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Scientists discover 8000-year-old tiny hand prints in ancient cave were NOT made by humans
www.mirror.co.uk ^ | Updated 18:23, 1 Mar 2016 | By Siobhan McFadyen

Posted on 03/01/2016 12:56:01 PM PST by Red Badger

Experts probing the discovery of 13 hand prints in the eerie Egyptian Cave of Beasts say the 8000-year-old stencils did not belong to humans

Anthropologists probing the discovery of tiny 8000-year-old hand prints in an Egyptian cave say they were not made by human hands.

Explorers stumbled across the tiny hand imprints in a Saharan cave after unearthing more than 5000 images carved into the stone in Egypt's southwest border with Libya 14 years ago.

But a study of the 13 tiny hand prints show that not only are they not human - but that they are believed to belong to tiny lizards.

The cave, which is also known as Wadi Sura II, has been the focus of study for Emmanuelle Honoré of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research for years.

She said she was stunned when she saw the shape of the small prints.

"They were much smaller than human baby hands, and the fingers were too long," she told National Geographic.

The scientists took measurements of the stencils and compared them to those of newborn human infants under a year, including newborn premature babies that were 26 to 36 weeks old.

But came to the startling conclusion that the prints were not human and instead were created by lizards.

But while Honoré is sure the prints were made by tiny crocodiles or lizards - she is unsure of the reason why they are there.

Or why any civilisation would want to draw or use the legs of animals on their cave walls.

She added: "It's very challenging for us as researchers to interpret these paintings since we have a culture that's totally different."

(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Education; History; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: bes; caveofbeasts; egypt; elves; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; leprechauns; libya; lizardpeople; sahara
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To: Red Badger
could have been...


21 posted on 03/01/2016 1:18:04 PM PST by SparkyBass
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22 posted on 03/01/2016 1:19:38 PM PST by DouglasKC
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23 posted on 03/01/2016 1:21:00 PM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Hunga Tonga-Hunga.)
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To: nevergore

Trump was here...hahaha


24 posted on 03/01/2016 1:21:29 PM PST by BRL
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To: dhs12345

Right below the it says something like Geico, but I don’t read Egyptian (or cursive).


25 posted on 03/01/2016 1:24:47 PM PST by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Red Badger
I don't understand how these ARE NOT 'stencil patters' of a HUMAN hand.

I don't believe that all that artwork was even done at the same time.

26 posted on 03/01/2016 1:28:04 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Red Badger

Ancient Racoons!


27 posted on 03/01/2016 1:30:45 PM PST by reed13k (w)
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28 posted on 03/01/2016 1:47:12 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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29 posted on 03/01/2016 1:48:02 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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30 posted on 03/01/2016 1:48:07 PM PST by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: Red Badger
Out in the southwest there is another wall like this. Some of the hand prints show six full fingers.

I would not write off that they were human just yet.

31 posted on 03/01/2016 1:49:43 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: longtermmemmory

If true, this could be HUGH!

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32 posted on 03/01/2016 1:50:09 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: Red Badger

Just idle speculation, but, why couldn’t an artistic, although primitive human being, on seeing the tiny foot of a lizard, remark on how human it looked, or the silhouette thereof, and use it to put the stencil of that tiny hand superimposed over the stencil of a REAL human hand?

The contrast would look cool (as the photo shows) and might cause some of the other humans in the band to consider it supernatural.


33 posted on 03/01/2016 1:53:12 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: Safetgiver
Right below the it says something like Geico, but I don’t read Egyptian (or cursive).

Archaeologists were able to partially tranlate the writings on the wall of the cave.....something about saving 15% on your car insurance.

34 posted on 03/01/2016 1:55:29 PM PST by GreenHornet
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35 posted on 03/01/2016 2:06:58 PM PST by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: dhs12345

No, the artist was just grateful to the lizard for saving him 15% on his car insurance.


36 posted on 03/01/2016 2:17:49 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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37 posted on 03/01/2016 2:28:04 PM PST by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Lots of people have 6 fingers......................


38 posted on 03/01/2016 2:29:59 PM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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39 posted on 03/01/2016 2:32:43 PM PST by Ray76 (Judge Roy Moore for Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States)
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To: frithguild

Hahahaha! Oh that’s a good one!


40 posted on 03/01/2016 2:34:06 PM PST by Ray76 (Judge Roy Moore for Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States)
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