One of the strangest mysteries in archaeology was discovered in the 1930s in the Diquis Delta of Costa Rica. The stone spheres of Costa Rica are a collection of some three hundred polished stone orbs.In the 1930s the United Fruit Company was excavating the fertile, yet remote, farmlands of Costa Rica, near the Diquis Valley on the Pacific Ocean coast. As workers dug and prepared the land for cultivation, they discovered many large stone spheres buried and impaled in the tropical soil.
The stone spheres were previously unknown to the local inhabitants and they could offer no explanation of who made them or how old they were. Plantation workers bulldozed them and largely ignored them until rumors started spreading that they may contain gold or precious jewels. Many balls were drilled or cracked open with dynamite, only to reveal that they were composed of solid rock.
More information on the stone spheres on World Mysteries.
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