on a string that shows

the perfect vertical thanks to gravity

that would be a possible explanation

for the notch surrounding the ball, a

speculative addition of apparently

missing pieces of wood interprets the thick

relics as parts of a multi-angled LS

for measuring not only the verticals

but also the horizons and

diagonals, but without the

parts assumed to be missing, nothing

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proven so aiming further

attempts to interpret other secrets of

the Chobs

pyramid whose four corners point

in the geographical

directions north, south, east and

west and with less

than

one exact orientation is of enormous importance in the

ancient Egyptian belief in life after

death because

this belief understood the

stars located in the north as guarantors of

immortality, it was only the accurate

adjustment of the royal tombs to the orbits of

these stars that allowed the pharaohs

to become immortal gods themselves after their death. This was

ensured

by a special instrument, the so-

called

merchet. A merch looked like a plumb line

Aligned with the meridian on the

line that connects north and south and

allowed a

specific star to be located at a specific

position in the sky, the mer came into use together with an

elongated fork-like a

so-called view through, a

striking resemblance to

one of the thickest relics is more than a

given both are correct Used

to allow the exact determination of the

north direction and alignment with the

polar stars, the thick relics were

such an

instrument, not all experts were convinced that

the VES tool was hidden in

hidden shafts, for

which so far four secret shafts in

the great pyramid are known, two each in

the burial chambers of the queen and

king are unknown what they may have served for,

these three pieces hold the

answer to that. In

1993, over 100 years after dixon's and gr.

find, a German engineer sets out to find out

the meaning of the shafts.

Rudolf

gantenbring a robot with which he

inspected these shafts ended up

in a

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Dead end whose blind wall ste erer i

copper nails next to it he found a

wooden post that looked very familiar to him

the dixen wood could have

looked like this before it fell apart

could provide the explanation of the three

strange objects if you connect the

pole discovered by Gantenbrink the

wood and the copper nails like this If you hold a

long double hook in your

hand, it was assumed that these were

tools with which

the pharaoh's soul was supposed to find its way

out of the burial chamber, the stone

ball to pave a way through the

walls, the hooks, the copper nails and the

wooden rod to pry open the blind wall

aids on the journey to heaven

so that the pharaoh can take his place in the kingdom

of the gods

but with this theory,

as with all considerations about the

thick relics, there is a problem:

hooks and nails do not fit together

the distance between the two copper nails in

the Blind wall about 7 and a half centimeters, the

width of the double hook 5

cm, there is no theory that

can lead to uncertainty. The

meaning and purpose of

the thickest relics may remain in the

dark forever and yet there is a consensus that they

are real. They were hidden there viin,000

years ago, regardless of whether they were

measuring instruments for Builders or

crowbars for

pharaoh's souls They are among the

most valuable remnants of a

sunken

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world Lensing USA A strange polished

wooden cabinet is on display in the Michigan

History Center there A prop

from a Flash Gorden film No, this

machine is real and it produces

deadly rays

Unbelievable that was Not highly

developed medical technology, the thing

was even used in children's department stores.

Using digital imaging,

we can examine this machine in detail today.

It is the

Adrian pedoscope from the 1930s,

almost 1 meter high, approximately 0

wide and 80 cm

deep, this is an object that looks

very professional made of very elegant exterior

with polished wood that seems to

be something really stylish on the

top there are various switches and controls

plus three metal-framed openings

similar to binoculars. You stood in front of the

device and looked in from above,

further down a small step just

behind it a large opening into the device

In and exactly here the danger lurks - a

very dangerous device that has been

in

use everywhere in the western world for decades. Who could

come up with something like that? What happened to the users of the

spedoscope? What was it

even

used for? This question is answered by a

closer examination of the Adrian

floscope The opening on the lower part

is about the size of a

foot. These strange devices, also

called pedoscopes, were available

in many

shoe shops in the 20th century. Instead of simply measuring the foot,

they wanted to use the latest

technology to determine the fit of a shoe on the foot as precisely as possible

People laugh at rulers and

measuring tapes as being nasty and rely on

rays that magically reveal the hidden structure of the

foot.

High-tech of an age that already believes in

progress

beyond

visible light under the extreme

violet end of the spectrum still under

the ultraviolet rays

in 1895 the German physicist Wilhelm

Konrad röngen discovered a previously

unknown form of radiation that was able to

miraculously

penetrate solid objects he called them

xrays because of their short

wavelength they penetrated Substances that

scatter visible light allow Rönkenstahlen to

look into materials with a

special density, for example

bones. A week after his

discovery, Rönkin took the famous

photo of his wife's hand.

