New Delhi, If you ever found a pot on the ground with pieces of something lying around, what would be your first thought? You would think that this pot must be hundreds of years old, which must have been buried here by the humans of that time.
But it is possible that later you will also find out that it was not buried hundreds of years ago, but someone buried it not long ago! Such misconceptions are common among people and if left unchecked, they become true from generation to generation.
There are also some things in history that people believed to be true for years, but turned out to be wrong. Today we are going to tell about 6 of the strangest such things. On October 2000, Pakistani police caught a man with an ancient mummy, which he was going to sell on the black market for Rs 90 crore.
Inquiries revealed that it had been received by an Iranian man who had given it to him after the earthquake. He said it was the mummy of a Persian princess. The Pakistani administration sent the mummy to the Karachi Museum where it was examined.
Investigation revealed that it was a fake mummy, the dead woman was around 21 years old and must have died in 1996. Jans realizes that it must either be a case of murder or the hand of a gang of corpse diggers who do this to smuggle organs. In the year 1838, there was a 2,000-year-old mound in West Virginia on which a cemetery was built.
From there people found a sandstone which was quite unique. There were some traces of ancient language on it. Many experts researched it over the next few years and gave their own interpretations. But in the 1870s, antiquarian MC Reed, along with a law student, a drug expert, and a college professor, experimented with the coins.
He asked everyone to go through the coin and make a design that neither matched any letter nor any symbol. When those people did this, it came to match the coin design to a great extent. Then Reid realized that it was a forced design, and that the coin was a fake that someone had put there.
In November 2000, news broke in Japan that shocked everyone. In fact, it was here that an archaeologist named Fujimura Shinichi was found burying fake artefacts at archaeological sites. He learns that they are burying things in places in Japan that look ancient and realizes that Japan’s history is steeped in ancient times.
From 1976 to 2000, he hid 180 artefacts in different places. Because of his action, it became difficult for researchers to believe in the archeology of Japan.
On April 5, 1909, a report appeared in the Arizona Gazette claiming that ancient Egyptians had arrived in America to settle. Reports claim that he built a colony inside the Grand Canyon in which he lived. This strange claim has been made by two archaeologists named SA Jordan and JE Kinkaid.
However, other scientists did not believe his words as he did not provide any evidence in that report to prove his claims true. Neither a picture nor any kind of artefact was placed. Between 1915 and 1921, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York claimed to have discovered three terracotta warrior statues from the 5th century Etruscan culture.
But the museum did not know that they were fake statues. They were built by two brothers named Riccardo Riccardi and Alfredo. As of today, he sold the statue to the museum for Rs 41 crore.
However, investigations revealed that the chemicals used in it do not appear to date back to the 17th century. During the 1920s, the Mississippi Department of Archives of America found a small mummy believed to be an Egyptian mummy. People continued to believe this until 1967.
But that year a medical student requested permission from the department to conduct research on the mummy. After receiving permission, when he researched, he was shocked that the mummy was fake.
It was built on a wooden top and two newspapers were used behind it. One of them was a German newspaper, while the other was the Milwaukee Daily Journal, dated 1898. SS1MS