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Ancient Oddities

500 Million-Year-Old Footprints
A fossil found in Antelope Spring, Utah, is said to reveal a trilobite that’s been crushed by a sandled foot.

Ancient Aircraft
Recently discovered carvings in the Temple Wall of Abydos in Egypt seem to depict a modern helicopter, airplanes, and flying discs!

Ancient Egyptians in the New World?
In 1914, an archaeologist digging in Mayan ruins uncovers two statuettes that depict the Egyptian gods Isis and Osiris!

Ancient Electricity
In 1957, what may be an ancient battery was discovered in Bagdad. It dates back to 250 B.C.E. Much older than the Energizer Bunny.

Ancient Precision Stone Cutting
Raises interesting questions about how the ancient Egyptians were able to cut stone, etc. with such precision.

Archaeological Outliers
Photos and text about carvings found on rocks in the New World in ancient Hebrew; and of New World maize found in India.

Batteries and Electric Devices
More information about the geode “sparkplug,” the Bagddad battery, and other enigmatic finds.

Billion-Year-Old Spheres
Metallic spheres from South Africa have etched grooves; found in 2.8 billion year-old deposit.

Bones in Slate
What appear to be petrified human bones are found in slate, and are therefore at least 280 million years old!

The Chinese Roswell
More information about the strange, ancient  stone disks discovered in the Bayan-Kara-Ula mountains of China that tell of an extraterrestrial visitation.

Cryptic Manuscripts
A catalog of ancient writings, which may or may not have actually existed, that contained advanced wisdom or knowledge.

Crystal Skulls
Everything you want or need to know about the mysterious crystal skulls can be found here, including great photos.

The Dogon
The Dogon, an aboriginal people in southern Mali, had detailed knowledge of a star that is so difficult to observe that a photo wasn’t obtained until 1970.

Forbidden Archeology
From the book of the same title, some of the evidence that modern man has been around a lot longer than the scientifically accepted 100,000 years.

Fossil Spark Plug
Found embedded in a geode is something that is obviously artificial. Some say it resembles a spark plug. Whatever, it’s mysterious. Good photos.

Greek Alphabet: Ancient Artifacts
Did the letters of the ancient Greek alphabet actually stand for schematics of advanced technology? Look and decide for yourself.

Hidden Bits of History: Australia
Out-of-place artifacts dug up in Australia, including ancient Egyptian inscriptions, coins, pottery, carvings, and other artifacts.

Ice Age Nanotechnology
Are these ancient artifacts from the upper Pleistocene in the Ural mountains really remnants of some
unearthly technology, or merely industrial waste from our own times?

Inscribed Wall at Chatata, Tennessee
Marked on the surface by projecting stones, a sandstone wall cemented by a red mortar features enigmatic diagonal rows of markings. Are they natural or not?

Levitation and Liquefaction of Rock
How did the ancients create, move, or place the huge blocks of stone that make up their temples and pyramids? Levitate them? Liquefy them?

The Modern Past: Airplanes
Found in 1898 in a tomb at Saqquara, Egypt, this artifact – which looks just like an airplane – was created about 200 B.C.E.

Museum of Forbidden Archaeology
The exhibits change, but exhibits have included anomalous artifacts and censored scientists.

The Mysterious Hieroglyphs of Abydos, Egypt
Well-done site about the enigmatic glyphs in an Egyptian temple that look like depictions of a helicopter and other modern vehicles.

The Newark Holy Stones
In 1860, an inscribed stone was found south of Newark, N.J. It is inscribed with a condensed version of the Ten Commandments in a peculiar form of post-exilic Hebrew letters.

Odd Things in Wrong Places
Curious findings of objects that are impossibly old: a doll-like figure, tools, an iron pot, and more.

Oops, Our Anomalies are Showing
From Laura Lee’s Web site, a collection of “ooparts” – including a metallic tube found in a 65-million-year-old chalk bed.

Out-of-Place Artifacts
Anomalies gathered by Charles Fort, including manufactured items embedded in coal and chalk, advanced technology, and mysterious constructions.

Out-of-Place Artifacts
Snippets of anecdotes about items such as nails, gold thread, chains, and tools found embedded in coal and other old deposits. Hard to explain.

Paleocontact
A thoughtful essay on ancient technology, including the possibility that the ancients were able to liquefy rock!

The Piri Reis Map
A map dating from 1513 shows the coastal outlines of South and North America – and more astonishingly, Antarctica!

Sensational Find in Russia
In a small river in the Ural mountains, prospectors have found strange, spiral-formed metal objects not made by human technology.

Strange Relics from the Depths of the Earth
Dr. Jochmans cites numerous accounts of human artifacts that, according to the standard evolutionary time scale, predate human evolution.

The Stonedisks of Baian-Kara-Ula
Discovered in China in 1937, these disks tell the story of a small race of beings who crash-landed on Earth 12,000 years ago.

Tracks in Time
Four more instances of finding human or human-like footprints in fossils – when they just shouldn’t be!

Unknown History
A very good collection of archaeological anomalies of North America, including ruins, skeletons, inscriptions, and artifacts.

Vaimanika-sastra
An ancient Indian text that describes flying machines, how to pilot them – even how to see into another pilot’s aircraft.