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What if we lived in a simulation created by an advanced alien civilization?

What does "real" mean? Give me a definition of "real." If by real you are referring to what we perceive, what we can smell, touch and see, that "real" are simple electrical signals interpreted by the brain.

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What if we lived in a simulation created by an advanced alien civilization?

The summary's phrase is taken from the film "The Matrix" and is uttered by Morpheus to Neo, when he tries to explain to him the true nature of the Matrix, an elaborate virtual neuro-simulation designed to exploit the bodily energy of unaware human beings. Is it just an imaginative idea for a screenplay? Indeed, the hypothesis that our universe may be a three-dimensional simulation has been put forward by several scientists. Sure, it's a mind-boggling idea, but ultimately it's just a way to try to describe one of the greatest mysteries that can be summed up in a very simple question: what is reality? According to some eminent s...

The still impenetrable ciphers: from voynich manuscript to sator magic square

“No, Captain; all codes invented by humans are capable of being deciphered by humans.” This is what Edgar Allan Poe wrote in the story “The Gold Beetle” and in most situations it is correct. Yet, there still exist today a series of messages and encrypted texts, of different origins, which for centuries have been waiting for someone capable of revealing their meaning.

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The still impenetrable ciphers: from voynich manuscript to sator magic square

At the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University, in the United States, is preserved a 204-page volume, written and illustrated by hand on calf parchment. The book has been radiocarbon dated between 1404 and 1438. An extraordinary object to browse, but one that has proved a torment for scholars. No one has yet managed to understand what language it is written in and why it depicts a series of plants and flowers never seen before, as well as obscure cosmological and astronomical representations. It is no coincidence that it has been called "the most mysterious book in the world". Wilfrid Voynich, an American rare book de...

Face on the cliff of a Canadian island. Was it sculpted by someone?

Was it created by mother nature, or is it an artificial work created by man? This is the question many are asking since the original discovery of an alleged giant face on a remote Canadian island.

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Face on the cliff of a Canadian island. Was it sculpted by someone?

A mysterious giant face has been spotted on the cliffs of a remote Canadian island, part of the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve. The enigmatic face had been initially observed in 2008 by a kayaker, while paddling near Reeks Island, one of the numerous islands that form theBroken Group archipelago. When he spotted the face, he immediately sent photos to the government agency Parks Canada, but technicians were unable to pinpoint the precise location. In 2015 the mysterious face was "rediscovered" by Hank Gus, of the Tseshaht First Nation , who had heard of the "face in the rock". Gus searched for the sculpture for two years and when he fi...

Megalithic sites in Italy

On Italian territory there are gigantic megalithic walls and polygonal structures made with enormous blocks, some of which date back to the Bronze Age. Legends say that they are works created by the Cyclopes, gigantic deities who inhabited the earth in the mists of time. Is it possible that these buildings are the remains of an ancient Italian lineage of giants?

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Megalithic sites in Italy

Was Italy once inhabited by giants ? Kilometers of walls built with enormous blocks of polygonal stone still survive in Italy. These are very ancient ruins, extraordinarily unique in their kind, created with a technique similar to that used by the Inca and Pre-Inca populations of Peru: enormous stones shaped to fit together perfectly without mortar. And as in Peru, these extraordinary works have resisted centuries of abandonment and subsequent plundering for construction purposes by the Etruscans and Romans. Unfortunately, there are few Italian scholars who are interested in this wonderful cultural and anthropological heritage, so much so...

The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke

In the late 1500s, a hundred English settlers suddenly disappeared from North Carolina, leaving behind only two clues: the words "Croatoan" and "Cro" carved into a fort pillar and a tree, respectively.

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The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke

It's a mystery that has fascinated Americans for centuries: what happened to the inhabitants of the lost colony of Roanoke Island, North Carolina? The settlers, who arrived in 1587, disappeared in 1590 leaving behind only two clues: the words “ Croatoan ” and “ Cro ” carved into a fort pillar and a tree, respectively. Hypotheses about the mysterious disappearance range from an epidemic to clashes with local Native American tribes. Previous excavations had yielded some data and artifacts from the settlers, but no information about what had become of them. The settlers were the third group of English to arrive on Roanoke Island, North C...

