The Shuttle of Toprakkale
Tuspa: Turkey, Toprakkale acheological site. In 1995, a terracotta object that should not exist was unearthed; science calls them "misplaced artifacts." These are those objects that have no explanation according to official archaeology and that scientists tend to forget in museum archives. The Toprakkale find belongs to this category of objects.
With a length of 22cm, a width of 7.5 and a height of 8cm, it has a wedge-shaped appearance. The central part is shaped to represent a squatting man, the man is wearing boots and a suit composed of cylindrical protrusions that are all too reminiscent of the suits used by Soviet astronauts. The end of the object has three conical shapes that resemble the exhaust augers of a spaceship engine.
The object is damaged, the human figure is in fact missing its head, but otherwise leaves no interpretive doubts. Analysis of the object confirmed its dating to 3,000 years ago. What people could represent 3000 years ago a spacecraft without ever having seen one? And if they had seen one, which one?
The object is kept at the Archaeological Museum in Istanbul, but until now it has never been displayed to the public, perhaps because archaeologists have difficulty filling in the object's description.
The spacecraft is just one of many objects without explanation that emerge from a past that remains too nebulous to satisfy the too many questions these anachronisms raise-is it so hard to accept that we have forgotten something from our past?
