Mystery archaeological artifacts in European museums
You don't always have to travel around the world to discover the mysterious legacies of our ancestors. Thanks to excellent museums, you can also experience this in Central Europe. A visit to the archaeological museums in Berlin, London and Paris is recommended. I present some exhibits that are associated with paleo-SETI here.
The Antikythera mechanism
(Greek National Museum, Athens)
In 1900 divers recovered objects from at a depth of 30 m from a ship that sank around 70 BC. The ship sank near the island of Antikythera. The divers came across, among other things, a rectangular structure overgrown with shells, lime and corroding metal lumps.
In the Greek Museum of Athens, the misshapen structure was chemically treated to reveal hidden layers. They came across three gears that were held together by two cross-shaped metal strips. It soon became clear that this was obviously a technical device. In the years that followed, several real and self-proclaimed specialists worked on the “Antikythera Mechanism”.
In the summer of 1958, the English mathematician Dr. Solla Price had the permission to examine the delicate and antique piece. The engraved Greek letters, which could only be deciphered in fragments, clearly demonstrated the astronomical significance of the rare find. Scales could still be seen on the apparatus. In total it is believed the original mechanism was composed by over 30 gears of different sizes meshed together and attached to a copper plate by small axles. What was this strange device used for? What could it do? It is believed to be a pocket-sized planetarium and shows the relationships between the different positions of the stars. The position of the moon in relation to the sun and the earth or the rise and fall of Sirius in comparison to Vega could also be read.
The findings do not fit in with the astronomical knowledge of that time. Prof. Dr. Solla Price, after years of studying the Antikythera device, said at a lecture in Washington that the whole thing seemed to him as if a jet engine had been found in the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt.
Victory stele of Naram-Sin
(today in the Louvre, Paris, France)
On the stele is inscribed "Victory Stele of Naram-Sin" and is dated to the Akkadian period, around 2230 BC. It is not a small tablet: the 2 meter high stele is made of pink sandstone and is a good one meter wide. The stele once stood in Sippar, north of Babylon. In the 12th century B.C. was brought to Susa as spoils of war by an Elamite king. The stele shows the victory of the fourth Akkadian king Naram-Sin over a mountain tribe. As a symbol of divine power, the king wears a helmet with two horns - the same symbolism can also be found in Northern Europe.
The spectacular thing is at the top of the stele: at all times there has only been one sun on earth - what kind of second sun in the firmament are the viewers looking up to? What did the stonemason want to express on this stele with the second sun? In this context, I also had to think of the descriptions of the "Miracle of Fatima" at the beginning of the 20th century: tens of thousands of people said that "a second sun" had appeared in the firmament, rotated around itself and later flew away again. A radiant, bright disk appearing in the firmament - with today's knowledge, such reports can be interpreted as UFO sightings.
Winged serpent on Egyptian papyrus
(today in the Louvre, Paris, France)
The symbol of the Mayan god Kukulkan was the "feathered serpent". What very few people know is that the symbol of the feathered serpent can also be found in Egypt, in the Valley of the Kings or in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The attentive viewer immediately notices this strange symbol. If you don't have the opportunity to travel to Egypt, you can also marvel at Egyptian papyri depicting winged snakes in the Louvre in Paris.
The winged serpent also appears in the Valley of the Kings, where pharaohs were lavishly buried. It can be found painted with fine colors on the shaft walls of several pharaohs' tombs. The winged serpent does not fit into the picture anywhere. There are 15,000 kilometers as the crow flies between the Maya, who lived in Mexico, and the Egyptians in Africa. And not only that: temporal abysses also open up: the Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose I, who lived in 1492 BC, who was buried in the Valley of the Kings. He could not have known anything about the Mayan winged serpent, because the oldest Mayan city, Tikal, is said to have only been founded four hundred years later. So where does the motif of the feathered, flying snake come from in two places that are so different in time and geography?
Perhaps the solution to the mystery lies above us and we don't even notice it: the contrails from airplanes. There is the shiny silver head with the trail of clouds behind it, which can give technologically untrained observers the image of a flying snake.
Colombian gold plane
(today in the Dahlem Ethnological Museum, Berlin, Germany)
Everyone AAS member knows this object, as one of the Colombian gold planes is the company's logo. Although they are tiny, these artifacts still pose a great mystery!
