What are some of the most interesting, weirdest, or esoteric artifacts found?
>>18019030It saddens me that this thread will get no attention.I will provide one cause I like these kinds of threads. Chinese double crossbow trigger mechanism.
>>18019030Isn't this the subject of the latest Indiana Jones movie?
>>18019250Sort of, they mixed up a couple of historical items and people to make an action movie plot. It was about as historically accurate as most of the shit that comes out of Hollywood though.
>>18019030Von Daniken mentions some weird shit, most of it debunked, like this south american tabet showing an astronaut in his rocket, an iron pillar in india that doesnt rust, massive animals carved into landscapes that can only be seen from the air, etc.
>>18019030Is there any proper articles on this as I'm just getting ancient aliens esque stuff>>18020121That last one is actually real.
There's a crazy theory about contact between the Olmec and the Phonecians. At first I laughed at it This is the VERY OLD traveler monument from the ancient Olmec city of La Venta, depicting a distinctly foreign man with foreign features, foreign clothes, a full beard(native mesoamericans cant grow full beards) and what looks like a flag, which the Olmec did not use. Accompanying it is one of the pieces of mesoamerican writing ever, which calls him a "traveler". There's other pieces of Olmec art out there that look foreign as well.>>18020121>like this south american tabet showing an astronaut in his rocketThats a mayan tablet showing a guy descending into the underworld, I don't know how anyone can look at that image and see a rocket ship without being SEVERELY schizophrenic and disconnected from reality.>massive animals carved into landscapes that can only be seen from the airSorry to burst your bubble but there's elevated positions nearby to view them from. There is an insane but amusing theory that the ancient Andeans utilized hot air balloons and they were meant to be viewed from there, which I don't take seriously but some guys did actually get together and make a functioning hot air balloon using only materials and techniques that would have been known to them.If you want to see some real south american baffling scifi shit look into their construction and brickwork and the acid theory relating to them.
>>18020771>native mesoamericans cant grow full beardsThey can, Montezuma had a beard according to the Spaniards, who regularly mentioned the Mesoamerican practice of of burning away facial hair>and what looks like a flag, which the Olmec did not use. Flags and banners were a very common thing in later Mesoamerican cultures. What makes think the Olmec or their contemporaries couldn't have had them?
>>18020121>his rocketIt's a throne that he's lounging on
>>18020877It looks like a death deity to me, its got a crown, eyes, earrings, a skeletal face, nose piercing, etc. It COULD be an altar or throne shaped like a death deity maybe. The cross above him represents the four cardinal directions
The Shroud of Turin is pretty crazy, if everything the research says about it is true, and I say that as a Jew.
The crystal skulls are pretty cool. Once claimed to be pre-Columbian artifacts with mystical powers, later shown to be 19th-century European fakes. Still beloved by mystics and pop culture.
>>18020121>>18020771>>18020877>>18020895It's the sarcophagus lid of king Pakal the Great of Palenque, representing his journey to the afterlife. The thing below him, which Von Daniken interpreted as the flames coming out of a rocket, is actually the entrance to the underworld, which is often represented in Maya art as the jaws of a centipede monster, which is what that is.The cross shape behind him, which Von Daniken believes is the rocket, is quite simply the world tree/axis mundi.
>>18021192Do you recall what the thing at the top was? I remember it mentioned in one of my lectures but i forgot
>>18021212The Principal Bird Deity, a figure most often interpreted as a zoomorphic aspect of the god Itzamna, who's constantly depicted perched atop world trees like the one in that lid.
Please just post weird, interesting, or esoteric artifacts. I dont care if they've been "deboooonked" or whatever.
Voynich manuscript
>Girolamo Segato (13 June 1792 – 3 February 1836) was an Italian naturalist, cartographer, Egyptologist, and anatomist. He is perhaps best known for his work in the artificial petrifaction of human cadavers.>Upon his return to Florence in 1823, Segato developed a technique similar to mummification, but unique: rather than simply removing water from cadavers, Segato's method consisted of what appears to be mineralization or "petrification". His particular technique permitted to save the original colors and features of the textures, besides their elasticity. Most of his works can be found perfectly preserved at the University of Florence, but there is also an example at the Royal Palace of Caserta: a table in the Old Apartments, the surface of which is made with the "petrification" technique.>Word soon spread that Segato had acquired knowledge of Egyptian magic. Hampered by the society of his time, he was prompted to destroy all his notes before his death. Segato took to the grave the secret of the technique he developed, which, despite numerous studies and attempts to imitate, remains mysterious. It is said that, on his death, he would reveal his secret to his friend Pellegrini (nicknamed Pellegro), but he died prematurely.>He died in 1836, and was buried in the Basilica of Santa Croce. Today, many of Segato's surviving petrified human remains can be found in the Museum of the Department of Anatomy in Florence.
