@investigatorr , Investigator Malayalam presenting new video about 4 Most Mysterious places found on earth this is the first instalment if the video series.
1) Harihar fort
Harihar fort is located in the Nashik district of Maharashtra. It lies at an altitude of 3,676 ft from sea level.
The hill on which the fort is built looks like a rectangular shape from the base village. But it is built on the triangular prism of rock from the Yadava dynasty. The edges of the Harihar fort are almost vertical.
The attraction of Harihar fort is the iconic steps to the top of the fort. It is almost 80 degrees vertically inclined.
There are Lord Hanuman, Shiva and Nandi idols and a small pond at the fort.
The view from the fort is beautiful. You can see many forts and peaks such as Bhaskargad or Basgad, Anjaneri fort, Brahmagiri and Utwad fort from the top.
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2) Temple of Palenque
Palenque, ruined ancient Mayan city of the Late Classic Period (c. 600-900 CE) in what is now Chiapas state, Mexico, about 80 miles (130 km) south of Ciudad del Carmen. Its original name is speculative; the site now shares the name the Spanish gave to a neighbouring village. The city’s ruins were designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1987.
Ruins of a temple at Palenque, Mexico.
Palenque, Mexico: palace
Palenque, Mexico: palace
Palenque, Mexico
Palenque, Mexico
The Palenque builders used plaster to obtain a smooth finish, unlike the usual Mayan tooled-limestone construction. However, they used carving on the interior walls; the best examples are on tablets affixed to the walls with plaster. Stucco and terra-cotta images have been found. The elaborate palace complex includes three parallel walls housing two corridors covered with pointed vaults of the Palenque style.
One of the largest and best-preserved structures, the Temple of the Inscriptions, is noted for its hieroglyphic inscriptions. In 1952 a crypt was discovered under the temple, in which were found the jade-ornamented remains of what may have been a ruler-priest of the 7th century. The Temple of the Sun is noted for a large stucco bas-relief of a beautifully modeled throne and figures.
3) Farm frozen in time
Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed the 2,100-year-old remains of a farmstead whose owners likely abandoned it in a hurry, possibly to avoid an impending military invasion.
"We were very lucky to discover a time-capsule, frozen in time, in which the finds remained where they were left by the occupants of the site," which is near Israel's northern Sea of Galilee, archaeologist Amani Abu-Hamid, who is leading the excavation for the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), said in a statement.
The excavators discovered ancient, still-intact storage jars at the site, as well as weights for weaving looms on a shelf, suggesting that whoever lived there left them behind when they quickly departed.
The archaeologists don’t know who lived there, but it’s possible they were subjects of the Seleucid Empire who left to escape an invasion of the area by the forces of the Hasmonean Kingdom - an independent Jewish kingdom based in Jerusalem to the south.
"We know from the historical sources, that in this period, the Judean Hasmonean kingdom expanded into the Galilee, and it is possible that the farmstead was abandoned in the wake of these events," Abu-Hamid said.
The team also found agricultural tools, such picks and scythes made from iron, at the site, as well as coins that have been tentatively dated to the second half of the second century B.C.
Little is known about the daily life during the Hasmonean period, and almost nothing is known about the people who lived at the farmstead, according to the IAA statement. But the large number of loom weights suggests that weaving was an important task, and so the occupants probably kept herds of sheep or goats. "More research is required to determine the identity of the inhabitants of the site," Abu-Hamid said.
4) Timbuktu
Timbuktu, French Tombouctou, city in the western African country of Mali, historically important as a trading post on the trans-Saharan caravan route and as a centre of Islamic culture (c. 1400-1600). It is located on the southern edge of the Sahara, about 8 miles (13 km) north of the Niger River. The city was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1988. In 2012, in response to armed conflict in the region, Timbuktu was added to the UNESCO List of World Heritage in Danger.
Timbuktu was founded about 1100 CE as a seasonal camp by Tuareg nomads. There are several stories concerning the derivation of the city’s name. According to one tradition, Timbuktu was named for an old woman left to oversee the camp while the Tuareg roamed the Sahara. Her name meant “mother.
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26 ноя 2022
