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🗓️ 6 November 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Being the curious creatures that we are, human beings are constantly discovering amazing new things. But sometimes, those discoveries are so strange, they raise more questions than answers. From truly bizarre artifacts that fell from the heavens to ancient anomalies found underground, here are some of the strangest objects recently discovered.
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0:00.0 | Being the curious creatures that we are, human beings are constantly discovering amazing new things. |
0:05.7 | But sometimes those discoveries are so strange, they raise more questions than answers. |
0:10.8 | From truly bizarre artifacts that fell from the heavens to ancient anomalies found underground, |
0:16.4 | here are some of the strangest objects recently discovered. |
0:23.2 | You're listening. You're listening. You're listening. |
0:24.2 | You're listening. |
0:25.2 | You're be amazed. |
0:31.8 | In May 2020, Englishman Will Red was sifting through sediment for precious metals in a shallow river in Coventry, England, |
0:39.6 | when he happened upon something truly unexpected. Initially thinking he just picked up some riverbed |
0:45.9 | debris, Will and his two sons quickly realized they'd scooped up something much more intriguing. |
0:52.0 | They'd actually uncovered cubes made of lead small enough to |
0:54.9 | hold between your thumb and forefinger, each bearing symbols and numbers intricately inscribed in |
1:00.5 | a grid. They ended up finding more than 60 of the cubes alongside various coins with holes punctured through |
1:07.2 | them. Unable to figure out what the cube's purpose was, we'll turn to the |
1:11.9 | internet for an explanation and soon found one. These types of cubes, it turned out, are used |
1:18.1 | in traditional Hindu prayer rituals. The inscriptions reference certain astrological principles, |
1:24.4 | and with the intention of requesting spiritual help or guidance from a cosmic entity, |
1:29.3 | are dropped in running water to maximize the alleged effects. But what were religious cubes of |
1:35.5 | this nature? Which are usually found in India doing in a river in England? And how long had they |
1:41.3 | been there? Well, as the coins found accompanying the cubes were minted in the 1980s, |
1:46.0 | the cubes were likely deposited there sometime in the past 40 years or so. |
1:51.0 | As for who put them there, most likely they were left by British Hindus, |
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