>>18021363sometimes, dead is better
>>18021254Fang of Critias > Raviel Lord of Phantasms > Neos Wiseman > Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon > Obelisk the Tormentor > Elemental HERO Electrum > Vampire Lord > Ancient Gear Golem > Amazoness Queen > Water Dragon > Ojama King > Armed Dragon > Dark Simorgh > Harpy Lady Sisters > Red-Eyes Black Dragon
It's insane to me that Mesoamerican feather mosaics aren't some of the mostly widely talked about pieces of art in human history
>>18021309This, a book carbon dated to the 15 the century, written in an unknown language, codebreakers unable to decipher it. There's various theories to its purpose and existence, based on the images provided, it could be a pharmacopoeia, also showing astrology, balneological pages with little nude women.
>>18021254thanks>>18021694Honestly everything relating to the mesoamericans is spectacular and baffling, made so much worse by how much knowledge about them has been lost. Tenochtitlan was in my opinion the most spectacular city on the planet at its time, 90-300,000 people living on artificial islands in homes with running water, government funded street sweepers, cops, doctors and dentists, sports events, public education, ultra fertile floating farms growing an endless variety of foods, a ZOO AND AQUARIUM, giant bridges, drawbridges, pumps and aqueducts, all this and the scholarly consensus is they DID NOT USE WHEELS!? What the hell!?>>18021726It gets even weirder, its full of depictions of plants that dont match any known ones, and the star charts are of constellations that were discovered recently and were impossible to know at that time(at least this is what I've heard, im not a botanist/astronomer so maybe ive been deceived). My theory is that its some sort of occult alchemical manuscript full of recipes and philosophy and such. Alchemists and members of medieval secret societies often used their own little made up languages, which adapted and evolved generation by generation, the language behind the voynich manuscript is probably a secret society code that was around for so long it became a language of its own, one so intentionally alien its still indecipherable. I own a physical copy and theres definitely something weirdly unnerving about its contents.
>>18019030A wheel was found that was dated 200 millions of years ago. Scary shit.
>>18019074I would contribute, but the objects are too esoteric for me to know.
>>18022084Was it though?
>>18022084you cant say shit like this and not provide evidence and sources
>>18021671That card is nuts. I would have gone crazy trying to build a deck around it in 2006. >>18021726>codebreakers unable to decipher it.Every four or five months I see another article claiming it has been deciphered but I get bored by the fact that the same article keeps rereleasing and never investigate. What's up with that? How can it be claimed to be decoded so many times and yet still shrouded at the same time? I'm beginning to think people just love the mystery and refuse to translate it.
>>18022084200 millions of years ago is the Triasic period anon...
Not what we have found- but we have not found. There are supposed to be millions of Roman shields, given the size of the army over the many centuries. Yet there have only been two shields recovered.
Oh yeah, the first rockets were designed in the 1500s by Germans. Supposedly this tech did not exist until the 1900s.
Maybe some stuff in South America showing contact between the Mediterranean and Americas
>>18023401The chinese were playing with rockets in the 13th century
>>18023421They had explosive powders, whereas the Greeks much earlier favored flammable jellies. Pertaining to rockets, the Haas design uses various chambers to throttle and control pressure and heat, applying Boyle's Law and Charle's Law before they were even named. It may be more accurate to call the German designs missiles and the Chinese designs rockets.
>>18023430*Charles' LawThis guy is pretty cool too.
Kinda old boat. There are older ones but I like this one.
One of the very oldest archeological sites of permanent human settlement in the americas isn't in alaska near the bering strait, nor canada, not even north america. Its Monte Verde in southern chile.
>>18023430Lets use the word missile as little as possible actually, it really triggers my autism. Now it almost universally means a specific type of self propelled rocket but historically the word has been used for everything ranging from bullets to thrown rocks, even as late as the 1800s.
>>18023446Interesting. Between 15k and 18k years ago is what I'm seeing.
