49 Strangest Mysteries That Were Actually Solved

PBS Nova showed a whole show on the work done to move these. Pretty fascinating.

Also the amount of stuff that archaeologists were calling 'ritual objects' that have since been identified by showing them to a woman.

Absolutely.

Imagine the Arc de Triumph but in 3D

100 %

I think you made a typo as his name is Elon Pus.

Elon doesn't develop anything, he just hires the programmer for it

It was living as Indians that was found to be preferable to dying as Europeans.

Lowen also wrote an even better follow-up 'Lies Across America."

It was.

I just put that book in my cart. Thanks!

Recent studies point to a darker situation. Specifically that the colonists didn't all willingly "defect", but rather they were captured as slaves. Sadly, the tribes in that region were known to take slaves from defeated enemies, and it's believed that this is where the women and children ended up; while the men would have been slain.

"What does the sign say?". "It says Croatans. They must be eating a lot of salad".

Not exactly "friendly" as much as "tolerant". One issue at hand, is the Croatan tribe was rather notorious among the other native tribes for their practice of taking slaves from defeated tribes. Primarily female slaves for... well... "reasons". Males, or those who could effectively resist, were slain.

Textbooks are expensive. When I was in middle school, the history book was so out of date that our teacher just said to ignore parts of it. When I became a teacher, I was horrified at the cost of a single text book, much less a full class set. I knew my university books were insane to purchase, so I don't know why I was so shocked that the ones for my students were so high, but I had always thought they were making so many it couldn't be as ridiculous. I was SO wrong!

It was the name of a tribe and the island they lived on, which as since sunk due to rising water levels.

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shes making a joke dont crash out

Have you been watching the US history channel at night again?

Ha Ha!

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They showed this in Asterix and Cleopatra!

There is actually a tunnel under the Nile. The British Army used it for storage during the war.

And that's how Rock 'n' Rollers came about.

Nah, you've seen their size?

No, Ikea... Had to be assembled

Yes! The original poster makes it sound like the choices are between "grunt work" and "ancient aliens" with nothing in between. It's very annoying to see people make that assumption when there's a debate over exact methods.

the idea that we "dont know and therefor must be aliens" was propagated by anthropologists, which are historically just racist archeologists. archeologists always knew that the rocks had been dragged along and stacked up, but the anthropologists of the 19th and 20th century couldnt fathom the idea of an "inferior" people (not white) being able to build something so complex and large that they started coming up with ideas like atlantis and lemuria as lost civilizations of white people who must have obviously built this for them. its the same reason an anthropologist will tell you for certain that cleopatra was a blue eyed pasty white woman when in reality she was a ptolemic greek whos family had lived in egypt for 300 years, so its highly unlikely she would look like a typical greek from greece. but anthropologists are super racist so every time theres a movie about her the general public gets up in arms when she isnt a white woman.

That kind of thinking never fails to amuse me. Aliens travel light years to come to earth, arrive here undetected, and what do they do? Drag some rocks around the desert and then leave. Yes, that definitely sounds like something a highly advanced civilization would do. /s

Using the alien answer is akin to attributing everything not yet explained to god.

Whenever humans don't understand something it is attributed to aliens or god.

Most mysteries ar - we have a deep-seated need to believe that we know everything. Sometimes this gets in the way of learning about anything ...

By the guy with the funny hair?

From farting floating cows.

It's a theory, not proven. Bubbles of methane gas can rise from the seabed and have very occasionally been known to produce a plume rising high into the atmosphere. The theory is that engines would be starved of oxygen - the flaw in the argument is that in most cases the plane would continue to glide for a long way, out of the plume, where the engines could be restarted, which has not been observed.

More like magnetic sections that caused their equipment to fail, not gas

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Dissolved methane hydrate from the seabed. Direct sampling has detected significant deposits offshore of the southeast U.S. They're a big question mark in climate change, both as a potential energy source and a factor that could push the greenhouse effect past the tipping point. Some people have expressed concern about the possibility of an underwater landslide on the continental shelf releasing huge quantities of methane, similar to the Lake Nyos and carbon dioxide disaster in Cameroon. https://worldoceanreview.com/en/wor-1/ocean-chemistry/climate-change-and-methane-hydrates/

Wouldn't a hot combustion engine passing through a cloud of *methane* have a result slightly more exciting than just stalling?