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TOP 10 OUT-OF-PLACE ARTIFACTS (O.O.P.s)
By
Joseph Robert Jochmans, Lit. D.
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Walk into any modern museum, or open any history textbook, and the
picture of the past presented is one in which humanity started from
primitive beginnings, and steadily progressed upward in the
development of culture and science. Most of the artifacts preserved
in archaeological and geological records have been neatly arranged
to fit this accepted linear view of our past.
Yet many other tantalizing bits and pieces unearthed offer a very
different story of what really happened. Called out-of-place
artifacts, they don't fit the established pattern of prehistory,
pointing back instead to the existence of advanced civilizations
before any of the known ancient cultures came into being.
Though such discoveries with their inherent sophistication are
well-documented, most historians would like to sweep these
disturbing anomalies under the proverbial rug. But the rug of true
history is getting very lumpy, and hard to step across without
tripping over such obvious contradictions to the conservative
picture of antiquity.
What's more, the mysterious artifacts confirm ancient legends and
stories which describe human history not as linear, but cyclic.
Forgotten ages and former worlds rose and fell in great cycles of
life and death over millions of years, lost to our memory except in
myths, and now, through a few amazing pieces left to us. Here are
the top ten out-of-place artifacts and what they reveal to us about
our missing legacy:
1. BAFFLING BATTERIES OF BABYLON
In 1938, Dr. Wilhelm Kong, an Austrian archaeologist rummaging
through the basement of the museum made a find that was to
drastically alter all concepts of ancient science. A 6-inch-high
pot of bright yellow clay dating back two millennia contained a
cylinder of sheet-copper 5 inches by 1.5 inches. The edge of the
copper cylinder was soldered with a 60-40 lead-tin alloy comparable
to today's best solder. The bottom of the cylinder was capped with
a crimped-in copper disk and sealed with bitumen or asphalt.
Another insulating layer of asphalt sealed the top and also held in
place an iron rod suspended into the center of the copper cylinder.
The rod showed evidence of having been corroded with acid. With a
background in mechanics, Dr. Konig recognized this configuration
was not a chance arrangement, but that the clay pot was nothing
less than an ancient electric battery.
The ancient battery in the Baghdad Museum as well as those others
which were unearthed in Iraq all date from the Parthian Persian
occupation between 248 B.C. and A.D. 226. However, Konig found
copper vases plated with silver in the Baghdad Museum excavated
from Sumerian remains in southern Iraq dating back to at least
2500 B.C. When the vases were lightly tapped a blue patina or film
separated from the surfaces, characteristic of silver electroplated
to copper. It would appear then that the Persians inherited their
batteries from the earliest known civilization in the Middle East.
2. THE STRANGE ELECTRON TUBES FROM DENDERA
In different locations within the Late Ptolemaic Temple of Hathor
at Dendera in Egypt are curious wall engravings which Egyptologists
cannot explain in traditional religio-mythic terms, but about which
electrical engineers are finding very modern interpretations.
In one chamber, No. 17, the topmost panel, depicts Egyptian priests
operating what look like oblong tubes, performing various specific
tasks. Each tube has a serpent extending its full length inside.
Swedish engineer Henry Kjellson, in his book Forvunen Teknik
(Disappeared Technology), noted that in the hieroglyphs these
serpents are translated as seref, which means to glow, and believes
it refers to some form of electrical current. In the scene, to the
extreme right appears a box on top where sits an image of the
Egyptian god Atum-Ra, which identifies the box as the energy
source. Attached to the box is a braided cable which
electromagnetics engineer Alfred D. Bielek identified as virtually
an exact copy of engineering illustrations used today for
representing a bundle of conducting electrical wires. The cable
runs from the box the full length of the floor of the picture, and
terminates at both the ends and at the bases of the tube objects.
These objects each rest on a pillar called a djed, which Bielek
identified as a high-voltage insulator.
