Historical Babylonian Cellphone Is not Historic, Babylonian Nor A Nokia

Historical Babylonian Cellphone Is not Historic, Babylonian Nor A Nokia

"There are several indications that this post was merely a joke."
01/eleven/2016 04:31 pm ET
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Everyone loves that Steven Spielberg film when a cute, baby-friendly ET phones residence.
That film, of course, is pure fiction, however so are information stories claiming that an 800-yr-outdated cellphone, utilized by extraterrestrials, has been present in Austria.
Pictures of that curiously formed object are certainly outstanding. Nonetheless, even when they had been real, they do elevate an attention-grabbing point: Why would spacelings, superior sufficient for interplanetary travel, not use iPhones or Androids or something much more superior.
As a substitute, these ETs would "cellphone residence" with one thing that appears precisely like an outdated Nokia - the type that have been in style more than a decade in the past.
The reality behind this intergalactic controversy: German sculptor Karl Weingärtner created these clay objects in 2012, with lettering designed to appear to be they had been from historical Sumeria.
Weingärtner, who was promoting the gadgets online, posted a photo of his sculpture on Facebook the place somebody called it "BabyloNokia." He has no concept why some web sites got the story so mistaken. And he's indignant about it.
"The picture was used with out my information and without my consent,” he informed HuffPost. It isn't what I wanted. I don't imagine in UFOs and I don't consider in aliens."
The story first appeared Dec. 21 on the Conspiracy Membership web site underneath the headline "800-Yr-Old Cellular Phone Found In Austria? Examine This Out."
"The strange and wonderful cell phone was present in Austria. This unusual thing was discovered in an excavation in Austria," the story claims. "It has many similarities with the wireless gadgets right now sic."
"The pill was dated to around the 13th century BCE. By that time, the Sumerian writing type - often generally known as cuneiform - had already been round for a couple of thousand years."
The Categorical also cites the Paranormal Crucible YouTube channel , which asks, "Is it evidence of a complicated civilization or time travel?”
In none of the stories do the writers determine who supposedly found what would be, if verified, perhaps probably the most extraordinary archeological discovery ever.
Two days after Conspiracy Membership posted its story, posted a chunk suggesting the clay cellphone helps Sumerian scholar Zecharia Sitchin's controversial theory that extraterrestrials created fashionable-day people by genetic engineering.
"The tablet appears surprisingly like a contemporary telephone, with the 12 keys, a show and a ‘discuss' button. Might these extraterrestrials have tried to introduce the Sumerians to a phone-like communications device, solely to seek out they weren't prepared for it and dialed them again to a stylus and clay tablets?"
The author of that piece, Paul Seaburn, advised HuffPost he saw the Conspiracy Membership article however did not link to it.
Seaburn mentioned he thought it was strange that the article didn't title the researchers or hyperlink to a supply. He additionally questioned how the 800-12 months timeline was decided.

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related the dots between Weingärtner and his cellphone final week, declaring, "There are a number of indications that this post was merely a joke."
When HuffPost confirmed the Snopes piece to Seaburn, he conceded it was a extra possible clarification than any alien concept.
However, Seaburn has not updated his own story.

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NBC 7 San Diego
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CEFAA
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Caters Information
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Tom Sanger
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Kingston Police, UK
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NASA / Scott Kelly
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