Saturday, June 15, 2013

The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts

The Bible tells us that God created Adam and Eve just a few thousand years ago, by some fundamentalist interpretations. Science informs us that this is mere fiction and that man is a few million years old, and that civilization just tens of thousands of years old. Could it be, however, that conventional science is just as mistaken as the Bible stories? There is a great deal of archeological evidence that the history of life on earth might be far different than what current geological and anthropological texts tell us. Consider these astonishing finds:

The Grooved Spheres
Over the last few decades, miners in South Africa have been digging up mysterious metal spheres. Origin unknown, these spheres measure approximately an inch or so in diameter, and some are etched with three parallel grooves running around the equator. Two types of spheres have been found: one is composed of a solid bluish metal with flecks of white; the other is hollowed out and filled with a spongy white substance. The kicker is that the rock in which they where found is Precambrian - and dated to 2.8 billion years old! Who made them and for what purpose is unknown.

The Dropa Stones
In 1938, an archeological expedition led by Dr. Chi Pu Tei into the Baian-Kara-Ula mountains of China made an astonishing discovery in some caves that had apparently been occupied by some ancient culture. Buried in the dust of ages on the cave floor were hundreds of stone disks. Measuring about nine inches in diameter, each had a circle cut into the center and was etched with a spiral groove, making it look for all the world like some ancient phonograph record some 10,000 to 12,000 years old. The spiral groove, it turns out, is actually composed of tiny hieroglyphics that tell the incredible story of spaceships from some distant world that crash-landed in the mountains. The ships were piloted by people who called themselves the Dropa, and the remains of whose descendents, possibly, were found in the cave.



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The Ica Stones
Beginning in the 1930s, the father of Dr. Javier Cabrera, Cultural Anthropologist for Ica, Peru, discovered many hundreds of ceremonial burial stones in the tombs of the ancient Incas. Dr. Cabrera, carrying on his father's work, has collected more than 1,100 of these andesite stones, which are estimated to be between 500 and 1,500 years old and have become known collectively as the Ica Stones. The stones bear etchings, many of which are sexually graphic (which was common to the culture), some picture idols and others depict such practices as open-heart surgery and brain transplants. The most astonishing etchings, however, clearly represent dinosaurs - brontosaurs, triceratops (see photo), stegosaurus and pterosaurs. While skeptics consider the Ica Stones a hoax, their authenticity has neither been proved or disproved.



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The Antikythera Mechanism
A perplexing artifact was recovered by sponge-divers from a shipwreck in 1900 off the coast of Antikythera, a small island that lies northwest of Crete. The divers brought up from the wreck a great many marble and and bronze statues that had apparently been the ship's cargo. Among the findings was a hunk of corroded bronze that contained some kind of mechanism composed of many gears and wheels. Writing on the case indicated that it was made in 80 B.C., and many experts at first thought it was an astrolabe, an astronomer's tool. An x-ray of the mechanism, however, revealed it to be far more complex, containing a sophisticated system of differential gears. Gearing of this complexity was not known to exist until 1575! It is still unknown who constructed this amazing instrument 2,000 years ago or how the technology was lost.






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The Baghdad Battery
Today batteries can be found in any grocery, drug, convenience and department store you come across. Well, here's a battery that's 2,000 years old! Known as the Baghdad Battery, this curiosity was found in the ruins of a Parthian village believed to date back to between 248 B.C. and 226 A.D. The device consists of a 5-1/2-inch high clay vessel inside of which was a copper cylinder held in place by asphalt, and inside of that was an oxidized iron rod. Experts who examined it concluded that the device needed only to be filled with an acid or alkaline liquid to produce an electric charge. It is believed that this ancient battery might have been used for electroplating objects with gold. If so, how was this technology lost... and the battery not rediscovered for another 1,800 years?





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The Coso Artifact
While mineral hunting in the mountains of California near Olancha during the winter of 1961, Wallace Lane, Virginia Maxey and Mike Mikesell found a rock, among many others, that they thought was a geode - a good addition for their gem shop. Upon cutting it open, however, Mikesell found an object inside that seemed to be made of white porcelain. In the center was a shaft of shiny metal. Experts estimated that it should have taken about 500,000 years for this fossil-encrusted nodule to form, yet the object inside was obviously of sophisticated human manufacture. Further investigation revealed that the porcelain was surround by a hexagonal casing, and an x-ray revealed a tiny spring at one end. Some who have examined the evidence say it looks very much like a modern-day spark plug. How did it get inside a 500,000-year-old rock?

