7/27/2015

Ten Desert Mystery: Desert Gems And Mysterious Spider Arts

Desert Gem: Scientists on the pharaoh scarab gem interested, that it formed earlier than the Egyptian civilization. They speculated this brilliant gem may be formed in the Sahara meteorite or meteorite impact air explosion, but did not find any impact craters in the Sahara Desert, so that the more likely a meteorite exploding in Earth's atmosphere, the temperature reached fireball so Saharan sand 18 000 degrees Celsius, eventually melting into the mysterious crystal.


Mysterious spider art: Egypt's Western Desert Spider artwork found damaged fragments, located at 175 kilometers west of Luxor, on a piece of sandstone Kharga Oasis describing mysterious ancient spider rock art, at dawn, you can see on the rocks the painting is similar to spider webs and spiders, even trapping prey. Egyptologists believe that the history of these ancient spider art can be traced back to 4,000 years BC, even before the prehistoric civilization.


Nabta Playa: Located in the Sahara Nabta Playa, its history even than Stonehenge 1,000 years earlier, which included the erection of Stonehenge opposed peace pillars, these pillars weighs several tons, some of the height of 2.7 meters. Archaeologists believe that 6000--6500 unknown Stone Age people built years ago, probably by far the most ancient megalithic structures astronomical calculations.


Pisco hole: As the hole near Peru Pisco Nazca Lines, its popularity is not high, hole in Peru Pisco Pisco desert canyon arid regions, is thousands of conical hole structure, so far archeology home and did not know who built. Some suggest that this is some mysterious ancient inhabitants built the barn or the grave, but in fact it's a depth of two meters, are unlikely to be used to store food or bury the bodies.


Atacama nitrate: Darwin has called the Atacama Desert is a "place where nothing exists," the South American desert is considered to be the planet's most arid regions, but here has the world's largest number of nitrate and iodine deposits. Possible explanation: these minerals and the Pacific extends 50 kilometers related to atmospheric nitrogen through a combination of soil and salt, transformed into nitrate; the local mountains rising influx of ancient mineral-rich water to the surface.


Unknown human species: In 2011, scientists found that so far the oldest man-made stone tools in Kenya desert wasteland, the findings confirm the ancient tool is not manufactured by the early modern humans. History made 149 stone tools dating back to 3.3 million years ago, when there is no human ancestors, scientists speculated that it may be caused by an unknown species of ancient human-made.


Syria Remains: History Syrian desert ruins of a more ancient than the pyramids of Egypt, 80 kilometers from the Syrian capital of Damascus, and its history can be traced back to 5,000 years ago, compared with that at the ruins, Damascus is a "young city." In 2009, archaeologist Robert - Mason found near the rocks more ancient history than expected, there may 6000--10000 years. In contrast, Egypt Pyramids of Giza are about 4500 years old.


Four corners area of the United States mysterious gas: In 2003, methane gas monitoring satellite discovered the four corners area of the United States to release large amounts of greenhouse gases, the four corners region is Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah at the junction of the desert, the data show the four corners area of release methane gas equivalent to 10% of the US release of methane gas per year, and this phenomenon lasted for six years. Currently, the researchers speculated that the local 40,000 gas wells related.


Strange tomb: In 2005, the king of Egypt Valley discovered a mysterious tomb 3,000 years ago, this is a simple limestone tomb, which has 28 jars and 7 coffins, they are carefully sealed up, some of the jars and coffins painted yellow face pattern, but after opening the jar and archaeologists found inside the coffin and no body, but rock, clothing, wood, and even a coffin also put forward another coffin.


Fairy ring: Namibia desert dotted with millions of circle-shaped structure, the edge of the distribution of the height of the grass to the knee, but the center of the circle is bare. For years, scientists have puzzled, had a variety of interpretive theory: termites devour nutrients due; zebra and other animal habitats; poisonous plants and fungi kill circle of plants. The latest study suggests that the mysterious desert vegetation fairy ring is the result of competition for nutrients.


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