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12 Most Mysterious Archaeological Artifacts Finds Scientists Still Can't Explain

The video discusses several archaeological mysteries that remain unsolved. In Russia, a 40-foot wide circle of mammoth bones, including skeletons, tusks, and full skulls, was deliberately arranged in a ring formation about 25,000 years ago.

Experts have suggested that the carcasses of captured mammoths were placed there to preserve the meat, but they cannot explain why the hunter-gatherers would have taken such care to arrange them in a ring. Danish police were asked to investigate a 1,000-year-old crime at Borging, a 10th-century Viking fortress, where archaeologists have noted signs of fire on the large oak timbers that used to be part of the fort's enormous gates.

The police were unable to determine whether the fire was caused by an attack or an accident and thus validate the abandonment theory. The oldest foundry in Padua, Italy, which dates back to around 2,900 years ago, was discovered in the early 1990s, but it was not excavated until April 2022.

The function of a thick layer of deliberately arranged ceramics, known as a wasps nest, was to absorb moisture from the soil and prevent water from penetrating the foundry.