What do you think about this?
On the southern edge of Mexico City, swallowed by a field of black volcanic rock, sits a pyramid that almost no one talks about, and it may be the oldest in all of Mesoamerica. Cuicuilco was built around 2,700 years ago, long before the Aztecs, long before even the great city of Teotihuacan. And unlike the famous step pyramids, this one is round, a series of stacked stone rings rising from the plain.
Then the mountain came for it. A volcano called Xitle erupted and sent a river of lava across the entire site, burying the temple and the city around it under as much as seven metres of solid rock. In places the stone lies more than thirty feet deep. For most of the structure, excavation is simply impossible. We have only uncovered the top.
So we are left guessing. How old is it really, when the lava sealed away the lower layers and the foundations we would need to date it? Who built a round pyramid here, and why, before the cultures we credit with inventing them? The survivors of that eruption are thought to have walked north and helped build Teotihuacan, carrying whatever they knew with them.
Makes you wonder how much older our history runs than the parts we are able to dig up.
A forgotten first chapter of Mesoamerican civilization, or just an early experiment frozen in lava? What do you think is still buried under Cuicuilco?
What do you think about this? Over five months from late 1989, more than 13,000 people in Belgium reported a silent black triangle with three corner lights. In March 1990 two F sixteen jets locked radar on it, and it made moves no pilot could survive. Secret aircraft, or a genuine visitor?
What do you think about this? The Abenaki spoke of something in Lake Champlain long before Europeans arrived, and Port Henry still keeps a sign counting sightings. In 1977 Sandra Mansi photographed a long neck and a dark hump, and no hoax was ever found in it. Log, or a real animal?
What do you think about this? In 1579 Francis Drake beached the Golden Hind somewhere on the northern California coast and claimed the land for England. Nobody can say which beach. A brass plate found in 1936 was celebrated for decades, then proved a hoax. Point Reyes, or somewhere else?
What do you think about this? Among the Dead Sea Scrolls, one is engraved on copper instead of parchment, and it is a treasure map. It lists 64 hiding places holding tons of gold and silver. Not one has ever been found. Real temple gold, or an ancient legend set in metal?
What do you think about this? On August 15, 1977, an Ohio telescope caught a 72 second burst from Sagittarius, 30 times stronger than background, right on the hydrogen frequency. The astronomer circled it and wrote Wow. It never came back. Fluke, or one word of a conversation?
What do you think about this? The Shroud of Turin carries a full length image of a man that behaves like a photographic negative, which nobody noticed until it was first photographed in 1898. Carbon dating said medieval. Nobody can explain how the image formed. Artwork, or something else?
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