Mummies of Takla Makan

Some of the strangest mummies ever found were discovered in far away China, in a desert called Takala Makan. They were strange because these mummies were not the dead bodies of Chinese people, but of Europeans. Some of the mummies wore clothes and jewellery that were found only in Europe, and their hair, and the structure of their bones showed them to be definitely European.

How did Europeans end up on a Chinese desert 2000 years ago? Well, scientists managed to read the writing on the walls of the tomb in which these mummies were found. According to these writings, these Europeans had come to China thousands of years ago, and died there. So, the mystery was solved. But, how did these Europeans died about 1000 years ago? This question remains unanswered until today.

Teotihuacan - The City of the Gods

Teotihuacan means 'The City of the Gods", or "Where Men Become Gods"(in Nahuatl). It is located in the valley of the same name 30Teotihuacan used to be a thriving city and ceremonial center that predated the Aztecs by several centuries. Most likely it was Mexico's biggest ancient city at its peak and the sixth largest city in the world in AD 600.
Teotihuacan began declining sharply around 650 AD, and was almost completely abandoned around 750 AD. No one knows why?

At its peak around 500-600 A.D., Teotihuacan contained perhaps 200,000 people. It was a well planned city covering nearly eight square miles and larger and more advanced than any European city of the time. Its civilization was contemporary with that of ancient Rome , and lasted longer - more than 500 years.

Though archaeologists have long been fascinated with the site, Teotihuacan's culture and history are still largely mysterious. The civilization left massive ruins, but no trace has yet been found of a writing system and very little is known for sure about its inhabitants, who were succeeded first by the Toltecs and then by the Aztecs. The Aztecs did not live in the city, but gave the place and its major structures their current names. They considered it the "Place of the Gods" - a place where, they believed, the current world was created

7. Band of Holes of Pisco Valley

Thousands of man-sized holes are carved into the barren rock near Pisco Valley, Peru on a plain called Cajamarquilla.These strange holes, stretching for a mile over uneven mountain terrain, were here for so long that the local people have no idea who made them, or why. Funny thing is no one really saw the big picture until the area was seen from the air.

Archeologists have speculated they were dug to store grain in. Two problems with this, say the folks thinking out of the box: there were a lot easier ways to create storage containers than the hard work and decades it must have taken to chip out all of these, and it would have made more sense, if these were to store grain, to build several huge chambers.

Perhaps they were used as tombs. But no bones, artifacts, scraps, inscriptions, jewelry...not even a tooth or strand of hair has been found in them. They have no covers to seal them and no sacred history or even myth was passed down to label them as such.

Some sections have holes in rigid and perfect precision; some run in rows that curve up in arches, some staggered lines. They vary in depth to about 6-7 feet deep yet some are merely shallow indents as if not completed - though surrounded by those that are.

To date, no one has a clue why they're here, who made them or what they were.

6. The Nazca lines

The Nazca Lines are enormous drawings on the ground (called geoglyphs) that stretch across the Nazca desert in Southern Peru. They show more than 300 geometric patterns, spirals and animals. The lines are so vast (one extends 65 km) that they can only be seen properly from a height of about 300m.

The lines were first noticed when commercial aeroplanes began to fly over Peru in the 1920s. Most experts agree that they were made by the Nazca Indians who lived in the region between 300 B.C and 800 A.D, but there are many questions yet to be answered about them. For example, why were the pictures made and how are they so precise if their makers had no mean to view them from the sky.

5.Easter Island

Easter Island or Rapa Nui lies in the South Pacific between Chile and Tahiti, and is one of the most isolated islands in the world. By the 16th century, Easter Island had nearly 10,000 inhabitants, who made huge statues known as moai. The 887 moai were carved from the island's volcanic rock and have long, angular faces. Some have eyes made from coral. The average moai was about 4m tall and weighed over 14 tonnes, so they would have been extremely difficult for the islanders to transport. Archaeologists belive that the statues symbolize the spirits of Easter Island's most important inhabitants.

4. The Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle is an area of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of florida. It is famous for being the supposed sites of many unexplained disappearence. The three points of the triangle are Miami, Bermuda and San Juan in Puerto Rico. In the 15th century, Christopher Columbus claimed to have seen a 'great flame of fire' falling into the ocean in the area.

The Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle first began to attract attention in 1945., when Flight 19, a training mission of five US bombers, vanished off the Florida coast. The plane that was sent to find them also disappeared, and around 100 boats and aircraft have also been lost there. Explanations include magnetic fields, sea monsters, and abduction by aliens, but most experts agree the disappearences caused by bad navigation and extreme weather conditions.

