Archaeologists are making more discoveries than ever, and along with these fascinating finds, they’re also encountering more mysteries than ever. From missing but well-documented artifacts to pyramids with unknown contents, join me as I tell you about 10 mysterious archaeological finds that continue to stump the experts!
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9. Naupa Huaca
High up a nearly vertical ravine in the Peruvian Andes, up hundreds of stone stairs, sits the mysterious Naupa Huaca, a stone temple carved out of a hard andesite boulder and containing a shallow door leading to nowhere. The boulder contains three niches, each large enough to fit a single person, as well as a megalithic throne.
8. The Kaaba Black Stone
Muslims throughout the world face the holy site of Mecca, the Prophet Muhammad’s birthplace, and pray five times daily. Inside Mecca’s Grand Mosque, al-Masjid al-Ḥarām, is a small, cube-shaped shrine called the Ka’aba, as well as a cornerstone called the Black Stone, located in the building’s eastern corner.
7. ROSWELL ROCK
In July 1947, a mysterious object resembling a “flying disc” crashed at a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico. The U.S. military insists that the vehicle in question was a damaged Air Force weather balloon, and official documents that were declassified in the 1990s corroborate this claim.
6. ANGKOR WAT MOUNDS
In 2016, as part of a project called the Cambodian Archaeological Lidar Initiative (CALI), archaeologists discovered vast fields of never-before-seen dome-shaped earthen mounds using LiDAR outside the ancient Cambodian temple complex of Angkor Wat. Arranged in grid-like patterns, these mounds were found in and near 1,000-year-0ld cities.
5. CAVES OF THE GIANTS
In Romania’s Buzau Mountains, near the village of Nucu, sits a series of 15 cave settlements, nicknamed “Athos,” spread over a 1.2 square mile (3 km2) area. Local legend holds that giants built these caves, which have been used as places of worship for thousands of years and are the site of hundreds of reported paranormal experiences.
4. PYRAMIDS OF SONA
Besides having caves that were supposedly built by giants, Romania is also home to the Pyramids of Sona (or, if you’re a local, the ‘guruieti’), a collection of eight mysterious dirt mounds arranged in two rows of four and standing at up to 98 feet (30 meters) high.
3. BENBEN STONE
The Benben Stone was a sacred object located in a shrine, called the “House of Benben,” within the Ancient Egyptian temple dedicated to the deity Atum in Heliopolis, which legend claims is of extraterrestrial origin, and is also the architectural term applied to an obelisk or pyramid tip, called a pyramidion.
2. KINGDOM OF AKSUM
In what is now Eritrea and northern Ethiopia once stood the city and Kingdom of Aksum, formerly one of the world’s greatest naval and trading empires between the first and seventh centuries. Consequently, Aksum was a melting pot of the ancient world, welcoming visitors, and even residents, from Egypt, southern Arabia, Europe, and Asia.
1. DACIAN FORTRESSES
For the last item on today’s list, we return to Romania, this time to the Orastie Mountains. There, you’ll find a series of six surviving Iron Age fortresses that were built between the first centuries B.C. and A.D. by the Dacian as a defense against Roman conquest.
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