The 10 Most Not-So-Puzzling Ancient Artifacts: The Grooved Spheres
I've seen this article several times now, and I meant to address it the first time, but then I got distracted by something shinny...er I mean work? Either way, the biggest reason I let it go was that...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Not-So-Puzzling Ancient Artifacts: The Dropa Stones
The Dropa Stones are puzzling artifact #2 on the 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts list. These are "The" Dropa Stone images.What are the Dropa Stones? The Story of how the stones were found is kinda...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Not-So-Puzzling Ancient Artifacts: The Ica Stones
As we move on down the line of the 10 most not-so-puzzling ancient artifacts, we come to the Ica Stones. These are perhaps the most perplexing to me, since I don't understand how anyone can look at...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Not-So-Puzzling Ancient Artifacts: The Antikythera Mechanism
Before we can fully appreciate the Antikythera Mechanism, I first have to point out that clockwork and steam powered mechanisms were well known and in use in Ancient Greece, Egypt, India, and China....
View ArticleThe 10 Most Not-So-Puzzling Ancient Artifacts: The Baghdad Battery
Ah the Baghdad Battery, such a simple, yet confounding object...or is it? Let's start at the beginning...or should I say beginnings? The story starts with one German artist/archaeologist Wilhelm Konig...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Not-So-Puzzling Ancient Artifacts: The Coso Artifact
The next item on the 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts list is the Coso Artifact...or as it should be more correctly named; The 1920's era Spark Plug that got confused for a Geode. Which if you know...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Not-So-Puzzling Ancient Artifacts: Out-Of-Place Metal Objects
As we move though The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts list, we come to a couple "catch-all" categories. The first is Out-Of-Place Metal Objects, which is a subcategory of what are called OOPArts, or...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Not-So-Puzzling Ancient Artifacts: Ancient Model Aircraft, Plus a...
This appears to be more of a category than an individual artifact, it seems to cover a couple of different artifacts that share the common thread of vaguely looking like flying objects. Or at lest...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Not-So-Puzzling Ancient Artifacts: Giant Stone Balls of Costa Rica
Here perhaps is the only true puzzler on the list. Probably not for the reasons you think, but it does give me a moment to explain why Context is so important in archaeology. Lets start with what we do...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Not-So-Puzzling Ancient Artifacts: Impossible Fossils
And so we have made it to the final entry in the 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts list. We finish with the second of our two catch-all categories, the first being where we learned about OOParts. In...
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