Posted on 02/06/2016 2:35:49 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A statue showing a young girl holding up what appears to be a laptop -- complete with USB ports -- has sparked a frenzy among conspiracy theorists.
The statue, 'Grave Naiskos of an Enthroned Woman with an Attendant' is in The J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California.
'I am not saying that this is depicting an ancient laptop computer,' said YouTuber StillSpeakingOut.
'But when I look at the sculpture I can't help but think about the Oracle of Delphi, which was supposed to allow the priests to connect with the gods to retrieve advanced information and various aspects.'
In the gallery's description, the object is described as a 'shallow chest' -- but conspiracy theorists are having none of that.
StillSpeakingOut says it, 'depicts an astonishing object which bears a striking resemblance with a modern laptop or some hand-held device.'
The strange image is just one of many seemingly anachronistic objects picked out by conspiracy theorists -- below is a moment in a Charlie Chaplin film where someone appears to be using a mobile phone.
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Looks like a leather cigarette case.
Poor girl, I doubt she could have imagined that she would be stared at for hours on end in the future and have nothing to show for it.
That’s obviously not a laptop, it’s a flip phone circa 2006.
It should be noted that many of the questionable items come from about a 200 year period around 0 AD. That is, within a window 100 years before, and 100 years after. The “Greek Period”.
My personal favorite I saw during the Splendors of Ancient Egypt tour around the turn of the century. It was not your typical stuff, and I think they realized, almost as an afterthought, that the exhibit didn’t have any mummies in it.
So the very last exhibit was of a Greek Period wooden coffin, with a mummy in it. Whether it was a part of the permanent exhibit, or just found somewhere, I don’t know.
But I did note that it had a two part lid, like some modern coffins, and that the inside of the lid over the mummies’ face was painted to look like the night sky, filled with large stars.
Stepping back from the coffin I noted the thick, red and white horizontal stripes that went around its exterior. But with that part of the lid raised, I realized that I was looking at an abbreviated version of the flag of the United States!
I had a long laugh with my friends about this, then observed, “I guess the time machine works, at least halfway.” And you figure that for Christians, this would be the ideal time to pay a visit.
That’s the one. How did you find a net image so quickly?
***Two faced wax tablet for writing short messages on***
Beat me to it!
Nah.
Imo, it’s a small, hand-held ear trumpet. Those were common for hearing assist in that day and age.
Computer? yep...
It’s Hillary on the right and her “server” on the left.
And the holes we see in that pic at the top are for storing the styli.
Orly Taitz
Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.
She might be in Thailand.
“MCCCXCVI ports”
They called it “FireAquaduct” back then.
And someone beat me to it as well ... GMTA*s at work again.
JLaw and her Egyptian twin-actress Zubaida Tharwat
JOhn Krasinski and this other guy
Halle Berry and this lady
Peter Dinklage and DIego Velasquez
Moustache guy & Jimmy Fallon
Etc.
A photograph from 1941 of genuine authenticity of the re-opening of the South Fork Bridge in Gold Bridge, British Columbia, was alleged to show a time traveler.[18] It was claimed that his clothing and sunglasses were modern and not of the styles worn in the 1940s.[19][20] The photo originated from the Bralorne Pioneer Museum, and was featured in their virtual exhibit Their Past Lives Here, produced and hosted through investment by the Virtual Museum of Canada (VMC).
Further research suggests that the modern appearance of the man may not have been so modern. The style of sunglasses first appeared in the 1920s. On first glance the man is taken by many to be wearing a modern printed T-shirt, but on closer inspection it seems to be a sweater with a sewn-on emblem, the kind of clothing often worn by sports teams of the period. The shirt is very similar to the one that was used by the Montreal Maroons, an ice hockey team from that era. The remainder of his clothing would appear to have been available at the time, though his clothes are far more casual than those worn by the other individuals in the photograph.
Debate centers on whether the image genuinely shows a time traveler, has been photomanipulated, or is simply being mistaken as anachronistic.[22] The "Time Traveling Hipster" became a case study in viral Internet phenomena in museums which was presented at the Museums and the Web 2011 conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Looks more like some guy suffering from sun exposure after an eye exam. He just got disposable sunglasses to go after the pupil dilation.
These time traveler things are a lot of fun, but I wonder who she is calling on a small handheld cell phone before the existence of cell phone networks!
The prosaic and uninteresting explanation is that she had a headache or toothache and was holding a cold compress to her head, or was covering a blemish or open sore. A very dull explanation.
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