The tube objects look very much like TV picture tubes, an
impression which is not far from wrong, for electronics technician
N. Zecharius has identified the objects as Crookes or electron
tubes, the forerunner of the modern television tube.
Though the upper chamber scenes have been damaged by vandals from a
later age, other pictures found inside the crypt below the Holy of
Holies are almost perfectly preserved, and their portrayal deepens
the mystery of the strange electron tubes even further. Here, not
only are the tubes shown in full operation, but something else has
been added which may suggest the ultimate purpose for the tubes
themselves. In several instances, both men and women are shown
sitting underneath the tubes, hands held out and cupped, which
meant they were in a receptive mode. What kind of radiation
treatment was being performed here?
3. THE ENIGMA OF THE ASHOKA PILLAR
A testimony to ancient metallurgical skills in Delhi, India is
called the Ashoka Pillar. Standing over 23 feet, it averages 16
inches in diameter and weighs about 6 tons. The solid wrought-iron
shaft is made up of expertly welded discs. An inscription on the
base is an epitaph to King Chandra Gupta II, who died in A.D. 413.
Despite being well over a millennium and a half in age, the
Pillar's constitution is remarkably preserved. The smooth surface
is like polished brass with only occasional instances of pock-marks
and weathering. The mystery is that any equivalent mass of iron,
subjected to the Indian monsoon rains, winds and temperatures for
1,600 years or more would have been reduced to rust long ago.
Production of the iron and the techniques of preservation are far
beyond 5th century abilities. It is probably far older, maybe
several thousand years. Who were the mysterious metallurgists who
made this wonder, and what happened to their civilization?
4. AN OUT-OF-PLACE COMPUTER FROM ANTIKYTHERA
A few days before Easter Sunday in 1900, Greek sponge divers off
the small island of Antikythera discovered the remains of an
ancient ship filled with bronze and marble statues and assorted
artifacts later dated between 85 and 50 B.C.
Among the finds was a small formless lump of corroded bronze and
rotted wood. which was sent along with the other artifacts to the
National Museum in Athens for further study. Soon, as the wood
fragments dried and shrank from exposure to air, the lump split
open revealing inside the outlines of a series of gear wheels like
a modern clock.
In 1958 Dr. Derek J. de Solla Price successfully reconstructed the
machine's appearance and use. The gearing system calculated the
annual movements of the sun and moon. The arrangement shows that
the gears could be moved forward and backward with ease at any
speed. The device was thus not a clock but more like a calculator
that could show the positions of the heavens past, present and
future.
It is highly possible that the device may have origins ages long
before the Greeks, and in a land far removed, now unknown.
5. FLIGHT IN ANCIENT EGYPT
In 1898 a curious winged object was discovered in the tomb of
Pa-di-Imen in north Saqqara, Egypt dated to about 200 B.C. Because
the birth of modern aviation was still several years away, when the
strange artifact was sent to the Cairo Museum, it was catalogued
and then shelved among other miscellaneous items to gather dust.
Seventy years later, Dr. Kahlil Messiha, an Egyptologist and
archaeologist, was examining a Museum display labeled bird
figurines. While most of the display were indeed bird sculptures,
the Saqqara artifact was certainly not. It possessed
characteristics never found on birds, yet which are part of modern
aircraft design. Dr. Messiha, a former model plane enthusiast,
immediately recognized the aircraft features and persuaded the
Egyptian Ministry of Culture to investigate.
Made of very light sycamore the craft weighs 0.5 oz. with straight
and aerodynamically shaped wings, spanning about 7 inches. A
separate slotted piece fits onto the tail precisely like the back
tail wing on a modern plane.
A full-scale version could have flown carrying heavy loads, but at
low speeds, between 45 and 65 miles per hour. What is not known,
however, is what the power source was. The model makes a perfect
glider as it is. Even though over 2,000 years old, it will soar a
considerable distance with only a slight jerk of the hand. Fully
restored balsa replicas travel even farther.