Her hand bones

and the striking

wedding ring were clearly visible when looking at this photo,

she says I saw my own death in

apparent shock V Looking through skin

and flesh into your own

interior the technical development work

for the use of the roken rays is carried out by

this famous man Thomas

Alvon in May

1896 he presented

his latest invention to the National Electric Light Association,

the

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fluoroscoped people standing Queue

to be able to take a look at your own skeleton on a glass plate.

Edison's amazing new technology

inspires the masses. Fluoroscopy is on everyone's lips

quickly used commercially

in the

shoe trade

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it seemed effortless to

find suitable shoes in shops, you tried

one on and then placed the

shod foot into the

pedoscope the x-ray tube inside the

base exposes the shoe to a

certain amount of radiation from the fluorescent

screen from below The shoe now shows the

customer's x-rayed foot to the strange openings on

the top of the

device. The pedoscope had three

viewing openings at different

heights, one for the salespeople and one

for the parents, plus one the

lowest for children who suddenly look at

theirs transparent feet

were naturally fascinated now you should

wiggle your toes to show how much space you

had in the shoe was

sensational at that time everything highly

technical was loved and adored a

simple ruler simply couldn't

keep up with such amazing equipment now

thanks to science and technology The

length and width of a foot can

be determined in a matter of seconds. Although such

spectacular gadgets do not necessarily

provide better results than the

simple methods,

this high-tech crowd favorite

really works

The answer is a clear no. Today

people would consider X-rays when buying shoes to

be nonsense anyway. How did

this

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device come about? It all starts in the First

World War.

A military doctor named Dr Jacob was serving in the US Army at the time.

Many of his patients were

soldiers with foot injuries l could

hardly keep up with the x-rays for accelerated

examinations he tilted his fluoscope

to the

side the fluoscopy offered the great and

efficient advantage of examining

the foot without having to take off the patient's boots.

At the end of the war low realized that

the tilted floscope was a brilliant idea

he saw in it A real chance

modified the apparatus for the

shoe trade and founded the Fotoscope

Corporation which applied for the patent in 1919.

In January 1920 he presented

his revolutionary invention to the

public at a dealers' meeting

in

Boston. This says a lot about the true

meaning of this apparatus from low

it was never about scientific Research

but to

sell it is a bargain, the device is

not exactly paneled with valuable

maragon wood, its price at the time was

900 US dollars, which would correspond to

13,000 today, a larger investment for any

shoe store, but the demand was

enormous worldwide,

people were enthralled, many

visited the stores even without the

intention of buying to be able to look at your foot bones,

strictly speaking, technology that has no

real benefit apart from its

excellent support in

sales, the pedoscope is becoming more and more

popular. Competition is pushing onto the

market. At its peak in the

1950s, thousands of them were

in use worldwide, but

no one had a problem ever asked whether the devices were

safe.

At the beginning of the 20th century,

the dangers of X-rays were still

largely

unknown. One could have known it

as early as

1896, the physicist Nicola Tesla held

his finger in an X-ray and

suffered severe burns, but he

was not yet able to make the connection

Recognize Thomas ALV Edison, the inventor

of the fluoroscope, began to suspect the danger

when his assistant Clarence Daaley

became seriously ill with

hair loss, followed by dizziness,

nausea and severe skin damage,

especially on his

hands. Several

skin transplant attempts were

unsuccessful, the skin lesions would not

heal. Finally, both of his arms had to be

amputated and soon afterwards

he died of

radiation sickness. In

1920, at the time the

Adrian fluoroscope was brought onto the market, the risks for

humans could no longer be overlooked.

Radiation, especially an excess of

X-rays, can have very unpleasant

effects, which can range from these

burn-like phenomena on the

skin to cancer growth lead to

loss of eyesight and sterility,

i.e. infertility, that's

a whole lot more extremely

unpleasant

effects, but the increasingly

obvious risks are no

obstacle for

profit-seekers - this also applies but not only

to the

fluoroscope itself - the side effect of

hair loss is recognized as an opportunity to make

quick money In the

1920s, the physicist

Albert Sie Geiser invented the

tricot machine, a

depilation device to combat unwanted

hair growth. The customers sat down in front of the

device and had themselves

irradiated. The desired effect was to kill

the hair-producing horny cells in

the hair root, but there was

far

more damage in the USA alone There are 75

jersey clinics, tens of thousands of women

underwent this type of

treatment. It was only in the 1970s that

the bad consequences of

trico-irradiation came to light. More than

30% of the women treated developed

skin damage, ulcers or

tumors and the devices in the

shoe shops. Today we know that

radioactive radiation is dangerous In

very small quantities it can

destroy the DNA, which means that

breaks occur in the genetic material and the more

radiation is absorbed by the body,

the more dangerous it

becomes. It was assumed that the

radiation dose from a single

shoe fitting would not exceed the limit for a

safe annual dose.

