10 Great Ancient Mysteries Of North America

First version of this article was originally published August 17, 2014

AncientPages.com - In every corner of the world we come across fascinating ancient mysteries that encourage us to learn more about our mysteries past.

This time our journey takes us to North America, a land full of ancient secrets that remain unsolved.

Here we have collected some of the country's greatest ancient mysteries

1. Shin-Au-Av: Secret Ancient Underground City Hidden Beneath Death Valley

The idea that there could be a secret 5,000-years-old underground city hidden somewhere beneath Death Valley, California is fascinating. According to those who entered the subterranean tunnels and visited this marvelous place the city was once inhabited by an unknown race. Now, thousands of years later the place had been abandoned, but the visitors saw strange mummies and curious old artifacts.

Before we can enter the realms of this mysterious subterranean world, we must first listen to the words of the Paiute Indians who have legends describing an underground world few people have heard of. Read more

2. America's Ancient "Mystery Stone" Remains An Unexplained Puzzle

Few people interested in history can resist a true archaeological mystery. Imagine you would suddenly find a strange, dark, odd-looking, egg-shaped stone with unusual carvings and unknown origin.

What would you think?

This is what happened in 1872 when a couple of construction workers dug up a suspicious lump of clay near the shore of Lake Winnipesauke and discovered an artifacts that today is known as "New England's Mystery Stone".

Scientists are still trying to find out how the stone was made and for what purpose. Furthermore, so far it has been impossible to verify the age of the stone and determine how it was carved.

To make it even more interesting, the unknown creator decided to add a number of inscriptions and strange symbols, which are still open for interpretation. Read more

3. Judaculla Rock's Mystery - Does It Contain A Secret Coded Message To Mankind?

This rock covered with undecipherable symbols is one of the greatest archaeological mysteries of the North America.

Neither scholars nor older residents have been able to decipher it. Neither do they know its true origin nor purpose.

Is it a prehistoric code? Some kind of secret message for future generations of humanity?

Judaculla Rock is one of the largest in the Southeast, and the largest petroglyph in North Carolina, located in the Caney Fork Creek valley in Jackson County, outside of Cullowhee. The details of the petroglyph’s formation are unknown to scientists. Judaculla Rock is not an ordinary stone because it has something else: scribbling, markings, dribbling and spidery lines. And these mysterious symbols can be more than 10,000 years old. Read more

4. Undeciphered Ancient Stone Maps With Mysterious Signs May Hold Key To The Spider Rock Treasure

Has the Spider Rock treasure ever been found? Can some undeciphered ancient stone maps filled with strange, mysterious signs point the location to this well-hidden legendary treasure?

The strange rock was discovered by a man named Stewart who was at the time working on the legendary "Spider Rock" Spanish gold burial in the cedar brakes country near the Salt Fork of the Brazos River in Stonewall County. The Spider Rock map was dug up by a group of treasure hunters in 1908. A blueprint was made of the "map" since the mysterious rock itself has become lost. Read more

5. Is America's Mysterious Waffle Rock Proof Of Ancient High-Tech Or A Natural Formation?

It is one of America's greatest and yet little known enigmas. There are several reasons why Waffle Rock is considered a mystery. The geometric patterns are so regular that it is difficult to believe this is a work of nature. If it not a natural phenomena, it would mean that it was perhaps created by an ancient civilization with help of higly sophisticated unknown technology. The Waffle Rock is located in West Virginia, United States. This rock of debatable origin was discovered by Betty Webster Bishop and her mother during one of their Sunday walks.

According to Ms. Bishop "the rock in question, was at least six feet above the ground, and evidently several feet were embedded in the earth. It consisted of an uneven waffle type pattern, forming many geometric designs. The raised edges of this design were deep enough for adequate toe-holds for many feet that enjoyed scaling this mini-mountain." The reason it's called Waffle Rock is simply because it looks like a waffle iron grid. Read more

6. Lost Underground City Of The Grand Canyon - An Archeological Cover-Up?

Did an ancient lost civilization once live in a secret underground city below the Grand Canyon? Will the mystery of the lost subterranean city ever be solved?

Ever since an intriguing article reporting the discovery of a great underground citadel of the Grand Canyon appeared in the Arizona Gazette in 1909, scientists have debated whether the story is true or a hoax. Several alternative history authors and researchers, among them David Hatcher Childress believe the discovery did occur and this is yet another archaeological cover-up. Read more

7. Controversial Davenport And Pontotoc Stele Reveal Ancient Egyptians And Black Africans Visited North America

Is it possible to find evidence ancient Egyptians and Africans visited America in the past? Can the controversial Davenport and Pontotoc stele shed light on the mystery?

The Davenport Stele was unearthed in a burial mound in 1877 in Iowa. This curios artifact is called "The Davenport Calendar stele" or the "Djed Festival tablet" It contains a carving of "Opening of the Mouth Ceremony" which is of Nubian/Egyptian origin. Dr. Barry Fell (1917-1994), a Harvard scholar with an avocation for ancient writings. Egyptian and Libyan explorers had sailed up the Mississippi River and left the written stone tablet, the Davenport Stele. Read more

8. America's Mysterious Pedro Mountain Mummy And The Hidden Race Of Little People

This is the strange story of a curious very small mummy that was discovered in 1932 when Cecil Main and Frank Carr were digging for gold in the San Pedro Mountains about 60 miles southwest of Casper, Wyoming.

The small size and the features of the ancient body indicated it could once have been a member of the hidden race of the Little People living in America. Many ancient Native American legends tell of a group of beings that are commonly referred to as the Little People. These small beings are sometimes said to me spirits, magicians, ferocious dwarves, fairies, or devils, depending on the tribe's original folklore. Read more

9. Great And Never Explained Mysteries Of Nevada's History

Nevada is full of archaeological and anthropological discoveries - antiquities, no one is able to explain. One of these shocking discoveries gives us evidence that man existed in Nevada more than 200 million years ago.

In his famous book " The Hidden History of the Human Race", Michael Cremo writes:

"On October 8, 1922, the American Weekly section of the New York Sunday American ran a prominent feature titled "Mystery of the Petrified 'Shoe Sole' 5,000,000 Years Old," by Dr. W. H. Ballou. Ballou wrote:

"Some time ago, while he was prospecting for fossils in Nevada, John T. Reid, a distinguished mining engineer and geologist, stopped suddenly and looked down in utter bewilderment and amazement at a rock near his feet. For there, a part of the rock itself, was what seemed to be a human footprint! Closer inspection showed that it was not a mark of a naked foot, but was, apparently, a shoe sole which had been turned into stone. The forepart was missing. But there was the outline of at least twothirds of it, and around this outline ran a well-defined sewn thread which had, it appeared, attached the welt to the sole. Read more

10. Most Famous Of The Ancient Earthworks Of North America - Best Seen From The Air

North America is a great continent where people of diverse cultures once lived but most of these cultures had been forgotten long time ago. The farther we go back in history the more indications we find, showing the riches of North America's ancient history, which may have been much older and much more advanced than most of us have previously considered.

North America's prehistoric landscape and especially that of Ohio, was once rich in variety of earthwork, gigantic mounds shaped like birds, giant snakes, spirals, and geometrically designed walls. Read more

This is just a selection of some of North America's greatest ancient mysteries. Our readers can expect several new ancient puzzles in the near future...

First version of this article was originally published August 17, 2014

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