8 Ancient Mysteries Nobody Has Solved Yet

In 1901, divers off a small Greek island pulled up a lump of corroded bronze. It turned out to be the Antikythera mechanism, a geared device that modelled astronomical cycles and predicted eclipses, built around the second or first century BCE. Nobody has found a second one. This video goes through the ancient puzzles that are still open because the evidence is incomplete, not because nobody is clever enough. How the Great Pyramid of Giza was built, why the Nazca Lines are only fully visible from the air, the Voynich Manuscript nobody can read, the one-of-a-kind Phaistos Disc from Crete, and the Indus Valley script that is still undeciphered after nearly a century of work. Then Stonehenge, where we know more than people think, and the Library of Alexandria, which probably did not burn down in one afternoon. Its books were lost slowly, over centuries. What this is not: an aliens video. Every mystery here has a human answer; we just don't have all of it yet. Subscribe for more history, told straight, with the strange parts left in. #history #ancientmysteries #archaeology #ancienthistory #antikythera ================================================== CHAPTERS (from the real caption timings of the final cut, meme inserts included) ================================================== 00:00 Every mystery starts the same way 00:30 How the pyramids were built 01:30 The Antikythera mechanism 02:36 The Nazca Lines 03:17 The Voynich Manuscript 03:56 The Phaistos Disc 04:33 The Indus Valley script 05:17 Stonehenge 05:58 The Library of Alexandria 06:45 Three questions to ask