It's always fun to uncover a real mystery, especially when you're literally uncovering

it, like digging it up out of the ground.

What happens when we find something with modern technology buried in ancient ground?

Must that be considered proof of ancient advanced civilizations, or might there be some

other explanation?

What-of-place artifacts are today on Skeptoid?

You're listening to Skeptoid, I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

Today we're going outside with pickaxe and shovel in hand, dig through some ancient

strata and unearth something that looks like it shouldn't be there.

In fact upon closer inspection, it definitely shouldn't be there.

Throughout recorded history, diggers, both amateur and professional, have been finding

objects that appear to be modern or made of advanced materials, but are located in old

rock or other places where they couldn't or shouldn't be.

Such objects have become known as out-of-place artifacts, or uparts for short.

An upart, by definition, is one that contradicts our existing understanding of history.

Some take this to its apparently logical next step and believe that uparts prove history

wrong.

In this episode we're going to take a quick look at some of the most famous uparts and

see what's known about each, and hopefully see if we have enough information to conclude

that known history must be wrong.

Lot of objects that show up on published list consist of artworks, sculptures, or carvings

that make ambiguous depictions, which some interpret as being out of place.

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