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."
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Trump was here...hahaha
Right below the it says something like Geico, but I don’t read Egyptian (or cursive).
I don't believe that all that artwork was even done at the same time.
Ancient Racoons!
PuppyMonkeyBaby.
CC
manbearpig!
I’m cerial!
(/s)
I now have the song in my head. Thanks a lot.
“Marshall, Will and Holly,
on a routine expedition,
When the grea—test earthquake ever known....”
I would not write off that they were human just yet.
If true, this could be HUGH!
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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.
Archaeologists were able to partially tranlate the writings on the wall of the cave.....something about saving 15% on your car insurance.
No, the artist was just grateful to the lizard for saving him 15% on his car insurance.
Lots of people have 6 fingers......................
Hahahaha! Oh that’s a good one!
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