Who Likes Ancient Artifacts?

[guohua]

Here are just a few, some you've seen and maybe some you haven't.
After the Video Please take the time to Talk Among Yourselves and discuss the one or more you find interesting or unbelievable.

[gordi]

Here are just a few, some you've seen and maybe some you haven't.
After the Video Please take the time to Talk Among Yourselves and discuss the one or more you find interesting or unbelievable.

"Who Likes Ancient Artifacts?"

We all love you MrsG!!! Surely you aren't THAT old..? . . .... no, hang on...

[guohua]

Here are just a few, some you've seen and maybe some you haven't.
After the Video Please take the time to Talk Among Yourselves and discuss the one or more you find interesting or unbelievable.

"Who Likes Ancient Artifacts?"

We all love you MrsG!!! Surely you aren't THAT old..? . . .... no, hang on...

  

[BIAD]

The Antikythera Mechanism.

Isn't it fascinating that the people we presumed to be far-less advanced as us, monitored the
heavens in such a scientific manner?! With a simple crank of a handle, miniaturised wheels
and cogs tracked the moon, sun and it's suggested that the movement of planets are also
offered in the mechanism.

The Greek calendar, a cycle of nineteen years that closely follows a common multiple of a
solar year observed by Greek astronomer Meton, seems to be the basis of the the device
and with assistance of the 'manua' inscribed on the remains of the back door, we can see
that not only the Greeks were well instructed in calculating time, they also knew about the
longitudes on certain ecliptic celestial bodies.



They may have had their Gods and wore sandals to shuffle through their cities, but this complex
machine is an insight to what ancient civilisations were really up to and the very fact that this
apparutus could be constructed, hints that the manner we perceive our ancestors is probably
all wrong.
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The Ancient Screw.

There's plenty of debate on the internet of whether this artifact is actually a man-made object
or just the fossilised remains of a sea creature called a Crinoid. The alleged researchers who
discovered the item in the Kaluga region of Western Russia were certain it was a constructed
screw and alleged further analysis ascertained that it existed before the being surrounded by
the rock.



Geologists estimate that the age of the rock is 300-320 million years, but whether that indicates
that the 'screw' is older and designed by an unknown individual, is still being argued.

[BIAD]

The London Hammer.

When Mr & Mrs.Hann purportedly found a chunk of rock with some wood sticking out of it near
Red Creek outside the Texan town of London, one can only wonder what caused the couple to
take it home and keep it. It was 1936 or 1934, depending on which account is accepted and
some articles suggest the individual rock was not connected to anything else and merely 'sitting
on a rock ledge'
Lack of chisel marks on the fragment bears this out.



Ten years later, Max Hann broke open the rock and discovered a iron hammer head connected
to what we can assume was the wooden handle of the tool and believed he'd discovered an
artifact that pre-dated our general belief of tool-using. With the rock estimated to be around
300 million years-old, the hammer was assumed to belong to that time and therefore, show that
contemporary beliefs were in error.

However -and there's always an however, the design of the hammer implies it would belong
to the 1800s and since the lump of sediment has been purchased by controversial creationalist
Carl Baugh, who perceived the hammer as proof of 'pre-flood' civilisation in the Americas.
With such beliefs to persue, this person resisted requests for a genuine scientific analysis.

It's now broadly accepted that the hammer was discarded by a miner within the last few hundred
years and became encrusted in a dissolved lime-like sediment which hardened into a concretion.

The video states that 'scientists' analysed the object, but this may be just artistic licence!
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The Petradox.

In 1998, electrical engineer John J. Williams discovered what looked like an electrical connector
sticking up out of the ground 'somewhere in America'. During the unearthing the strange object,
Williams states that he discovered a large smooth stone that the so-called 'plug' was embedded in.

As video states, the electrical engineer is unwilling to say where the ssumed appliance was
discovered and also demands that the 100,000 year old chunk of granite cannot be broken open.



But the 0.3-inch diameter piece does not appear to be manufactured out of wood, plastic, rubber,
metal, or some other recognizable material. Those who've been allowed to examine the plug say
that due to Mr. Williams' current constraints placed on the research, any credibility must remain
absent.

So once more, the whole episode of the ancient three-pinned plug is deemed a deliberate sham.

[BIAD]

The Nampa Figurine.

On August 1st 1889, workers led by M.A. Kurtz and his partners, were drilling an artesian water
well in Nampa, Idaho.
After 300 feet of drilling, it's stated that Mr. Kurtz was checking the sand pump (used for taking
solid matter from a borehole) and during his examination of the wet-clay material, discovered
a inch-and-a-half long object that became known as the Nampa Figurine.



