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Mystery as century-old Swiss watch discovered in ancient tomb sealed for 400 years
Daily Mail UK ^ | 05/06/2010 | Daily Mail UK

Posted on 05/06/2010 9:41:03 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour

Archaeologists are stumped after finding a 100-year-old Swiss watch in an ancient tomb that was sealed more than 400 years ago. They believed they were the first to visit the Ming dynasty grave in Shangsi, southern China, since its occupant's funeral. But inside they uncovered a miniature watch in the shape of a ring marked 'Swiss' that is thought to be just a century old.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: archaeology; china; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; mingdynasty
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1 posted on 05/06/2010 9:41:04 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
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2 posted on 05/06/2010 9:41:51 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
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3 posted on 05/06/2010 9:42:40 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (We are the media.)
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Time travel.


4 posted on 05/06/2010 9:42:48 PM PDT by Rastus
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Apparently, they weren’t first


5 posted on 05/06/2010 9:43:09 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com << Get your science fiction and fiction test marketed)
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They forgot to mention the watch was resting on top of an iPad.


6 posted on 05/06/2010 9:44:06 PM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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Kilroy was here.


7 posted on 05/06/2010 9:44:18 PM PDT by bunkerhill7
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Relax. It’s just a Chinese knock-off.


8 posted on 05/06/2010 9:45:48 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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That “watch” is a bit on the tiny side, isn’t it? Looks like it could fit around a finger.


9 posted on 05/06/2010 9:46:16 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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Man, them extraterrestrials be clever folks! Here they give us global warming while they take off’en their watches during their visit.

Intelligent little buggers!


10 posted on 05/06/2010 9:46:23 PM PDT by Noob1999 (LOOSE LIPS, SINK SHIPS)
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There was a black hole in there and the ring watch [a counterfeit Bulova made in Japan] popped out of it.


11 posted on 05/06/2010 9:48:17 PM PDT by bunkerhill7
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About six months ago, someone here posted an article from some Southwestern magazine about a place in Arizona (location left deliberately vague it but might have been near Sedona) where there was a rock archway out in the desert near some buttes and a canyon. There had been reports of people going through the archway and ending up in some other time and place.

Could someone who remembers this please re-post the link to the article?

Thanks.


12 posted on 05/06/2010 9:48:26 PM PDT by thecodont
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It does look like a ring watch


13 posted on 05/06/2010 9:48:37 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com << Get your science fiction and fiction test marketed)
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They believed they were the first to visit

So? What they believed was incorrect. Where's the 'mystery'?
14 posted on 05/06/2010 9:49:19 PM PDT by CygnusTheSwan ("Me fail English? That's unpossible" - Ralph Wiggum)
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It does look like a ring watch.

Perhaps they should rename the period the "Ring Dynasty", as opposed to Ming. :)

15 posted on 05/06/2010 9:51:37 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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16 posted on 05/06/2010 9:52:05 PM PDT by Bobalu (Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.)
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The ring was in a ‘squeeze to open’ plastic change pocket, marked ‘made in Hong Kong’, with an ‘I Like Ike’ message on it.


17 posted on 05/06/2010 9:54:25 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Obots, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
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So? What they believed was incorrect. Where's the 'mystery'?

You just want to poison this thread with the obvious, don't you ;^)

18 posted on 05/06/2010 9:55:28 PM PDT by The Cajun (Mind numbed robot , ditto-head, Hannitized, Levinite)
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Probably carried into the tomb by a small animal.


19 posted on 05/06/2010 9:55:49 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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Cool comic cover. Serious white guy, smoking a pipe, hair combed back, tie snugged to his neck, thinking and creating. Cool time machine too. Look at the oil can on the floor to its right, lol!

20 posted on 05/06/2010 9:59:53 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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