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Klerksdorp spheres are small, spherical to disc-shaped objects that were found in 3-billion-year-old deposits in South Africa, and they've sparked a lot of mystery and debate. Pseudoscientists claim they must have been made by intelligent beings because they seem so out of place. Geologists say they're just the result of natural processes. There are other mysterious historical finds too, like the Antikythera mechanism, which is an ancient Greek analog computer, and the Baghdad Battery, which might have been used to generate electrical current thousands of years ago.   Credit: CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0: SchoharieC2: By Paul Heinrich, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3813189 MoquiMarble1: By Paul Heinrich, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3691420 Trachilos Fußspuren 08: By Olaf Tausch, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=95335186 Trachilos Fußspuren: By Olaf Tausch, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=95334254 CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0: Babylonokia: By Karl Weingärtner/Kalligrafiemonk, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56370415 London hammer artifact: By S. J. Miba, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=89279188 Machine d'Anticythère 1: By Marsyas, CC BY 2.5 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=469865 Animation is created by Bright Side.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music from TheSoul Sound: https://thesoul-sound.com/   Check our Bright Side podcast on Spotify and leave a positive review! https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD34jRLrMrJux4VxV   Subscribe to Bright Side: https://goo.gl/rQTJZz ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brightside Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brightside.official TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.official?lang=en   Stock materials (photos, footages and other): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This video is made for entertainment purposes. We do not make any warranties about the completeness, safety and reliability. Any action you take upon the information in this video is strictly at your own risk, and we will not be liable for any damages or losses. It is the viewer's responsibility to use judgement, care and precaution if you plan to replicate.

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00:00Have you ever seen cricket balls that are 3 billion years old?

00:05Klerkstorp spheres were found in deposits of the mineral pyrophyllite in South Africa

00:10and rock the science world.

00:13They do look like tiny ancient cricket balls with seams-like lines around the middle.

00:18Back in the 1980s, some folks claimed these spheres had been made by an advanced pre-flood

00:23civilization we know nothing about.

00:26One museum curator shared stories about how they rotated on their own in a display case.

00:32There was also a TV show that invited a psychic who declared the spheres were pieces of an

00:37ancient spaceship.

00:39But according to geologists, these spheres are actually pretty common concretions or

00:44spherical objects formed by different minerals than the surrounding rock.

00:48The seam-like lines are just imprints from the host rock's layers building up over time.

00:53The Klerkstorp spheres come in different shapes, from noticeably flattened spheres

00:58to distinct disks.

01:00As for that episode when one of these spheres spun on its own, the curator of the Klerkstorp

01:05museum cleared that up too.

01:07He said that when he put one sphere on its glass shelf when a journalist came to visit,

01:12the sphere naturally rotated a bit because it's round.

01:15The area where the museum is located often experiences earth tremors from gold mining

01:20activities nearby.

01:23The oldest known human-like footprints could be 6 million years old.

01:28They were found on the Greek island of Crete in 2002.

01:31If the number is correct, it would mean that early human ancestors may have migrated between

01:36Europe and Africa much earlier than we previously thought.

01:40This doesn't mean Africa is not the cradle of humankind, though.

01:44It could just prove that early human ancestors moved back and forth between continents.

01:50Some researchers believe the footprints were left by a bipedal creature possibly related

01:55to an early human ancestor nicknamed El Grieco.

01:59According to scientists who studied them, the footprints have a very human-like shape

02:04with five toes and a parallel big toe.

02:07Some scientists are skeptical about it and suggest the prints might be from a late European

02:12age.

02:13The new study analyzed fossilized marine microorganisms found in the sedimentary rocks to determine

02:19the footprints' age and prove it's actually 6 million years.

02:24The next amazing find that keeps scientists entertained is the Dorchester Pot.

02:29It's a beautifully crafted metal vessel with some fancy geometric designs embossed in shiny

02:34silver.

02:35The pot was discovered in, who could've thought, Dorchester in 1852 under quite unusual circumstances.

02:43During a powerful blast, the pot broke into two pieces.

02:47Scientists believe it was originally embedded within a rock or boulder known as Puddingstone.

02:52The rock from which the Dorchester Pot emerged is dated to be around 500 million years old.

02:58So it could mean the pot itself is also that old.

03:02The current and less exciting theory suggests that the Dorchester Pot is a Victorian-era

03:07candlestick holder.

03:08Such things were really trending back then, so it's not a surprise to find such a fancy

03:13household item from that time.

03:15The Dorchester Pot falls into the category of uparts, or out-of-place artifacts.