After washing the doll-like figure, Kurtz saw that it was artificial and not of natural making, the
overall view of the object implied a female form and suspecting that it had value, discussed the
find with an aquaintance Charles F. Adams the President of the Union Pacific Railroad.

Mr. Adams, the great-grandson of United States President John Adams, and the grandson
of president John Quincy Adams was passing through Idaho at that time.

Through this meeting, the Nampa figurine was examined by George Frederick Wright, a Christian
geologist who defended Darwinism. Wright also travelled to Idaho and examined the borehole for
evidence of chicanery or misplacement due to the drilling.

He later announced that the object was genuine and the depth that the figure originally resided
implied it must have been around two million years old, a finding that went against his ideas of
evolution. It's agreed this form of artistry only belonged in the Paleolithic period of European
man, a time of 20 to 30,000 years ago.

Can a fairly-modern manufactured object just somehow find it's way down through a 15 foot-layer
of basalt and then descend to the 300 feet level, to be seen an artifact that disrupts what we've
accepted as a standard timeline?
At the time of this writing, this mystery is still ongoing.

The Nampa Figurine is now stored at the Idaho State Historical Society in Boise, Idaho.
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The Shroud of Turin.

There's a stained sheet of linen that measures almost fifteen feet-long and nearly five foot-wide
and resides in the royal chapel of the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Turin, northern Italy.

When inspecting the cloth, one can see the faint sepia-coloured outline and marks of a human
who seems to have endured the terrible injuries of the crucifixion ascribed to Jesus of Nazareth,
who's death shroud it's said to be.



Though the shroud is taken to actually originate from the time that Jesus was alive, radiocarbon
testing done on a segment of the cloth dated this religious artifact to be from the middle ages.

But with holes in the wrists -a method of cricifixion generally not known and the marks of what
seems to be a crown of thorns around the forehead of the image, the Shroud of Turin was for
centuries, taken as Jesus' final apparel.

The arguement still rages today of whether the length of cloth is authentic and even the Vatican
have never endorsed or rejected whether it once covered the dead -or dying Son of God.

How the details of a face, whip-lacerated body and presumed pools of blood were produced
onto the shroud is also a topic of debate.



Is it him...? We just don't know yet.

[BIAD]

Stonehenge.

We've all been tempted from time-to-time, the dragging of stones with a weight of up to
twenty-five tons across a terrain that involved woodland, hillsides and swamp.
Go on admit it... it makes sense, huh?!

Archaeologists believe the construction of Stonehenge took place from 3000 BC to
2000 BC. Earthworks of banks, lines of wooden posts that implied corridors and a ditch
were also involved in creating the vast complex from a strange period in human history.

Henge or hinge derives from 'hen' -which means hang or gallows.
If the reason was to kill people by hanging or a simply an area to dry ones clothes in the
rare sunny weather on such a structure, I think we agree that their verve to have something
permanent is not in question!

The prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England today comprises of barrows, large mounds
where collective burial tombs are situated and the standing stones themselves.
It's agreed that at one time, there were more monuments that made up Stonehenge...
maybe up to one hindred and sixty-five, but now only ninety-three survive.



There are five Sarsen Trilithons which gives fifteen large Sarsen stones.
The outer ring of Sarsens is planned to contain thirty uprights and thirty lintels so that is
75 worked sarsens in total.
There are four sarsens outside the centre, the two Station Stones, the Slaughter Stone
and the Heel Stone.

There are stoneholes for other stones matching these, another two station stones,
a matching Slaughter Stone and a paired hole to the Heel Stone.
These empty holes may have held other stones or maybe stones that were then moved,
for instance the Heel Stone may have originally occupied a different Stonehole.
So that is between five and ten other sarsens.
There is the Altar Stone of which it's origin is unknown.

There are 29 bluestones that are still visible, but the original number is probably around 80.
They have been shuffled around the holes so it is hard to be sure but that is a reasonable
estimate.

Recently, it was proven that many of the stones travelled one hundred and sixty miles
from where they were mined in Wales, although some archaeologists believe the large
Sarcen stones were quarried from nearby to the site.

What was it all for and how did the massive blocks get to their final resting place...?
That's a tale in itself!

[Mystic Wanderer]

Due to just waking up, and not having my coffee yet, I'll just link to my file that begins with part I and continues on to part V. Ancient Sites and Artefacts