11,000-Year-Old Shigir Idol Dated Twice as Old as the Pyramids
German researchers have discovered that a well-preserved, totem-like artifact, known as the Shigir Idol, is nearly 11,000 years old making it more than twice as old as the Egyptian Pyramids. The idol bears similar carvings to those found at the ancient temple ruins of Göbekli Tepe.
The team published its findings in the Cambridge University’s archeological publication Antiquity, calling it the oldest piece of monumental art. Radiocarbon dating originally placed the idol at roughly 9,000 years, though a more accurate technique, known as accelerator mass spectrometry dating, found its true age to be nearly 2,000 years older.
The 16-ft. tall, wooden statue was originally discovered by miners in a bog in the Sverdlovsk region of Russia in the late-1800s. It was preserved by anti-microbial properties of the peat it was found buried in, allowing it to survive since the end of the last ice age, during the Holocene era.
Decorated with human faces and zig-zagged carvings, the idol appears to be held together by a glue-like substance. Mikhail Zhilin, an archeologist involved with the study, said the totem may have been carved by hunter-gatherers to represent local forest spirits or demons.
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“They knew how to work wood perfectly,” Zhilin said.
Some experts believe the carvings in the statue may be hieroglyphs containing encrypted information describing the world at the time. A total of eight faces have been identified in addition to the idol’s myriad notches and etchings.
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Researchers, including Graham Hancock, stated that the new dating of the idol may fit in with the Younger Dryas hypothesis, positing that a comet or large meteor struck the Earth around 12,900 years ago, creating a 1,200-year mini ice age.
Hancock says he believes this impact wiped out evidence of older, more advanced civilizations that may have existed then, giving us amnesia of an advanced ancestor.
The 11,000-year dating of the Shigir Idol also coincides with the age of Gobekli Tepe, the prehistoric temple ruins in southern Turkey that pushed back archeologists’ commonly held timeline of human civilization. The two parallel each other in that they prove our human ancestors at the time were capable of metaphysical and spiritual thought, contradicting mainstream theories that this sort of cognition didn’t occur until much later.
Thomas Terberger, a professor involved in the study, said, “We can say that in those times, 11,000 years ago, the hunters, fishermen and gatherers of the Urals were no less developed than the farmers of the Middle East.”
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Peruvian Universities to Announce Update on Nazca Mummies
The Nazca mummies are slowly revealing their secrets as university scientists continue to test the material of the mummies. What they’ve found may change everything.
In the spring of 2017, researchers began a scientific inquiry into the origins of six, three-fingered mummies found in Nazca, Peru.
Gaia has been documenting the long process of identifying the mummies as top Peruvian universities are testing the material to see exactly what they are — an elaborate hoax or a species of something extraterrestrial?
Preliminary results from tests performed on the largest mummy’s hands cross-examined against the rest of the body, revealed no evidence to indicate a hoax. Scientists found the largest mummy, ‘Maria,’ to be female and carbon-dated her at roughly 1,700 years old.
Now, journalist Jaime Maussan, who has been covering this story since the beginning, and is in contact with the university scientists has news about the mummies.
“There are different universities in Peru who are investigating this incredible evidence,” Maussan said. “They have found, really, the proof that this case is absolutely real. Unfortunately, I cannot give you details because the universities are planning to present a press conference about the discoveries. I can tell you that the metals that were found inside the bodies, it was not possible to build them more than a thousand years ago, and the universities will reveal what the purpose of this was. It’s going to be shocking for many, and just there, is proof that these creatures were not from this Earth.”
