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The Ica stones are generally considered by historians and archaeologists to have been thoroughly exposed as forgeries [3] and to be hoaxes created for the purpose of earning money off of tourist buyers. [1] [2] Selling artifacts is a profitable business; even replicas of the Ica stones tend to fetch high prices online. [11]
The Ocucaje Desert has also gained attention for the enigmatic Ica Stones, a collection of andesite stones which appear to bear carvings of dinosaurs, humans, and advanced technology. These stones were brought to public attention in the 1960s by Dr. Javier Cabrera Darquea, who believed they depicted evidence of a pre-Columbian civilization with ...
Von Däniken put forward photographs of the Ica stones, ancient stones in Peru, with carvings of men using telescopes, detailed world maps, and advanced medical operations, all beyond the knowledge of ancient Peruvians. But the PBS television series Nova determined that the stones were modern, and located the potter who made them. This potter ...
Mystery Stone may refer to: The Bourne Stone in Massachusetts; Grave Creek Stone of Moundsville, West Virginia; The Heavener, Poteau, and Shawnee runestones of Oklahoma. The Ica stones of South America; Kensington Runestone of Kensington, Minnesota; Los Lunas Decalogue Stone of Los Lunas, New Mexico; Lake Winnipesaukee mystery stone of New ...
The museum's founders say that their collection of Ica stones offer proof that humans and dinosaurs coexisted, [5] that out-of-place artifacts constitute "damaging evidences [sic] against evolution", [6] and they can show with other evidence the Earth is 6,000 years old and it was physically possible for Noah to bring dinosaurs on board the Ark ...
Notable such "artifacts" include the Granby Stone Idol (a known hoax depicting a sauropod together with incorrectly rendered Chinese symbols), the Acámbaro figures (a large set of dinosaur-like figurines now known to have been made shortly before their supposed discovery), the Ica stones (stones with dinosaurs carved on them, admitted to have ...
The phrase 'Ica stones' should refer to a number of engrave stones which are claimed to have engravings of dinosaurs, etc., ie a subset of the engraved stones found over the centuries in the Ica region.
9 suggesting that the engravings are indeed younger than the rocks.