20 Items Found On Earth That Still Can’t Be Explained 6/20

in #quimbaya7 years ago

6- The Quimbaya Airplanes


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The Quimbaya artifacts are several dozen golden objects, found in Colombia, made by the Quimbaya civilization culture, dated around 1000 CE. Although they may not be as famous as those of the Mayans or the Incas, the treasures it left behind after it disappeared from Colombia around 1,000 years ago are very intriguing. In particular, these small golden figures. The Quimbaya Airplanes. Some wonder if this is proof that the Quimbaya mastered flight. When scaled-up, the models of the figurines have been found to be highly capable of flying. But whether this is just a coincidence, or proof the Quimbayas had knowledge of flight, is up for debate.

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This stuff freaks me out...I think there so much more to history that we don`t know!!!

Absolutely. I think there's so much we don't know, hidden and forgotten.

Looks like a hummingbird or some other artistic version of a bird.

We may be transposing the modern image of an airplane onto a historical sculpture.

It'd be someone from the future looking at a sculpture at a museum and saying, 'Hmm, looks like a fusion reactor. I wonder..."

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