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Modern humans by nature are skeptics. Maybe it happened because they were growing up, reading, listening and watching the fantastic stories, and then found out that real life is much more prosaic? Monsters are not real. Magic does not exist, just as Father Frost, Snow Maiden, Baba Yaga and houses. But only because that Santa Claus - it's not some all-powerful magic master, does not mean that in real life there was a man who would not have done unselfishly something good for humanity and would leave behind a lot of good .

Let's for a moment put aside our skepticism and take a look at ten items listed below (as well as a bonus), are considered to be mythical, but there really ever had an equivalent in the real world.

10. Dragons
Theories about what inspired people to create stories about dragons, based on the lost bones of crocodiles and dinosaurs. However, we can not call these creatures real dragon, because people have never encountered dinosaurs, and crocodiles are too small in size. And here is where comes into play Megalania (Megalania), an ancient relative of the Komodo dragon who terrorized the Australian Aborigines. It grows up to 8 meters in length and weigh up to 1, 9 tons. Her poisonous saliva, which contains a substance that prevents blood clotting, made her the victim died from blood loss.





9. Hobbits
The excavations, which were carried out in a limestone cave on the island of Flores in Indonesia, was discovered the skeleton of a height of about 1 meter, the skull which was only one-third of normal human skull - the hobbit. The researchers found the remains of nine people, the age of the youngest skeleton dating from about 12 000 years. They also found tools and other signs of civilization. There are skeptics who believe that the hobbits were just people who have had any disease that suppresses the growth, such as microcephaly. However, a widespread opinion among scientists is that the hobbits is in fact a separate species, the same as the form of the Neanderthals, who had a common ancestor with humans. In addition, there are active volcanoes in Indonesia, where, if necessary, you can throw a ring ...



8. Kraken
He argued that the image of the Kraken was inspired by a meeting with a huge squid. This can not upset, are not you? With eyes the size of the ball for beach volleyball, giant squid is really huge, but there is not enough monstrosity. It is not like the creature that we can imagine tearing the boat.

Recently, however, in the Southern Ocean has been found Colossal squid. It is believed that the length of the body comes to fourteen meters and its beak and the eye is much larger than that of the giant squid. What distinguishes it from other squid, is the fact that in addition to the suction cups, his limbs covered with sharp hooks, some of which are bent inward, and some end up with three claws. This is truly something that can cause significant damage.



7. Amazon
You've no doubt heard about the Amazons - the tribe, consisting solely of women, who were fierce warriors. They are also known from the tales of the exploits of Hercules. The Greek historian Herodotus (Herodotus) described the fate of the Amazon, as follows: He said that they were captured and transported to another area, then they overthrew their captors shipwreck and found ourselves on the Eurasian steppes, where they fought with the Scythians. Considering that Amazon will be able to be strong wives, Scythian men decided to deal with them only on the field of love. Surviving after all these vicissitudes, Amazon agreed to marry Scythian men, but only with the condition that they be allowed their daughters to continue the proud tradition of the mothers and to become warriors.

Herodotus is known for his love embellish the story, so he should not believe, if his words are not backed up by archaeological evidence. However, they are backed up. The excavation of ancient tombs in the Eurasian steppe, showed that a significant part of the Scythian women had bone damage associated with battles, as well as the fact that they were buried with swords, bows, daggers and other instruments of soldiers.



6. Horrible Wolf (Dire Wolf)
Horrible Wolf appeared in many role-playing games, and maybe you've even recently read or seen it in the Game of Thrones (Game of Thrones). In real life, the terrible wolves have coexisted with early man in the Pleistocene megafauna in the era. They were bigger and stronger than a normal wolf, and their teeth were sharp.

However, when the beginning of the megafauna extinct dire wolf lost their main source of food. They were too slow to hunt the prey hunted by modern gray wolves, forcing them to become scavengers - although they were not suited for. They eventually became extinct.



