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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 Acámbaro figures were uncovered by a German immigrant and hardware merchant named Waldemar Julsrud. According to Dennis Swift, a young-Earth creationist and major proponent of the figures' authenticity, Julsrud stumbled upon the figures while riding his horse and hired a local farmer to dig up the remaining figures, paying him for each figure he brought back.
Pre-Columbian stone sphere, located at the University of Costa Rica as a symbol of tradition and ancient wisdom. Stone spheres of the Diquís exhibited at Museo del Jade. Scientific research in the alluvial plain, particularly on United Fruit Company properties, began in the 1940s with the work of Doris Zemurray Stone and Samuel Lothrop ...
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 ...
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 ...
Paracas Candelabra. The Paracas Candelabra, also called the Candelabra of the Andes, or El Candelabro (the Trident), is a well-known prehistoric geoglyph found on the northern face of the Paracas Peninsula at Pisco Bay in Peru. [1]
A contact sheet shows photographs taken at the Stones' legendary free concert in Hyde Park, London, in the summer of 1969. - Spanish Tony Media/Bayliss Rare Books “Spanish Tony was a hard man.
The stones have pictures of humans riding dinosaurs, when there are 60 million years separating the death of one and the evolution of the other. ... The phrase 'Ica ...