Giants in North Africa: the dark past of the Cromlech of M'zora

The megalithic site of M'zora is one of the most famous megalithic monuments in northwestern Morocco. It is a unique testimony of its kind that has no similar throughout the Maghreb and the Sahara. In addition to the resemblance to the renowned site of Stonehenge, M'zora is very reminiscent of the megalithic monuments of the south of the Iberian peninsula. According to legend, M'zora is the tomb of the giant Antaeus.

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Giants in North Africa: the dark past of the Cromlech of M'zora

The word “cromlech” is of Welsh origin and indicates prehistoric megalithic structures, where “crom” means curved and “lech” means flat stone. Therefore, Cromlech is the name given to particular megalithic monuments, made up of stones of varying sizes, stuck into the ground in a circular shape. The most famous is certainly Stonehenge. But in Morocco there is one of the most interesting testimonies of an ancient megalithic culture even in North Africa. We are talking about the Cromlech of M'zora , an imposing circle made up of 167 megaliths located near the village of Chouahed, 15 km south-east of Asilah. The stones are arranged around...

The 300,000-year-old nanospirals found in the Urals remain an unsolved mystery

In 1992, some strange, extremely small spiral-shaped artifacts were found in the Ural Mountains, fueling a debate that continues to this day. The origin of these extraordinary artifacts, which the human eye can barely see, has not yet been explained. Do these mysterious, tiny structures suggest that a culture capable of developing nanotechnology existed 300,000 years ago?

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The 300,000-year-old nanospirals found in the Urals remain an unsolved mystery

In 1992, near the banks of the Kozhim and Balbanyu rivers, which flow in the Ural Mountains in Russia, geologist Johannes Fiebag accidentally discovered what would later become known as the “Russian nanospirals.” The nanospirals were discovered during routine mining investigations carried out in some deposits in the Ural Mountains. These were microscopies of sinusoidal structures. According to an analysis performed by the Russian Academy of Sciences in Syktyvkar, they are made from an alloy of copper, tungsten and molybdenum. Some of them are so tiny that they are practically invisible to the naked eye. The dimensions of the objects vary ...

The Hollow Moon Theory

Despite six visits by American astronauts between '69 and '72, for scientists the Moon remains a mystery whose solution could indicate an alien origin of our satellite.

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The Hollow Moon Theory

Scientists had hoped that by studying the composition of our satellite they would solve some mysteries relating to the formation of our planet and the solar system, but after six moon landings the science writer Earl Ubell declared that the mystery not only persists but deepens as the Our satellite is more complicated to understand than researchers expected, even if some questions have been answered, the rocks recovered by the lunar missions have produced additional mysteries, some of which will take your breath away. Among these mysteries or anomalies is the fact that the Moon seems older than previously imagined, perhaps even older than...

Tombs of the Giants in Sardinia

There are still many unanswered questions regarding the Giants' Tombs in Sardinia. Some say that these are the tombs of giants who walked the Earth in the distant past and that the gravestones would be remnants of the legendary lost continent of Atlantis. Who built these enigmatic structures? And for what purpose? Were they used as mass graves?

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Tombs of the Giants in Sardinia

During the Bronze Age, (3300 – 700 BC), the Nuragic civilization erected in Sardinia what have become famous as the Tombs of the Giants. These megalithic structures were used by the Nuragic people as public tombs, for the common burial of many individuals. So far, more than 300 similar monuments have been discovered in Sardinia, among which the most famous is certainly that of Coddu Vecchiu. These particular tombs essentially consist of a burial chamber up to 30 meters long and up to 3 meters high. Originally the entire structure was covered by a mound more or less resembling an overturned boat. The front part of the structure is delimite...

Who Really Was Heracles?

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Heracles depicted on a Greek amphora (circa 525-520 BC).

In an article published some time ago we dealt with the figure of Noah, showing how it was likely originated from the superposition of different characters, who lived in different places and eras. This overlap of multiple individuals also involved one of the most important characters in Greek mythology: Heracles . Although his composite nature was already known in ancient times, to this day we don't know much about how it originated. In this article we will therefore try to shed light, as much as possible, on the matter. Index How many “Heracles” existed? The historicity of Heracles The Egyptian Heracles The Greek Heracles How many “H...

Pobiti Kamani: bulgaria's ancient and enigmatic petrified forest

Pobiti Kamani is a unique geological phenomenon that is perhaps unmatched anywhere else on our planet. The name literally translates as 'stone planted in the earth', but traditionally it is the 'stone forest'.

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Pobiti Kamani: bulgaria's ancient and enigmatic petrified forest

About 18 km inland from Varna, Bulgaria, not far from the capital of Sofia, is the site of Pobiti Kamani, a truly unique natural rock formation. The 'stone forest', as it is called by locals, consists of numerous groups of unusual stone columns, most of which reach a height of between 5 and 7 meters with a thickness ranging from 0.3 to 3 meters in diameter. The curious stone pillars cover a total area of almost 7 km 2 , with smaller groups of columns a little further away from the center. Certainly, the rocks found in the heart of the 'forest' are the most important, which alone cover a surface of almost a kilometer. The...

Desert Breath: the spiral cones in the Egyptian desert

Strange cones and holes in the arid desert of Egypt appear to be a curious esoteric phenomenon. The official explanation is very simple, yet some suspect there is more. A geological oddity? An alien city? A crop circle of sand?

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Desert Breath in the eastern Sahara desert

What are the mysterious cones arranged in a spiral over an area of 10 thousand square meters and located in the eastern Sahara desert on the border between the Red Sea and Egypt? Who is behind this mysterious formation? When was it built? And what is, or what was, the purpose of the enigmatic spiral configuration of these cones? Although the mind immediately races to identify some esoteric and mysterious explanation, we immediately dispel any doubts by explaining that the configuration known as "Desert Breath " is an artistic installation! Yes, a work of art. The author of this enigmatic work is the Greek artist Danae Stratou who togeth...

The Mustang Caves: an ancient kingdom in Nepal

Archaeologists do not know who built them, nor what their function was. Furthermore, it is not possible to understand how people managed to climb towards these cavities built several meters above the ground.

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The Mustang Caves: an ancient kingdom in Nepal

Hidden among the peaks of the Himalayas, there is a place with around 10 thousand artificial caves dug into the living rock at around 60 meters above sea level, in a gorge so large that it far exceeds the Grand Canyon. The impressive number of caves are located in northern Nepal, in the Mustang District, and represent one of the world's greatest archaeological mysteries. Some of them are unique, with a single entrance opening onto a vast front of jagged rocks. Others, however, were created in groups, one on top of the other, presenting vertical stackings even on nine levels. Archaeologists do not know who built them, nor what their fu...

Did a race of giants inhabit enormous buried cities across North America?

Between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, numerous articles that appeared in the local newspapers of the main North American cities dealt with the discovery of the bones of giant men and the buried cities of giants. Is it possible that these findings refer to a past in which on our planet there lived a lineage of giant men who lived in equally giant cities?

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Did a race of giants inhabit enormous buried cities across North America?

Let's go back to talking about giants, referring to a historical period of American journalism, between the 19 th and 20 th centuries, in which numerous articles reported continuous discoveries of gigantic human finds. However, a certain number of these reports also speak of gigantic buried cities, an ancient legacy of a lost world inhabited by a race of giant men, also known as 'giganthropes'. One of the most famous articles appeared in the April 5, 1909 edition of The Arizona Gazette newspaper, under the headline “Explorations in Grand Canyon.” The article reports the discovery by a certain G. E. Kinkaid of an 'immense u...

Gigantopithecus and Megantropes: giant apes and men in our past

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Gigantopithecus and Megantropes: giant apes and men in our past

The ancient myths of human culture tell of giant men who once walked our planet, beings considered to be of divine origin and possessed of supernatural powers. The first to talk about it were the Sumerians, according to whom the Anunnaki descended from heaven to create humanity and teach it civilization and technology. Even in the traditions of ancient Egypt, stories of giant beings were handed down. The ancient historian Josephus Flavius bears witness to this, writing in 79 AD: “In Egypt there were giants. Much larger and differently shaped than normal people. Terrible to look at. Anyone who hasn't seen it with my eyes can't be...

Why is the Starchild skull so different from all the skulls?

Discovered in Mexico in the 1930s, the Starchild skull still represents an enigma to scholars. Since 1999 the unusual skull has been subjected to a series of anatomical and biological analyzes which have definitively excluded that it is the skull of a human individual suffering from some deformity. There are those who hypothesize that it could be an ancient human species not yet known and those who believe that the Starchild could be the skull of a human-alien hybrid.

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Why is the Starchild skull so different from all the skulls?

In archaeology, when an unknown object is discovered, the first investigations carried out by scholars aim to establish its provenance. This, obviously, is a very important and delicate phase because it helps to understand if you are dealing with a fake. However, modern science, with its method and tools, has made it almost impossible to simulate a relic like that of the Starchild skull. Even if the provenance of this curious skull is not entirely clear, the fact remains that it exists and is real, and to date there is no explanation that can reveal its nature. The history of the Starchild begins in 1930. It was in that year that an Ameri...

The third structure inside the pyramid of Chichen Itza

The Mayan temple of Kukulkán is like a Matryoshka doll: a third structure is hidden inside it. The second inner shell had been discovered in the 1930s.

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The third structure inside the pyramid of Chichen Itza

One pyramid inside another, and then another: the temple of Kukulkan, in the archaeological site of Chichen Itza (in the Yucatan peninsula) hid a third pyramid inside the first two. It's like a Matryoshka doll! The pre-Columbian pyramid, 30 meters high, actually hid inside a second pyramid, 20 meters high; inside the latter there is a further 10-metre pyramid. The temple honoring Kukulkán, the feathered serpent god, was built as a system of Russian dolls, presumably in three phases: the latest discovered smaller and innermost pyramid between 550 and 800; the intermediate one, between 800 and 1000; the external one between 1050 and 130...

The mysterious Mehrgarh amulet from 6000 years ago

The mysterious amulet from 6,000 years ago found in a tomb in the archaeological site of Mehrgarh, in Pakistan, has begun to 'speak': 'interrogated' it revealed step by step the method used to its manufacture, which was found to be extremely sophisticated for its time.

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The Mehrgarh amulet

“The past is the key to the present.” This scientific maxim generally means that the laws of nature in the ancient world still operate exactly today. The same goes for technologies, and a 6,000-year-old amulet that looks like a rusty provides a rather curious story that spans millennia. Discovered by archaeologists in Mehrgarh (Pakistan), the amulet was handed over to a team of physicists who decided to take a closer look at the corrosion covering the sickly green surface. They noted that it emits various frequencies of electromagnetic radiation due to a oxidation of copper. Luminescence analysis revealed that the amulet would have been b...

Tutankhamun's dagger comes from space

Research reveals the meteorite origin of the blade's iron. Thanks to the X-ray fluorescence technique, scientists have confirmed what was written on an ancient papyrus.

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The Tutankhamuns dagger

Egyptian iron objects are very few, because the ancient Egyptian civilization had not developed iron metallurgy and there were no quarries. Thus, it was considered more precious than gold. In 2016, with the use of the X-ray fluorescence technique, scientists have confirmed the iron of the blade of Tutankhamun's dagger comes from space. The metal is of meteoric origin. What was written on a ancient Egyptians papyrus, "an iron that rained from the sky" seems therefore true. Everything begins with the discovery of an ancient crater caused by the impact of a meteorite. The crater is the Kamil Crater initially discovered in 2008 by Vincenz...

The enigmatic 'Stone Wheels': a prehistoric mystery

There are thousands of them and they can only be detected via satellite. They look like 'stone wheels', but no one knows who made them and what they were used for. An archaeological mystery in the Jordanian desert that confuses researchers.

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The enigmatic 'Stone Wheels': a prehistoric mystery

In March 2006, while flying over the black lava fields near the Azraq oasis in Jordan, the QuickBird satellite photographed a series of crude wheel-shaped shapes. The dimensions of these wheels vary between 25 and 70 meters in diameter. After tracing a first group of formations, the researchers find another and another: thousands of wheels that extend to the north as far as Syria and to the south as far as Saudi Arabia. The quantity, size and extension area of these 'wheels' are nothing short of extraordinary. No one lives in this arid and desolate land, apart from the occasional nomadic Bedouin tribe, and these strange grouping...

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