5. Scylla (Scylla) and Charybdis (Charybdis)
One day his journey, Odysseus was forced to send their ships through the narrow cave, on both sides of which he and his team were waiting for the terrible monster. On one side of his ship waiting Scylla, a multi-headed monster that dragged the team from the deck of the Odyssey. On the other side waiting for him Charybdis, the sea beast that sucked to the bottom of the ships using the funnel. Ulysses decided to swim around Skills, believing that it would be better to lose a few people, but allow everyone else to survive, than to lose the entire ship and all its people.

Messina Straits (Straits of Messina) runs between Sicily and mainland Italy. This is where, according to legend lived Scylla and Charybdis. Charybdis is actually a funnel, only it is not a monster, and its course is much calmer than described in legends. On the other side of the Strait are rocky shoals, which have inspired people to create the legend of Scylla's heads. In fact, the Odyssey would have been better to choose Charybdis.



4. Berserkers
Berserkers are not just heroes descended from the screenshots of the game Skyrim - the first mention of them can be found in old Norse poems. They were pretty terrifying warriors in their time. But how they got superhuman strength and invulnerability? Of course, their legendary madness in battle was no more than embellishment of history? And here and there, it was really happening. They took drugs before a fight is likely hallucinogens that made them fearless, strong and impervious to danger and Bole. The researchers found that the drug is able to reproduce the effect bufotenin their violent anger.



3. Tower of Babel
In contrast to the Hanging Gardens, the construction of the Tower of Babel archaeological finds, which were found at the site of Babylon, and prove that Nebuchadnezzar II was entitled to its construction.

However, it was not a place where people carried the nonsense that is destroyed by God. It was a ziggurat, called "Etemenanki» (Etemenanki), the temple of the god Marduk (Marduk), which was later destroyed by Alexander the Great (Alexander the Great). He wanted to rebuild it on your own, but died before he could do it. After that, many people have tried to rebuild the temple in their ideas, each time taking down what has been built before, to start all over again. But no one did not manage to finish anything. It turns out that this place is, after all, can be a symbol of the human inability to work together.



2. Moby Dick (Moby Dick) and Captain Ahab (Ahab)

Moby Dick was based on the stories of real-life giant white sperm whale. Moreover, real sperm was much steeper than the book. In fact, his name was Dick Mocha (Mocha Dick), probably due to the fact that he lived near the island of Mocha. He won the battle with hundreds of whaling ships, carrying some of them into pieces and sent to the bottom. One day he fought just three whaling ship and won.

The character of Captain Ahab was also based on a real person who lived at about the same time as the urine Dick. Captain Pollard (Pollard) was not looking for revenge, after the whale destroyed his ship. He and his team had to resort to cannibalism to survive. However, he again went to sea as a captain on the new ship ... who also drowned, this time because of the storm. He spent his remaining years working as a night watchman.



1. Imudzhi (Imoogi) or Korean Dragon
Korean legends tell about Imudzhi - huge python, were considered young dragons. According to legend, Imudzhi lived in caves or water, and had to live on earth a thousand years before they could ascend to heaven and become a true, fully formed dragon.

Although he lived in South America, not in Korea, such gigantic python really existed. It was so huge that we could take it for a young dragon. Length titanoboa (Titanoboa) was about 14 meters and weighed more than 1 ton. He strangled his victim with force 400psi, which is equivalent to, if you fell off the Brooklyn Bridge, but still in the 1, 5 times harder. Such a python could swallow a man even without his body anywhere has expanded to the extent that, as man progressed to in his digestive system. They died many years ago, but I would like to believe that they ascended and steel dragons.



Bonus:
Dwarka - the kingdom of Krishna (Krishna's City of Dwarka)

According to legend, Krishna (Hindu equivalent of Jesus) ruled the city of Dwarka, until then, until it was absorbed by the sea. Find the lost city of Dwarka would be equivalent to our discovery of the Indians of the Holy Grail or the Ark of Noah.

Archaeologists have indeed found the sunken city off the coast of India. Stone reliefs found in this city, not only confirmed that it is in fact Dwarka, the oldest city in history, but the fact that he was under the control of Krishna.

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