Impossible artifacts

Impossible Artifacts” is a 2021 episode of the History Channel show Ancient Aliens. The episode is about ancient objects that archaeologists cannot explain. The episode explores whether these objects indicate the existence of advanced civilizations, possibly even alien civilizations, thousands of years before our own.

The episode features the following writers and stars:

Writers: Kevin Burns, Erik Pinkston, Gabriel Rotello
Stars: Nova Spivack, Amy Shira Teitel, Giorgio A. Tsoukalos

The episode is available to watch on The History Channel.

Some examples of impossible artifacts include:

Artifacts that seem too advanced for the technology known to have existed at the time
Artifacts that suggest human presence before humans are known to have existed
Artifacts that suggest contact between different cultures that is hard to account for with conventional historical understanding

Ancient artifacts such as stone tools and fossils, including ancient human skulls and teeth, provide crucial information for understanding the origins of modern humans.

An out-of-place artifact (OOPArt) is an artifact that challenges conventional historical chronology because it’s found in an unusual context. Artifacts can be of historical, archaeological, or paleontological interest.

Some examples of artifacts include:

Stone tools
Pottery vessels
Metal objects like weapons
Items of personal adornment like buttons, jewelry, and clothing
Bones that show signs of human modification

The oldest tools ever found are ancient stone tools discovered at the Lomekwi archaeological site in Kenya. These tools date back approximately 3.3 million years.

Here are some other types of artifacts:

Cultural artifacts These are items that contain important information about a society’s culture and people. They can be tangible, like an ancient tomb, or intangible, like a non-fungible token.
Ecofacts These are archaeologically significant artifacts created by other creatures, such as animal bones or pollen.
Software artifacts These are items produced during the development process, such as a prototype, workflow diagram, or design document.

Other types of artifacts include:

Media, such as film, photographs, or digital files
Knowledge
Data
Ancient pottery
Prehistoric art
Human remains
Fire cracked rocks
Projectile points

artifacts found in archaeological digs. Pottery can provide information about the era, trade, and subculture of past societies. It’s also useful for dating sites because pottery types and manufacturing methods change over time.

Some other common artifacts include: Guns, Tools, Jewelry, Artwork, Weapons.

Artifacts are classified into different categories based on their age, origin, material, and function.

Artifacts are anything made or used by humans. Some artifacts used today include:

Clothing, Forks and knives, Houses, Family heirlooms, Jewelry, Medals, Pictures, Sports equipment, Toys, Trophy.

Some artifacts are passed down through generations and become part of a family’s heritage. These include:

Diaries, Family photographs, Kitchen items, Literature, Old coins or stamps, Religious items.

Some modern cultural artifacts include:

Intellectual property
Non-fungible tokens
People
Places

The “London Hammer” is an iron hammer with a partial wooden handle that was found in a piece of stone in London, Texas in 1934. The hammer is thought to be 140 million years old.

The hammer was discovered by Max Hahn and a female friend while walking along Red Creek. They thought the rock was unusual and took it home. In 1936, their son broke open the rock to discover the hammer.

The hammer contains less than 1% sulfur and no carbon, which indicates that it wasn’t made recently.

On November 26, 1922, British archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. The tomb was still mostly intact at the time of Carter’s discovery

The tomb’s four chambers contained:

Gold-covered chariots
Inlaid furniture
Elaborately carved alabaster vessels
Tutankhamun’s personal belongings, including jewelry
100 sandals
12 tunics
28 gloves
25 head coverings
Four socks
145 loincloths

Carter described the tomb’s contents as a “strange and wonderful medley of extraordinary and beautiful objects”.

Carter began his career as an Egyptian antiquities inspector and artist. He sold watercolor paintings to tourists in Egypt.

Artifacts that depict similar human and animal features can suggest contact between cultures and the trading of religious ideas.

Here are some examples of artifacts that represent cultures:

Burial coins
Painted pottery
Telephones
Anything that shows the social, political, economic, or religious organization of the people

Some other types of artifacts include:

Historical and cultural
Media
Knowledge
Data

Artifacts can also be: Advertisements, Art, Ceremonial and documentary artifacts, Exchange media, Personal symbols.

Some examples of artifacts include:

Tools, Pottery, Metal objects, Weapons, Jewelry, Books, Instruments, Figurines, Coins.

Impossible artifacts are ancient objects that archaeologists cannot explain. Some examples include

The Antikythera mechanism: An ancient Greek computer
The Saqqara bird: A wooden model that some believe is evidence of advanced Egyptian aircraft
The Baghdad battery: A 2000-year-old battery
The Nampa figurine: A clay doll found in Idaho that was initially thought to be 2 million years old

Some other ancient objects that archaeologists cannot explain include: