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In December last year, the World Wide Web spread potentially sensational news of an astounding find made Austrian archaeologists in the vicinity of the city of Salzburg.
“Scientists have discovered a 13th-century mobile phone!” – wrote Journalists from all over the world. Even the most reputable british tabloids reported that an ancient clay artifact, outside no doubt surprisingly similar to a brand cell phone “Nokia”, and this confuses eminent scientists.
Many alternative researchers and simple users The Internet concluded that the alleged inappropriate artifact is evidence of the existence of either aliens or not time travelers. According to one theory, representatives some extraterrestrial civilization arrived in the Middle Ages on our planet and showed people a real smartphone, and startled earthlings made a copy of it from improvised materials. Another version says that today or in the future, someone did a replica of an indispensable gadget and sent it to the past.
However, now the origin of the “ancient mobile phone” has received quite rational explanation. It turned out that German was to blame sculptor Karl Weingartner, who created in 2012 several clay cell phones and inscribed Sumerian on their buttons cuneiform. According to the artist, this was done with the aim of dream up what mobile gadgets invented would look like Sumerian civilization.
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Nevertheless, even with such an explanation, a few remains questions. For example, why did Weingartner remain silent all this time? Really, neither he nor the people from his circle saw the sensational news on the web? Where are the other copies made by the joker sculptor? AND was the clay product excavated in Austria? If so, how did it get there? Or was it someone’s newspaper duck, which many world media outlets eagerly picked up?
Some conspiracy theorists, by the way, still believe that speech it’s about a real inappropriate artifact, and a German sculptor, they say, it just helps the powers that be to hide the real information about an abnormal finding. This is quite serious the arguments. First, the artifact, as scientists then determined, was 13 centuries, otherwise no one would have made a fuss: would you think some modern clay toy. Is a regular sculptor Carl Weingartner managed not only to create a replica, but also to age it on eight centuries? Secondly, if it was just a newspaper duck, then why should the serious sculptor Karl Weingartner get dirty dirty linen your honest name? ..
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