Most amazing unexplained artifacts

“This device is just extraordinary, the
only thing of its kind. The design is beautiful, the astronomy is
exactly right. The way the mechanics are designed just makes your jaw
drop. Whoever has done this has done it extremely carefully.” He added:
“…in terms of historic and scarcity value, I have to regard this
mechanism as being more valuable than the Mona Lisa.”

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.


So basically these apparently man-made objects date back to a period in earth’s history before the existence of intelligent life and are baffling scientists around the world due to their complexity and the fact they are made out of an extremely hard nickel-steel alloy that cannot be scratched and does not occur naturally and is of such a composition that excludes any meteoric origin. They simply DO NOT fit into any conventional prehistoric time-scale. What are they exactly? Who knows but it would be very surprising if some sort of extra-terrestrial species was not their original owners

The Dropa Stones

In
1938, an expedition led by archaeologist Dr. Chi Pu Tei into the
Baian-Kara-Ula in China made an astonishing discovery. Nearby caves held
traces of the ancient culture which once occupied them. Buried by the
dusts of time, hundreds of stone disks lay scattered about the cave’s
interior. Nothing too spectacular you may think, but the disks turned
out to be eerily similar to phonograph records — nine inches in
diameter, a circle cut into their centers and an obvious spiral groove.
They are believed to be more than 10,000 years old. But the spiral, as
it turns out, is composed of tiny hieroglyphics. When studied and
translated, it was revealed that the discs tell the amazing story of
spaceships that crashed into the mountains, piloted by people who called
themselves the Dropa.

The Saqqara bird – an Egyptian plane

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 4,000 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.

Discovered
during the 1898 excavation of the Pa-di-Imen tomb in Saqqara, Egypt,
the Saqqara bird is (as you could have guessed) a bird shaped artifact
made from the wood of a sycamore tree. Weighing in at just under 40
grams and with a wingspan of more than 7 inches, it’s been dated back to
approximately 200 BC. Lack of documentation and other data has led to
some speculation. In fact, the ancient egyptians were well aware of the
principles of aviation. Was it simply the toy of an affluent Egyptian
child? Did it serve some kind of ceremonial purpose? Regardless, the
object has few realistic bird traits. With its vertical tail, resembling
that of an airplane or glider, it resembles no known bird. Scientists
came to the conclusion that it couldn’t be effective as an aircraft due
to lack of technology, but it could have in fact been a glider. or maybe the ancient Egyptians

were Far more Advanced than we give them Credit for

The Baghdad battery – a 2000 year old battery

This
device consists of a 5-1/2-inch high clay vessel, inside of which was a
copper cylinder held in place by asphalt. Within the cylinder,
archaeologists found an oxidized iron rod. In 1940, Wilhelm König (the
German director of the National Museum of Iraq) suggested that these
could be galvanic cells, perhaps used for electroplating gold onto
silver objects. Nobody has been able to prove him wrong, especially
since it only needed to be filled with an acid or alkaline substance to
produce an electric charge.

Unexplainable fossils and metal objects

Geology
is a relatively “new” science. The progress and developments made
through experimentation are absolutely remarkable and have helped in
many other fields. Still, there are some things yet to be explained.
Though the honeycomb pattern of paleodictyon is already well known, we
remain stumped as to the creation of such and more questions are being
raised.

paleodictyon

drawing of metallic tube

For
example, a fossil of a human handprint was found in limestone estimated
to be more than 110 million years, a fossilized human finger with just
as much, and the aparent discovery of a human footprint that possibly
sported a sandal which dates to more than 300 million years ago. These
amazing fossilized imprints/remains have left the scientific community
scratching their collective heads. Not to mention the 65 million year
old semi-ovoid metallic tubes being dug out of France, the unusual block
of coal discovered 124 years ago which contained a metal cube that
couldn’t have formed naturally within the lump, and many more such things

The Piri Reis map

In
1929, a group of historians made what can only be described as an
amazing discovery, written on the skin of a gazelle. After study and
research, they found that it is a genuine map drawn in 1513 by Piri
Reis, a well documented admiral of the Turkish navy. He depicts Europe
and North Africa, the coast of Brazil, several islands (Azores, Canary
Islands, and the mythical island of Antilia), and even Antarctica, which
was thought to be discovered more than 300 years later. The most
puzzling thing is not that it shows we need to rethink the chronology
for a number of exploratory discoveries, but that it describes
Antarctica’s topography as not being masked by ice and in great detail.
The last time that occured was more than 6000 years ago. Tell me then.
How did a Turkish admiral from half a millenium ago map a continent
that’s been covered by ice for the last 6000 years?

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?

The Nazca drawings

The
Nazca drawings (or lines) definitely have something otherworldly about
them. Discovered in 1930 — when the US inaugurated two new commercial
lines — they cover 450 square km and some measure more than 200m in
length. They depict lines, geometrical figures, animals and figures that
we haven’t entirely figured out yet (many believe them to be
constellations). Whether made for the gods or for some other reason,
it’s obvious that they were meant to be seen from the sky. Scientists
have had trouble trying to figure out how they could have been designed
and created without somebody directing the work from above. We can only
marvel at these amazing figures and continue to wonder how and why they
were created by a people called the Nasca.

The mysterious city of Nan Madol – a city built on corals

The
city of Nan Madol was built between 200 B.C. – 800 A.D., on a coral
reef near Micronesia. It consisted of about 100 artificial islands made
from huge basalt blocks and connected with viaducts. From the start, it
dazzles us with a mix of the bizarre and grandeur. From the start it
seems incongruous; 250 million tons of offshore basalt in the middle of
nowhere. How were these huge blocks quarried, transported, and placed in
the perfect spot? Even by today’s standards, it would an impressive
engineering feat. Additionally, the reasoning behind its development
remains a mystery. Archaelogists have few clues as to what happened to
the civilization responsibile for its creation.

The Sacsayhuaman walls

Near
the city of Cuzco, more than 3500 meters above sea level, these amazing
walls first fascinated the Spanish conquistadores. They were astonished
to discover how these people who, according to them, were ignorant and
lacked the ability of logical reasoning required
to have built such wonders. They are in fact 3 concentric walls, the
average being roughly 360 meters in length and 6 meters in height, made
from limestone blocks that weigh about 300 tons each. They didn’t use
mortar or any other kind of cement to bind the walls, but they are
carved and placed in such a way packed so closely that even a sharp
knife can’t be wedged between 2 blocks. Scientists have tried to achieve
this at a much smaller scale and have failed in their efforts to
replicate the tight joints of the Sacsayhuaman walls