1, the Terracotta Warriors of Qin Shi Huang
Sub-archaeological team in the excavation of the Spring and Autumn tombs, but accidentally found a long sword covered with soil, the sword body line of ancient seal script --- "King Goujian of Yue self-use of the sword." The sword was found in a line of ancient seal script --- "the sword used by King Goujian of Yue".
This major archaeological discovery immediately stirred the nation, but the more sensational news came from the scientific research report on the ancient sword. First attracted the attention of researchers: this ancient sword buried in the ground for more than two thousand years why did not rust? Why is it still so cold and sharp?
2, South Korea airliner crash
August 10, 1997, U.S. federal investigators said the investigation found that South Korea's large airliner crashed, Guam International Airport, the radar system's computer software is malfunctioning, failing to issue a timely warning when the aircraft approached the ground.
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board officials in charge of investigating the crash believe that problems with the radar system could not be said to be the cause of the crash, but only the lack of preventive measures on the one hand. There are many factors that could have contributed to the crash.
In addition, the fact that the navigation system that guided the plane's landing at Guam's airport had been out of service for a long time before the plane's accident, and that Guam was experiencing heavy rainfall when the plane approached the airport, are possible factors that investigators are looking into in the plane's accident.
3. Queen Cleopatra's palace
For more than 2,000 years, there must have been enough legends and myths about the most glamorous queen in history. It wasn't until 1996 that marine archaeologist Frank Goddio discovered the island of Antiochodos, where Queen Cleopatra sank, in Alexandria's East Harbor.?
"Extravagant and luxurious, unusual and colorful," is how Godio describes the underwater palace filled with the tragic fate of the last queen of the Ptolemaic dynasty.
Godio discovered not only the basalt upper-body statue of Caesarion, the son of Cleopatra and Caesar, but also the site of Antony's suicide: the last lover and husband of Cleopatra, Antony may have fled to a narrow peninsula when his arch-enemy, Voldavi, captured Alexandria.
4. The City of Atlantis
For more than 2,300 years, this legendary city-state has fueled the human imagination. According to legend, the walls and palaces of the city of Atlantis were built of gold and sunk in the sea in 11,500 BC.
The myth can be traced back to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, who made the first mention of the city of Atlantis in the Psalms of Critias and Timaeus. According to Plato, it was an earthquake that sank Atlantis into the sea. Plato describes this highly developed and affluent country as being "surrounded by separated waters and lands" - that is, by a ring of canals.
Since then, enthusiastic researchers of Atlantis have discovered more than 50 possible sites on Earth: in the Atlantic Ocean, in the Black Sea, in the Azores, on the islands of Santorin and Crete, and even on the German island of Helgoland in the North Sea. The search continues.
5, the mysterious tombstone
In 1949, archaeologist Alberto Ruiz in Palenque, Mexico, "Temple of the Inscriptions" of the uppermost platform found a step leading to the tomb. He found a 3.8-meter-long, 2.2-meter-wide slab with a mysterious decorative pattern, the significance of which has been debated by experts for 50 years. Does it show a Mayan teenager on an altar?
Is it a man who was avenged by a giant monster from the original platform? Or is it a cereal god who grows new life out of corn from his neck? Writer Erich von Denikenky even sees an astronaut in it. Only one thing is certain: the dead man in Palenque's tomb was the Mayan Marquis Pakal, who died in the 7th century AD. According to legend, he died "breathing out a hot breath".