Hey how is everybody doing? I didn't post in the last few days as I stayed offline reading books on UNESCO and they are really really good. Did you know that they preserve over a 1000 ancient sites all over the world? It is now my goal to visit each one of these marvellous sites across the globe.
I worship UNESCO after reading about them so much. They fight for what's right and that is all that matters right? I am thankful to those people who are restoring all these ancient sites. Each piece of history we find, we get a step closer to know our true history. So many unexplained voids will be soon uncovered. In the past 73 years archaeologists and historians have worked side by side to preserve these historical sites. All I am saying is expect to see a 1000 more. Why you ask?
The number of discoveries made in the past few decades tells us that we don't know so much about our planet and we are yet to discover. Forget knowing everything about the planet, we haven't even seen it all . Forget the mariana trench and forget the KHALISH mountain these will remain a mystery for at least a few centuries. We don't even know what's in 3/4th of the waters yet. Okay there's nothing there you say. ( I do not agree with that) but let's just mark that as Unexplored territory.
Now Lets go based on the surface area of the planet. Earth has a total surface area of 510.1 million km² including the rain forests, the Antarctic, the mountain ranges and the untouched parts of land with absolutely no inhibition.
The water bodies constitutes to over 362 million km² which is 71% of the total surface area of the planet. If you consider all water bodies uninhabitable by human beings, it doesn't mean it was the same thousands of years ago. We know about the slow rising water level.
In the remaining 29% of the land mass (148 million km²) we got :
| Landmass | Area in (km²) |
|---|---|
| The mountain ranges constitute to over | 16.3 million km² |
| The Amazon forest with | 5.5 million km² |
| and the East siberian taiga forest with | 3.9 million km² |
| Other forests add up to | 36 million km² |
| Deserts cover over | 3.5 million km² |
The leftover 82.8 million km² are occupied by humans, ranging from densely populated areas to agricultural lands.
Our population has Increased from 0.8 Billion to 7.6 Billion. That is 9 times in just 200 years, covering over 13 times the initial inhibited land due to cultivation, industrialization, urbanization and population explosion.
If you consider the entire 82.8 million km² and subtract the industrial area which is 17 Million km² it gives you 65 Million km². This is the area we know about the most.
(Not keeping in mind the undiscovered tunnels and cities)
Fossils and ancient sites are usually buried under the soil and only 3% of the land has been excavated for mostly construction and archeological purposes. That means most of the land has not been scanned thoroughly and what lies underneath them will remain a mystery.
Fortunately In over a decade archeologists have started using Hi-tech machinery like the Ground Penetrating Radar to look for what's beneath the surface without any haste by excavation.
A Ground Penetrating Radar transmitter emits high intensity electromagnetic waves into the ground. When the waves encounter a buried object or a boundary between materials having different permittivities, it will be reflected or refracted or scattered back to the surface. A receiving antenna can then record the variations in the return signal.Consider it to be like a sonar for the ground.
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Interestingly a lot of mind boggling discoveries were made answering so many of our questions but also gave birth to so many new questions regarding our timeline. Discoveries like Gobeklitepe just shatters the way we think about our history. I am expecting to see at least a 100 more by 2050. After all we still got 97% of the land untouched under the soil.
"What we today call as mere Mythology will soon be considered as Ancient History and what we call as magic will be called science. "
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More links:
An Impossible Ancient Hindu Temple
A Devil's Shrine worshipped in Inida
Scanning for hidden secrets at the Pyrimid of Giza