ANCIENT DESTINATIONS

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Discover the Enigmatic Sigiriya Rock Fortress in Sri Lanka! 🏰 Nestled amidst lush greenery, Sigiriya stands as a testament to ancient marvels and mysteries in Sri Lanka. This UNESCO World Heritage Site, often hailed as the "Eighth Wonder of the World," boasts a history shrouded in intrigue. Legend whispers tales of Sigiriya being a fortress, a palace, and even a monastery. Yet, its true purpose remains a captivating enigma. Was it a sanctuary for ancient kings or a fortress guarding against invasions? 🔊 Follow: @ancientdestinations ▶️ #ancientdestinations ▶️
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Behold the wonders of the Mayan world at Quiriguá, where the Stelae rise to monumental heights, surpassing all others in Mesoamerica. 🌌 While the Maya commonly produced stelae, Quiriguá elevated this art to new heights, both literally and metaphorically. 🔍 Encrypted with ancient wisdom, every square inch of these colossal monuments tells a tale. Boxed hieroglyphs on the sides reveal a wealth of information, but it's in the regalia of the depicted Lords that the mysteries deepen. From headdress feathers to boot ornaments, even the subtle positioning of their feet—we find a language of artistry, a visual lexicon waiting to be deciphered. 🎨 What sets Quiriguá apart, making these stelae more magnificent than their counterparts? Two secrets lie within the stones: unparalleled craftsmanship and the mystique of an unfamiliar mid-relief style, crafting 3D images of Quiriguá's rulers. 🪨 The local sandstone, incredibly hard, not only allowed for detailed faces but also facilitated the quarrying of colossal monolithic blocks, giving birth to the most gigantic monuments in Mesoamerica. 🔊 Follow: @ancientdestinations ▶️ #ancientdestinations ▶️ #guatemala #maya #mayan #southamerica #discoversouthamerica #monument #rock #carving #stone #mystery #ancientaliens #blackandwhitephotography #ancientastronauts #destinations #destination #nationalpark #guatemalan #destinos #forbiddenarchaeology #carving #ancientworld #megalithic #ancient #archaeology #archeology #ancientcivilization #ancientknowledge
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📜🔑 Lost in Script: The Puzzling Pages of the Voynich Manuscript The Voynich Manuscript mystery revolves around an ancient and enigmatic book filled with intricate illustrations, perplexing symbols, and indecipherable text. Despite centuries of scrutiny by historians, linguists, and cryptographers, the manuscript's origin, purpose, and the meaning of its content remain elusive and undeciphered. 🔊 Follow: @ancientdestinations ▶️ #ancientdestinations ▶️ . . . . #voynichmanuscript #rarebooks #manuscript #book #books #puzzle #mystery #ancientmysteries #ancientmystery #ancienthistory #archeology #civilization #mysticism #occult #ancientwisdom #secretknowledge #esoteric #mystical #history #ancientcultures #forbiddenarchaeology #enigma
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The Great Sphinx: An Enigmatic Enigma? 🤔 Wait a minute! 🚩 Did you know there's not a single hieroglyphic inscription mentioning the majestic Great Sphinx in all of Egypt? 🇪🇬🔍 📚 The ancient Egyptians were meticulous record keepers, so this omission raises some intriguing questions! 🧐 Why would they overlook such a monumental icon? 🗿🔎 💡 It's time to dig deeper! ⛏️✨ Evidence points to the Sphinx being older than the Egyptians themselves, unveiling an even more captivating mystery! 🌟✨ 🔉Follow: @ancientdestinations ▶️#ancientdestinations ▶️ #sphinx #sphinxegypt #sphinxgiza #sphinxage #sphinxerosion #sphinxtheory #greatsphinx #ancientegypt #mysteriesofegypt #egyptology #ancienthistory #archeology #civilization #ancientwisdom #secretknowledge #esoteric #mystical #history #archaeology #ancientcultures #forbiddenarchaeology #enigma #ancientdestinations
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Reptilian Statue of Morrop in Peru. Have you ever heard of the ancient god Morrop the reptilian? Well, in the Peruvian city of Chiclayo, a monument dedicated to this deity stands tall. The Moche people, who inhabited the area over 2,000 years ago, revered Morrop as a powerful character who acted as a mediator between the world of the living and the dead. But here's the t wist- Morrop was depicted as a reptilian creature! 🦎 Could this be a subtle indicator of Morrop's real nature? South America is rife with legends and depictions of controversial characters that could fit neatly into modern theories about aliens, hybrids, and their dealings with the people of Earth. From Viracocha to Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent, this continent seems to have had its fair share of age-old extraterrestrial interactions. And the local attitude towards aliens and UFOs in Peru only adds to the mystery 🛸 . 🔉Follow: @ancientdestinations ▶️#ancientdestinations ▶️
