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People Break Down The Biggest Unsolved Mysteries In Human History

People Break Down The Biggest Unsolved Mysteries In Human History

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History is full of mystery.

There are things we may never know.

That is true, but some answers have to be possible.

Are we looking hard enough?

Humans have murdered, robbed, and pillaged their way all over the Earth.

We've left a trail of unknown scattered throughout time.

This is why history is so fascinating.

There will always be new and obscure topics for documentaries.


Redditor InsertBurnsHere wanted to discuss the world's most unresolved issues, so they asked:

"What is the biggest unsolved mystery in human history?"

The mysteries that haunt me are all murder stories.

When will we find the killers?!

The Absconded

Bank Robbery Heist GIF by ADWEEKGiphy

"Who was behind the Gardner Museum heist? Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of art was taken, and we have little to no clue who was behind it, and none of the paintings have surfaced."

Stillwater215

The Linear Truth

"In 1893, British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchased some ancient stones with mysterious inscriptions on them at a flea market in Athens. On a later trip to the excavations at Knossos on the island of Crete, he recognized one of the symbols from his stones and began a study of the engraved tablets being uncovered at various sites on the island."

"He discovered two different systems, which he called Linear A and Linear B. While Linear B was deciphered in the early 1950s (it turned out to represent an early form of Greek), Linear A, above, has still not been deciphered."

"There is an entire culture of information that predates much of our history, a window into ancient humanity that is simply locked away from us because we don't know how to read it."

Atamask

Exact Dates

"An active one in the archaeology world is the exact time frame of when humans made it to the Americas. The date keeps getting pushed back with more controversial discoveries that then just turn to evidence as they pile up. It’s a fascinating story to see unfold."

DocAuch22

"Yeah I like this one too, I think many of the traces of early settlement are likely submerged. Sea levels were much lower during the ice age and the majority of human settlements are along the coasts so a huge piece of our history is probably lying on the seafloor completely undisturbed and possibly well preserved."

who519

Monarchs

"So the Monarch Butterfly migrates to Mexico and back every year. During the year there are a full 4 generations of butterflies that live and die during the journey. Upon returning back from Mexico, the butterfly manages to find the same trees it's relative started out at despite never having been there."

MasonS98

Dark Energy

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"We like to think we understand the universe and that physics is a well grounded discipline, and in some ways it is. However we have no idea what dark matter or dark energy is and yet we think it makes up 27% and 68% of the universe respectively."

Ok_Passenger_4202

The Universe is vast and scary, like the sea.

The End

Kimmy Schmidt Netflix GIF by Unbreakable Kimmy SchmidtGiphy

"The final words of the emperor Titus were 'I have but one regret'. We don't know and never will what that regret was."

Ayearinbooks

5000 BCE

"That most of human history is undocumented and we will never know our entire history as a species. We didn’t start recording our history until 5000 BCE, we do know we shifted to agrarian societies around 10,000 BCE but beyond that we have no idea what we were like as a species, we will never know the undocumented parts of our history that spans 10s of thousands of years."

"We are often baffled by the technological progress of our ancient ancestors, like those in SE Asia who must have been masters of the sea to have colonized the variety of islands there and sailed vast stretches of ocean to land on Australia and New Zealand."

"What is ironic is we currently have an immense amount of information about our world today and the limited documented history of our early days as a species but that is only a small fraction of our entire history."

patlaff91

How Big?

"I don't know about 'biggest,' but I always thought the Voynich Manuscript was very interesting. A huge book written in an unknown language or cipher that has never been translated or decoded with diagrams of plant species that don't exist. Lots of theories surrounding it, but no definitive answers as to the origins or the content."

AbortionSurvivor777

Who made it?

"Not sure if it's THE biggest mystery. But the Antikythera mechanism is pretty wild."

"Dated to at least 60BC, possibly as old as 200BC, it's as complex as clockworks that didn't show up until the 1400s, over a millennium later!"

"It's just such a strange technological anomaly. Who made it? What else did they make and why haven't we found more stuff as advanced?"

SmokedMessias

Magic Tins

Video Recycle GIF by Jenny LorenzoGiphy

"Why did we all just globally decide that those blue Dutch cookie tins hold sewing supplies?"

MysteriousStaff3388

"They’re large enough to hold sewing scissors, along with other notions, and made of metal so that the scissors and needles can’t poke through them. Or at least that’s the consensus r/sewing seems to have come to."

butter_milk

My grandma had like 20 of those tins.

Good times.

Do you have any mysteries to add? Let us know in the comments below.

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