Hey guys, Steve here. You are listening to one of our original 26 episodes. If you've listened to any of our new episodes

You're gonna notice that we're sounding a little different in these ones. Yeah, there's a reason for that. There is they've been remastered

They have been remastered because they had a really annoying hum. Yeah, I mean a huge thanks to listener James for doing almost all of the legwork on this

Yes, you'll also notice if you had listened to what we're calling the last 26 episodes before and you're re-listening now the music and sound effects are gone

Yes, we've gone back to straight audio. So be warned we sound a little different today

Then we do in what you're about to listen to. Yeah. Hi. Bye. Bye

Thinking sideways

The story is of things we simply don't know the answer to

Hey

Welcome, this is thinking sideways the podcast. I am Devon

I'm Steve. I'm Joe and we're gonna talk about a mystery

I know

I love the mystery

The mystery I want to talk about is a mystery artifact mysterious artifact mystery. It's a mystery artifact

Or it's also a mysterious also mysterious. Yeah, so let's just get started

1938

I'm kidding because I can't say it

Here we are at the Baghdad Museum

He's the German director of the National Museum of Iraq either

unearthed this artifact during an excavation near Baghdad or

Found it in the basement of the Baghdad Museum. That's kind of what I what how I understand it

He just found it laying around the museum and yeah, he claims that he found it on an excavation, but

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