This was published in 1946 US

standards institute American Standards

Association set limit values ​​for

X-ray devices but they did

n't do

much at first. The lead shields

that now had to be used to protect against

X-rays

were unreliable if they

weren't attached correctly, they were of no use at all. There was no

damage at all

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-customers, surprising

cases have become known. Shoe sellers,

however, were less

lucky. One case has been documented and that

is that of a model, a woman who

demonstrated the device or her feet

or both and in her case the

burns and inflammation were so severe

that you could actually The entire

leg

had to be amputated. The sales staff were at great risk due to the

constant fittings, and they

often reached into the device with their hands.

Ken was only the case of a woman who developed dermatitis as a result of

the radiation. There

were probably many

other people who were sick who simply did

n't know the reason for their suffering

Fluoroscopes remain widespread, but

at the beginning of the 1950s,

American medical associations increased their

warnings. Insight and fear increasingly protected

customers from

radiation exposure from pedoscopes. In

1957, Switzerland became the first US state to

ban it in Europe. Switzerland followed in 1959,

but even in

1981 there was still one in a school store

in West

Virginia in 2004 Another case of

skin cancer is linked to such devices

and it remains

doubtful whether the extent of the damage to

health will ever be known.

In the basement of the

anthropological museum in Mexico City lies this

strange terracotta sculpture of a

head, highly

unusual for 90 years, he introduces

historians and archaeologists

Mystery definitely doesn't belong here,

nothing has any place here.

Nowadays,

every detail of this striking find can be

analyzed using the most modern technology. This is the

so-called kalixtla

hakkopf, it is not big, it is

about the size of a golf ball, it

was probably once part of a

statuette, an angry European-

looking face with cap on

styled hair Elements that some

archaeologists recognize

my face and beard are reminiscent of

Roman sculptures from the second

century of our

time remarkable given the

location of this piece,

it was discovered between 1476 and 1510

with a number of grave goods in

a central Mexican

Azecian tomb

a strictly speaking impossible Found in

this part of America long before the

arrival of the

Europeans I can say with certainty there

were no Romans in America

some experts are already calling for

the history books

to be rewritten but what is this

really about how old is this

sculpture is it

Roman were the Romans in America before Columbus

Or does it represent something completely

different?

The strange terracotta head was found

during excavations 60 km west of Mexico City.

In the

1930s, the archaeologist pon uncovered a

burial site in the ancient city of Kalixla

Haka.

Founded by the Azteeks around 1476,

it remains until the uprising of its residents in

1510 an outpost of their

empire Montezuma the Z ruler of that

time resettled the residents after the

suppressed revolt and had

the city completely destroyed with the exception of the temple

kalixla huaka only existed for

34

years when pon the Aztec tomb opens it

is known to him that it dates back to that time

must date between 1476 and 1510

1510 7 years before the arrival of the first

Europeans in

Mexico particularly mysterious in

history no one has ever touched the tomb since it

was sealed sometime before 1510

during his excavations he has to go

through three archaeological layers he

finally comes across the coffin

Apparently he is the first to

reach the grave and

open it. It is clear that it is

the elaborate grave of an Azcian

nobleman. It contains magnificent, valuable

grave goods, gold, precious jewels and

one that particularly

stands out is a small head,

a face with a beard, there

is nothing else like this in

which the archaeologists are sure

that the so-called kxla HAK head does not

belong here why are they

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that first of all the full

wavy hair does not correspond to any contemporary

description of the

Azeks the Azk hairstyle was

wild straight hair with a

fringe in front but are acetes careless

Values ​​are completely foreign to them

Facial hair was considered unsightly It

is said that mothers

put hot towels on their sons' facial skin to prevent them from growing in the bathroom

Hair on the face was immediately

plucked out It makes no sense Completely

unmedical art simply a

foreign body This complete strangeness

leaves the archaeologist Erich Binger comes to

an unusual guess:

he believes he recognizes something

that he has already seen almost 10,000 km away.

