![[WWW]](http://wikispot.org/wiki/eggheadbeta/img/sycamore-www.png) Out of Place Artifacts |
An object of historical, archaeological or paleontological interest found in a very unusual or seemingly impossible context. |
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Phaistos Disc |
Its purpose and meaning, and even its original geographical place of manufacture, remain disputed, making it one of the most famous mysteries of archaeology. |
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Toynbee tiles |
Toynbee tiles are about 250 messages of mysterious origin found embedded in asphalt in several major cities in the United States and three South American capitals. |
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Baghdad battery |
Name for a number of artifacts created in Mesopotamia (today's Baghdad) that were supposedly the earliest forms of electrochemical cells, dating back to 250 AD. |
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Copper Scroll |
Found along with the other Dead Sea scrolls, it details the location of a billion dollars worth of treasure. |
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Dendera Light |
Carvings supposedly showing electric lights and other modern inventions. |
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Der Eiserne Mann |
An iron pillar in a national forest in Germany that is at least 400 years old. |
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Antikythera Mechanism |
An ancient Greek scientific calculator, made in about 100 BC, that was of a complexity not equalled for 1000 years. |
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Roman dodecahedron |
Objects dating from the 2nd Century AD, of unknown purpose. |
