Mysterious finds that the desert hid from the world

The desert is not precisely the largest space on Earth, but it is undoubtedly one of the most mysterious. Sand occupies almost a quarter of the world and nobody knows how many unusual things are hidden in its sepulchral burning silence. Today we are ready to reveal a little more about its secrets, telling you some of the most incredible discoveries.

O awesome.club compiled for you a series of amazing objects, the study of which still drives the best minds in the world seriously.

For any tourist, they could just be hills, but the reality is that they are giant rings with a diameter of 50 kilometers formed by rocks of different ages (from 2,500 to 480 million years). Depending on the time of day, the rings have the peculiarity of changing color. Scientifically, they have been called the Richat Structure, but there are those who prefer an even more mysterious name, such as the “Eye of the Sahara” or “The Eye of the Earth”.

Astronauts were the first to notice this strange phenomenon. For a long time, it was a point of reference for those in orbit. Most likely, the Richat is a consequence of natural erosion.

In 1899, the traveler Sven Hedin discovered the city of Loulan Kingdom, lost in the Taklamakan desert. The scientists’ surprise was enormous when it became evident that the extinct oasis in the territory of present-day China had been founded by representatives of an atypical race in this territory.

The inhabitants who lived there were distinguished by their tall stature and slender bodies, elongated noses and skulls, large sunken eyes and long red or blond hair. They also wore western-style clothing. DNA analysis confirmed the following: They were Caucasian. But why did they reach Asia in antiquity? There is no exact answer to this question.

The Namib Desert in Africa is dotted with circular patches of barren land that reach 15 meters in diameter. They are called “fairy circles” and appear in territories far from residential areas.

The indigenous population of the Himba tribe believes in the following: in this place, under the earth’s crust, a dragon lives and its fiery breath erupts on the surface creating huge bubbles. They are the ones who burn everything around them. Scientists, in turn, estimate that the enigmatic circles are “generated” by ants or termites, plant poisons or even by radioactivity in the soil. The study has been done for nearly 50 years.

In the middle of the last century, at Khirbet Qumran (near the Dead Sea) in the West Bank, hundreds of first century manuscripts were discovered, but something didn’t add up to this impressive find: all the texts were written on parchment or papyrus, and only one of them, the so-called copper roller, in metal. What would be the reason?

Upon deciphering it, it was revealed that this is a list of locations, in the vicinity of Jerusalem and Western Palestine, where about 400 tons of gold and silver are hidden. It is likely that these are the treasures of the legendary temple in Jerusalem, destroyed by the Romans.

On a summer day in 2013, the curious Vargas couple entered an isolated region of the Arizona desert, near the town of Vile. There, they saw thousands of small translucent purple spheres, shining in the sun’s rays. There were no plants or animal tracks nearby.

Journalists filmed and wrote about this story. As a result, scientific opinions are divided: are they a product of the vital activity of fungi, conventional hydrogel beads or a disinfectant dropped from an airplane? Ufologists also commented on this case: humans were honored to see eggs or perhaps excrement of aliens.

The Sahara desert is home to the town of Chinguetti, in Mauritania, which surprises many with its libraries. In the 11th century, it was a thriving trading center. In its best years, it hosted 30 book deposits and only 5 have survived to this day.

The manuscripts remain in the hands of the descendants of their owners, and they will not transfer their relics to the Mauritanian government. Only 5% of a total of 33,000 books are in museums. But desert conditions are extremely damaging to these fragile items. There is a risk that everything will be lost and we will never be able to know its contents.

Atacama Desert, Chile. Year 2010. Workers working on the extension of a highway witnessed an incredible image: on a surface similar to two football fields, perfectly preserved skeletons of 75 cetaceans that had died, as it was later discovered, between 2 and 7 million years ago back. The sea was more than a kilometer away. How could they have gotten there?

Scientists have come to the conclusion that this whale cemetery is the result of a catastrophe (the animals died while still at sea and then the storm carried them to the mainland). Most likely, it all happened because of the poisons that toxic algae emit during their proliferation.

Nabta Playa, this is the name of some megalithic structures in the Nubian desert: five rows of vertically assembled blocks with a height of three meters and weighing several tons, with an age of more than 1000 years, similar to Stonehenge.

This location was accidentally discovered in the 1970s. The main version suggests that it is some kind of calendar. With its help, the date of the summer solstice could be determined, and this, in turn, would indicate the right time for the winter migration of people (in summer, the water level in the lake next to it rose).

Silica glass is a structure of greenish, yellowish or completely transparent pieces that resemble glass. These pieces were found in the Libyan desert at the time of Ancient Egypt and were used as decorations by the pharaohs. What’s weird about that? This mineral, very rare on Earth, was formed at a temperature of thousands of degrees millions of years ago.

The first scientific description of Libyan glass was made in 1932. Disputes about its origin never cease. Some are convinced that this is a dire consequence of a prehistoric nuclear war. Others are more inclined towards the meteor shower theory.

In 1927, an RAF (British Air Force) pilot named Percy Maitland was flying over Jordan when he noticed circular geoglyphs in the Black Desert. Then it turned out that these were not individual images, but parts of a whole network that also stretched to Syria, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

Some of the “circles” are older than the lines in the Nazca desert. Why did its inhabitants start a construction of such huge dimensions at that time? It is very possible that Middle Eastern geoglyphs are related to astronomical exploration, burial types or military operations.