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1893 photo at Copan. The Yin Yang symbol? . 🔉Follow: @ancientdestinations ▶️#ancientdestinations ▶️
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The preservation of Queen Tiye's mummy is remarkable. She was the daughter of Yuya and Tjuya of the New Kingdom and the wife of Amenhotep III, one of Egypt’s most successful rulers. Her mummy was discovered in 1898 in the Tomb of Amenhotep II (KV 35), in the Valley of the Kings, Luxor.   . Queen Tiye’s hair became a meme on Facebook at the time of the Golden Parade because of her luscious curly locks, well preserved after more than 3,000 years. It is also worth mentioning that the queen, mother to famous pharaoh Akhenaten, died at 60 years of age. . 🔉Follow: @ancientdestinations ▶️#ancientdestinations ▶️
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Ancient megalithic sites have been discovered in the state of Montana​ in the USA  ​ These are just a few of the ​towering dolmens, ancient statues, polygonal block granite walls, pyramid complexes and stacked circular terraces rise above the forest floor.  Stone art sculptures emerge from monoliths. Humongous carved blocks, some still standing upright, thrust up between the trees. Megalithic building structures extend over miles of high mountains and rolling hills in the wild lands of Montana in the USA. 🔉Follow: @ancientdestinations ▶️#ancientdestinations ▶️ 📷 Megalithic USA
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Who really built the Osiris Shaft and what was hidden in there? . Despite what mainstream Egyptologists tell us many believe that these shafts and tunnels are thousands of years older than the Egyptian civilization. . To cut such a massive network deep into the bedrock of Giza would be an astonishingly difficult task, and hardly the work of laborers with bronze tools during the 6th dynasty, which lasted from 2345 to 2181 BC. Iron in any quantity did not show up until the 8th century BC. . It is hard to imagine how these massive stone structures ended up at such a depth for their size. . 🔉Follow: @ancientdestinations ▶️#ancientdestinations ▶️
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THE MYSTERY OF THE 200 MILLION-YEAR-OLD SHOE PRINT FOUND ON A LUMP OF COAL . In the past, there have been countless mysterious discoveries that point to the fact that modern humans lived on Earth much earlier than scholars say. Such unexplained observations referred to by many authors as ‘ ooparts — or out of place artifacts’, these enigmatic findings push the boundaries set forth by mainstream scholars, challenging everything we know about modern humans and life on Earth. A hundred years ago, a Nevada Mining Company employee named Albert E. Knapp made the enigmatic — and somewhat controversial — discovery. . “I was intrigued by the fossil, which laid on the stone side among some loose rocks, as I descended the hill my attention was attracted by the fossil. I took it and placed it in my pocket for further analysis and it came to the conclusion that it is a layer from the heel of a shoe which had been pulled from the balance of the heel by suction; the rock was in a plastic state at that time. It was found in LIMESTONE OF THE TRIASSIC PERIOD, a belt of which runs through that section of the hills.” . The enigmatic object caught the attention of several researchers who were looking forward to analyzing it. The object also caught the eyes of the media as we find two reports about the discovery in a March 19, 1922 story in the New York Times: “It would fit nicely a boy of ten or twelve years. The edges are as smooth as if freshly cut. The surprising part of it is what seems to be a double line of stitches, one near the outside edge of the sole and the other about a third of an inch inside the first. The ‘leather’ is thicker inside the inner welting and appears to be slightly bevelled, so that at the margin, half an inch wide, which runs outside, the sole is something like an eighth of an inch thick. . 🔉Follow: @ancientdestinations ▶️#ancientdestinations ▶️
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