Here are just a few bits and pieces for you to explore, which may arouse your interest, and maybe you can uncover one of the mysteries.

1. The Mystery of the Loulan Kingdom

Loulan is an ancient small country in western China, with the capital Loulan City (the site is located on the northwest coast of Lop Nur, Xinjiang, China)

Southwest It connects to Qiemo, Jingjue, Kumi, and Khotan, to Cheshi in the north, to Yanqi in the northwest, to Bailongdui in the east, to Dunhuang, and is the hub of the Silk Road.

In March 1900, Swedish explorer Sven Hedin traveled eastward along the Tarim River to the lower reaches of the Kongque River, hoping to find the elusive Lop Nur.

On March 27, Sven Hedin completed his expedition to the west of Lop Nur and began his return journey. At this time, he and his Uyghur guides Abdureim and Oldek discovered that a shovel used for inspection was left in the camp.

When they returned to the camp to search, they encountered a storm and lost their way. However, they accidentally broke into an ancient city while they were lost. In front of them: there were city walls, streets, houses, and even... Beacon tower.

2. The Mystery of the Tomb of the Sun

In 1979, the Xinjiang Archaeological Institute organized a Loulan archaeological team and began to investigate and inspect the ancient roads of the ancient city of Loulan.

On the lower reaches of the Kongque River on the road leading to Loulan, archaeologists discovered mysterious tombs of the "Loulan Kingdom" 3,800 years ago a few miles away from the Kongque River.

The tomb was built at the expense of a large number of trees. When you step into it, you can see groups of concentric circles surrounded by seven layers of poplar wood piles. The diameter of the wood is more than 30 centimeters thick.

Looking from a distance, the entire cemetery looks like an ancient sun embedded in the Gobi wilderness. Therefore, people call it the "Tomb of the Sun".

3. The Mystery of Big Ears

While people are arguing endlessly about the unsolved mysteries of Lop Nur, one wave of unsolved problems arises after another.

In the photo of Lop Nur taken by the Earth Resources Satellite launched by NASA in July 1972, Lop Nur actually resembles a human ear, with not only a helix, an ear hole, and even an earlobe.

How was this ear of the earth formed?

Some people believe that this was mainly caused by floods from the southern slope of Tianshan Mountain in the late 1950s. When flood water flows into the lake basin, it passes through the desert, carrying a large amount of sediment, impacting and dissolving the original dry lake basin, and forming an underwater protruding annular strip according to the direction of the water flow.

4. The Mysterious Mystery of Death

In order to reveal the true face of Lop Nur, countless explorers have risked their lives to delve deep into it through the ages. There are many tragic stories, which have also covered Lop Nur. The veil of mystery.

Some people call the Lop Nur area a "devil's triangle" on the Asian continent, through which the ancient Silk Road passed. Many ghosts have wandered here throughout the ages, and dead bones are everywhere.

When the eminent monk Faxian of the Eastern Jin Dynasty passed by this place while traveling west to collect Buddhist scriptures, he once wrote: "There are many evil ghosts in the sand river. Anyone who encounters the hot wind will die, and none of them will be safe...".

Many people died of thirst not far from the spring. Unbelievable things happened from time to time.

5. The Mystery of Niya

At the beginning of this century, the British man Stein discovered the ruins of an ancient city on the banks of the Niya River at the southern edge of the Taklimakan Desert in Xinjiang, and excavated and sealed it. There are as many as twelve boxes of various precious cultural relics that have been preserved for thousands of years.

When these cultural relics were brought back to Britain, Western scholars were shocked. This was the ruins of Niya, known as the "Pompeii City" of the East.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the famous general Ban Chao stationed in the Western Regions with his followers for decades in order to fight against the Xiongnu and stabilize the Western Regions.

He used his outstanding political, military, and diplomatic talents to unite the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions at that time to fight against the Huns' invasion. He controlled the Western Regions for decades, leaving behind the eternal legend of "throwing a pen and joining the army."

6. The mystery of the water monster in Kanas Lake

"Kanas" is Mongolian, meaning "lake in the canyon".

Kanas Lake is 1,374 meters above sea level, 24 kilometers long from north to south, about 1.9 kilometers wide on average, with a maximum depth of 188.5 meters and an area of ??45.73 square kilometers. The total area of ??the natural landscape reserve is 5,588 square kilometers.

Kanas Lake is surrounded by towering snow peaks, green slopes and ink forests, colorful flowers and butterflies, and beautiful lakes and mountains.

