Out-of-place artifacts

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 Acambaro Figurines Enigma: what if mankind coexisted with dinosaurs?

33,500 bizarre-looking statuettes mostly made of ceramics, stone, jade and obsidian: some of them, in fact, portrayed human figures belonging to different ethnic groups (Egyptians, Sumerians and "Bearded Caucasians") but also men riding creatures and... continue reading

The Paleocontac theory: between Ancient Astronauts and OOPArts

The Ancient Astronauts Theory believers argue not only that there have been alien visitors in past centuries, but also that they have substantially influenced the development of civilization and the human species... continue reading

A Rosetta Stone in South America: the Fuente Magna bowl

Around the mid-1900s, in a land owned by the Manjon family near Chua, about 70 km from La Paz, near Lake Titicaca, a Bolivian farmer found a very large stone vessel covered with strange engravings... continue reading

The Antikythera mechanism: an advanced planetarium

At the beginning of the 1900s, near the island of Antikythera various finds were recovered among which a mechanical device known today as the Antikythera mechanism, a sophisticated planetarium, driven by cogwheels, which was used to calculate ... continue reading

QUIMBAYA ARTIFACTS: Pre-Columbian Golden Jet

Quimbaya's gold ornaments aroused amazement even in the conquistadors and were immediately considered among the best noble metal objects of indigenous America, were made mostly with the lost wax process and depicting people, fish, reptiles and ... strange subjects that remember in an impressive way airplane models... continue reading

The Baigong Pipes: nature or advanced technology?

the so-called Baigong Pipes, also known as Bai Gongshan Iron Pipes or Delingha Pipes, a series of pipe-like features identified by some as fossil trees or tree roots but considered by others to be an enigma, enough to count them among the OOPArts, "out of time" objects... continue reading

"The London Artifact" or "The London Hammer" (Texas)

The so-called "London Artifact" is a hammer made of wood and iron found in 1936 in London (Texas) by Max Hahn and his wife. The object is often referred to as a OOPart, as it was apparently set in a rock concretion that would have been around 400 million years old... continue reading

Alien Artifacts Found: the strange case of Sergeant Major James Norton

In September 1977, in Georgia an entire army base witnessed a UFO Attack during an exercise. Sergeant Major James Norton Norton recovered from the crash site a strange metal object engraved with hieroglyphics which seems to be indistructible: it cannot be burned or cut and, of you bend it, it will go back to its original shape.
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Nag Hammadi Codices between Gnosticism and Christian orthodoxy

In December 1945 a group of Bedouins from the village of Al-Qasr, near the Cenobite monastery founded by San Pacomio in the IV century in the island of Nag Hammadi ("Elephantine Island") found inside an earthenware jar continue reading

Stargate in Iraq

The presence of a real stargate in Iraq is certainly a bizarre theory but for many it is fascinating to think that this science fiction film technology may be real real... continue reading