轴承选型手册:10件最令人惊叹的神秘古物

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它们是地外文明来访、时间旅行者或者遗失文明如阿特兰蒂斯的证据——又或许是某些比我们想象还要先进的史前人类给我们展示的东西。我们很难不将这些形状奇特的史前古物跟诡异、神秘联系起来。而当中的许多东西又 ..
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They’re evidence of extraterrestrial visitation, time travelers or lost civilizations like Atlantis – or perhaps they’re here to show us that some ancient peoples were far more advanced than we think. It’s hard not to get caught up in the mystery and intrigue of these puzzling and often bizarre ancient objects, most of which simply can’t be explained by modern science.它们是地外文明来访、时间旅行者或者遗失文明如阿特兰蒂斯的证据——又或许是某些比我们想象还要先进的史前人类展示给我们的东西。我们很难不将这些形状奇特的史前古物跟诡异、神秘现象联系起来。而当中的许多东西又不能简单地用现代科学加以解释。
Antikythera Mechanism
安梯基齐拉机械装置（Antikythera Mechanism）

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The world’s oldest computer predates Bill Gates only by about 2,000 years. In fact, the absolutely mind-boggling Antikythera Mechanism – a corroded clocklike object found among the ruins of a sunken ship – may prove that advanced scientific technology existed far earlier than we ever thought possible. Scientists have since discovered that this mysterious Greek invention predicted solar eclipses, organized the calendar in four-year cycles, and may well be linked to renowned astrologer and engineer Archimedes. Though no other such mechanisms have ever been found, experts believe that many more made around the same time in 100 B.C.E. once existed.世界上最古老的计算机要比比尔.盖茨发明的早至少2000年。事实上，绝对令人难以置信的安梯基齐拉机械装置——一个在沉船中发现的被腐蚀严重的钟形物体——也许可以证明在我们想象之外的远古年代存在着高度发达的科技。科学家发现这个神秘的希腊发明能预测日食和编制为每4年一个周期的日历，这些都跟知名的星相家和工程师阿基米德（Archimedes）有着关系。尽管没有其他的类似机械装置被发现，但是专家相信在同期的公元前100年就有很多这样的装置被制造并保存下来。
白公大铁管（The Baigong Pipes）

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“Alien toilet found in China”. This is just one of many absurd headlines seen on the internet concerning the undoubtedly bizarre Baigong Pipes, rusty red iron pipes that lead into a pyramid atop Mount Baigong from a nearby salt water lake. What’s so strange about the pipes? Well, for one thing, they’re in an area that is completely inhospitable to man – no civilization is ever known to have lived there. They’re uniform in size and seem to have been created in an intentional pattern. No clear explanation exists for the presence of these pipes, and scientists don’t seem to agree on whether they could be natural occurrences.“在中国发现外星人的厕所”。毋庸置疑出土自盐水湖附近的神奇且锈红的白公大铁管是在互联网上吸引许多眼球的标题之一。这根管子有什么很特别的吗？是的，关键在于这根铁管出现在一个完全不适合人类居住的地区——未曾在当地发现过文明存在的痕迹。这些铁管的尺寸看上去大小均匀，摆放有序。现在还不能充分解释这些管子存在的原因，而且科学家们并不同意这是自然形成的。
罗马12面体（The Roman Dodecahedra）

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These fist-sized bronze Roman artifacts found in France, Switzerland and Germany pose a fascinating problem for archaeologists: they just don’t have a clear purpose, but many are covered in symbols, some undecipherable and others relating to the Zodiac. But for all the speculation on their use, including that they may have been surveying instruments, some experts believe  the Roman dodecahedr a were merely decorative candlesticks.这些在法国、瑞士和德国发现的拳头大小的铜质罗马古艺术品让考古学家着迷：它们没有明确的用途，但是表明覆盖着一些很难理解的图案，还有一些图案貌似跟黄道12宫有关。关于其用途的推测包括了它们可能被用作某种测量工具，一些专家相信这些罗马12面体仅仅只是装饰用的烛台罢了。
费斯托斯盘（Phaistos Disc）

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There’s very little that we actually know for sure about the Phaistos Disc. It’s made of clay – check. It dates back to the second millenium B.C.E. – maybe. But its origin, meaning and purpose remain shrouded in mystery. Discovered in Crete, the disc is features i241 impressions of 45 distinct symbols, some of which are easily identifiable as people, tools, plants and animals. But because nothing else like it from the same time period has ever been found, archaelogists haven’t been able to provide a meaningful analysis of its content.关于费斯托斯盘的真实准确的信息非常少。这是一个用瓷土制成的东西，它的历史也许可以追溯到公元前2000年。但是它的起源、意义和目的仍然充满神秘色彩。这个出土于克里特岛的盘子，上面有着代表45个地区标志的241种图案，其中包含一些易于辨认的人类、工具、植物和动物。但是因为还没有发现同期的其它物品，考古学家们尚无法对盘子上的图像给出一个有意义的解释。
巴格达电池（Baghdad Battery）