However, you don't have to fly straight to South America, where the State Bank of Bogota, Colombia, has the largest collection of these aircraft models, which are over 1,000 years old. Some can be found in the "Gold Chamber" in the Ethnological Museum in Berlin-Dahlem.
According to classical archeology, the exhibits are representations of insects, birds or fish. However, there is no animal in nature that has such a shape - in particular, the raised tail fin and the rudder are not found in birds in nature. So what were the models for these small exhibits that were so important that they were made of gold and placed in the crypt for nobles as grave goods?
In the 90s, the gold planes were discussed again. Scientists built a model of the gold plane - and discovered that it had excellent aerodynamic and was even suitable for aerobatics.
Mayan god descending in fire
(today in the Dahlem Ethnological Museum, Berlin, Germany)
This stele was discovered in 1860 during clearing work on a finca in Santa Lucia Cotzumalguapa (Guatemala). The news of this reached the Austrian Dr. Habel, who visited Central America in 1862, made the first drawings of the steles, which he shortly later presented to the director of the Royal Museum of Ethnology, Dr. Adolf Bastian. Bastian visited Santa Lucia Cotzumalguapa in 1876 and bought several of the steles.
For this reason, these and several similar steles can now be found in the Ethnological Museum in Berlin-Dahlem.
According to the official archeology, the stele depicts a scene from the Mayan ball game: a heart is presented to the sun god by the winner. Erich von Däniken writes about this illustration:
"What kind of sun god receives this honor? He is depicted as a helmeted creature surrounded by bundles of rays, descending from the sky. The succinct cataloging - a sun god - is not enough".
To put it in contemporary jargon: It must be questioned who one should imagine as "a sun god", what significance he had in the tradition of everyone who depicted him in relief, but also why the sun god made the highest sacrifice offering the heart.
Hybrid creature reliefs from Tell Halaf
(today in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Germany)
A number of engraved wall panels were excavated in the temple-palace of Tell Halaf (northern Syria). The slabs are made of basalt and limestone and date back to the 9th century BC. In 1927 the plates were brought to Berlin by Max Freiherr von Oppenheim. They can be viewed today in the Pergamon Museum.
Those interested in paleo-SETI are almost speechless because they show an entire zoo full of hybrid creatures. The words of Eusebius immediately came to mind. What did the historian write about the gods?
"(...) they also produced bulls, with human heads, and dogs, four-bodied, whose tails protruded from the back of their hindquarters like fish tails; also horses with dog's heads; and people as well as other monsters, horse-headed and human-bodied, and like fish with tails; plus all sorts of dragon-shaped monsters; and fish and reptiles and snakes and a multitude of miraculous creatures, of many different types and different from one another..."
Do the wall panels from Tell Halaf show the hybrid gods described by Eusebius?
Winged sun disk
(today in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Germany)
These basalt relief slabs (so-called "orthostats") depict a lion hunt. They were found in the palace area of the Sakcegözü ruins in what is now Turkey. It is dated around 750 BC.
The hunters standing on the wagon and the horses pulling the wagon wear coats of mail for protection.
The object that makes those interested in paleo-SETI is, as so often, in the firmament. A winged sun disk can be clearly seen over the entire scene. This symbol is also omnipresent in the Egypt of the Pharaohs. What did the winged sun disk represent? In the archaeological literature it is said that it is the symbol of a god.
What kind of god was this who moved in the firmament with a "winged sun disk"?
Divine beings work on the “Tree of Life”
(today in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Germany)
The next image shows a relief from Nirmut's palace. Today this alabaster relief can be viewed in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. It is dated to the 9th century BC.
The depiction is enigmatic: two winged “gods” are next to a strange structure that is interpreted in specialist literature as a “tree of life” or “sacred tree”. However, this structure doesn't seem to have much in common with an ordinary tree. Erich von Däniken speculated in his book "My World in Pictures" whether geneticists might not have to recognize a "schematic representation" when faced with this tree of life. “Doesn’t the tree of life resemble the double helix in a tricky way?” asks the author.
Another quick cross-reference is permitted: the "baskets" that the creatures hold in their hands also looked familiar: for comparison, look at the depiction on the dragon monolith in La Venta, Mexico.
