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Possible Ancient Astronaut Rock Carving found in China
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30-11-2010 3:48pm#1
The carving looks like an alien with a helmet and an antennae on it, doesn't it?
http://www.archaeologydaily.com/news/201011265633/Rare-prehistoric-rock-painting-found-in-Guangdong.htmlThere is a person, a horse, constellations and symbols seemingly representing words in the painting. The most impressive part is the person, who appears to be wearing a "helmet" with two long "plumes" inserted in both sides and an antenna-like object in the middle.
An expert said that the person looks like the aliens wearing helmets in movies and TV shows, or may simply be a chief of the ancient Baiyue tribes. Another expert believes that the rock painting was used by ancient people for telling the time and direction
Anyone know of any other artifacts like this that are purported to be or look like Aliens?
The idea of ancient aliens is not one that is given a lot of credence by scientists, although Carl Sagan did explore the idea.wiki wrote:In their 1966 book Intelligent Life in the Universe astrophysicists I.S. Shklovski and Carl Sagan devote a chapter to arguments that scientists and historians should seriously consider the possibility that extraterrestrial contact occurred during recorded history. However, Shklovski and Sagan stressed that these ideas were speculative and unproven.
Shklovski and Sagan argued that sub-lightspeed interstellar travel by extraterrestrial life was a certainty when considering technologies that were established or feasible in the late '60s; that repeated instances of extraterrestrial visitation to Earth were plausible; and that pre-scientific narratives can offer a potentially reliable means of describing contact with outsiders.
Additionally, Shklovski and Sagan cited tales of Oannes, a fishlike being attributed with teaching agriculture, mathematics, and the arts to early Sumerians, as deserving closer scrutiny as a possible instance of paleocontact due to its consistency and detail.4
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Here's a few of the more famous examples:
Sumerian Tablet
Cave Art from Italy
From a Utah Cave circa 5,500BC, its not unlike the chinese one that was discovered last week.
Another one similar to the 3 antennae dude in the one in the OP0 -
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Could be someone with some kind of ritual headdress or dreadlocks. The ancient astronaut theory is interesting, and it is of course possible, but I personally don't think there's a lot of evidence for it.
I agree that all of the carvings are fairly ambiguous
However the first one I posted in the OP, looks uncannily like an alien in a spacesuit. So much so that I would say it has to be a hoax. Although I haven't seen any reason to think so yet.
Looks a bit like earthworm jim with a helmet on
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I've often wondered, "if" ancient astronauts helped to build the pyramids, then why would they do it? Why bother do such a thing for a young society, reliant on hierarchy and slavery, empires, religion and war... And with more to come. Just a rambling thought. Anyway, as you were
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johnnyvega86 wrote: »This is what I posted:
I was sarcastically questioning why the posters on this thread would believe that aliens would come so far just to draw such a bad picture.
Now you appear to claiming whoever drew this picture was drawing an alien?:rolleyes:
Do you really think (I'm being sarcastic just so you don't make the same mistake you did the last time) an alien would come all this way just so a human being would make a poor drawing of him?
The picture just looks like a scrawl on a stone.
There is no reason whatsoever to assume it is a drawing of an alien or indeed anything else except a scrawl on a stone.;)
I did detect your sarcasm
I honestly don't think that anyone on this thread believes or suggested that aliens came here either to just carve a stone or to get some humans to do it for them. There may be a bigger picture which you're missing.. All over the world, megalithic construction occurred on massive scales, despite the apparent lack of technology that the people used to achieve them.
At Pumapunku in Bolivia for example, stone-masonry like the example below are widespread, even though such craftsmanship would be extremely difficult to do today using modern hand-tools.. and this was done at a time when metal tools were apparently non existent.. the people of the day had not even reached the point of discovering the wheel!
There are loads of example of similar ancient artifacts which could be seen as evidence for advanced knowledge, at least far more advanced than the people of the day are given credit for.
Maps of Antartica exist which date back to centuries before the technological advancement to draw such maps was first documented. http://www.nymapsociety.org/FEATURES/TRAGER.HTM
If you allow your mind to be open to possibilities which you otherwise find to be far fetched then it's easy to find things which would seem to back alternative theories. It doesn't mean you need to accept anything, but it's no harm to look at what's there from a different viewpoint.
So what about the carvings in the first post? Perhaps they are depictions of beings which shared technology etc with native people, who in turn built societies on what they had learned. I don't believe it myself, because there is no accepted evidence.. but nor would I dismiss the idea completely.0 -
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My name is URL wrote: »I did detect your sarcasm
I honestly don't think that anyone on this thread believes or suggested that aliens came here either to just carve a stone or to get some humans to do it for them. There may be a bigger picture which you're missing.. All over the world, megalithic construction occurred on massive scales, despite the apparent lack of technology that the people used to achieve them.
At Pumapunku in Bolivia for example, stone-masonry like the example below are widespread, even though such craftsmanship would be extremely difficult to do today using modern hand-tools.. and this was done at a time when metal tools were apparently non existent.. the people of the day had not even reached the point of discovering the wheel!
There are loads of example of similar ancient artifacts which could be seen as evidence for advanced knowledge, at least far more advanced than the people of the day are given credit for.