Messiha notes that the ancient Egyptians often built scale models
of everything familiar in their daily lives and placed them in
their tombs, temples, ships, chariots, servants, animals and so
forth. Now that we have found a model plane, Messiha wonders if
perhaps somewhere under the desert sands there may yet be unearthed
the remains of life-sized gliders.
6. A JET FROM SOUTH AMERICA
In 1954 the government of Colombia sent part of its collection of
ancient gold artifacts on a U. S. tour. Emmanuel Staubs, one of
America's leading jewelers, was commissioned to cast reproductions
of six of the objects. Fifteen years later one was given to
biologist-zoologist Ivan T. Sanderson for analysis. After a
thorough examination and consulting a number of experts,
Sanderson's mind-boggling conclusion was that the object is a model
of a high-speed aircraft at least a thousand years old.
Approximately 2 inches long the object was worn as a pendant on a
neck chain. It was classified as Sinu, a pre-Inca culture from A.D.
500 to 800. Both Sanderson and Dr. Arthur Poyslee of the
Aeronautical Institute of New York concluded it did not represent
any known winged animal. In fact, the little artifact appears more
mechanical than biological. For example, the front wings are
delta-shaped and rigidly straight edged, very un-animal-like.
The rudder is perhaps the most un-animal but airplane-like item. It
is right-triangle, flat-surfaced, and rigidly perpendicular to the
wings. Only fish have upright tail fins, but none have exclusively
an upright flange without a counter-balancing lower one. Adding to
the mystery, an insignia appears on the left face of the rudder,
precisely where ID marks appear on many airplanes today. The
insignia is perhaps as out-of place as the gold model itself, for
it has been identified as the Aramaic or early Hebrew letter beth
or B. This may indicate that the original plane did not come from
Colombia, but was the product of a very early people inhabiting the
Middle East who knew the secret of flying.
7. CRYSTAL SKULL FROM ATLANTIS
Without doubt the most famous and enigmatic ancient crystal is the
skull, discovered in 1927 by F.A. Mitchell-Hedges atop a ruined
temple at the ancient Mayan city of Lubaantum, in British Honduras,
now Belize.
The skull was made from a single block of clear quartz, 5 inches
high, 7 inches long and 5 inches wide. It is about the size of a
small human cranium, with near perfect detail. In 1970, art
restorer Frank Dorland was given permission to submit the skull to
tests at the Hewlitt-Packard Laboratories. Revealed were many
anomalies.
The skull had been carved with total disregard to the natural
crystal axis, a process unheard-of in modern crystallography. No
metal tools were used. Dorland was unable to find any tell-tale
scratch marks. Indeed, most metals would have been ineffectual. A
modern penknife cannot mark it. From tiny patterns near the carved
surfaces, Dorland determined it was first chiseled into rough form,
probably using diamonds. The finer shaping, grinding and polishing,
Dorland believes, was done with innumerable applications of water
and silicon-crystal sand. If true, it would have taken 300 years of
continuous labor. We must accept this almost unimaginable feat, or
admit to the use of some form of lost technology.
Modern science is stumped to explain the skill and knowledge
incorporated. As Garvin summarized: It is virtually impossible
today, in the time when men have climbed mountains on the moon, to
duplicate this achievement...It would not be a question of skill,
patience and time. It would simply be impossible. As one
crystallographer from Hewlitt-Packard said, The damned thing
shouldn't be.
8. WHO SHOT NEANDERTHAL MAN?
The Museum of Natural History in London displays an early
Paleolithic skull, dated at 38,000 years old, and excavated in 1921
in modern Zambia. On the left side of the skull is a perfectly
round hole nearly a third of an inch in diameter. Curiously, there
are no radial split-lines around the hole or other marks that
should have been left by a cold weapon, such as an arrow or spear.