3. Stonehenge

Stonehenge is a circle of 17 upright stones called sarsens which stand on Saisbury Plain in southwest England. The stones weigh up to 50 tonnes and have other stones, called lintels, laid across the top. There is also an inner circle of smaller bluestones weighing up to four tonnes each. Stonehenge is the only stone circle in the world with lintels across the top of the stones, and experts think it was completed in about 1500 B.C.

They belive that the sarsen stones were transported from 32 k.m away and the bluestones came from an incredible 250 km away. At least 600 men would have been needed to move each sarsen stone on some of the steepest parts of the journey. Nobody knows exactly why Stonehenge was built, but it may have been druids temple or even a kind a astronomical calendar.

2. Crop Circles

Crop circles are complicated geometric patterns, usually in wheat fields. Some people belive that the patterns are left by the imprint of an extra-terrestrial craft, or that they are a message from extra terrestrials themselves. Another theory is that natural forces such as tornadoes, heat or strong winds create the patterns by flattering the crops, but the regular shapes of most crop circles makes this unlikely.

The most likely explanation is that the circles are made by people as a hoax. They gradually build up a design by flattering the wheat, using very basic equipment such as rope and planks of wood.

1. Ku Klux Klan (KKK) - Americans Invisible Empire

Ku Klux Klan (KKK), informally known as The Klan, is the name of several past and present secret militant organizations in the United States whose avowed purpose was to protect the rights of and further the interests of white Americans. They are best known for engaging in vitriolic rhetoric and committing violent acts to further white supremacy. The first such organizations originated in the Southern states and eventually grew to national scope. Their iconic white costumes consisting of robes, masks, and conical hats, and use of cross burning were designed to intimidate the targets of their hatred and, to this day, strike fear in many African-Americans. The KKK has a record of using terrorism, violence, and lynching to intimidate, murder, and oppress African Americans, Jews and other minorities and to intimidate and oppose Roman Catholics and labor unions.

Six middle-class Confederate veterans from Pulaski, Tennessee, created the original Ku Klux Klan on December 24, 1865, in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War. They made up the name by combining the Greek kyklos (κυκλος, circle) with clan. Klan members adopted masks and robes that hid their identities and added to the drama of their night rides, their chosen time for attacks. Many of them operated in small towns and rural areas where people otherwise knew each other's faces, and sometimes still recognized the attackers.

The Klan attacked black members of the Loyal Leagues and intimidated southern Republicans and Freedmen's Bureau workers. When they killed black political leaders, they also took heads of families, along with the leaders of churches and community groups, because people had many roles. Agents of the Freedmen's Bureau reported weekly assaults and murders of blacks.

Masked men shot into houses and burned them, sometimes with the occupants still inside. They drove successful black farmers off their land. Generally, it Canby reported that in North and South Carolina, in 18 months ending in June 1867, there were 197 murders and 548 cases of aggravated assault. Klan violence worked to suppress black voting. As the following examples indicate, over 2, 000 persons were killed, wounded and otherwise injured in Louisiana within a few weeks prior to the Presidential election of November 1868.

In February, former Union General and Congressman Benjamin Franklin Butler of Massachusetts introduced the Ku Klux Klan Act to supress klan. Many Members were imprisoned and prosecuted.

The second Klan(1915–1944) rose in response to urbanization and industrialization, massive immigration from eastern and southern Europe, the Great Migration of African Americans to the North, and the migration of African Americans and whites from rural areas to Southern cities. The Klan grew most rapidly in cities which had high growth rates between 1910 and 1930, such as Detroit, Memphis, Dayton, Atlanta, Dallas, and Houston. The film The Birth of a Nation Directed by D. W. Griffith's glorified the original Klan,which give a big leap for it.

The name Ku Klux Klan has since been used by many independent groups opposing the Civil Rights Movement and desegregation, especially in the 1950s and 1960s. During this period, they often forged alliances with Southern police departments, as in Birmingham, Alabama; or with governor's offices, as with George Wallace of Alabama. Several members of KKK-affiliated groups were convicted of manslaughter and murder in the deaths of civil rights workers and children in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, the assassination of NAACP organizer Medgar Evers, and the murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi. Today, researchers estimate there may be more than 150 Klan chapters with 5, 000-8, 000 members nationwide. The U.S. government classifies them as hate groups, with operations in separated small local units.