Maps of Antartica exist which date back to centuries before the technological advancement to draw such maps was first documented. http://www.nymapsociety.org/FEATURES/TRAGER.HTM
If you allow your mind to be open to possibilities which you otherwise find to be far fetched then it's easy to find things which would seem to back alternative theories. It doesn't mean you need to accept anything, but it's no harm to look at what's there from a different viewpoint.
So what about the carvings in the first post? Perhaps they are depictions of beings which shared technology etc with native people, who in turn built societies on what they had learned. I don't believe it myself, because there is no accepted evidence.. but nor would I dismiss the idea completely.
So all these people only learned how to use stone?
Did the aliens make their spaceships out of stone too?:)
You don't think people got the idea of adding and subtracting, long division, using angles and mathematics and engineering because they actually started using their noggins, experimenting and discovering how to do things?
You know people have this great thing called a brain which resides inside their cranium which helps them work complicated things out.
Between 1903 when the first airplane flew and 1969 when man landed on the moon at lot of very smart people worked out a lot of very very complicated stuff without any help from aliens.
So why couldn't people long ago have worked out how to build temples and pyramids by working it out for themselves?
Don't you think that if aliens showed them how to do that they could have shown them a cure for plague, tooth decay, about hygiene, fighting germs, toilets, sewers, water purification, internal combustion engines and powered flight?
But they didn't did they, because there weren't any aliens. That's why.0 -
Every time this ancient aliens stuff comes up there's always the claim that X is impossible for ancient man therefore it must be aliens.
Here's a guy with not much book learnin a bit of lumber and a pebble and he is moving huge concrete slabs by himself, in his spare time.
No advanced technology and no aliens.
So which megalithic structures are impossible?0 -
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Every time this ancient aliens stuff comes up there's always the claim that X is impossible for ancient man therefore it must be aliens.
Here's a guy with not much book learnin a bit of lumber and a pebble and he is moving huge concrete slabs by himself, in his spare time.
No advanced technology and no aliens.
So which megalithic structures are impossible?
Fantastic technic no doubt about that. But how in the hell is he or did the lads back in the day get the blocks on top?0 -
Every time this ancient aliens stuff comes up there's always the claim that X is impossible for ancient man therefore it must be aliens.
Here's a guy with not much book learnin a bit of lumber and a pebble and he is moving huge concrete slabs by himself, in his spare time.
No advanced technology and no aliens.
So which megalithic structures are impossible?
I can't like this enough. Not because it's useful in any argument about aliens or stonehenge or anything, just because it's awesome. That guy is a freaking king.0 -
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Figure of a God with a helmet, located at the Anthropological Museum of Mexico City, photo taken by Tatjana Ingold.
Whilst living in Cuenca Ecuador, a man known as Father Carlo Crespi received many gifts from the locals. There are remarkable similarities between these figurines and a modern day space suit. The locals claimed they came from subterranean cave systems in the jungles.
These clay figures found in Equador also have a remarkable resemblance to space suites. For comparison a real astronaut is seen next to the figure.
This highly odd figure which seems to be wearing a suit was found in Kiev and is apparently dated at around 4,000 BC.
Located in Iraq, these sculptures seem to have reptilian type heads. Dated from around 5ooo-4000 B.C.
The "lizard man" engravings.
Credits to Chaos @ ATS.
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Figure of a God with a helmet, located at the Anthropological Museum of Mexico City, photo taken by Tatjana Ingold.
Whilst living in Cuenca Ecuador, a man known as Father Carlo Crespi received many gifts from the locals. There are remarkable similarities between these figurines and a modern day space suit. The locals claimed they came from subterranean cave systems in the jungles.
These clay figures found in Equador also have a remarkable resemblance to space suites. For comparison a real astronaut is seen next to the figure.
This highly odd figure which seems to be wearing a suit was found in Kiev and is apparently dated at around 4,000 BC.
Located in Iraq, these sculptures seem to have reptilian type heads. Dated from around 5ooo-4000 B.C.
The "lizard man" engravings.
Credits to Chaos @ ATS.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread618259/pg1
Surely it is more likely to be some time of ceremonial head dress or battle helmet?
Walt Disney liked to draw mice and ducks and dogs that wore human clothes and walked on their back legs so presumably he must have been visited by alien mice, ducks and dogs?
The ancients were probably into wearing masks and fancy dress much like their modern counterparts.
Don't you think some guy might have thought 'Ya know what? I think for the fun of it I'll carve a statue with a lizard head instead of a man's head?'
But of course you dismiss simpler explanations and jump to the conclusion that it must have been aliens?:D0 -
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utopianruins wrote: »Good post johnnyvega86.
That was always one of my thoughts on the cave paintings...
No one ever say's or come the conclution that people at the time could have been artistic.
I love Van Daniken and all, but I reckon on his travels that out of all the cave paintings he's saw/found he only writes about the ''alien'' looking ones and says nothing about what else was drawn in the caves.
Fossils have been known about since ancient times.
People presumed these were the remains of giants or ancient monsters killed by heroes like Hercules.
This comes from an ancient Babylonian ruin. It looks very like a sauropod dinosaur from the Jurassic or Creteceous period.
A previous poster drew attention this carving.
There were many dinosaurs like Velociraptor which walked upright on their back legs.
It's not unreasonable to assume that some ancient people saw the bones of similar animals and thought they were men with reptile heads.0 -
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johnnyvega86 wrote: »It has nothing to do with aliens.
I often hypotheses that one can interchange God/Gods/Religion/Aliens
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