Binger identified the find as a

possible Roman head; it reminds him of

Roman art from the second

century of our

time. The classical archaeologist Bernhard Andree gives an even more precise date

He suspects the head's origin in

the time of the Roman Emperor Severus

between

193 and

235. In fact, it is similar to the

depictions of the emperors of the Severa

dynasty, but how could a Roman

sculpture end up in an aztheca tomb in

the years before the Europeans

reached the continent? A

real Roman head would be a

historical sensation as proof of

Roman

crossings of the Atlantic, but scientists all over the world

remained skeptical. Romans

in Mexico were impossible The

discovery of

the soangee remains unpublished and remains

almost a

secret. No, that also seemed

highly

implausible and the head once again remained

unnoticed for 30 years.

In 1995, the archaeologist Romeo Christ took up

the debate.

Christoph was allowed to take a

tiny rock sample from the head and send it to

the maxpl Institute in Germany

thermoluminescence analysis

allows the

chronological classification of inorganic

material such as ceramics, the age of the

head, so the result is between

750 and

290

years, a confirmed pre-Columbian

origin,

the statuette was definitely made before the

European colonization of Mexico,

the age seems to be of

Roman origin

show how such an old

European product got to

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Mexico Romans in America the Atlantic

stretches over 4000 km between the

continents Romans are not considered

ocean-going people they did not sail oceans

they preferred the safety of the

Mediterranean Christoph explains the

Roman discovery in Mexico with the so-called

drift theory he suspected that an

abandoned or lost

Roman ship was somehow

drifted towards northern Central America.

This theory is supported by the

most recent archaeological

discoveries of Roman presence in the

Canary

Islands. After Roman traces were

found in the Canary Islands, it was said that

the prevailing current here definitely existed

A ship could have sailed across the Atlantic if

anyone wanted to

contradict the alleged Roman discoveries, there were

also other places in America -

coins and even a Roman

sword -

the problem with these finds is

that many people only see what they

want to see in the 1960s there is a

story about

amforen a portuguese potter had

placed them in the sea to age them artificially

a diver discovered them and

thought they were real

roman vessels also the drift theory is

quite

problematic other than the head

nothing indicates the arrival of a

roman ship in mexico on

the Most historians and

archaeologists consider the drift theory to be

far too

speculative. There may be a

simpler explanation for the

head. Maybe it doesn't come from

Europe.

In the graves of the Aztheca there

are definitely non-Aztheca objects. The natives at the time were

clearly interested in exotic objects

interested in shells from distant coasts,

for example, or in

things from older cultures such as the

so-called

Olmec heads between 1400 and 400 before

our time, the Olms ruled in

Mexico

whose civilization was characterized by

modern architecture and was otherwise

very progressive. The Olms

developed, among other things

Step pyramid and mapped the

sky there are already clear

parallels to the more recent advanced cultures of

Mexico the Olms are also gifted

sculptors their artistic

architectural legacy including

these famous monolithic heads is

simply

magnificent but their creativity is

not limited to

monumental sculptures a statuette like

this one shows a kneeling figure

Beard excavations in necropolises prove

that such relics were collected by the Aztecs

and reused as grave goods.

A small

Olmec head was also discovered among the offerings of a temple, which was clearly

guarded or traded as a treasure for a long time.

Our head could also be an Olmec work. The

time and continent are correct but is there

anything comparable from Olmcan

production the answer is

no perhaps the explanation is much

simpler a boy's piece what if the

head was never in the grave

the famous professor of

mesoamerican studies liked to tell his

students that one of Pons

archaeologists made a joke and left the

head unnoticed If

Pon's son had put it in the grave, he would have assured that

his father was constantly present at all excavations. It

would have been impossible to place his head in the grave.

I took part in excavations myself.

Believe me, it is

impossible to keep an eye on everything

Prank never reported

maybe because pon only reports its discovery

after 30 years

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no one will stand up 30 years after such

a joke and say yes,

people did

it, after so long you ca

n't laugh about it anymore, that's the

problem no one back then The person

involved in the excavation is still alive

the story of the prank may

make sense but there is a lack of evidence there

is no definitive answer the

strange head will probably keep its secret

People love the

mysterious they want to expand their horizons

but sometimes you have to

accept that there is no explanation

for it why something is in a

certain place how it

could have gotten there sometimes

we just have to accept the uncertain

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