>>18023452There's no computer processor but if pressure is throttled then range can be altered on the fly. Archaically speaking, everything that flies is a missile in the general sense but that does not help us here. All the same, the German design and the Chinese design are different enough that we ought to have some way of differentiating them. We could just say earlier rocket and better rocket though.
>>18021726>>18022057>>18023391It's art. Very intricate fantastical art depicting an alternate reality. The weird plants prove the overall purpose was artistic, assuming it's not really from Agartha, and the language is a scholar's shorthand of several languages in his own invented alphabet. The repetitive text and clusters of words are poetic and aesthetic before informational, I think the author knew what he was writing, but much of it wouldn't make sense translated.
>>18023473>the language is a scholar's shorthand of several languagesIIRC isn't the astronomy section in middle Persian?
>>18023477Wiki says the months in that section are written in latin or something, but nothing else. I don't think there's any such thing as voynich A and B either, the author simply came back and finished the project later in a different frame of mind.
>>18023418Okay this is actually a really cool oneI've always found the evolution of the Medusa/gorgons to be so fascinating
>>18020142It's been suggested that the Nazca Lines were used as religious processionals, so think big elaborate conga line. Crazy to coordinate that, for sure. Laying just a straight line would be hard enough over a distance.They were ridiculously good weavers and ceramicists and some of the themes depicted seem to show crowds of figures dancing in long lines and shapes. Kawaii desu ne
>>18023488If people were so curious about that ancient Greek clockwork machine why didn't they watch the 5th Indiana Jones movie?
>>18023494Oh yeah, the Nazca are way underrated. Everybody's always talking about the big lines as if they were all there is to them, but they actually left behind a pretty massive collection of remarkably well preserved textiles and ceramics, so we know a fair bit about what their culture was like.
>>18023721I'm not saying we should stop trying to translate the book. Just calling it like I see it.
>>18022057Also, how did they not have disease outbreaks living on a swamp and their own sewage? Very cool stuff and the Amazon is full of little cities that connect by elaborate road systems too. They also had very advanced base-60 astronomy, just like the Babylonians. The notion of the "circle" was known and therefore the "wheel", but it must not have been worth the hassle. No beasts of burden to pull carts anyway.
The real god of Abraham.
>>18024474based
>>18024474A literal horned demon. Can't make this stuff up, folks. Note how the Jew adds "Judeo-Christian" god, knowing full well Jesus Christ, nor his Indo-European "Sky Father" looked like in any way shape, form or fashion.
>>18019030The Lake Winnepesauke Mystery Stone is pretty neat. It's a really smooth stone that some workers found while digging around Lake Winnepesauke in New Hampshire. There isn't much to be said about it other than that it's much smoother than one would expect from a North American artifact and it's just really strange. Nothing else like it has been found in the north east and it's strangely smooth. The leading theory is (if it wasn't a hoax) it was made as a commemoration of peace between warring tribes. Lake Winnepesauke was a very populated area in pre-columbian times so it's not hard to imagine conflict occurring there.
>>18024489Your post started off well, but then you went full Americhristtard. Face it, you worship a demon who is jealous, petty and vindictive, and he lies about being the only god. His minions went to other continents outside of Asia to wreak havoc.
>>18023383https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/enigmatic-ancient-wheel-the-300-million-year-old-wheel-and-anomalous-ancient-tracks-across-the-world
>>18024586love this lil nigga
>>18023418>scary face with animal teeth is found in many culturesI probably drew the same stuff as a kid
>>18024392Every mosquito disease we know of only arrived in the Americas after the Columbian exchange. I do remember reading about them being affected by some diseases they themselves believed were waterborne but i don't remember what they were
>>18023400This is not suprising at all since they were made of wood so they rotted away.
>>18020771The Chachapoyas culture is said to be descendants of them. IRL it were celts from Spain + phoeninians from the Balearic islands the ones that did the travel to southamerica all together.
>>18024474Looks like a demon, fitting for the Synagogue of Satan.
>>18020870>Montezumahe was polish
>>18022084I think its not that the wheel or deposit is 200mln years old but that the dating is wrong and both are much much much much younger
Tarin Base Mummies Greek FireEsperanza Stone
>>18025062It's at the bottom of a coal mine. Spare us the mental gymnastics.
>>18024586I guess the obvious answer is it's fake. The photos look real enough. Imagine blowing an axle on your time travelling chariot in the year 200 million BC
>>18026167it's probably an old auger that sheared off in the rock or soemthing