Opposite the hole, the cranium is shattered, and reconstruction of
the fragments show the skull was blown from the inside out, as from
a rifle shot. In fact, any slower a projectile would have produced
neither the neat hole nor the shattering effect. Forensic experts
who have examined the skull agree the cranial damage could not have
been caused by anything but a high-speed projectile, purposely
fired at the prehistoric victim, with intent to kill.
If such a weapon was indeed fired at the man, then one of two
conclusions can be made: Either the specimen is not as old as it is
claimed to be, and was shot by a European in recent centuries, or
the remains are as old as claimed, and the marksman was ancient
too. In view of the fact that the Paleolithic skull was excavated
from a depth of 60 feet, mostly of lead rock, the second conclusion
is more plausible. But who possessed gunpowder 38,000 years ago?
Certainly not Stone Age man himself. Another race must have
existed, one far more advanced and civilized, yet contemporary. The
question is, where did that rifle-toting marksman call home?
9. THE INCREDIBLE STONE OF DR. CABRERA
A very unique time-capsule of images is housed in a warehouse in
Ica, Peru. Here are some 20,000 stone boulders, tablets, and
baseball-sized rocks, decorated with an astounding assortment of
pictures, in many cases very much out of time and place. The owner
is local physician, amateur archeologist and geologist Dr. Javier
Cabrera Darquea.
Most material employed is a gray andesite, an extremely hard
granitic semi-crystalline matrix, that is very difficult to carve.
But as Dr. Cabrera observed, People have been finding these
engraved stones in the region for years. They were first seen and
recorded by Jesuit missionary Father Simon, who accompanied Pizarro
in 1525. Samples were shipped to Spain in 1562.
The stone portraits show very sophisticated surgery skills and
medical knowledge, in some cases as advanced, and even more
advanced, than today. There are scenes of Caesarean sections, blood
transfusions, the use of acupuncture needles as an anesthetic
(which only gained use in the West since the late 1970s), delicate
operations on the lungs and kidneys, and removal of cancerous
tumors. There are likewise detailed images of open heart and open
brain surgery, as well as 20 stones showing a step-by-step heart
transplant procedure.
This is a disturbing revelation in itself, that someone in unknown
antiquity achieved a level of sophistication rivaling our own. But
there are other pictures even more out-of-place. As Dr. Cabrera
noted, and as has been verified by other medical physicians, there
are stone etchings which show a brain transplant. The prehistoric
surgeons, it is evident, possessed knowledge several steps beyond
modern-day surgery.
10. MANUFACTURED METALS MILLIONS OF YEARS OLD
For the past three decades miners at the Wonderstone Silver Mine
near Ottosdal in the Western Transvaal, South Africa, have been
extracting out of deep rock several strange metallic spheroids. So
far at least 200 have been found. In 1979, several were closely
examined by J.R. McIver, professor of geology at the University of
Witwaterstand in Johannesburg, and geologist professor Andries
Bisschoff of Potsshefstroom University.
The metallic spheroids look like flattened globes, averaging 1 to 4
inches in diameter, and their exteriors usually are colored steel
blue with a reddish reflection, and embedded in the metal are tiny
flecks of white fibers. They are made of a nickel-steel alloy which
does not occur naturally, and is of a composition that rules them
out, being of meteoric origin. Some have only a thin shell about a
quarter of an inch thick, and when broken open are found filled
with a strange spongy material that disintegrated into dust on
contact with the air.
What makes all this very remarkable is that the spheroids were
mined out of a layer of pyrophyllite rock, dated both geologically
and by the various radio-isotope dating techniques as being at
least 2.8 to 3 billion years old.
Adding mystery to mystery, Roelf Marx, curator of the South African
Klerksdorp Museum, has discovered that the spheroid he has on
exhibit slowly rotates on its axis by its own power, while locked
in its display case and free of outside vibrations. There may thus
be an energy extant within these spheroids still operating after
three eons of time.
COPYRIGHT 1995. JOSEPH ROBERT JOCHMANS. ALL RIGHT RESERVED.
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