Out-of-place artifacts are usually ancient artifacts, sometimes found in unusual places, or too advanced for their time, or demonstrating the human presence before they were known to exist.
Examples of Out-of-place artifacts (OOPArts) are:
the London Artifact
the Dogū Statues
the Piri Reis Map
the Lady of Elche (or Lady of Atlantis)
the Antikythera mechanism
the Acambaro Figurines
The Sarcophagus of Pakal (the Astronaut of Palenque)
The Maine Penny is the only certain relic of Viking origin found in the United States during the second year of excavation at the Goddard site, Maine.
The small silver coin was identified as a medieval Norwegian penny coined by King Olav III Kyrre between 1067 and 1093 AD... continue reading
The Italian writer and journalist Peter Kolosimo, is considered one of the pioneers of mysterious archeology and paleoufologytogether with Robert Charroux and Walter Raymond Drake and well ahead of Erich von Däniken continue reading
What would happen if the first fossil to be discovered in Africa with characteristics of Homo sapiens had a small circular hole that forensic scientists trace back to the action of a very high speed bullet?
The Broken Hill skull (also called Kabwe 1) is a mystery of the past. continue reading
According to conspiracy theorists, a mystifying channel would have been created so that the hypothesis of the existence of giants in our culture was considered a myth and not a real event. continue reading
In Ta Prohm temple is a ten-foot column covered with decorative bas-reliefs: one of the animals depicted there, bears a striking resemblance to a stegosaurus. continue reading
A vaguely anthropomorphic 1.7 meter high stone statue, covered with alleged proto-sumerian inscriptions, better known as The Pokotia Monolith, the Monolith of Pokotia or Pokotia Monument was discovered in 1960 a few kilometers from... continue reading
The fragment of the world map of Piri Reìs was used in various pseudo-archaeological publications and counted among the OOPArts to argue that the knowledge of... continue reading
The incredible findings such as the presence of cocaine and THC in Egyptian mummies and in Peruvian ones caused a sensation: these in fact date back to a long time before "discovery" of America by Christopher Columbus ... continue reading
The unknowns that revolve around Puma Punku have fascinated not only archaeologists and academic historians but also alternative researchers who investigate the possible existence of technologically advanced prehistoric civilizations or the Paleocontact theory... continue reading