Many readers (mostly skeptics) often ask the question: if you follow the assertion that a highly developed civilization existed on Earth earlier, then where are its traces? Remains of high-tech metal products, rusting equipment, gadgets. Or the mention and their images in ancient manuscripts.
It seems to me that the technocracy of the civilization of the past was not the same as we imagine it on the basis of our modern life. Apparently, this level and volume of product production did not exist. I think the production goals were not the same as they are now: to produce, sell and make a profit (added value). There was no conveyor and industrial production as it is now. But there were high-tech products. Whether they were produced on Earth or inherited from more advanced civilizations in contact with earthlings is unknown. Some of the findings can be found below. I think many have already heard about some of them.
I post information about artifacts with images and photographs. I do not mention the finds similar to the Tisul princess, because there is no photo evidence.
Artifact from Koso
The Koso Artifact is a spark plug discovered in 1961 inside a nodule found in the Koso Mountains near Olancha, California, USA.
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The artifact was found on February 13, 1961, while collecting geodes on Mount Koso near the California settlement of Olancha. It was a stone formation, and when sawing, a thick rounded cut of white ceramic with a two-millimeter metal rod in the center was found inside. The ceramic cylinder itself was placed inside a hexagon made of oxidized copper and some other unidentified materials.
In May 1961, Desert magazine published the first article detailing the find. In 1963, for three months, the artifact was on display at the Museum of the Independence of Eastern California. After 1969, the trail of the Koso artifact was lost.
Official explanation: Research by Pierre Stromberg and Paul Heinrich has shown that the artifact is a Champion automotive spark plug in a ferrous nodule, similar to those used extensively in the 1920s on Ford Model T and Model A.
If so, then the rate of fossilization and nodule formation needs to be revised.
Artifact from a piece of coal in Kyshtym
In the city of Kyshtym, Chelyabinsk region, Dmitry Eroshkin bought coal and brought it to his home, unloading it, he drew attention to the fact that one of the pieces of coal is too heavy and broke it with a shovel. It turned out that there is a metal object inside the coal.
It looks like a piece of a pig (ingots) into which metal is cast.
When the author of the find tried to scratch the surface of the object, it turned out to be a matte gray color. The magnet is attracted to this artifact. it remains a mystery how this object of unknown metal ended up in a lump of coal.
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A Vladivostok resident found a metal rack that looked like a part. Dmitry ordered coal for the winter.
I noticed that something was pressed into one of the ordinary lumps of coal, in the shape of either a rod or a rail. Carefully breaking a piece, a rod of irregular shape was removed from it, just over 7 centimeters long, all covered with stuck black coal. After control grinding, a silvery metal was found under the scale. It was not magnetic, it was soft and light. The most interesting thing was that when cleaning the rod, the teeth and the pitch-spacing between them were exposed. The find was very much like a toothed metal rack, created artificially.
This coal was brought to Primorye from Khakassia, from the Chernogorsk deposit.
The answer to the question of what metal the rail was made of was given by an X-ray analysis carried out by Valery Dvuzhilny. It turned out that the find was made of very pure aluminum - with trace amounts of magnesium only 2-4 percent and carbon impurities.
This in itself was surprising, because usually mankind rarely uses pure aluminum. Mainly alloys with manganese, silicon, copper. There are alloys with magnesium, but it is usually up to 10 percent, plus alloying additives from titanium, zirconium, beryllium. And this alloy did not resemble any of those used in our time!
Having found out the composition of the rod, we found the answer to the question of how the part could survive after millions of years: pure aluminum is covered with a strong oxide film, which prevents further corrosion.
Another discovery: it turned out that the material contains from 28 to 75 percent carbon.
Possible initial mechanism.
I do not indicate the dating of such finds, since officially they are dated by the age of coal - at least 300 million years. Bituminous coal could have formed much later.
Ayud artifact
In 1974, near the Romanian city of Ayud, on the banks of a river, a group of workers in the sand at a depth of 10 meters discovered three objects. Two of the objects were the bones of mastodons, and the third was a piece of metal.
It resembled a wedge in shape and had several holes.
The analysis showed that the artifact is a complex alloy of 12 different elements, the main of which is aluminum - it contains 89% by volume. The remaining 11% are copper, silicon, zinc, lead, tin, zirconium, cadmium, nickel, cobalt, bismuth, silver. It is curious that for the first time aluminum was obtained only in 1825.
The Ayud artifact is amazing both in itself and due to the fact that it was found together with the bones of mastodons, the last of which, according to official data, became extinct 10,000 years ago.
Spacecraft support leg or "tooth" of a mining machine, excavator?
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Transformer in stone from Kosovo
Research photographer Ismet Smaili in the Sharri Mountains, Kosovo, found a mysterious artifact that looks a lot like an electromagnetic coil. The object is, as it were, "soldered" into the stone.
Also, judging by its appearance, it is possible that this is a LATR (linear autotransformer), or just an inductor.
It is possible that it was filled with some kind of concrete composition, liquid stone.
Something was screwed to the top.
But let's not exclude the version of skeptics that this is a device of the mid-20th century. got into the mud, which is petrified, as in this example:
gogaverylong even found a similar modern transformer:
Current transformer.
It is possible that in the event of an accident due to high currents, the ceramics melted and poured the device into a monolithic stone.
Misplaced Artifact - Williams' Enigmalite
In 1998, electrical engineer John J. Williams discovered what looked like an electrical connector sticking out of the ground. He dug it up and found it to be a three-prong plug inserted into a small rock.
According to Williams, the stone was found during an excursion to rural North America, far from human settlements, industrial complexes, airports, factories, and electronic or nuclear installations. While this belittles the significance of his discovery, Williams refuses to name the exact location where the find was made, lest the site be ransacked in search of other mysterious relics.
Known as "Enigmalite" (a combination of enigma and monolith) or "Petradox", the device exhibits an undeniable presence of an electronic component embedded in a naturally formed, hard granite stone composed of quartz and feldspar (including very small percentages of mica).
Prehistoric gadgets and mechanisms
Sumerians with a clock?
Sumerian mobile
A video posted on UFO's YouTube channel Paranormal Crucible shows photographs of what is believed to be a clay replica of a modern mobile phone.
It is possible that this is a cargo cult.
Despite the fact that there is no reliable information about the find, it is reported that the "telephone" was discovered during excavations in Salzburg in a cultural layer that dates back to the 13th century AD. Many are convinced that this is a hoax, and “a mysterious artifact of the thirteenth century with cuneiform writing that strangely resembles a cell phone” is a common tablet.
Baghdad battery
In the early 30s of the last century, during archaeological excavations in the Baghdad region, a mysterious object was revealed, which was conventionally called the "Baghdad battery". It consisted of a thirteen-centimeter vessel, through the neck of which an iron rod was brought out. In the middle of the vessel was a copper cylinder, and inside the cylinder there was another iron rod.
Based on the schematic diagram of the artifact, scientists reasonably assumed that they had unearthed an ancient galvanic cell that could well create an electrical voltage of up to 1 volt.
According to the proposed version, this battery could be used by the ancient Mesopotamians for the process of galvanizing or refining gold. However, it still remains a mystery why the technology of manufacturing such elements was forgotten, and in other regions of the Earth nothing of the kind has yet been found.
Golden airplanes of the Incas
Historians call them fish. There are golden figurines of flying fish in the museum, but they are realistic. These do not look like fish.
The version is also possible that these are mock-ups, cargo cult, attempts to depict what the Indians saw.
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Forgotten technological inventions from the recent past - 19th century: