Baghdad Battery
History may be rewritten after the discovery of a group of artifacts dating back almost 2,200 years were found surrounding the village of Khuyut Rabbou'a near Baghdad. The artifacts are commonly known by the name 'Baghdad Battery' that was assigned to the ancient relics due to the apparent features seen within the artifact.
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200 Thousand Year Old Face
The human images were found in 2001 by Pietro Gaietto on an expedition through the Borzonasca district of Italy. If this is genuine, the artist would have been an extinct human species that died out about 150,000 years ago.
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Damaidi- Carvings
Tucked away in the depth of Beishan Mountain of Zhongwei County, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Damaidi is one of the country's enduring mysteries. Thousands of years ago people carved hundreds of symbols into rocks. Who were they, and why did they painstakingly carve petroglyphs of animals and other figures?
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Venus Willendorf
The Venus of Willendorf was found by the researcher Szombathy on the 7th of August, 1908. It is made out of limestone and still has some signs of red pigmentation; it fits in the palm of a hand. It is one of the most obese representations of the Paleolithic statuary.
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Sulawesi Statues
A remote rainforest in Sulawesi, Indonesia is now at the centre of a study into hundreds of mysterious stone carvings that only a few foreigners in the world have seen. No one knows who built them or why, but the "megaliths" are believed to be built anywhere from 500 to 2,000 years ago.
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