After a detailed study of the remains, it was soon discovered that the body was not 2,600 years old and not a Persian princess. Professor Ahmad Dani, director of the Institute of Asian Civilizations in Islamabad, claimed to have known from the beginning that the mummy was not all it was cracked up to be. However, not everyone was convinced that the mummy was the real deal. When she was discovered, the mummy’s head was adorned with a golden crown, and there were gold ornaments in her coffin, which truly made it seem that an archaeological wonder had been found. Police found the mummy during a raid of a Baluchistan chieftain home in Kharan, Pakistan and was to be sold on the black market for millions. 10 The Mummy That Wasn’tīack in 2000, Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan battled for ownership of what they believed to be the mummified remains of a 2,600-year-old Persian princess.

Below are just some examples of mysteries that will probably be debated for a long time to come. Still, man, the idea of an event taking place without an immediate plausible explanation just sends those debating skills into overdrive and makes the conspiracy theories pile up. There is just something about an unsolved mystery, isn’t there? Sure, it’s great when you eventually find out why something happened the way it did.

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