Saturday, July 13, 2013

Rare Objects

The Ica Stones



In early 1930 the father of Dr. Javier Cabrera, Cultural Anthropologist Ica, Peru, discovered hundreds of stone for the funeral ceremony at the tomb of the ancient Incas. Dr. Cabrera, continued his father's work, has collected more than 1,100 andesite, which is estimated 500-1500 years old and has been widely known as the Ica Stones. The stones were carved, mostly pictorial / sexual bergrafis (which is common to the culture), and the other idols describe medical practices such as heart surgery and brain transplants. Carving the most amazing, however, clearly depict dinosaurs like Brontosaurus, Triceratops (see photo), Stegosaurus and Pterosaurs. Although some think Ica Stones a hoax / deception, authenticity has not been proven to date.


The Grooved Spheres




Over the past few decades, miners in South Africa have been digging mysterious metal ball. Its origin is unknown, the ball is about one inch in diameter or more, and some are etched with three parallel grooves along the diameter of the ball. Two types of balls have been found: one composed of dense metallic blue with white spots, which are hollow and filled with spongy white substance. Great it is that the stone was found where the ball comes from the Precambrian era - and 2.8 billion years old! Who's making the balls and for what purpose is not known until now.



Giant Stone Balls of Costa Rica



The workers hoeing and burn through the thick jungle of Costa Rica to clear an area for banana plantations in the 1930s hampered by some incredible objects: dozens of stone balls, the most perfectly round ball. Their size varies from as small as a tennis ball to a diameter of 8 feet (2.4 m) with a weight of 16 tons! Although the great stone balls was clearly man-made, it is not known who made ​​and for what purpose and, most puzzling, how they achieved such precision ball circle (perfectly round).

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