Welcome to watch mojo and today we'll be counting down our picks for the top 10 historical myths that turned out to be true.

So Maori had toki, which are stories about a giant bird which swooped down and killed Children, Europeans didn't believe this for this list will be going over the myths from throughout history that have proven true or have a basis in truth over time.

If there's a story from history that proved absent from our list, tell us the tale down in the comments number 10, The golden fleece in greek mythology, the hero, Jason and his crew sailed for the kingdom of cultures.

Modern day Georgia in search of the legendary golden fleece.

But while Jason himself may be a legend, the object of his journey may not be in present day Georgia.

Gold deposits are known to wash downstream from mountains.

In this vanity region, farmers in the area traditionally use sheepskins to strain and capture gold nuggets washed through the rivers and streams.

According to historical accounts, this technique has been handed down for thousands of years.

It's likely that the original myth of the golden fleece originated from accounts of this method of gold discovery.

Get the fleece.

Number nine, the kraken tales of enormous sea creatures have been around since people first sailed the sea.

One of the more common myths is of giant tentacled creatures with the most famous being the Kraken usually described as a giant squid, evidence of their existence has been around For centuries, albeit with somewhat spotty details.

Sightings in the wild with the stuff of Tall Tales, although many have washed up on shore dead.

However, live specimens have been so rare that it took until 2004 for one to be photographed or recorded.

It's massive.

This giant squid is taller than a two story house.

Part of this is due to its natural habitat, usually being in the ocean depths.

Guess they can only be released so often release the Kraken number eight.

Swale in Norse mythology often attributed mythological explanations to natural phenomenon.

For instance, rainbows being the bridge of Asgard or thunder being the sound of thor's hammer.

However, one myth may have predicted or described a surprisingly modern scientific concept.

The ozone layer.

The ozone layer acts as earth's sunscreen, absorbing about 98% of damaging ultraviolet or UV light.

In the poem, grimness Wall Odin describes Stalin a shield which stands between the sun and the world Stalin prevents the sun from burning the land below, its name means cooler.

It could just be a coincidence, but the idea that an invisible barrier protects the earth from the heat of the sun is surprisingly accurate.

Remember this place number seven or a cal come the history of metals and their mining has always been shrouded in myth.

It was Cadmus that brought the making of bronze.

He knew how to make alloys special metals, which in the early days of civilization was the beginning of technology.

Just look at ancient sources of tin.

No one can agree where it came from, but there's also a near mythical medal as well, or a calcium described as having a gold like appearance and having a name that translates to gold, copper or mountain copper or a calcium remained a mystery for millennia.

It was supposedly found in Atlantis.

It was said that the temple of Poseidon on Atlantis flashed with the red light of oracle comme.

The potential truth behind the myth was also discovered beneath the waves.

A sunken ship found off the coast of Sicily dated at 2600 years old, contained what is believed to be or a calcium.

While not a mind metal itself.

The ingots recovered are instead a form of brass which has the sheen and properties associated with the legendary metal.

The interesting part about this is the composition of the ingots that they found.

The metal is 80% copper and 20% zinc.

There was other things found in, but that's the majority of the opposition.

No six.

In Maori Mythology, legend tells of the public eye, a monstrous bird that can lift humans while flying and even preyed on them.

But this wasn't just a bit of folklore from the first human inhabitants of New Zealand prior to their arrival, the islands were home to numerous large birds due to a lack of larger predators.

One of those was the hosts eagle and here we have the first bones of this giant eagle that were ever found with an eight ft wingspan and an average weight of around £30 hosts eagle may not have been large enough to carry off in adults, but small church Children certainly.

And if it could take down a 200 kg Moana, it would probably quite easily attack a human once its prey was hunted to extinction by the maori upon their arrival.

So two went these raptors, We can only surmise that they died out because of the fact that their major prey became extinct and in fact, we know that they probably became extinct at precisely the same time as the mo became extinct.

Number five Atlantis, an ancient structure bears a striking resemblance to a stone staircase.

But is it natural or man made?

No, no one has definitely proven the existence of Atlantis were not wearing tinfoil hats.

Here.

The legend of Atlantis, an island that sank into the sea through some unspecified disaster, is an enduring part of mythology and pop culture.

Even today, it was the time of great prosperity and technological advancement.

We had unlocked the secret of unlimited energy at a time when the rest of the world still thought the earth was flat.

Like some of the best stories though, it's rooted in truth, several mediterranean islands were sunk or rapidly destroyed by geological disasters in ancient times.

These include maliki, which was submerged by an earthquake and tsunami, as well as Santorini, which was once a single island volcano until it erupted.

These and other disasters could very well have inspired Plato's original tale of Atlantis.

There is a huge amount of un recorded human history beneath the ocean surface that we don't know very much about at all.

Number four star over Korea.

In 1437, Korean astronomers were surprised to discover an unusually bright new star in the sky.

Its sudden appearance lasted for two weeks before it disappeared again.

Some considered it an event of religious significance.

While others suspected it was a star being created in 2017.

Modern astronomers discovered the true story.

The explosive star was in the constellation of Scorpius.

It wasn't a star being born, but actually one's death in the form of a nova, a nova occurs when a dense white dwarf draws in the mass of a nearby star, which super heats to create a massive fusion reaction is borrowed, hydrogen undergoes fusion, which causes it to brighten up significantly, pumping up 200,000 times more energy off into space.

Certainly an awe inspiring event.

Regardless of its origins, Number three, Milky seas, strange tales from sailors aren't limited to just creatures beneath the waves.

Sea travelers have also described a phenomenon called the Milky Seas effect or sometimes Mario, According to accounts, huge stretches of ocean become illuminated, appearing like white or blue fluffy clouds or snow.

The origin of this phenomenon Only confirmed in 1985 when a sample was taken of the water during one event, it turns out that billions of bioluminescent bacteria are responsible.

The reason times just didn't know about it is they didn't think it was possible for that many microorganisms to be in one place doing something together while not totally understood.

The Milky Seas certainly turned out to be more than just spilled milk.

What causes this?

The truth is they don't know.

We don't know yet.

We don't know how it forms.

We don't know what the conditions are.

But what we do know is that it does happen.

Number two weapons strengthened by spirits of the dead.

The Vikings were intimidating warriors all on their own.

But they also believe strongly that the gods and their fallen kin gave them strength in battle.

God helps some held that the spirits of their ancestors imbued their weapons with strength.

While this may seem like poetic license.

Common among warrior cultures, it's surprisingly true.

There's evidence that iron age Scandinavian smith's used remains of the dead in crafting weapons.

The carbon in the bones actually improved the quality of the iron, creating a rudimentary form of steel.

They thought that they were performing magic, but they were really doing science comes without apology and I welcome the summer Before we continue.

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Number one Troy, the city of Troy is a staple of greek mythology, featuring prominently in stories like Homer's Iliad for millennia.

Many believed that Troy was as mythical as the stories told about it.

However, in the 19th century, archaeologists uncovered ruins in his are like in modern Turkey.

Homer left clues to the location of Troy throughout the Iliad and the details are so precise That many historians believe he was talking about an actual place.

These ruins closely match the geographical hallmarks.

Homer uses to describe troy's location.

Evidence suggests at least nine different cities may have been built over successive generations on the site.

The strategic importance of the site means it is occupied for a total of 3500 years before finally being deserted.

While the authenticity of the events of the Trojan war may never be confirmed, we at least know that Homer was writing about a real city.

We're still hoping to uncover a proverbial or literal trojan horse though what is this?

And offering to preside.

The Greeks are praying for a safe return home.

This is a gift.

We should take it to the temple of Poseidon.

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