10 Unsolved Historical Mysteries That Still Confuse Experts

9. The Shigir Idol

Found in Siberia in 1890, the Shigir Idol is the oldest wooden statue in the world, about 12,000 years old.

It’s over 5 meters tall and covered in carvings of faces and zig-zag lines. Nobody knows what they mean. Maybe it was a religious symbol, or maybe it told stories of the past. It’s older than the pyramids and shows how creative humans were even in ancient times.