In the Middle Ages, in the era of universal plunder of ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman tombs, there were reports that they were wonderful lamp that burned since the burial of the dead themselves faded soon after in the tomb invaded "outsiders."
Lamps ancient
One such lamp was found in the tomb Tullioly - the daughter of the Roman orator Cicero - near Alpievoy road (Italy).It burned in a sealed room, that is, without oxygen, more than 1,600 years old, lighting immersed in a clear solution, which prevents the decomposition of the body of a young girl.This lamp is in the ancient tomb near Rome.She stood at the head of the sarcophagus Pollanta hero, praised by the poet Virgil, and, judging by the date of his burial, burning about 2 thousand years.Also unusual lamps were discovered in an unmarked marble tomb on the island Nesida the Bay of Naples, the Italian city Attiste, Egyptian Memphis, and Athens, Greece.According to eyewitnesses, all findings are not chadili, and when broken or self-quenching of them appeared only a slight puff of smoke.This, incidentally explains one of the mysteries of the Egyptian pyramids: the ancient without electricity was applied to the wall mural in inaccessible areas to sunlight and do not spoil their soot oil lamps and torches.
Then the scientists are very interested countries and findings, calling them "ever burning lamp", tried to get to explore.However, they did not succeed: the lamp accidentally broken Cryptstalker, and some - had disappeared.Then scientists began to look for evidence of their real existence in the works of ancient thinkers.And soon their active searches were successful: in the writings of the ancient Greek philosopher Plutarch, the authenticity of which no doubt, had mentioned that these lamps hung above the door of Aphrodite and Temple of Jupiter and is not quenched neither water nor wind.After that, you can safely hypothesize about their nature ...
As they burned?
The most uncomplicated version of the proposed German scholar Athanasius Kircher XVII century: "Similarly in Egypt, and possibly elsewhere detection lamps have rich deposits of oil.What makes these clever priests?They connect tubes concealed portions of the source of minerals to one or more dump asbestos wicks.Oil reserves enough for a very long time, so they and burned the "eternal flame".This theory explains why the lights went out for yourself as soon as they took up or move from one place to another, but does not account for the fact that the majority found ever burning lamps in general had no wick.
English physician and philosopher of the XVII century Thomas Browne put forward his hypothesis."The lamps were burning hundreds of years because of the purity of a substance that does not emit any fumes able to smoke and" strangle "the fire - he wrote - for if only oxygen is kept the flame, the latter there would be some minutes, becauseall the oxygen in a sealed room would be quickly used up ... Unfortunately, the method of preparation of non-combustible fuel is lost. "This hypothesis held, and many other thinkers, and some even tried to recreate the eternal fuel and make him a lamp.So, Madame Blavatsky, who lived three centuries later, in his work "Isis Unveiled" resulted in the following sequence, from the works of its decommissioned Titenhayma (medieval alchemists): "Sulphur.Alum.Make sublimation to gray.Add Venetian crystal borax powder, then pour alcohol of high purity, evaporated and the precipitate was added to a new batch.Repeat as long as sulfur is soft as wax and will not smoke.Share on copper plate - this is for power.The wick is prepared as follows: remove the asbestos yarn thickness from the middle finger and little finger length, put in a Venetian vessel and pour the prepared sulfuric blacking.Wick while prosalitsya greased and then lay it in a glass jar, clamshell-like shell, so that a small portion of the wick was over sulfuric blacking.Then put the vessel in hot sand: shoe polish softens and evenly distributed over the wick.And if after this light the wick of the lamp will burn forever. "A method for manufacturing tubes, designed and proposed Titenhaymom Blavatsky, is simple enough, and if it were valid, it would have certainly made a splash in the scientific world.However, this did not happen.
Perhaps it is the soul of the dead .
on the concept of an immortal soul underlies almost all the ancient beliefs, and based precisely on this medieval scholars Jesuits put forward his theory of nature ever burning lamps.According to her they did not have any oil, no oil or wick, and were made ... the life force or soul of the deceased, according to one of the proponents of the theory, "shining like the sun and small particles are of God, who created the world throughHeavenly Fire ".In favor of this unusual hypothesis suggests that in ancient times all the internal organs of the deceased were removed from the body and placed in special containers, which are then installed next to the sarcophagi.And then to the authorities, in addition to well-known today, reckoned, and another one that was called "divine spark", "fire within", "fire of the heart."Maybe it was the eternal light emitting immortal soul, of which the ancients knew more than we do?
Modern scholars believe that the mysterious lights really existed, and perhaps ever will be found in other tombs.However, in their opinion, these lamps can not be eternally burning in the literal sense, because it contradicts the chemical and physical laws.Perhaps they are a result of the unusual composition, or some yet unknown reactions remain possible to burn a very long time - hundreds of years - as long as they did not touch, but not forever.In short, it is - another mystery from the past.
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