The information about an ancient artifact that looks like a modern mobile phone, which was allegedly found in Austria, which is actively spreading in the Russian Internet, finally found a rational explanation. Unfortunately, before this happened, she was overgrown with conspiracy theories that have nothing to do with reality.
News on this topic contained information about the location of the "artifact" - the town of Fuschl am See in the Austrian district of Salzburg. The find resembled the Nokia model we have known since the early 2000s. Some news agencies clarified, citing foreign sources, that the artifact was made of clay and is a kind of copy, that is, it never called, but it definitely had the goal of repeating a technology product.
The first story about him appeared in the Conspiracy Club under the heading “800-year-old mobile phone found in Austria. Check it out! " It reported that the "artifact" was found during excavations and that it has much in common with a modern mobile phone. Then the British tabloid The Express added some details to the news: “The phone is dated to about the 13th century BC. e. By that time, Sumerian cuneiform had already existed for about a thousand years. " The tabloid also suggested that the "Babylonian" cell phone is associated with time travel.
Another stronghold of conspiracy theorists and supernatural lovers MysteriousUniverse.org noted that the clay "mobile phone" is proof of the theory of the alien origin of human civilization.
It is amazing that none of the so-called experts and readers bothered to look for the original source of the picture, but chose to believe in the news "duck". The story of the ancient copy of Nokia has been surfing the internet since 2015 and is still alive on the forums.
The truth is that this "Babylonian" mobile phone is an art object. German sculptor Karl Weingartner made a series of clay telephones in 2012, and inscribed Sumerian cuneiform on the buttons. All this was done in order to fantasize about how the phone would look if it had been invented by the Sumerian civilization.
Weingartner distributed his work on the Internet, and therefore posted a photo of a clay pipe on Facebook, where in the comments someone called it BabyloNokia ("Babylonian Nokia").
Then the picture scattered across the Internet, and later news appeared in the media, illustrated with this photo without the permission of the author and telling about a "unique mysterious find", reports the Huffington Post.
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“This is not what I wanted. I do not believe in UFOs, aliens,”Weingartner was indignant. The creation of the German sculptor, apparently, is destined to join the collection of "horror stories" about mysterious and paranormal phenomena.
Author: Elena Yakovleva