This is the only distribution area of ??South Siberian flora and fauna in my country. There are precious tree species such as Siberian larch, Korean pine, spruce, and fir, as well as numerous birch forests. There are 83 known species. There are 298 families and 798 species. There are 39 species of mammals, 117 species of birds, 4 species of amphibians and reptiles, 7 species of fish in the lake, and more than 300 species of insects.

7. The Mystery of Rock Paintings

In the relatively early archaeological culture, an important part is the rock paintings distributed in the Tianshan Mountains, Altai Mountains, Altun Mountains and Kunlun Mountains. Most of them are relics of ancient nomadic culture.

The rock paintings remaining in Xinjiang include carvings and paintings, which are mainly found in high mountain pastures, middle and low mountainous areas, and on the pastoral roads used by herdsmen. It is also found in some river valleys.

Most of these petroglyphs are carved on the rock surface of black sandstone, granite and slate. Most of the rock faces face the east and the sun, and the petroglyphs are inscribed with thick lines.

Painted rock paintings are mainly found in caves. Most of them use a kind of stone-colored mineral as raw material, with vermilion color, or black or white color.

8. The Mystery of Stone Balls and Stone Figures

On the vast grasslands of Xinjiang, people can often see stone statues standing tall.

These stone figures are carved from whole rocks. Judging from the appearance, most of them are full-body figures, with heads, faces, and bodies all carved vividly and lifelike.

The Alcatel Stone Man discovered today on the Alcatel Grassland in Wenquan County, Bortala Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, is carved from a whole piece of white sand rock.

Its head is carved with a broad, round face, a pair of protruding slender eyes, high cheekbones, and two mustaches on its upper lip. The body is carved with large lapels, a wide belt is tied around the waist, a cup is held in the right hand and raised to the chest, and the left hand is holding a long sword hanging from the waist. The feet were carved into a pair of leather boots.

9. The mystery of the ancient boulder pile construction in crop circles

Crop circles, considered a "mysterious phenomenon", refer to various regular giant patterns caused by unknown reasons. , because they mainly appear in wheat fields, they are called "crop circles".

Since the 1980s, many crop circles have been discovered. Currently, more than 2,000 "crop circle" phenomena have been discovered around the world. The patterns include a single circle or a circle composed of circles. It consists of a chain, or a combination of other geometric figures and lines, such as dumbbells, crescents, wheels, etc., which have appeared in Britain, Russia, Australia and other places.

In Xinjiang, my country, there have been records of the discovery of graphics similar to "crop circles" in recent years.

The shape of Cypriot stone pile tombs spread throughout Xinjiang, Outer Mongolia, Russia and Europe is extremely closely related to the mystery of the world's "crop circles".

Stone tombs are generally considered to be the remains of the Cypriot people around 2,500 years ago. They are made of huge stones and slabs and are of large scale. They are found in the Altai Mountains of Xinjiang and Kazakhstan in Central Asia. It is unbelievable but cannot be ignored that the wheat circle patterns discovered in 1989 according to astronomer statistics cover almost all tombs with the characteristics of modern industrial civilization, including the Qinghe Stone Pile Tomb. graphics.

10. The mystery of the mummies

The two mummies were part of the cultural relics stolen from the Astana Cemetery in Turpan by the Japanese explorer Mitsuru Otani at the beginning of the last century, and were later collected by the Lushun Museum. . The restoration work was carried out by archaeological experts from Jilin Province using computer three-dimensional technology and lasted 20 days.

Judging from the restored pictures, the male mummy was elegant in appearance, a middle-aged man around 45 years old, with beard, hair, eyelashes, and eyebrows. The beard was obviously trimmed and very neat; the female mummy was The plump adult female has a small nose, mouth, and teeth, and long eyelids, which is a typical red phoenix eye.

11. The mystery of the barbarians in Barluk Mountain

In early August 2007, shocking news came from Barluk Mountain in Yumin County, Xinjiang. When local herdsmen were herding sheep, Discovered: Savages were stealing his lambs.

This situation happened to be photographed by Wang Ying, a savage hunter passing by. This video became the key evidence to uncover the mystery of the savage. What did the long-circulated savage look like? ?

Can the mystery about the savages be solved because of this video?

Barruk Mountain means "rich, rich, and everything" in Chinese. It spans Yumin County and Tuoli County in the Tacheng area and is a relatively independent mountain range. .

Since the 1990s, there have been constant rumors here that some people have seen a strange animal that can walk on two legs. They appear and disappear in the valleys and jungles, with brown-red hair all over their bodies. The hair...

Barruk Mountain is still a place where dragons and tigers are hidden, and the discovery of the hairy people in Barruk Mountain adds to its mystery.