Posted on 05/15/2020 8:37:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The cubes were tiny - small enough to hold between the finger and thumb - and weighed 125g each.
The symbols on them appeared to be some form of Sanskrit.
Curious to know more, Read posted photographs of his discovery up on social media.
"There were all sorts of stories flying around at first, the cubes really captured people's imaginations," he said. "What I learned is that they are Indian in origin and they show incantations for prayers which take effect when they are thrown in running water."
Exactly how old the cubes are, however, continues to remain a mystery.
(Excerpt) Read more at unexplained-mysteries.com ...
There’s some cool videos of guys magnet fishing and metal detecting in rivers........They get the coolest stuff.
Poor authorship. Sounds to me as they were using the magnets for iron based objects and happened to notice the cubes in the water.
This caught my eye too. I went back and read it again. It says he found them "WHILE magnet fishing" and that he "looked down and just saw them."
Well a tale from archeology class was that they were called Gypsies in Europe because they claimed to be from Egypt. The europeans were impressed by ancient Egypt and Egyptians. That made them easier marks for scams.
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