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Stunning statue with 'encrypted codes' is 11,000 years old, even more ancient than previously believed.
The Idol is around the same age as anthropomorphic stone stelae found at the ancient site of Gobekli Tepe in modern-day Turkey.
'This confirms that hunters and fishermen from Urals created works of art as developed and as monumental as ancient farmers of the Middle East,' said the museum.
The Idol - more than 6,000 years older than the UK's Stonehenge - was preserved 'as if in a time capsule' in the peat bog on the western fringes of Siberia.
Experts have surmised that its hieroglyphics contain encoded information on the 'creation of the world' from ancient man. It stands 2.8 metres in height but originally was 5.3 metres tall, as high as a two storey house. Almost two metres of the artifact went missing during Russian's 20th century political turmoil, though Siberian archaeologist Vladimir Tolmachev drew images of all the pieces.
The Idol is around the same age as anthropomorphic stone stelae found at the ancient site of Gobekli Tepe in modern-day Turkey.
'This confirms that hunters and fishermen from Urals created works of art as developed and as monumental as ancient farmers of the Middle East,' said the museum.
siberiantimes.com...
originally posted by: theantediluvian
a reply to: Spider879
It's all about where it was found. In a cool, slightly acidic and most importantly, anaerobic environment (peat bog). Same as with the "bog people" or the Dispilio Tablet, which I thought I'd authored a thread about but apparently haven't. It's a wooden tablet bearing an inscription that was found deep in the mud at the site of a neolithic settlement on a lake in Greece. It's been dated to ~7,300 BP.
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Experts have surmised that its hieroglyphics contain encoded information on the 'creation of the world' from ancient man. With Svetlana Savchenko, chief keeper of Shigir Idol at Yekaterinburg History Museum, he concludes that 'a straight line could denote land, or horizon - the boundary between earth and sky, water and sky, or the borderline between the worlds.
'A wavy line or zigzag symbolised the watery element, snake, lizard, or determined a certain border. In addition, the zigzag signaled danger, like a pike. 'Cross, rhombus, square, circle depicted the fire or the sun, and so on'.
originally posted by: obscurepanda
a reply to: Rosinitiate
Open... with... hinges? Not sure if joking...
originally posted by: Kandinsky
a reply to: Blackmarketeer
Where the heck do they get 'encrypted codes' from?
Could the lines be direct representations of how clothing items were put together? The zig-zags on the side of the legs could show how hide trousers were stitched/corded together.