Relics left behind by ancient people are frequently damaged, buried, and difficult to identify,
but some can completely transform our perspective on our place in history.
Archaeologists have made some spectacular discoveries over the years.
Some are strange archaic items that they still do not fully comprehend.
Today, let's have a look at these objects that could have come from space.
The Dropa Stones High on the Bayan-Kara-Ula mountains, which
run through China and Tibet, is a very remarkable labyrinth of caves that are mysteriously interconnected
— built by either man or nature.
Within these caves are the buried bodies of the most unusual hominoid species ever seen
by man.
The team of archaeologists who accidently discovered the caverns in 1938 initially thought
they were ape bodies.
However, apes do not bury their dead.
If not animals, what or who did these strange-looking skeletons belong to?
Yes, they were neither human nor animal, or at least not totally human.
The skeletons had little and very thin limbs and legs, almost spindly, but huge heads in
comparison to their short and weak frames.
Chi Pu Tei, a Chinese archaeologist, and his team were inspecting the skeletons when they
uncovered something even odd.
A circular disc lay half-buried in the cave floor.
It seemed to be made of stone, with a hole in the center.
There were spiral inscriptions or grooves like two rings going around it.
On closer inspection, it appeared to be writing or hieroglyphs on the grooves.
However, no one was able to translate the unusual language.
Not even ancient writings experts.
More intriguing are the engravings on the cave walls depicting the rising sun, moon,
and stars, which were linked together by lines of little dots.
Were the bodies of this one-of-a-kind species attempting to communicate with us?
It took experts in Peking 20 years to interpret or translate the disc.
What he discovered was too much for the authorities, who refused to let him reveal his findings.
716 more of the same type of discs were uncovered during additional cave searches in the vicinity.
The discs, according to Dr. Tsum Um Nui's translation, told a story — an amazing account
of a space probe that came to Earth from another planet and crashed in these distant highlands.
The inhabitants came in peace and were from a very advanced civilization.
However, their taller Neighbors made living tough for them, so they fled to other worlds.
Wedge of Aiud Some 47 years ago, a crew of miners discovered
an object so bizarre that some think it is truly out of this planet along the banks of
the Mures River in Aiud, Romania.
It's unknown what these workers were looking for when they uncovered two mastodon bones
deep in the sandy seashore.
What we do know is that something considerably stranger resided more than 35 feet beneath
this area.
An object with no apparent date, purpose, or explanation, which became known as the
"aluminum wedge of Aiud" or just "the object."
What makes the Aiud wedge so confusing is that it appears to have no age or purpose.
It's unlikely that a current object would be discovered among the bones of a beast that
went extinct 11,700 years ago.
To complicate things further, the object was covered in patina, a coating that takes hundreds,
if not thousands, of years to develop.
Nonetheless, it portrays itself as modern aluminum, which is not considered to have
existed at the time.
Simply put, the dates and times do not add up.
The object, a clunky aluminum wedge, therefore its name, serves no purpose.
Theories about its origins range from alien invasions to complicated preservation, but
there is no definitive answer.
Klerksdorp Spheres Miners working in pyrophyllite mines in the
small town of Ottosdal, in South Africa's northern Northwest Province, have discovered
enigmatic metal spheres known as Klerksdorp Spheres.
These dark reddish brown, slightly flattened spheres range in size from less than a centimeter
to ten centimeters wide, with three parallel grooves running around the equator on some
of them.
The most notable specimens have the uncanny look of being manufactured.
But here's the kicker: these metallic objects have been dated to 3 billion years ago, when
the Earth was too young to support intelligent species capable of manufacturing these spheres.
The artefacts have sparked great interest and suspicion among many fringe organizations,
including Christian and Hindu creationists and supporters of "ancient astronauts" These
fringe groups contend that the artefacts are either actual or potential "Out-of-Place Artifacts"
(OOPARTs), which are allegedly direct evidence of a civilization that lived billions of years
ago or before the Biblical Flood.
Advocates of "ancient astronauts" believe the Ottosdal items were created by intelligent
extraterrestrials.
King Tut's dagger When researchers first glanced inside Tutankhamun's
tomb in the early 1920s, they discovered antechambers crammed with thousands of artefacts: statues,
furniture, jewels, garments, chariots, and paintings.
Among these things was an iron dagger, slightly over a foot long and carved from an iron meteorite,
that would confound scientists for over a century.
Two new studies present opposing visions of the mysterious weapon's origins, which may
have been used by probably the most famous ancient Egyptian pharaoh.
One of the investigations on the dagger, which is composed of iron from meteors, implies
it was produced in Anatolia (modern-day Turkey), while the second study says its Earthly origins
are unknown.
Iron smelting had not yet been created during King Tutankhamun's reign (1333 B.C. to 1323
B.C.); hence the metal was a rare and costly commodity that often came from meteorites.
