Another Great List Of Unsolved Mysteries- Part Two
The treasure of Confederation
It is year 1865, and the American Civil War is close to its end. While the Union army marching through to final victory, the Secretary of the Confederation who was responsible for treasure, George Trenholm, after last time he wanted to preserve southern treasure, he liquidated it. Although a significant amount of gold, silver and gems initiated with President Jefferson Davis and his men when they left Richmond, when they got caught, there no was trace from treasure (except for a few banknotes of the Confederation). Most amazing part is the disappearance of 4 tons of Mexican silver dollars.
Dozens of theories woven around this event to explain where the missing treasure is. One theory says that the planters divided the treasure and then buried him, waiting for the day when the South rise again. Many believe that the silver buried in Danville, Virginia. Others say that the treasure entrusted to secret society "of the Knights of the Golden Circle," in order to finance the second civil war in the future. But the truth is that the real fate of treasure the Confederacy is unknown.
Göbekli Tepe
From time to time, it happens discovery that forces us to rethink everything we know about humanity and how we managed to get where we are now. Gobekli Tepe in Turkey is certainly one of these discoveries. The site is located on a mountain crossing consists of 200 columns about 3 meters high and 20 tons heavy, formed in about 20 laps. Many columns have engraved animal predators.
None of this would be a surprise that it was made, for example, 2 000 BC. But Gobekli Tepe was built more than 13,000 years, making it older than Stonehenge by more than 8 000 years ago. The existence of this site totally changed all conventional views of the rise of civilization. The idea of religious monuments that were built by hunter-gatherers did not agree either with the knowledge of hunter-gatherers, even with the knowledge of religious monuments. Before the discovery of site, we believed that people at that time did not have a complex system of symbols, social hierarchy and division of labor that was able to build 89-meter high massive temple.
The official religion arose only after agriculture produced such social relations (or so it thought). However, the discovery of Gobekli Tepe suggests that the era of building temples is obviously deeper in the past, or maybe it was necessary to build a holy place where, in the beginnings, hunter-gatherers organized labor, in order to put everything in one place, near a stable source of food, where they could start to deal with agriculture.
But the existence of this site provides more questions than answers. How nomadic man from the Neolithic managed to organize the work force necessary for the completion of this monument? Why was it built? Why is older than other similar structures more than thousands of years? Excavations at Gobekli Tepe began in 1996, and most sites are still underground, but for now will still have some questions remain unanswered.
