A pagoda top wrapped in silk emerges. [CRI] Posted on 08/07/2008 10:41:16 AM PDT by BGHater
Chinese archaeologists on Wednesday opened a 1,000-year-old steel case that was believed to contain Buddhist relics.
A pagoda top wrapped in silk emerged after archaeologists removed two steel panels of the cube-shaped case, which is 0.5 meter long, 0.5 meter wide and 1.34 meters high.
Hua Guorong, vice curator of the Nanjing City Museum where the case was opened, said an initial analysis showed the object was a pagoda about 1 meter high.
He said Buddhist relics, which were formed from the ashes of cremated Buddhist masters and were an important aspect of the religion, were likely to be under the pagoda.
The box was found in an underground shrine of the Dabaoen Temple here.
A pagoda top wrapped in silk emerges. [CRI]
Chinese archaeologists look at a 1,000-year-old steel case before it was opened later on Wednesday. [CRI]
A Chinese archaeologist looks at a 1,000-year-old steel case before it was opened later on Wednesday. [CRI]
A mysterious pagoda was wrapped in silk. Chinese archaeologists chose not to unveil it until they decide how to protect the fragile silk. [CRI]
Other crystals and relics were also discovered along with the steel case. [CCTV]
Ping.
Lets hope there is no Chinese Carnarvon curse out there.
Did steel exist 1000 years ago?
“Welcome to Pandora’s Pagoda.”
Where is Geraldo ?
Where is Geraldo Rivera?
Its actually a model of an ancient Chinese Olympics pavilion.
HEY! Thats the marble I lost when I was 6!
Yep. There has been discovery of very early smelting in East Africa as far back as 1400BC. Roman swords where made of a steel alloy known as Noric steel. I believe there was evidence of steel in China as far back as the third century BC.
The Romans used steel weapons.
"Uh... I thought the inscription said DO NOT OPEN!"
13 seconds.
According to Rosie O’Donnell, September 2001 was “the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel”.
No, Rosie O'Dumbass melted it all with fire...........
How do you crown a marble?
Yes, but usually in smaller quantities
Oh, not THAT kind of Bud Box.........
The inscription was actually a prophecy. It foretold that the box would be opened in the days of the Obamessiah.
Was Jerry Rivers trying to find this box...?
These crystals may be “shi li zi”
Buddhists believe that when a monk achieves a high level of enlightenment and has accumulated great amounts of good karma from kind and charitable acts (such as a saint), crystals (perhaps as pictured here) will form in their remains when their bodies are cremated.
The Burglar opened it a few days earlier to recover some documents he’s accidently stashed there.
For shilizi?
According to wikipedia:
Ancient steel
Steel was known in antiquity, and may have been produced by managing the bloomery so that the bloom contained carbon. Some of the first steel comes from East Africa, dating back to 1400 BC. In the 4th century BC steel weapons like the Falcata were produced in the Iberian Peninsula, while Noric steel was used by the Roman military. The Chinese of the Warring States (403–221 B.C.) had quench-hardened steel, while Chinese of the Han Dynasty (202 BC – 220 AD) created steel by melting together wrought iron with cast iron, gaining an ultimate product of a carbon-intermediate—steel by the 1st century AD.
Egg of Godzilla!!!
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Or maybe a neuticle for King Kong.
Correct. Not just steel, but Chromium steel. This process wasn't "rediscovered" until 1937.
Interesting thread here on ancient iron and steel. One won't think so by the name of the thread, but it evolved into such.
Seal of King Zedekiah's minister found in J’lem dig
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2055066/posts
I didnt waste time typing “Rivera”
That is so obviously a Gamera egg....
The boys loved to play me for them or would trade 10 glass marbles for a steelie...They just didn't realize I had an endless supply. Heh heh heh
There were a few rich iron ore deposits around the world that happened to have other elements that are now commonly used in making various steel alloys. The Indian Wootz steel is an old example. I found this interesting - the analysis of some old Damascus blades presumably made with Wootz steel had some pretty exotic alloying elements for the time:
http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/9809/Verhoeven-9809.html
Gotta be careful opening those 'mysterious boxes...and that doesn't even include Paris...no; that would get me banned.
While I was walking down the beach one bright and sunny day
I saw a great big wooden box a-floatin’ in the bay
I pulled it in and opened it up and much to my surprise
Ooh, I discovered a boom-boom-boom, right before my eyes
Oh, I discovered a boom-boom-boom, right before my eyes
I picked it up and ran to town as happy as a king
I took it to a guy I knew who’d buy most any thing
But this is what he hollered at me as I walked in his shop
Oh, get outta here with that boom-boom-boom, before I call a cop
Oh, get outta here with that boom-boom-boom before I call a cop
etc.
The moral of this story is if you’re out on the beach
And you should see a great big box and it’s within your reach
Don’t ever stop and open it up, that’s my advice to you
‘Cause you’ll never get rid of the boom-boom-boom, no matter what you do
Oh, you’ll never get rid of the boom-boom-boom, no matter what you do
Ping to 35, Godzilla..clear this up for these guys, OK?
You have a challenged imagination dude
Oh, do we??????
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