These Rare Discoveries Show Us The Other Story That Our History Books Never Did

We want you to forget what your history books told you. They usually tell only one side of a story full of nuances. In this slideshow, you will learn about rare discoveries that showed the side of history that does not get told often. They peel back all these layers of stories you might have heard of and expose seldom told facts that will surely fascinate. Are you ready to hear the truth about events in history that you think you already know about?

A Mummified Monk Inside A Buddha Statue

In 2015, researchers from the Netherlands performed a CT scan on a sitting Buddha statue. Inside, they found things that they did not expect at all. The statue came with a mummified monk who had been in there for a millennium. Inside of simply putting the monk in there, researchers found out that he was full of scraps with Chinese characters on them. To mummify himself, the monk must have been placed on a special diet of toxic tea that would ensure that his body would become too toxic to be infested by maggots. Not many monks did this, but those who did were revered in their community.

A Green Stone Mask In Teotihuacán, Mexico

An Ottoman Supply Train Of The Hejaz Railway In The Desert

Giant Japanese Spider Crabs

Holy Roman Emperor Maximillian I Wore Armored Gloves Until His Death

The First Sunglasses Were Made By The Inuits

Bernhardt Otto Holtermann With His 630-Lbs Gold Nugget

This Incredible Watch Was Made For Marie Antoinette

World War II Meal Rations Came With Gum And Cigarettes

Antoine Fraveau Wore This Breastplate When He Died At The Battle of Waterloo

King Tutankhamun Wore Stylish And Royal Sandals

The Wreckage Of A Kittyhawk P-40 In The Sahara Desert

The Cau Vang Golden Bridge Sits On Two Massive Stone Hands

A Toaster From The 1920s