03:21Those are objects that seem too advanced for the time period they're supposedly from.

03:26If we accept that the pot is 500 million years old, then whoever made it was way ahead of

03:31their times in terms of crafts and tech.

03:34One extra mystery is that the pot has an engraving of a plant that most likely disappeared from

03:40Earth over 100,000 years ago.

03:43Sounds like good proof the pot is really extra old.

03:47It looks like the oldest map in Europe is a stone from 4,000 years ago.

03:53This Bronze Age slab was found in France in the year 1900 at an ancient burial ground.

03:59The carvings on the slab show in three dimensions the River Ody network with a fantastic accuracy

04:05of around 80% over an 18-mile stretch.

04:08There are other stone-carved maps around the world, but this one is unique because

04:13it shows a specific area to scale.

04:16Looks like the slab's carvings don't just map rivers and hills, but also settlements,

04:21barrow sites, and field systems.

04:24Archaeologists say the slab wasn't used for navigation, but rather to symbolize power.

04:30The detailed markings on the slab might've served to illustrate the domain of a local

04:34ruler, possibly a prince or king, to show their control over the territory.

04:40When the ruler lost power, the slab was likely repurposed as part of a burial vault.

04:45The unique artifact was stored in the cellar of a museum.

04:49For decades, no one even noticed until several scholars read older reports about the slab

04:55and decided to check it out.

04:57They conducted a detailed analysis using 3D techniques.

05:01The research proved that the creators of the slab had not only etched lines into the rock,

05:06but also modified its surface to reflect the topography of the landscape with high accuracy.

05:12The Salzburg Cube, also known as the Wolf's Egg Iron, was discovered in the late 19th

05:18century in Austria.

05:19Now, don't let the name mislead you.

05:21It doesn't look like a cube at all.

05:23It's more like a rounded object with two flat sides.

05:27In the middle, there's a groove, and the surface is covered with pits and craters.

05:31This unique appearance is the reason why many people think it might be something out of

05:36this world.

05:37Workers accidentally found this artifact when they blew apart a piece of coal.

05:41The coal seam it came from is thought to be over 60 million years old.

05:46The Salzburg Cube moved between museums, mysteriously vanished in the early 20th century, and then

05:52showed up again.

05:53A professor from Bonn University suggested it might be from a meteor.

05:58But they found no evidence of elements that you'd normally see in meteorites, like cobalt

06:02or nickel.

06:04Then researchers thought it must be a human-made object, possibly a Victorian-era candlestick

06:10holder.

06:11No one knows the true story of the cube or its current location.

06:14Yep, it disappeared again.

06:18Have you heard about the Meister print?

06:20It's a fossilized sandal print discovered in 1968, and it has sparked a lot of intrigue.

06:26There's a trilobite inside the print, which supposedly went extinct around 500 million

06:31years before humans even existed.

06:34But many historians think this age is an exaggeration.

06:38When Meister found the fossil, it was authenticated.

06:41But the scientist who did it didn't confirm it was a human sandal print.

06:46He only agreed there was a trilobite there.

06:48When another scientist visited the site, he found a 6-inch impression he believed was

06:53from a child's moccasin.

06:55But the footwear seemed to be new.

06:57So could it be evidence of time travel, proof that humans existed millions of years earlier

07:03than we thought, or a sign that someone else visited early Earth?

07:07Or is it just a rock formation that looks like a sandal print?

07:11We still don't have the answers.

07:14Back in June 1936, a couple was walking along Red Creek in London, Texas, when they stumbled

07:22upon something unusual.

07:24It was a piece of wood sticking out of what seemed to be an ancient rock formation.

07:29About 10 years later, their curious son decided to crack open the rock to see what was inside.

07:35And he saw a hammer, which looked surprisingly modern.

07:39Then, one unique finds enthusiast decided that the rock encasing the hammer was from

07:44the Cretaceous period.

07:46This would mean that someone dropped a 19th-century hammer while dinosaurs like Triceratops were

07:52still roaming the Earth.

07:54So if this hammer was truly from the Cretaceous period, then the whole evolutionary theory

07:59would be wrong.

08:00And if the hammer was modern, it would mean the Cretaceous rock formation it came from

08:05was much younger than we thought.

08:08The real answer was much simpler.

08:10The hammer was indeed modern, and geological processes had encased it in rock.

08:16Minerals can harden around an object in a relatively short time.

08:20So the hammer was probably dropped by a miner a century or so ago, and the rock formed around

08:25it afterwards.

08:26And no, it wasn't a Victorian-era candlestick holder either.

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