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What need would ancient people have for batteries when electronics did not yet exist? Found outside Baghdad, Iraq in 1936, the Baghdad Battery is a small clay jar containing an iron rod suspended in a copper cylinder which is soldered shut and sealed with asphalt. Replicas that have been made since then can produce small mounts of electricity, proving the battery’s capabilities, but the question of what the battery was used for many never be answered.在还没有电器的史前时期，人类要用电池干什么？1936年在伊拉克巴格达郊外发现的巴格达电池由一根小铁棍悬空在一个由沥青密封的铜制容器中，该容器置于一个陶土罐里。有迹象表明这个电池能产生少量的电，关键的问题在于没有人知道在那个时代他们用这个电池来干嘛？
沃伊尼克手稿（Voynich Manuscript）

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Is the Voynich Manuscript evidence of a forgotten civilization, or merely an elaborate hoax? This handwritten book full of text that the world’s top cryptographers and codebreakers have never been able to decipher dates to the 15th century and was discovered in 1912 by book dealer Wilfrid M. Voynich. If it is a hoax, it’s incredibly convincing, given how fluidly the text was written and the fact that statistical analysis has revealed patterns similar to those found in natural languages.到底沃伊尼克手稿是遗落文明的证据还是精心编制的骗局？这本1912年被书商威尔弗里德.M.沃伊尼克发现的手抄本里面充满了从15世纪以来从未被破译的世界顶级密码。如果是一个骗局，它却提供了令人信服的证据，自然的语言、流畅的文字描写着对各种事件的统计分析。
都灵裹尸布（Shroud of Turin）

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A linen cloth bearing the barely-visible image of a man with apparent crucifixion wounds became the center of both devotion and controversy when it was first discovered in the Middle Ages. Could this be  the burial shroud of Jesus Christ? Radio carbon dating puts the origin of the shroud between 1260 C.E. and 1390 C.E., consistent with the theory that it was a forgery. But the results have been disputed and since then, a wide range of modern tests have been unable to explain the markings on the cloth. 当一块印着隐约可见的耶稣蒙难像的亚麻布在中世纪首次被发现时便成为争论的焦点。这难道就是耶稣的裹尸布？根据碳同位素测定，该亚麻布产于1260年至1390年之间，不过许多人坚持认为这是伪造的。但是通过广泛的现代技术的测试也不能解释这块亚麻布是如何产生的，这使得它的存在一直是争议的焦点。
（哥斯达黎加的巨型石球）The Giant Stone Spheres of Costa Rica

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They appear to be flawlessly round, ranging in size from just a few centimeters to over 6.6 feet in diameter, and are found all over the Diquis Delta and Isla de Cano in Costa Rica. Weighing up to 16 tons, it’s hard to imagine how humans could have moved these  gigantic sculptures hewn from hard granodiorite – considering that the nearest quarry for that material is over 50 miles away from where the sculptures were found. Over three hundred of them are scattered across Costa Rica, but we’ll never know why – the people who made them back in 1,000 C.E. are long gone and had no written records.在哥斯达黎加的迪奎斯三角洲和卡诺岛发现的无数个直径从几厘米到6.6英尺的完美的石球。令人难以想象的是人们是如何将坚硬的花岗石雕刻成重达16吨的巨型雕塑——而最近的石料场距石球发现地也有50英里。 超过300个石球零散分布在哥斯达黎加，我们对它们的来历一无所知——人们在公元1000年时将它们弄回来的事迹已无从考究。
（科索的人造物品）The Coso Artifact

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When a spark plug was found encased inside a 500,000-year-old lump of hard rock, self-professed paranormal investigators decided there were three possibilities for how it got there: A, it was created by an extremely advanced ancient civilization (maybe Atlantis?), B, aliens visited the earth during the time of dinosaurs or C, time travelers from the future left clues in the distant past.  All three explanations are highly unlikely to say the least, but scientists haven’t been able to come up with a better explanation – probably due to the fact that the Coso Artifact has mysteriously disappeared and is thus unavailable for analysis.当一个火花塞被发现嵌在一块有50万年历史的坚硬石头中的时候，超自然现象调查人员认为它的存在有三种可能：A.来自史前的超级文明（或许是亚特兰蒂斯？）；B.恐龙时期外星人访问地球的遗留物；C.未来的时间旅行者留下的线索。不过这三种解释的可能性都很小，但是科学家没法给出更有说服力的解释——可能是该”科索人造物"的神秘失踪，而让人无法分析其原因。
（缅因州硬币）The Maine Penny

(image via: maine state museum）When a genuine Norse coin dating to the early 11th century was found among Native American ruins in Maine in 1957, it seemed to offer an intriguing piece of evidence that Vikings did indeed travel further south than Newfoundland long before the time of Christopher Columbus. And it could be so – but experts have their doubts. The fact that the ‘Maine Penny‘ was the only Norse artifact found at the site seems to indicate that it came to the site through native trade channels from Viking sources in Labrador and Newfoundland.1957年一枚可以追溯到公元11世纪的挪威硬币在美国原住人遗址缅因州被发现，这提供了充分的证据说明维京人比克里斯托佛.哥伦布发现美洲前早得多就抵达了纽芬兰以南地区。虽然如此——但是专家们还是有疑问。事实上“缅因州硬币”是在这里发现的唯一挪威手工品，是否意味着这是拉布拉多和纽芬兰的维京人进行国内贸易而留下的呢？
  
原文链接：http://weburbanist.com/2010/05/17/10-most-amazing-ancient-objects-of-mystery-in-history/
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