Ancient Model Aircraft
There are artifacts belonging to ancient Egyptian and Central American cultures that look amazingly like modern-day aircraft. The Egyptian artifact, found in a tomb at Saqquara, Egypt in 1898, is a six-inch wooden object that strongly resembles a model airplane, with fuselage, wings and tail. Experts believe the object is so aerodynamic that it is actually able to glide. The small object discovered in Central America (shown at right), and estimated to be 1,000 years old, is made of gold and could easily be mistaken for a model of a delta-wing aircraft - or even the Space Shuttle. It even features what looks like a pilot's seat.



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Giant Stone Balls of Costa Rica
Workmen hacking and burning their way through the dense jungle of Costa Rica to clear an area for banana plantations in the 1930s stumbled upon some incredible objects: dozens of stone balls, many of which were perfectly spherical. They varied in size from as small as a tennis ball to an astonishing 8 feet in diameter and weighing 16 tons! Although the great stone balls are clearly man-made, it is unknown who made them, for what purpose and, most puzzling, how they achieved such spherical precision.

Impossible Fossils
Fossils, as we learned in grade school, appear in rocks that were formed many thousands of years ago. Yet there are a number of fossils that just don't make geological or historical sense. A fossil of a human handprint, for example, was found in limestone estimated to be 110 million years old. What appears to be a fossilized human finger found in the Canadian Arctic also dates back 100 to 110 million years ago. And what appears to be the fossil of a human footprint, possibly wearing a sandal, was found near Delta, Utah in a shale deposit estimated to be 300 million to 600 million years old.

Out-of-Place Metal Objects
Humans were not even around 65 million years ago, never mind people who could work metal. So then how does science explain semi-ovoid metallic tubes dug out of 65-million-year-old Cretaceous chalk in France? In 1885, a block of coal was broken open to find a metal cube obviously worked by intelligent hands. In 1912, employees at an electric plant broke apart a large chunk of coal out of which fell an iron pot! A nail was found embedded in a sandstone block from the Mesozoic Era. And there are many, many more such anomalies.
What are we to make of these finds? There are several possibilities:

  • Intelligent humans date back much, much further than we realize.
  • Other intelligent beings and civilizations existed on earth far beyond our recorded history.
  • Our dating methods are completely inaccurate, and that stone, coal and fossils form much more rapidly than we now estimate.
In any case, these examples - and there are many more - should prompt any curious and open-minded scientist to reexamine and rethink the true history of life on earth.

Originally posted on: Ancient X

22 comments:

  1. Very interesting collection of artifacts here.
    Sadly, some research on google turns out to flag most of these artifacts as a hoax (usually on a very unstable basis of counter evidence) - almost seems to me people do not even want to figure out what objects truly are, who made them, and what they have been used for.

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    1. yes google does flag many claims which people post are true. These particular articles I could not find flags by google but rather some valid debating. clever post, but maybe your should have actually googled these articles before posting. looks to me, your just like those people who do post bogus shit. oh well.

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  2. Maybe, Humans HAVE been around this long, and were wiped out like the dinosaurs (not completely though) an were just as advanced as we are now, but simply forgot everything through the course of trying to survive the aftermath. Just a silly half thought through theory....would make a great book for sure.

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    1. Nah, they already made a great video game out of it.

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    2. L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth comes to mind.

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  3. Most of these "Mysteries" are not mysteries any longer. They've either been proven to be modern hoaxes or the reality of the items discovered.

    Google each one of these "Mysteries" one by one and most of them will come back with legitimate sources explaining their origins.

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  4. The 10 Most Not-So-Puzzling Ancient Artifacts: The Grooved Sphereshttp://archyfantasies.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/the-10-most-not-so-puzzling-ancient-artifacts-the-grooved-spheres/
    There is a phenomenon in the human brain called Pareidolia. This particular event is what causes us to see shapes in the clouds, faces on trees, and the Virgin Mary on toast. What’s that got to do with grooved spheres you ask? Well, the long and short of it is, Pareidolia is a fancy way of saying, we see what we want to see, and the people hyping the Grooved Spheres want to see what isn’t there.

    Those who I would not describe as experts want these stones to be something otherworldly, something strange, and inexplicable. The problem is that experts have explained them, and they are rather worldly, but still cool.

    The major claims about the Spheres is that they are perfectly spherical [1], grooved [1], made of metal [1], are harder than steel [2], rotate on their axis [2], sing the theme from Star Trek, and are rather boss DJ’s…Ok I made the last two up, just in case you can’t tell.

    The glaring problem with most of these claims is, as usual, the lack of evidence to back them up. Not to mention there only seems to be a few ‘sources’ that just get repeated over and over again, without being fact-checked. One of which is the ever creative Weekly World News [2].

    When you ask actual Geologists about these ‘puzzling’ Spheres, you get some very un-puzzling answers.

    These were pretty much debunked in 1996 [3] by Paul V. Heinrich, a research associate at the University of Louisiana. He did some extensive research into the Spheres, analyzing their structures, and even cutting a few in half. He found the Spheres to be completely natural. Lets looks at what he found.

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    1. You make a lot of claims without backing anything up as well. If you're going to be long winded, you should explain yourself more. I didn't hear anything useful in what you wrote. I'm not saying you're wrong, it just persuasively sucks. Unless of course you're speaking to idiots who don't ask questions about what they read, but only see that you use big words and therefore BELIEVE you. I would do it myself, but I'm extremely disinterested either way.
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    2. why is it that anything science cant explain is written off as a hoax? Why cant it just be, that we are not the only intelligent race of humans to walk this earth.

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  5. All this reminds me of is Spirit Science :)

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  6. I am getting really tired of this sites lame ass attempts at questioning conventional wisdom. A simple google or wiki search will reveal that most of this garbage just is not true. Done wasting time on this site, so dissappointed.

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    1. Why do you care either way? BECAUSE YOU havenolife.

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    2. What a scathing insult! I bet he's going to lose sleep trying to think of a comeback!

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  7. My thoughts to those of you who question the validity of these objects or "google" the answers to find that they have other explanations than the ones offered here. Have you ever thought that the powers that be (mainly gov't and the rich elite) have the answers and don't want us to know and would do anything to throw us off course? In ten years when people catch on to Fluoride not being safe (even tho you can do a google search and find research that claims it's safety and also find research claiming it causes cancer) only then will we know that we've been LIED to about it's safety. Look at both sides, question everything. Thank people for trying to inform us of our past, present and future.

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    1. Thank you for this. People don't realize that google and wikipedia are probably the worst sources of information.

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    2. Yes, thank you.

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    3. I agree. there is a level of informational control that does go on worldwide. the pharaohs didnt inform the peasants and slaves on the majority of their higher knowledge. The CEO doesnt inform the drive-thru worker of the ins and outs of the companies higher ups. it seems that the majority of knowledge ( real knowledge) is on a very need to know basis. Why would that differ on the subjects of past civilizations , complex levels of universal mathematics or even different levels of energies. curiosity kills the corporation. yet again life is all about each individuals Personal reality. there are things that can never be proven or dis proven so you have to live in your own world.

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    4. THANK YOU!! SOMEONE WHO THINKS EXPLOSIVELY. Woohoo!

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  8. http://archyfantasies.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/the-10-most-not-so-puzzling-ancient-artifacts-the-coso-artifact/

    http://archyfantasies.wordpress.com/2012/06/22/the-10-most-not-so-puzzling-ancient-artifacts-the-baghdad-battery/

    http://archyfantasies.wordpress.com/2012/04/14/the-10-most-not-so-puzzling-ancient-artifacts-the-dropa-stones/

    http://archyfantasies.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/the-10-most-not-so-puzzling-ancient-artifacts-impossible-fossils/

    READ THEM !!

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  9. anybody who thinks their is legitimate, firm, known explanations about anything in history, has very little understanding of the word history. Especially if you think your disproving or proving anything by googling it. jeez

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  10. Time travel, by the elite perhaps....

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