Betz mystery sphere Sometime during March or April 1974, three
members of the Betz family, parents Gerri and Antoine, and their oldest son Terry, were
strolling through the woods around their property on Jacksonville's Fort George Island when
Terry discovered something that would have a long-term impact on their lives: a strange
metallic sphere the size of a bowling ball.
Terry, a 21-year-old pre-med student, took the ball home because he thought it was unusual
enough to make a decent souvenir.
The Betz family didn't give the orb much thought until Terry began strumming his guitar near
it one day.
Something weird happened, according to Gerri, who became the family spokesman on sphere-related
matters: the ball began humming back.
It soon began to exhibit other strange characteristics, such as rolling around seemingly on its own,
changing directions and stopping abruptly.
It even vibrated and made a high-pitched sound, which made dogs whine and cover their ears.
The "Betz sphere," sometimes known as the "mystery sphere" or simply the "Odd Ball,"
quickly gained popularity.
One of the first people to investigate it was Ron Kivett, the host of a local radio
show about paranormal events.
Kivett, who is well known locally as one of the writers of the cult monster film Zaat,
validated the Betz family's assertions that the sphere moved and behaved strangely.
He, like many others before him, believed that the orb was of extraterrestrial origin,
designed by some cosmic intelligence for an unknown purpose.
ET Tooth Wheel Most scientists believe that because the Earth
was so young 300 million years ago, the first land animals had yet to evolve into dinosaurs.
If that's the case, how do you explain the discovery in Russia of a gear shift – a
standard machine part – lodged in a 300-million-year-old chunk of coal?
Is this artefact properly identified?
And, if so, who could have created this?
And for what reason?
Dmitry, a native of Vladivostok, recently discovered something strange about a lump
of coal he had acquired to heat his home during the winter.
A metallic-looking rail or rod was forced into the coal, prompting Dmitry to contact
biologist Valery Brier.
Following an initial investigation of the bizarre object, specialists concluded that
it appeared "very much like a toothed metal rail, created artificially.
It was like parts [that] are often used in microscopes, various technical and electronic
devices."
According to The Voice of Russia, another feature of the artefact that piqued the experts'
interest was "its distinctive shape, which was reminiscent of a modern tooth-wheel,"
"It is hard to imagine that an object could take [the] regular shape of a tooth-wheel
with six identical 'teeth' naturally."
But who made this supposedly metallic object 300 million years ago, when there were no
humans on the planet?
According to experts, this piece of metal is of alien origin.
The Hypatia stone This fascinating Egyptian rock includes micro-mineral
compositions not found on Earth, in meteorites or comets, or anywhere else in the solar system.
The Hypatia stone is barely a few centimeters across and has been fractured into tiny shards,
but it may be the most intriguing rock in the world.
The beautiful rock, named after Hypatia of Alexandria, the first notable Western female
astronomer and mathematician, was discovered in 1996 in western Egypt by Aly Barakat, a
geologist with the Egyptian Geological Survey.
Barakat was researching Libyan desert glass, which seems to be similar to sea glass, but
geologists believe it formed some 28 million years ago as a result of a meteorite strike.
Barakat quickly understood the special significance of the gleaming stone encrusted with minuscule
diamonds, and he felt it was not from Earth.
Geologists researching the Hypatia stone confirmed its extraterrestrial origins in 2013.
Unlike any other known meteorite, experts initially thought the Hypatia stone was a
piece of a comet nucleus.
However, it appears that the space rock has a considerably more interesting past.
A new study led by geologists at the University of Johannesburg determined that the compounds
identified in the Hypatia stone are unlike anything known in the solar system.
As a result, the researchers infer those parts of the rock developed before the solar system,
and if these compounds are not pre-solar, the widely held belief that the solar system
emerged from a homogeneous gas nebula is put into doubt.
The Piri Reis Map The Piri Reis Map can be found in the library
of the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, Turkey.
The map, which dates back to the 16th century Ottoman empire, was compiled by an officer
in the Turkish Navy- Admiral Piri Reis.
Hence the name of the map.
He represents continents such as Europe and North Africa, the Brazilian coast, a number
of islands (including Antillia, the Canary Islands, and the Azores), and even Antarctica,
which was thought to have been discovered more than 300 years later.
Now, what is so bizarre about this map?
Where do aliens come into this cartographic marvel?
The most confusing aspect is not that it demonstrates the need to reconsider the chronology for
several exploratory discoveries, but rather because it portrays Antarctica's terrain in
great detail and without reference to ice.
The last time that occurred was more than 6000 years ago.
Tell us then.
How was a continent that has been buried in ice for the past 6000 years mapped by a Turkish
commander from half a millennium ago?
Professor Charles H Hapgood and mathematician Richard W Strachan examined the Piri Reis
map and concluded that it was created from an aerial image!
An aircraft in the sixteenth century?
It would be nearly four centuries until the Wright brothers took their maiden flight,
and many more years before someone could take a precise snap while in the air.
How then?
This appears to be the work of an extremely advanced race that we are unaware of.
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