15 curious images of interesting rarities (16 photos)
We do not fully realize how vast the world is, and how much around a breathtaking and stunning imagination. This post contains interesting finds from around the world shared by users.
1The Roots Of These Old Trees Were Discovered In Fall Creek Preserve, Tennessee
2. Stone wall with a human face, National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City
3. A boat made entirely of jade, one meter long
4. Wanping Fortress, near the Lugou Bridge, is marked with a memorial board. This is where the Second Sino-Japanese War began on July 7, 1937.
5. Tutankhamun's iron dagger is made from alien metal that hit the ground with a meteorite. It was discovered in 1925 in Tomb of the Valley of the Kings by archaeologist Howard Carter
6. We went to the mountains and saw a tree with an interesting shape.
7. The vertebrae of a whale lying at the bottom of a bay in Svalbard, Norway
8. Plankton on Vaadhoo Island, Maldives
9. 86 orichalcum ingots ("mountain copper") were found on seabed off the coast of the Sicilian municipality of Gela. Nakhodka belongs to a ship that sank in the first half of the 6th century BC. Orichalcum, an alloy of copper and zinc
Orichalcum is a mysterious metal or alloy that is mentioned ancient Greek authors. Hesiod reports that Orichalcum was made shield of Hercules.
10. Mother-of-pearl clouds at sunset in Akureyri, Iceland. This iridescent colored clouds that appear in the polar regions. They also known as polar stratospheric clouds
11. In Tibet, a custom is widespread in which the human body after his death they are fed to the eagles. In the wall of the monastery of Damosa, preserved many human skulls
12. Jordan stairs in the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg
13. Kauai, Hawaii
14. Sword in stone at Montesiepi Chapel, Tuscany, Italy
Knight Galgano Guidotti buried his sword in a stone, intending use it as a cross for prayer, and made a promise to God that he never again raise his weapon against a man.
15. Spheres weighing 1 kilogram: magnesium, aluminum, titanium, copper and tungsten