Hidden History: Lost Civilizations, Secret Knowledge, and Ancient Mysteries by Brian Haughton

Author:Brian Haughton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fringe Science, Gnostic Dementia, U.S.A., Alternative History, Amazon.com, Retail, Archaeology, History
ISBN: 1564148971
Publisher: New Page Books
Published: 2007-01-14T15:00:00+00:00

The Coso Arlifaci.

The original artifact inside the supposed geode.

For some people, out of place artifacts (objects found in contexts that are out of sync with the accepted chronology of human history) seriously question what we think we know about the world and its history. Some argue that these discoveries offer persuasive evidence that in remote antiquity, mankind was significantly more advanced than we could ever imagine. They insist that at various times in prehistory we have reached a high level of civilization, only for it to be subsequently destroyed, without a trace, by natural or man-made catastrophes. The evidence for such hypothetical ancient

civilizations consists mainly of what appear to be fossilized human footprints, such as those discovered in the 1880s at the summit of Big Hill in the Cumberland Mountains in Jackson County, Kentucky (The American Antiquarian, January 1885), and apparently man-made objects enclosed in pieces of coal or rock. The Coso Artifact is such an example.

On February 13, 1961, Wallace Lane, Virginia Maxey, and Mike Mikesell (co-owners of the LM&V Rockhounds Gem and Gift Shop in Olancha, southern California) were out in the Coso Mountains looking for interesting mineral specimens, particularly geodes (hollow, usually spheroid rocks with crystals lining the inside wall, cmmonly around 500,000 years old) for their collection. At lunchtime, after they had been collecting rocks, close to the top of a 4,265 foot peak, overlooking the dry bed of Owens Lake, they put their specimens in the rock sack and headed home.

The next day, while attempting to cut through one of the finds that appeared to be a geode, Mikesell severely damaged a practically new diamond saw. Finally, when the nodule was opened, he found a thick circular section of white porcelain material, in the center of which was a 2 millimeter rod of bright metal. This metal proved to be magnetic. The porcelain cylinder was itself enclosed by a hexagonal sheath of decomposing copper and another unidentifiable substance. The discoverers noticed other strange qualities about the stone. Its outer layer was encrusted with bits of fossil shell, hardened clay, and pebbles, and more surprisingly, two nonmagnetic metal objects which looked similar to a nail and a washer. Puzzled by the find, the group began showing it to friends and associates, though little record remains now of original examinations of the object. One of the discoverers, Virginia Maxey, said that a geologist who examined the object gave its age, based on the fossils encrusted in its shell, as at least 500,000 years old. However, this unnamed geologist has never been traced and the conclusion was never published. But if these conclusions could be supported, then the implications are clear. If the Coso Artifact is a genuine example of

unknown technology from millennia before the accepted emergence of Homo sapiens, then obviously it would turn accepted thought about the past of the human species on its head.

The only other person known to have physically inspected the artifact was creationist Ron Calais, who was allowed to take photographs of the nodule in both X ray and normal light.

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